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The use of clarificatory metaphors in argumentative discourse in British Public Bill Committee debates 英国公共法案委员会辩论中辩论话语中澄清隐喻的使用

IF 0.6 3区文学

Text & Talk Pub Date : 2022-02-17 DOI: 10.1515/text-2020-0101

Kiki Y. Renardel de Lavalette, C. Andone, G. Steen

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Enacted category claims and tacit orientations to older identities in the telling of a sexually-explicit anecdote 在讲述一则露骨的性轶事时，既定的类别主张和对旧身份的默认取向

IF 0.6 3区文学

Text & Talk Pub Date : 2022-02-17 DOI: 10.1515/text-2020-0163

Rachel Heinrichsmeier

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“Together we can all make little steps towards a better world”: interdiscursive construction of ecologically engaged voices in YouTube vlogs “齐心协力，我们都可以朝着更美好的世界迈出一小步”:YouTube视频博客中生态参与声音的话语间构建

IF 0.6 3区文学

Text & Talk Pub Date : 2022-02-16 DOI: 10.1515/text-2020-0089

Małgorzata Sokół

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Correlation between context and language at a high delicate level: taking Chinese emotion 喜欢 as an example 语境与语言的高度微妙关联——以汉语情感为例喜欢作为一个例子

IF 0.6 3区文学

Text & Talk Pub Date : 2022-02-16 DOI: 10.1515/text-2020-0113

Yingyu Wang

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引用次数: 1

Environmental issues in the Victorian era: an ecostylistic examination of metaphor and framing in Ruskin’s The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century 维多利亚时代的环境问题:罗斯金《十九世纪的风暴云》中隐喻和框架的生态文体学考察

IF 0.6 3区文学

Text & Talk Pub Date : 2022-02-03 DOI: 10.1515/text-2020-0077

D. Virdis

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引用次数: 3

Narratives of industrial damage and natural recovery: an ecolinguistic perspective 工业损害与自然恢复的叙述：生态语言学视角

IF 0.6 3区文学

Text & Talk Pub Date : 2022-02-02 DOI: 10.1515/text-2020-0079

D. Ponton

引用次数: 2

The Anthropocene: genesis of a term and popularization in the press 人类世:一个术语的起源和在新闻界的普及

IF 0.6 3区文学

Text & Talk Pub Date : 2022-02-02 DOI: 10.1515/text-2020-0080

A. Zottola, Claudio de Majo

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引用次数: 3

Communicating climate change: how (not) to touch a cord with people and promote action 沟通气候变化:如何(不)触动人们的心弦并促进行动

IF 0.6 3区文学

Text & Talk Pub Date : 2022-02-02 DOI: 10.1515/text-2020-0081

H. Penz

引用次数: 4

Changing discourses of climate change: building social-ecological resilience cross-culturally 不断变化的气候变化话语:建立跨文化的社会生态弹性

IF 0.6 3区文学

Text & Talk Pub Date : 2022-01-31 DOI: 10.1515/text-2020-0078

A. Plastina

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Proximization: a critical cognitive analysis of health security discourse 近因:卫生安全话语的关键认知分析

IF 0.6 3区文学

Text & Talk Pub Date : 2022-01-31 DOI: 10.1515/text-2020-0093

K. Li, Xi-qi Gong

引用次数: 2