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Can AI simulate or emulate human stance? Using metadiscourse to compare GPT-generated and human-authored academic book reviews 人工智能可以模拟或模仿人类的姿势吗？使用元话语比较gpt生成的和人类撰写的学术书评

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-10-01 Epub Date: 2025-08-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.07.018

Guangyuan Yao , Zhaoxia Liu

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Managers see, analysts hear. Epistemic divide in financial dialogues 经理人看到，分析师听到。金融对话中的认知鸿沟

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-10-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.08.009

Costanza Lucchini , Andrea Rocci , Johanna Miecznikowski

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How gender affects compliments in Italian 性别如何影响意大利语中的赞美

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-10-01 Epub Date: 2025-08-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.07.009

Giovanna Alfonzetti, Giulio Scivoletto

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Syntactic study of self-repair and self-reformulation in French and Spanish: Effects of utterance length 法语和西班牙语自我修复和自我重构的句法研究：话语长度的影响

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-10-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.07.017

Luisa Fernanda Acosta Córdoba , Raphaël Py

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“Wha, what is this?”: Interactive elements in the representation of thoughts in Japanese manga (comics) “什么，这是什么？”：日本漫画（漫画）中思想表现的互动元素

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-10-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.08.002

Giancarla Unser-Schutz

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-09-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.08.011

Heidi Puputti, Iira Rautiainen

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Finnish [verb repeat + vai]: Its use as a newsmark and a challenge 芬兰语[动词repeat + vai]：用作新闻标记和挑战

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-09-01 Epub Date: 2025-07-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.06.009

Aino Koivisto

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The discourse marker allee in colloquial Belgian Dutch: A case of pragmatic borrowing 比利时荷兰语口语化中的话语标记allee：一个语用借用的例子

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-09-01 Epub Date: 2025-07-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.07.005

Lieven Buysse

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Gender attribution trouble in interaction about a gender ambiguous robot 性别模糊机器人交互中的性别归因问题

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-09-01 Epub Date: 2025-07-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.06.012

Wyke Stommel , Lynn de Rijk , Mieke Breukelman , Evi Dalmaijer , Marie Rickert

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Concordant assertoric nods: Embodiment of epistemic insistence 一致的断言点头：认识论坚持的体现

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-09-01 Epub Date: 2025-08-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.07.003

Ruey-Jiuan Regina Wu , John Heritage

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