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“Tú sabes lo que le pasa a él?”: the Role of (Relational) Epistemics in Indirect Complaint Sequences in Spanish and English Family Talk " Tú sabes lo que le pasa a sami ? "关系认识论在西班牙语和英语家庭谈话中间接抱怨序列中的作用

Contrastive Pragmatics Pub Date : 2023-08-02 DOI: 10.1163/26660393-bja10098

Andrea Rodriguez, Valeria Sinkeviciute

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Prosody of Preferred and Dispreferred Speech Acts: L2 Spanish Learners’ Intonation and Fluency in Acceptances and Refusals 偏好和不偏好言语行为的韵律:第二语言西班牙语学习者接受和拒绝时的语调和流畅性

Contrastive Pragmatics Pub Date : 2023-07-26 DOI: 10.1163/26660393-bja10099

Naoko Taguchi, Andrew Dennis

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Society, Culture and the Speech Act of Praise – Observations from Ugandan English vis-à-vis British English 社会、文化和赞美的言语行为——从乌干达英语到-à-vis英国英语的观察

Contrastive Pragmatics Pub Date : 2023-07-25 DOI: 10.1163/26660393-bja10095

Christiane Meierkord

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An Experimental Exploration of Quotidian Framing 日常框架的实验探索

Contrastive Pragmatics Pub Date : 2023-07-21 DOI: 10.1163/26660393-bja10093

K. Fischer, Y. Matsumoto

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Newsmarks as an Interactional Resource for Indexing Remarkability: a Qualitative Analysis of Arabic waḷḷāhi and English really 新闻标记作为显著性索引的互动资源:阿拉伯语waḷḷāhi与英语really的定性分析

Contrastive Pragmatics Pub Date : 2023-07-13 DOI: 10.1163/26660393-bja10091

M. Marmorstein, Beatrice Szczepek Reed

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Asking the Obvious: Other-Repeats as Requests for Reconfirmation 问显而易见的问题:其他重复作为再次确认的请求

Contrastive Pragmatics Pub Date : 2023-07-13 DOI: 10.1163/26660393-bja10088

Marit Aldrup

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Affordances and Actions: Requests for Confirmation as Devices for Implementing Challenging and Other Disagreement- Implicative Actions 支持和行动:确认请求作为实施挑战和其他分歧隐含行动的手段

Contrastive Pragmatics Pub Date : 2023-07-13 DOI: 10.1163/26660393-bja10089

Uwe-A. Küttner, Oliver Ehmer