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Is Heidi really happier in the mountains? A mixed-methods investigation of spatial affect in fiction 海蒂在山上真的更快乐吗？小说中空间情感的混合方法研究

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Language and Literature Pub Date : 2025-09-29 DOI: 10.1177/09639470251337794

Giulia Grisot, Berenike Herrmann

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Book Review: Exploring the Sociopragmatics of Online Humor TsakonaVilly, Exploring the Sociopragmatics of Online Humor. Amsterdam/ Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing, 2024; xi, 264 pp.: 9789027246790 (e-Book) 《网络幽默的社会语用学研究》作者：TsakonaVilly阿姆斯特丹/费城：约翰·本杰明出版社，2024；《中国科学》，264页：9789027246790（电子书）

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Language and Literature Pub Date : 2025-09-09 DOI: 10.1177/09639470251377245

Jing Gao

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The gestalts of mind and text GoodblattChanitaGlicksohnJoseph, The Gestalts of Mind and Text, Routledge: Oxon, 2022; 188 pp.: ISBN 9780367350710, £130.00 (hbk) 《心灵与文本的格式塔》古德布拉特·查尼塔·利克森·约瑟夫，《心灵与文本的格式塔》，劳特利奇出版社：奥克森，2022；188页：ISBN 9780367350710, 130.00英镑（hbk）

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Language and Literature Pub Date : 2025-09-03 DOI: 10.1177/09639470251377443

David West

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Book review: Authenticity and the public literary self: Will the ‘real’ author please stand up IyerSreedhevi, Authenticity and the Public Literary Self: Will the ‘Real’ Author Please Stand Up, Oxford: Taylor & Francis Group, 2023; 216 pp: ISBN 9781003080695, £39.99 (ebk). 书评：《真实性与公共文学自我：“真正的”作者会站起来吗？》，耶尔斯·里德赫维著，《真实性与公共文学自我：“真正的”作者会站起来吗》，牛津：泰勒和弗朗西斯集团，2023年；216页：ISBN 9781003080695, 39.99英镑（电子书）。

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Language and Literature Pub Date : 2025-08-30 DOI: 10.1177/09639470251377442

Jenny Hedley

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‘I watch your hands like butterflies landing’: Embodied dynamicity in Nick Cave’s similes “我看着你的手，就像蝴蝶落地一样”：尼克·凯夫的比喻中体现的活力

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Language and Literature Pub Date : 2025-07-08 DOI: 10.1177/09639470251357084

Anne Holm, Esme Richardson-Owen

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‘There are all sorts of lives’: Internal dialogicity within first-person narration in Jean Rhys’s Voyage in the Dark “有各种各样的生命”：吉恩·里斯的《黑暗航行》第一人称叙事中的内在对话

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Language and Literature Pub Date : 2025-06-25 DOI: 10.1177/09639470251341386

Marianne Fish

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The year’s work in stylistics 2023 & 2024 文体学2023和2024年的年度工作

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Language and Literature Pub Date : 2025-06-25 DOI: 10.1177/09639470251355809

Adrián Castro

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Strategies of text-world consolidation in reviews of Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing 玛格丽特·阿特伍德《表面》书评中的文本世界整合策略

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Language and Literature Pub Date : 2025-06-12 DOI: 10.1177/09639470251349482

Peter Harvey

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Suspenseful indirectness in gangster film dialogue: A pragma-stylistic study of Scorsese’s mob bosses 黑帮电影对白中悬疑的间接性：对斯科塞斯黑帮老大的语用文体研究

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Language and Literature Pub Date : 2025-05-08 DOI: 10.1177/09639470251341387

Christoph Schubert

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Disinherited protagonists in the early history of T/V variation in Middle English 中古英语早期影视变异史中被剥夺继承权的主人公

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Language and Literature Pub Date : 2025-05-06 DOI: 10.1177/09639470251327500

Olga Timofeeva

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