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IF 0.4 3区文学

Pragmatics & Cognition Pub Date : 2017-12-31 DOI: 10.1075/PC.17006.PAR

Fey Parrill, Kashmiri Stec

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引用次数: 7

Temporal connectives and verbal tenses as processing instructions 时间连接词和动词时态作为加工指令

IF 0.4 3区文学

Pragmatics & Cognition Pub Date : 2017-12-31 DOI: 10.1075/PC.17009.GRI

C. Grisot, Joanna Blochowiak

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引用次数: 10

Responding to direct complaints 回应直接投诉

IF 0.4 3区文学

Pragmatics & Cognition Pub Date : 2017-12-31 DOI: 10.1075/PC.16009.LIU

Ping Liu, Huiying Liu

引用次数: 1

Evidence and presumptions for analyzing and detecting misunderstandings 分析和发现误解的证据和假设

IF 0.4 3区文学

Pragmatics & Cognition Pub Date : 2017-12-31 DOI: 10.1075/PC.17034.MAC

Fabrizio Macagno

引用次数: 13

It’s got some meaning but I am not sure…: The role of the particle (wa)-ma in the oral and transitional poetry of the Jbala (northern Morocco) from the cognitive perspective 它有一定的意义，但我不确定…:从认知的角度看Jbala(摩洛哥北部)口述和过渡诗歌中助词(wa)-ma的作用