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Sarcastic Meaning of the Slightly Smiling Face Emoji from Chinese Twitter Users: When A Smiling Face Does Not Show Friendliness 中国推特用户微笑表情的讽刺意义:微笑并不表示友好

International Journal of Languages, Literature and Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI: 10.18178/ijlll.2022.8.2.324

Shiwei Wang

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A Study of African American English Variant Based on the Corpus of Afro-American Music 基于美国黑人音乐语料库的美国黑人英语变体研究

International Journal of Languages, Literature and Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI: 10.18178/ijlll.2022.8.2.334

Tianyu Wang, Yuan Yang, Jing Liu

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A Review on Second Language Learners’ Irony Comprehension 第二语言学习者反语理解研究综述

International Journal of Languages, Literature and Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI: 10.18178/ijlll.2022.8.2.330

Chenyu Zhao

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A Study of Negative Transfer of Mother Tongue in English Majors’ Writing 英语专业学生写作中母语负迁移的研究

International Journal of Languages, Literature and Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI: 10.18178/ijlll.2022.8.2.325

Jie Chen, Yi Zhang

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Comparing Linguistics Influences of Shapes and Materials between English and Chinese Speakers 英汉两种语言对形状和材料的影响比较

International Journal of Languages, Literature and Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI: 10.18178/ijlll.2022.8.2.335

Xinyu Zeng

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Stereotypes Know no Pandemic: A Facebook Study Facebook研究:刻板印象不会流行

International Journal of Languages, Literature and Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI: 10.18178/ijlll.2022.8.2.332

Shiwangi Shiwangi

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Analysis of Buzzwords from the Perspective of Sociolinguistics—Take “Waste Sorting” as an Example 社会语言学视角下的流行语分析——以“垃圾分类”为例

International Journal of Languages, Literature and Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI: 10.18178/ijlll.2022.8.2.331

Ruobing Han, Hongmei Ruan

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A Sociophonetic Investigation of Chinese Gay Couples' Variability of Pitch Properties in Vlogs 中国同性恋伴侣在视频日志中音高属性变化的社会语音学研究

International Journal of Languages, Literature and Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI: 10.18178/ijlll.2022.8.2.326

Xinyu Liao

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An Analysis of Modal Adverbs of Certainty in Linguistic Academic Discourse 语言学术语篇中确定性情态副词分析

International Journal of Languages, Literature and Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI: 10.18178/ijlll.2022.8.2.329

Rui Deng, Yi Zhang

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On J. K. Rowling's Discourse on Transsexual Issues, An Analysis of the Language Used on Rowling's Twitter and the Sociolinguistic Implication of Hate Speech j·k·罗琳关于变性问题的论述——罗琳推特上的语言分析及仇恨言论的社会语言学含义

International Journal of Languages, Literature and Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI: 10.18178/ijlll.2022.8.2.328

Amerigo Quatrini

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