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Locating summonses 定位传票

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2024.11.012

Esther González-Martínez, Angeliki Balantani

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Trust-indicating pragmatic markers in selected African englishes 非洲英语中表示信任的语用标记

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2024.12.008

Toyese Najeem Dahunsi, Oluwayomi Rosemary Olaniyan, Ayobami Adetoro Afolabi, Richard Akano

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2024.11.007

Zhuang Qiu

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“#HaveYouNoShame”: Unraveling the pragmatics of impolite political hashtags “#你不羞耻”：揭开不礼貌的政治标签的语用学

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2024.12.004

Seyed Mohammadreza Mortazavi , Hamed Zandi

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Uso “lie” or hontoo “truth”?: Two lexical response tokens in Japanese informings Uso“谎言”还是hontoo“真相”？日语信息中的两个词汇响应标记

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2024.12.001

Yuki Arita

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From observation to elicitation: An ethnographically grounded approach to pragmatic variation in Namibian English 从观察到启发：基于民族志的纳米比亚英语语用变化研究

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2024-11-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2024.11.004

Anne Schröder , Pawel Sickinger

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“Sorry it took me a long time to reply”: Sorry as a discourse-pragmatic feature in African Englishes "对不起，我花了很长时间才回复你"：对不起作为非洲英语中的一种话语语用特征

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2024-11-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2024.11.003

Foluke Olayinka Unuabonah , Florence Oluwaseyi Daniel, Deborah Abiola Fifelola

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“Being your son is rather tiring”: Assessments and assessment responses in initial interactions in Mandarin Chinese "当你儿子挺累的"：汉语普通话初始互动中的评估和评估反应

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2024-11-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2024.11.001

Wei-Lin Melody Chang

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That's the understatement of the century: Understatement as a meta-rhetorical expression in the Corpus of American Soap Operas 这是本世纪的轻描淡写：轻描淡写作为一种元修辞表达在美国肥皂剧语料库

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2024-11-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2024.11.002

Claudia Claridge

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“I'll get it”: Payment offers, payment offer sequences and gender on First Dates "我来付"：付款要约、付款要约顺序和初恋性别

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2024-11-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2024.10.006

Anne Barron

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