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“Please tell me” – The sequential organisation of audience participation in language learning livestreams “请告诉我”-语言学习直播中观众参与的顺序组织

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-03-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.02.013

Rickert Marie, Stommel Wyke

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Disagreement in Chinese blue-collar workplace small talk: The role of assessments relating to regional knowledge 中国蓝领职场闲聊中的分歧：与区域知识相关的评估的作用

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-03-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.03.008

Buqing Yu, Dorien Van De Mieroop

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Reasons for trust. The (counter-) argumentative dynamics of image-repair strategies 信任的理由。图像修复策略的（反）争论动力学

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-03-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.02.014

Rudi Palmieri

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-03-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.03.002

Kerry Mullan

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One's own genitive constructions: Focusing on two genitive variants 自己的属格结构：着重于两个属格变体

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-03-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.02.015

Mija Kim

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Revisiting respect and politeness: Insights from metapragmatics of zunzhong in Chinese public spaces 重新审视尊重与礼貌：来自中国公共空间遵忠元语用学的洞察

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-03-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.03.001

Linsen Zhao

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Response cries and syntax 回应呐喊和语法

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-03-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.02.012

Leelo Keevallik , Emily Hofstetter , Agnes Löfgren , Sally Wiggins

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How to investigate implicit pragmatic phenomena in corpora 如何研究语料库中的隐含语用现象

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-03-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.02.007

Katalin Nagy C., Enikő Németh T., Zsuzsanna Németh

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Criticism in Korean and Chinese workplace observation reality shows 韩国和中国职场观察真人秀的批评

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-03-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.02.011

Weihua Zhu

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Responding with ‘really’ in Korean conversation 在韩语对话中用“真的”来回应

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-03-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.02.010

Stephanie Hyeri Kim , Mary Shin Kim

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