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The conventional organisation of request sequences in Scottish letters (1570–1750) 苏格兰字母中请求序列的传统组织（1570-1750）

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Language and Literature Pub Date : 2025-05-06 DOI: 10.1177/09639470251327491

Christine Elsweiler

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Reconfigured reality in scenarios of transformed identity, invasion and environmental threat: The diachronic exploration of recognition scenes in anglophone print and film narratives 在身份转换、入侵和环境威胁的场景中重新配置的现实：英语印刷和电影叙事中识别场景的历时探索

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Language and Literature Pub Date : 2025-05-06 DOI: 10.1177/09639470251332820

Hilary Duffield

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Diachronic perspectives on digital reading culture: Crying readers from the age of sensibility to BookTok 数字阅读文化的历时视角：从感性时代到BookTok的哭泣读者

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Language and Literature Pub Date : 2025-05-06 DOI: 10.1177/09639470251330400

Dorothee Birke

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Chaucerian modernities: (De)-constructing literary history in The Canterbury Tales 乔叟式的现代性：《坎特伯雷故事集》中的建构文学史

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Language and Literature Pub Date : 2025-05-06 DOI: 10.1177/09639470251327483

Andrew James Johnston

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Diachronicity: An issue shared between linguistics and literary studies 历时性：语言学和文学研究的共同问题

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Language and Literature Pub Date : 2025-05-06 DOI: 10.1177/09639470251327482

Monika Fludernik, Olga Timofeeva

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Towards a cognitive forensic stylistics: An intercoder reliability test for replicable feature finding in the Operation Heron corpus 走向认知法医文体学：在苍鹭行动语料库中可复制特征发现的互编码可靠性测试

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Language and Literature Pub Date : 2025-04-26 DOI: 10.1177/09639470251337632

Matthew Voice, Chloe Harrison, Tim Grant, Marcello Giovanelli

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Humans or animals? The linguistic representation of animal characters in original and translated Finnish picture books for children 人类还是动物？芬兰语原版及翻译儿童绘本中动物角色的语言表现

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Language and Literature Pub Date : 2025-03-30 DOI: 10.1177/09639470251330429

Katri Priiki, Leena Kolehmainen

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Variation in fictional dialogue in A Series of Unfortunate Events 《一系列不幸事件》中虚构对话的变异

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Language and Literature Pub Date : 2025-03-18 DOI: 10.1177/09639470251327730

Daniel Duncan

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Who tells your story: Narration in Hamilton: An American Musical 谁来讲述你的故事：《汉密尔顿：美国音乐剧》中的旁白

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Language and Literature Pub Date : 2025-02-11 DOI: 10.1177/09639470251319912

Alicia Muro

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Book Review: Advances in Corpus Applications in Literary and Translation Studies 书评：文学和翻译研究中的语料库应用进展