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Language, nature, and the framing of death: An ecostylistic analysis of Laura Wade’s Colder Than Here 语言、自然和死亡的框架：劳拉-韦德《比这里更冷》的生态风格分析

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Language and Literature Pub Date : 2024-11-08 DOI: 10.1177/09639470241299710

Valentina Vetri

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Book review: Fiction and pragmatics 书评：小说与语用学

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Language and Literature Pub Date : 2024-10-27 DOI: 10.1177/09639470241288361

Yang Yue

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Gender characterization in Lady Windermere’s Fan and its Chinese translations: A corpus stylistic approach 温德米尔夫人的扇子》及其中译本中的性别表征：语料库文体学方法

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Language and Literature Pub Date : 2024-10-19 DOI: 10.1177/09639470241292813

Yifan Zhu

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Weaving narrative threads with social psychological processes: Narrative modulations in online consumer reviews of a medical memoir 用社会心理过程编织叙事线索：医学回忆录在线消费者评论中的叙事调节

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Language and Literature Pub Date : 2024-10-10 DOI: 10.1177/09639470241286469

Mimi Huang

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Sensuous modernity: The linguistic construction of femininity in the fashion content of early 1920s Vogue 感性的现代性：20 世纪 20 年代初《Vogue》时尚内容中的女性语言建构

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Language and Literature Pub Date : 2024-10-04 DOI: 10.1177/09639470241290366

Annalisa Federici

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Book review: Experiencing Poetry. A Guidebook to Psychopoetics 书评：体验诗歌。心理诗学指南

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Language and Literature Pub Date : 2024-09-27 DOI: 10.1177/09639470241287597

Davide Castiglione

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Book Review: Corpus approaches to language in social media 书评：用语料库方法研究社交媒体中的语言

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Language and Literature Pub Date : 2024-09-24 DOI: 10.1177/09639470241288360

Xinyue Chen

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Book Review: Stylistic approaches to pop culture (Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Stylistics) 书评：流行文化的文体学方法（Routledge 修辞学和文体学研究）