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Sleep well in Småland, whether you prefer a castle or a hut: Performing persuasion through patterns of you in tourism discourse 无论您喜欢城堡还是小屋，都能在斯莫兰睡个好觉：通过旅游话语中 "您 "的模式进行说服

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2024-10-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2024.09.008

Annelie Ädel, Åsa Öhqvist, Sadjad Shokoohi

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The complexities and dynamics of pragmatics of sharing on social media 在社交媒体上分享的复杂性和动态实用性

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2024-10-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2024.09.010

Wei Ren

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“That's amazing!”: Making self-praise work in Japanese conversation "太棒了！"：日语会话中的自我表扬

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2024-10-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2024.09.007

Misumi Sadler

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Navigating epistemic challenges: Self-initiated self-repair in weight loss discussions within clinical settings 应对认识论挑战：临床环境下减肥讨论中的自我修复

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2024-10-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2024.09.003

Liliia Bespala , Miriam Meyerhoff , Charlotte Albury

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Temporality and causality in asymmetric conjunction 非对称连接中的时间性和因果性

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2024-09-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2024.09.006

Zeming Xu, Markus Steinbach

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“By then you'd say ‘why hadn't I hung on a little bit longer?’”: Ventriloquizing as indirectness in Chinese medical interaction "到那时，你会说'为什么我不多坚持一会儿呢？中医互动中的间接口技

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2024-09-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2024.09.002

Linlin Fan (范琳琳) , Yongping Ran (冉永平)

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“I think Gray is just against you there”: Intertextuality and personification in legal discourse "我觉得格雷就是在和你作对"：法律话语中的互文性和人格化

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2024-09-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2024.09.001

John Terry Dundon

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Perceptual and acoustic analysis of prosody in Mandarin Chinese refusals 对普通话拒绝语中的拟声词进行感知和声学分析

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2024-09-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2024.09.004

Yen-Chen Hao , Yunwen Su , Yufen Chang

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2024-09-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2024.09.005

Dorota Rancew-Sikora

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The syntax of talking heads 滔滔不绝的语法

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2024-09-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2024.08.011

Martina Wiltschko

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