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Between Local Acceptability and International Opprobrium: On Nigeria’s Anti-Same Sex Marriage Law; Is Western Voice a Human Rights Advocacy or Cultural Imperialism? 在本土可接受与国际谴责之间——论尼日利亚的反同性婚姻法西方之声是人权倡导还是文化帝国主义?

IF 2.3 2区文学

Multilingua-Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication Pub Date : 2021-09-26 DOI: 10.3968/12306

M. Omilusi

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William Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 18” Revisited 重访威廉·莎士比亚的《十四行诗》

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Multilingua-Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication Pub Date : 2021-09-26 DOI: 10.3968/12181

Mariwan Hasan, Lavin Fouad

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A Study of Translation on Nursery Rhymes From Reception Aesthetics: Taking Bronze and Sunflower as An Example 从接受美学看童谣的翻译——以《青铜》和《向日葵》为例

IF 2.3 2区文学

Multilingua-Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication Pub Date : 2021-09-26 DOI: 10.3968/12221

Shannon Sun

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A Historical Investigation on the Early Organization of the Communist Party of Guangzhou and the Construction of Marxist Discourse Power 早期广州共产党组织与马克思主义话语权建构的历史考察

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Multilingua-Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication Pub Date : 2021-09-26 DOI: 10.3968/12207

Q. Zeng

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Research on the Relationship Between Corporate Social Responsibility and R&D Investment and Enterprise Financial Performance 企业社会责任与研发投入、企业财务绩效的关系研究

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Multilingua-Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication Pub Date : 2021-09-26 DOI: 10.3968/12281

Ye Liu

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Analyse de l’amour d’Alissa dans La porte étroite 《狭窄的门》中艾丽莎的爱情分析

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Multilingua-Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication Pub Date : 2021-09-26 DOI: 10.3968/12173

X. Zheng

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Frontmatter

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Multilingua-Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication Pub Date : 2021-09-01 DOI: 10.1515/multi-2021-frontmatter5

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VOT production, writing skills, and general proficiency in multilingual learners of French: approaching the intertwinement of different linguistic levels 法语多语言学习者的VOT生成、写作技巧和一般熟练程度:接近不同语言水平的交织

IF 2.3 2区文学

Multilingua-Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication Pub Date : 2021-09-01 DOI: 10.1515/multi-2021-0016

Christoph Gabriel, Thorsten Klinger, I. Usanova

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Design and Application of Teaching Mode of English Reading and Writing Course for Postgraduate Based on Smart Classroom 基于智能课堂的研究生英语阅读与写作教学模式设计与应用

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Multilingua-Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication Pub Date : 2021-07-27 DOI: 10.3968/12197

Yuchen Li

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The price of immersion: language learners as a cheap workforce in Malta’s voluntourism industry 沉浸式学习的代价:语言学习者成为马耳他公益旅游行业的廉价劳动力

IF 2.3 2区文学

Multilingua-Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication Pub Date : 2021-07-26 DOI: 10.1515/multi-2020-0178

Larissa Semiramis Schedel

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