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Marked Themes in academic writing: a comparative look at the sciences and humanities 学术写作中的标记主题：科学与人文科学的比较研究

IF 0.6 3区文学

Text & Talk Pub Date : 2024-01-22 DOI: 10.1515/text-2022-0188

Alvin Ping Leong

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Motivated signs and multimodal analysis in Gunther Kress’s semiotics 冈瑟-克雷斯符号学中的动机符号和多模式分析

IF 0.6 3区文学

Text & Talk Pub Date : 2024-01-15 DOI: 10.1515/text-2022-0064

Bob Hodge

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Insincerity in lawyers’ questioning strategies in Malawian criminal courtroom discourse 马拉维刑事法庭话语中律师提问策略的不诚实之处

IF 0.6 3区文学

Text & Talk Pub Date : 2023-12-12 DOI: 10.1515/text-2022-0083

Wellman Kondowe

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National discourses in (de)legitimations of the Swedish COVID-19 strategy 瑞典 COVID-19 战略（去）合法化中的国家论述

IF 0.6 3区文学

Text & Talk Pub Date : 2023-12-07 DOI: 10.1515/text-2022-0100

Karin Idevall Hagren, Theres Bellander

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How pandemic detective narratives potentiate and debilitate trust 大流行病侦探叙事如何增强和削弱信任

IF 0.6 3区文学

Text & Talk Pub Date : 2023-11-27 DOI: 10.1515/text-2022-0080

Sheng-Hsun Lee

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Using genre to explain how children linguistically co-construct make-believe social scenarios in classroom role-play 运用体裁解释儿童在课堂角色扮演中如何在语言上共同建构虚构的社会情景

IF 0.6 3区文学

Text & Talk Pub Date : 2023-11-24 DOI: 10.1515/text-2021-0185

Sarah Jane Mukherjee

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Educators’ uptake of Kress’s ideas on meaning-making and literacy: a case study from South Africa 教育工作者对克雷斯关于意义创造和读写能力的思想的吸收:来自南非的案例研究

IF 0.6 3区文学

Text & Talk Pub Date : 2023-11-24 DOI: 10.1515/text-2022-0060

Denise Newfield

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Determination and agency in the work of Gunther Kress 冈瑟·克雷斯工作中的决心和能动性

3区文学

Text & Talk Pub Date : 2023-11-16 DOI: 10.1515/text-2022-0067

Theo van Leeuwen

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What modes can and cannot do: Affordance in Gunther Kress’s theory of sign making 模式能做什么和不能做什么:冈瑟·克雷斯符号制作理论中的功能支持

IF 0.6 3区文学

Text & Talk Pub Date : 2023-11-15 DOI: 10.1515/text-2022-0055

Jeff Bezemer

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The normative order of sensing: enacting the tasting sheet in tasting training sessions 品鉴的规范顺序:在品鉴培训中制定品鉴单

3区文学

Text & Talk Pub Date : 2023-11-09 DOI: 10.1515/text-2022-0195

Lorenza Mondada

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