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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

3区文学

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

3区文学

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

3区文学

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

3区文学

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

IF 0.7 3区文学

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

IF 0.7 3区文学

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

Richard Ingham, Michael Ingham

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“There’s still something positive about the Niger Delta ecology”: Metaphor and ideology in the Niger Delta poetic discourse “尼日尔三角洲生态仍有积极的一面”:尼日尔三角洲诗歌话语中的隐喻与意识形态

IF 0.7 3区文学

Language and Literature Pub Date : 2023-02-23 DOI: 10.1177/09639470231158694

C. Ononye, Innocent Chiluwa

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Interjections and individual style: A study of restoration dramatic language 感叹词与个体风格——复原戏剧语言研究

IF 0.7 3区文学

Language and Literature Pub Date : 2023-02-23 DOI: 10.1177/09639470231158695

Mel Evans

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Dynamic power relations between characters in A View from the Bridge: A pragmastylistic approach 《从桥上看》中人物之间的动态权力关系：一种语用风格方法

IF 0.7 3区文学

Language and Literature Pub Date : 2023-02-18 DOI: 10.1177/09639470231158696

Fan Yang

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Book Reviews: Chinese narratologies 书评：中国叙事学

IF 0.7 3区文学

Language and Literature Pub Date : 2023-02-15 DOI: 10.1177/09639470231152290

Zhongqiang Wang

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