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Revealing the anthropocentric nature of language and the theory of the living word in the interpretation of the concepts vidieť ‘see’, vedieť ‘know’ and veriť ‘believe’ in the Slovak language 揭示语言的人类中心主义本质，以及对斯洛伐克语中“看”、“知道”和“相信”三个概念的解释

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Topics in Linguistics Pub Date : 2016-12-01 DOI: 10.1515/topling-2016-0013

Z. Kováčová, Elena Ciprianová

引用次数: 3

On the production of metaphors and metonymies by Jordanian EFL learners: acquisition and implications 约旦英语学习者隐喻和转喻的产生:习得与蕴涵

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Topics in Linguistics Pub Date : 2016-12-01 DOI: 10.1515/topling-2016-0012

Aseel Zibin

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引用次数: 21

Cognitive rhetoric of effect: energy flow as a means of persuasion in inaugurals 效果的认知修辞:就职典礼中作为说服手段的能量流

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Topics in Linguistics Pub Date : 2016-12-01 DOI: 10.1515/topling-2016-0010

S. Potapenko

引用次数: 7

The relationship between receptive and productive vocabulary of Slavic EFL learners 斯拉夫语英语学习者的接受性词汇与生产性词汇的关系

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Topics in Linguistics Pub Date : 2016-12-01 DOI: 10.1515/topling-2016-0011

Z. Šišková

引用次数: 9

Discourse implicature, Quintilian and the Lucidity Principle: rhetorical phenomena in pragmatics 语篇含意、昆提连与明晰原则:语用学中的修辞现象

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Topics in Linguistics Pub Date : 2016-06-01 DOI: 10.1515/topling-2016-0001

M. Burke

引用次数: 10

Power in communication: revisiting power studies 沟通中的权力:重新审视权力研究

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Topics in Linguistics Pub Date : 2016-06-01 DOI: 10.1515/topling-2016-0007

S. N. Kucherenko

引用次数: 2

Is there an interlanguage speech credibility benefit? 是否有中介语言语可信度的好处?

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Topics in Linguistics Pub Date : 2016-06-01 DOI: 10.1515/topling-2016-0003

Václav Jonáš Podlipský, Šárka Šimáčková, David Petráž

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引用次数: 10

Transfer at the level of argument structure or morphology: a comparative study of English and Persian unaccusative and unergative verbs 论元结构或形态层面的转换:英语和波斯语非宾格和非否定动词的比较研究

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Topics in Linguistics Pub Date : 2016-06-01 DOI: 10.1515/topling-2016-0008

F. Dehghan, R. Rezvani

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引用次数: 4

The gradual acquisition of clitic “se” in Spanish L2 西班牙语第二语言中修饰语“se”的逐渐习得

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Topics in Linguistics Pub Date : 2016-06-01 DOI: 10.1515/topling-2016-0002

L. Escobar, Ismael Teomiro

引用次数: 4

Conceptualizing the metaphors of drug abusers 将吸毒者的隐喻概念化

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Topics in Linguistics Pub Date : 2016-06-01 DOI: 10.1515/topling-2016-0006

M. Gyuró

引用次数: 2