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Writer and participant visibility in quantitative and qualitative research: a corpus-assisted study of human agent verbs in health science publications 定量和定性研究中作者和参与者的能见度：对健康科学出版物中人类代理动词的语料库辅助研究

Lodz Papers in Pragmatics Pub Date : 2024-07-12 DOI: 10.1515/lpp-2024-2009

Ruth Breeze

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The most common graphicons in Mexican Spanish speaking WhatsApp communities composed of school parents 墨西哥西班牙语 WhatsApp 社区中最常见的图形由学校家长组成

Lodz Papers in Pragmatics Pub Date : 2024-07-04 DOI: 10.1515/lpp-2024-2010

Elizabeth Flores-Salgado

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Ecological discourse analysis and meaning interpretation of BBC news reports on 2019 Australian bushfires from the perspective of transitivity system 从转义系统的角度对 BBC 2019 年澳大利亚丛林大火新闻报道进行生态话语分析和意义阐释

Lodz Papers in Pragmatics Pub Date : 2024-07-03 DOI: 10.1515/lpp-2024-2007

Meijing Li, Zhencong Liu

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A multimodal contrastive analysis of regulations and instructions during the COVID-19 lockdown in the context of the Island of Madeira and the United Kingdom 以马德拉岛和联合王国为背景，对 COVID-19 封锁期间的规定和指示进行多模式对比分析

Lodz Papers in Pragmatics Pub Date : 2024-07-02 DOI: 10.1515/lpp-2024-2008

Leandro da Silva, Svetlana Kurteš

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Apology strategies in Tashelhit: linguistic realization and religious influence 塔谢赫特的道歉策略：语言实现和宗教影响

Lodz Papers in Pragmatics Pub Date : 2024-06-17 DOI: 10.1515/lpp-2024-2005

M’hand Aatar, Hassan Skouri, Lalla Asmae Karama

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Conative “kisses” in human-to-animal communication 人与动物交流中的暗示性 "亲吻

Lodz Papers in Pragmatics Pub Date : 2024-06-10 DOI: 10.1515/lpp-2024-2001

Alexander Andrason

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Speaker positioning in academic instruction: insights from corpus analysis 学术教学中的发言人定位：语料分析的启示

Lodz Papers in Pragmatics Pub Date : 2024-06-10 DOI: 10.1515/lpp-2024-2003

Hadi Kashiha

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Hebrew offensive language taxonomy and dataset 希伯来攻击性语言分类和数据集

Lodz Papers in Pragmatics Pub Date : 2023-12-01 DOI: 10.1515/lpp-2023-0017

Chaya Liebeskind, N. Vanetik, Marina Litvak

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Offensive language in user-generated comments in Lithuanian 用户生成的立陶宛语评论中的冒犯性语言

Lodz Papers in Pragmatics Pub Date : 2023-12-01 DOI: 10.1515/lpp-2023-0013

Giedrė Valūnaitė-Oleškevičienė, Linas Selmistraitis, A. Utka, Dangis Gudelis

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Evaluations of appropriateness through impoliteness in political discourse reframed for entertainment purposes 在以娱乐为目的的政治话语中，通过不礼貌来评价适当性

Lodz Papers in Pragmatics Pub Date : 2023-12-01 DOI: 10.1515/lpp-2023-0015

Mariya Chankova

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