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Awareness of textual constructedness: Readerly responses to multimodality in post-postmodernist fictions of the digital 文本建构意识：后后现代主义数字小说中读者对多模态的回应

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Language and Literature Pub Date : 2026-11-04 DOI: 10.1177/09639470261499762

Jan Alber, Alice Bell, Nadia Georgiou, Denise Wong

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Social chatbots and character: Mind-modelling, mimetics, and postdigital misperception 社交聊天机器人和角色：思维建模、模仿者和后数字误解

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Language and Literature Pub Date : 2026-10-21 DOI: 10.1177/09639470261493289

Alice Bell

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Pandemic intervention in art: An ekphrastic account of the self in lockdown 艺术中的大流行干预：禁闭中的自我描述

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Language and Literature Pub Date : 2026-10-09 DOI: 10.1177/09639470261491779

Polina Gavin, Marcello Giovanelli

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The language of contemporary poetry: A framework for poetic analysis Lesley Jeffries, The Language of Contemporary Poetry. A Framework for Poetic Analysis . Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, 282 pp. ISBN: 978-3-031-09748-5 (hbk), ISBN: 978-3-031-09749-2 (ebk). 《当代诗歌的语言：诗歌分析的框架》，莱斯利·杰弗里斯著。诗歌分析的框架。Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, 282页。ISBN: 978-3-031-09748-5 (hbk), ISBN: 978-3-031-09749-2 （ebk）。

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Language and Literature Pub Date : 2026-09-26 DOI: 10.1177/09639470261492180

Davide Castiglione

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Rhyme over reason: Phonological motivation in English RékaBenczes, Rhyme Over Reason: Phonological Motivation in English. Cambridge University Press, 2019, 284 pages: ISBN: 978-1-108-74074-6, price: £32 (paperback). “韵大于理”：英语的语音理据。剑桥大学出版社，2019,284页：ISBN: 978-1-108-74074-6，价格：32英镑（平装本）。

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Language and Literature Pub Date : 2026-09-21 DOI: 10.1177/09639470261492113

Enora Lessinger

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Book Review: Monster metaphors: When rhetoric runs amok AdamsPeter J., Monster Metaphors: When Rhetoric Runs Amok. Routledge, 2023, pp: 258. ISBN 9781003223580, £29.24 (ebk). 书评：《怪物隐喻：当修辞失控时》亚当·斯佩特·J，《怪物隐喻：当修辞失控时》。劳特利奇出版社，2023，第258页。ISBN 9781003223580, 29.24英镑（电子书）。

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Language and Literature Pub Date : 2026-09-21 DOI: 10.1177/09639470261492112

Kimberley Pager-McClymont

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The year’s work in stylistics 2025 文体学2025年度工作

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Language and Literature Pub Date : 2026-07-17 DOI: 10.1177/09639470261469048

Adrián Castro

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Book Review: Metaphor in Socio-Political Contexts: Current Crises (Applications of Cognitive Linguistics) RomanoManuela, ed., Metaphor in Socio-Political Contexts: Current Crises (Applications of Cognitive Linguistics), Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 2024; 6+334 pp.: ISBN 978-3-11-100125-8, https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111001364, EUR 144.95 (hbk). 书评：隐喻在社会政治语境：当前危机（认知语言学的应用）RomanoManuela主编，隐喻在社会政治语境：当前危机（认知语言学的应用），柏林和波士顿：De Gruyter Mouton, 2024；6+334页：ISBN 978-3-11-100125-8， https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111001364, 144.95欧元（hbk）。

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Language and Literature Pub Date : 2026-07-10 DOI: 10.1177/09639470261468530

Svitlana Shurma

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Book Review: Caribbean discourses: Stylistic and critical discourse approaches to language use in the Caribbean DurgasinghRyanSelvon-RamkissoonNicha (eds), Caribbean Discourses: Stylistic and Critical Discourse Approaches to Language Use in the Caribbean. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024; 364; pp.: ISBN 9783031450464, GBP 109.99. 书评：《加勒比语篇：加勒比海语言使用的文体与批评语篇方法》，dr . hryanselvon - ramkissoonnicha主编，《加勒比语篇：加勒比海语言使用的文体与批评语篇方法》。Cham: Palgrave Macmillan出版社，2024；364年;pp.: ISBN 9783031450464，英镑109.99。

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Language and Literature Pub Date : 2026-07-09 DOI: 10.1177/09639470261468504

Naomi Adam

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Rewriting Roald Dahl: The impact of textual revisions to George’s Marvellous Medicine in the light of sensitivity reading 改写罗尔德·达尔：从敏感阅读的角度看文本修订对乔治的《神奇的药》的影响

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Language and Literature Pub Date : 2026-06-12 DOI: 10.1177/09639470261419867

Dan McIntyre

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