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Impoliteness and power dynamics in intimate interactions: An analysis of Joe Blann’s ‘Things We Had’ 亲密互动中的不礼貌与权力动力学——对乔·布兰的《我们拥有的东西》的分析

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Language and Literature Pub Date : 2021-07-27 DOI: 10.1177/09639470211034283

Lina Mourad

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引用次数: 3

The intricacies of counting to four in Old English poetry 古英语诗歌中数四的复杂性

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Language and Literature Pub Date : 2021-05-06 DOI: 10.1177/09639470211012297

I. Cornelius, Eric Weiskott

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Do worlds have (fourth) walls? A Text World Theory approach to direct address in Fleabag 世界有（第四面）墙吗？Fleabag中直接寻址的文本世界理论方法

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Language and Literature Pub Date : 2021-05-01 DOI: 10.1177/0963947020983202

A. Gibbons, S. Whiteley

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引用次数: 5

Book Review: Poetry and Language: The Linguistics of Verse 书评：诗歌与语言：诗歌语言学

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Language and Literature Pub Date : 2021-04-30 DOI: 10.1177/09639470211015833

C. James

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Book Review: What’s Your Pronoun? Beyond He & She 书评：你的代词是什么？超越他和她

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Language and Literature Pub Date : 2021-04-30 DOI: 10.1177/09639470211015851

K. Wales

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Book Review: Intertextuality in Practice 书评:实践中的互文性

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Language and Literature Pub Date : 2021-04-30 DOI: 10.1177/09639470211015849

Kimberley Pager-McClymont

引用次数: 34

‘Your duplicitous point of view’: Delayed revelations of hypothetical focalisation in Ian McEwan’s Atonement and Sweet Tooth “你的两面派观点”:伊恩·麦克尤恩的《赎罪》和《甜牙》中假性聚焦的延迟揭露

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Language and Literature Pub Date : 2021-04-23 DOI: 10.1177/09639470211009734

Naomi Adam

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引用次数: 1

‘And that’: Halliday’s logogenesis, sociogenesis, and phylogenesis in Darwin’s tangled bank “而那”:韩礼德在《达尔文的纠结河岸》中的意义发生、社会发生和系统发生

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Language and Literature Pub Date : 2021-04-18 DOI: 10.1177/09639470211009672

D. Kellogg, Somaye Aghajani Kalkhoran

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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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引用次数: 0

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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引用次数: 2