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Book Review: Translation and style 书评：翻译与风格

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Language and Literature Pub Date : 2024-07-31 DOI: 10.1177/09639470241257068

Wen Yongchao, Guo Qi

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Schemata of estrangement in Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed 厄休拉-K-勒奎恩《被剥夺者》中的疏离模式

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Language and Literature Pub Date : 2024-03-21 DOI: 10.1177/09639470241240923

Richard J Whitt

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Book Review: Translation and Style (second version) 书评：翻译与风格》（第二版）

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Language and Literature Pub Date : 2024-02-29 DOI: 10.1177/09639470241230174

Wen Yongchao, Guo Qi

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Telecinematic stylistics: Language and style in fantasy TV series 影视文体学:奇幻电视剧中的语言与风格

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Language and Literature Pub Date : 2023-11-08 DOI: 10.1177/09639470231214673

Adrián Castro

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‘Gonna get you, baby!’ A qualitative-empirical study of attentional modulation in reading a short story “会抓到你的，宝贝!”阅读短篇小说时注意力调节的定性-实证研究

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Language and Literature Pub Date : 2023-10-17 DOI: 10.1177/09639470231202261

Inge van de Ven

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What triggers perceptions of racism in Heart of Darkness? A reader-response analysis 是什么触发了《黑暗之心》中的种族主义?读者反应分析

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Language and Literature Pub Date : 2023-09-22 DOI: 10.1177/09639470231202263

Lorenzo Mastropierro, Kathy Conklin

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‘Uncle Al is old, has brown eyes and dementia’: The importance of order in zeugmas “阿尔叔叔老了，有棕色的眼睛和痴呆”:斑马病中秩序的重要性

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Language and Literature Pub Date : 2023-09-19 DOI: 10.1177/09639470231202262

Roi Tartakovsky, Yeshayahu Shen

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Tracing palimpsestic text-worlds of key moments in rewrites of King Lear - A Thousand Acres and Dunbar 追溯改写《李尔王-一千英亩》和邓巴的关键时刻的改写文本世界

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Language and Literature Pub Date : 2023-09-15 DOI: 10.1177/09639470231202264

Yi Fan

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The poetics of attention in Old English verse: A cognitive stylistic approach to the depiction of Grendel in Beowulf 古英语诗歌中的注意力诗学:《贝奥武夫》中格伦德尔形象的认知文体分析

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Language and Literature Pub Date : 2023-05-29 DOI: 10.1177/09639470231177583

Nikolas Gunn

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‘Native woodnotes wild’: Shakespeare, his contemporaries, and the syntax of negation 《乡土乡土》:莎士比亚，他的同代人，以及否定的句法

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Language and Literature Pub Date : 2023-05-25 DOI: 10.1177/09639470231160579

Richard Ingham, Michael Ingham

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