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‘I shouldn’t even be telling you that I shouldn’t be telling you the story’: Pseudonymous Bosch and the postmodern narrator in children’s literature “我甚至不应该告诉你我不应该给你讲这个故事”：假名博世和儿童文学中的后现代叙述者

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Language and Literature Pub Date : 2021-04-18 DOI: 10.1177/09639470211009748

Ella Wydrzynska

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Multilevel grounded semantics across cognitive modalities: Music, vision, poetry 跨认知模式的多层次基础语义:音乐，视觉，诗歌

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Language and Literature Pub Date : 2021-03-22 DOI: 10.1177/0963947021999182

Mihailo Antović

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#Ledatoo: The morality of Leda and the Swan in teaching stylistics #莱达托：莱达和天鹅在文体学教学中的道德

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Language and Literature Pub Date : 2021-03-12 DOI: 10.1177/0963947020983108

Guy Cook

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Antisemitic conspiracy fantasy in the age of digital media: Three ‘conspiracy theorists’ and their YouTube audiences 数字媒体时代的反犹太主义阴谋幻想：三位“阴谋论者”及其YouTube观众

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Language and Literature Pub Date : 2020-12-27 DOI: 10.1177/0963947020971997

D. Allington, Beatriz L Buarque, Daniel Barker Flores

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Schematic incongruity, conversational power play and criminal mind style in Thomas Harris’ Silence of the Lambs 托马斯·哈里斯《沉默的羔羊》中的图式不协调、话语权力游戏与犯罪心理风格

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Language and Literature Pub Date : 2020-11-01 DOI: 10.1177/0963947020968663

C. Gregoriou

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The pedagogy of stylistics: Enhancing practice by flipping the classroom, using whiteboards and action research 文体学教学法:通过翻转课堂、使用白板和行动研究来加强实践

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Language and Literature Pub Date : 2020-11-01 DOI: 10.1177/0963947020968665

Marina Lambrou

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Postscript: Pedagogical stylistics: Past and future 后记:教学文体学:过去与未来

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Language and Literature Pub Date : 2020-11-01 DOI: 10.1177/0963947020968666

S. Zyngier

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引用次数: 4

The year’s work in stylistics 2019 文体学2019年度工作

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Language and Literature Pub Date : 2020-11-01 DOI: 10.1177/0963947020970658

Simon Statham

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Literary dialect as social deixis 作为社会指示语的文学方言

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Language and Literature Pub Date : 2020-11-01 DOI: 10.1177/0963947020968661

P. Stockwell

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Identity inferences: Implicatures, implications and extended interpretations 身份推断：含义、含义和扩展解释

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Language and Literature Pub Date : 2020-10-09 DOI: 10.1177/0963947020969568

B. Clark

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