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The functions of external voices in hard news Appraisal: A dialogic perspective 外部声音在硬新闻评价中的作用：一个对话的视角

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Topics in Linguistics Pub Date : 2017-12-20 DOI: 10.1515/topling-2017-0011

Zuzana Nádraská

引用次数: 5

Narrative structures in Korean folktales: A comparative analysis of Korean and English versions 韩国民间故事的叙事结构:韩英译本的比较分析

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Topics in Linguistics Pub Date : 2017-12-20 DOI: 10.1515/topling-2017-0007

Sooho Song

引用次数: 3

Studying text coherence in Czech – a corpus-based analysis 基于语料库的捷克语语篇连贯研究

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Topics in Linguistics Pub Date : 2017-12-20 DOI: 10.1515/topling-2017-0009

Magdaléna Rysová

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NPI licensing in Jordanian Arabic: An argument for downward entailment and syntax-semantics interface 约旦阿拉伯语的NPI许可：向下蕴涵和语法语义接口的论证

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Topics in Linguistics Pub Date : 2017-12-20 DOI: 10.1515/topling-2017-0008

Eman Al Khalaf

引用次数: 5

Modal adverbs of certainty in the rhetoric of Advocates General: a dialogic view 从对话的角度看《倡导者将军》修辞学中的确定性情态副词

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Topics in Linguistics Pub Date : 2017-06-27 DOI: 10.1515/topling-2017-0004

Magdalena Szczyrbak

引用次数: 3

The “hamburger” story; or on Anglicisms in Polish “汉堡包”的故事；或波兰语的圣公会

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Topics in Linguistics Pub Date : 2017-06-27 DOI: 10.1515/topling-2017-0001

K. Polok

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The status of intercultural mediation in translation: Is it an absolute licence? 跨文化调解在翻译中的地位：它是绝对许可证吗？

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Topics in Linguistics Pub Date : 2017-06-27 DOI: 10.1515/topling-2017-0005

A. Akbari, P. Darani

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引用次数: 3

Acquisition of adverbs and pronominal adverbs in a Czech child 捷克儿童副词和代词副词的习得

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Topics in Linguistics Pub Date : 2017-06-27 DOI: 10.1515/topling-2017-0003

Pavla Chejnová

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引用次数: 2

A database of semantic features for chosen concepts (Attested in 8- to 10-year-old Czech pupils) 选定概念的语义特征数据库(在8- 10岁的捷克学生中验证)

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Topics in Linguistics Pub Date : 2017-06-27 DOI: 10.1515/topling-2017-0006

Kristýna Konečná, Kristýna Vaňkátová

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Vowel reduction patterns of early Spanish- English bilinguals receiving continuous L1 and L2 input 接受L1和L2连续输入的早期西班牙语-英语双语者的元音缩减模式

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Topics in Linguistics Pub Date : 2017-06-27 DOI: 10.1515/topling-2017-0002

Emily Byers

引用次数: 1