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Towards a cognitive forensic stylistics: An intercoder reliability test for replicable feature finding in the Operation Heron corpus 走向认知法医文体学：在苍鹭行动语料库中可复制特征发现的互编码可靠性测试

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Language and Literature Pub Date : 2025-04-26 DOI: 10.1177/09639470251337632

Matthew Voice, Chloe Harrison, Tim Grant, Marcello Giovanelli

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Humans or animals? The linguistic representation of animal characters in original and translated Finnish picture books for children 人类还是动物？芬兰语原版及翻译儿童绘本中动物角色的语言表现

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Language and Literature Pub Date : 2025-03-30 DOI: 10.1177/09639470251330429

Katri Priiki, Leena Kolehmainen

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Variation in fictional dialogue in A Series of Unfortunate Events 《一系列不幸事件》中虚构对话的变异

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Language and Literature Pub Date : 2025-03-18 DOI: 10.1177/09639470251327730

Daniel Duncan

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Who tells your story: Narration in Hamilton: An American Musical 谁来讲述你的故事：《汉密尔顿：美国音乐剧》中的旁白

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Language and Literature Pub Date : 2025-02-11 DOI: 10.1177/09639470251319912

Alicia Muro

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Book Review: Advances in Corpus Applications in Literary and Translation Studies 书评：文学和翻译研究中的语料库应用进展

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Language and Literature Pub Date : 2024-12-20 DOI: 10.1177/09639470241310855

Yuan Ping

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Book Review: Slowing Metaphor Down 书评让隐喻慢下来

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Language and Literature Pub Date : 2024-12-19 DOI: 10.1177/09639470241310848

Eric Rundquist

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In memoriam Tony Bex 为了纪念托尼·贝克斯

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Language and Literature Pub Date : 2024-12-19 DOI: 10.1177/09639470241310856

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Book Review: New Directions in Cognitive Grammar and Style 书评：认知语法和文体的新方向

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Language and Literature Pub Date : 2024-12-18 DOI: 10.1177/09639470241310849

Junjie Ma

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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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