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Conventionalization of politeness and questions under discussion in pragmatic inferencing: Interpreting scalars in interpersonal contexts 礼貌的惯例化与语用推理中讨论的问题：人际语境中标量的解释

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-11-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.08.012

Jun Zhang , Yan Wu

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-10-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.10.006

Valentina Concu

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-10-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.10.002

Lelia Glass

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“Then journeys are like life itself, rarely straight”: Towards a meta-metaphorical perspective on life–journey interactions “那么旅程就像生活本身，很少是笔直的”：对生命旅程互动的元隐喻视角

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-10-01 Epub Date: 2025-08-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.08.006

Ming-Yu Tseng

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“Off-the-shelf” features and pragmatic trajectories: The years of cioè in Italian “现成的”特征和实用主义轨迹：cioè在意大利的岁月

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-10-01 Epub Date: 2025-08-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.07.008

Chiara Ghezzi

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‘If they say “there's a photo ban and any clothes you can forget about taking them”’: Interactional functions of hypothetical direct reported speech in adoption assessment interviews “如果他们说‘禁止拍照，禁止穿任何衣服’”：收养评估访谈中假设性直接间接引语的互动功能

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-10-01 Epub Date: 2025-08-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.08.003

Madeleine Wirzén

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“Do you have a conscience?”: Ostensible offence in hybrid interactions of live streaming commerce “你有良心吗？”：直播商业混合互动的明显违规行为

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-10-01 Epub Date: 2025-08-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.07.012

Ping Liu , Linlin Yang

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“im embarrassed 2 say lol”: The functions of lol in online groomer-decoy interactions “我不好意思说lol”：lol在在线新郎-诱饵互动中的作用

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-10-01 Epub Date: 2025-08-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.07.015

Sofia Navarro Beck

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A critical pragmatic study of stance in peter Obi's world press conference speeches 彼得·欧比世界新闻发布会演讲立场的批判性实用主义研究

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-10-01 Epub Date: 2025-08-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.08.004

Felicia Oamen

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Corrigendum to ““#HaveYouNoShame”: Unraveling the pragmatics of impolite political hashtags” [J. Pragmatics 235 (2025) 238–253/12] “#你不羞耻”：解读不礼貌政治标签的语用学”的勘误表[J]。语用学235 (2025)238-253/12]

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-10-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.08.007

Seyed Mohammadreza Mortazavi , Hamed Zandi

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