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The use of animal classifiers as a stance negotiation strategy in Cantonese interactional discourse 动物分类词在粤语交际话语中的立场协商策略

IF 0.6 3区文学

Text & Talk Pub Date : 2022-06-08 DOI: 10.1515/text-2020-0223

A. Chan

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Metaphor(s) of the platform economy in the trade union discourse 工会话语中的平台经济隐喻

IF 0.6 3区文学

Text & Talk Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI: 10.1515/text-2021-0128

Pietro Manzella

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Participatory viewers’ engagement with the dual translation problem on the danmu interface: a social semiotic case study 参与型观众参与丹木界面上的双重翻译问题——一个社会符号学案例研究

IF 0.6 3区文学

Text & Talk Pub Date : 2022-05-30 DOI: 10.1515/text-2021-0032

Yang Yuhong

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Aggression in diplomatic notes – a pragmatic analysis of a Chinese-American conflict in times of colonisation 外交照会中的侵略——对殖民时期中美冲突的务实分析

IF 0.6 3区文学

Text & Talk Pub Date : 2022-05-26 DOI: 10.1515/text-2021-0036

J. House, D. Kádár, Fengguang Liu, Yulong Song

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Environmental issues in the Anthropocene: ecolinguistic perspectives across media and genres 人类世的环境问题:跨媒介和体裁的生态语言学视角

IF 0.6 3区文学

Text & Talk Pub Date : 2022-05-19 DOI: 10.1515/text-2022-0040

D. Ponton, Małgorzata Sokół

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The discursive construction of a conflict: a case of disputed islands in the East China Sea 冲突的话语建构:一个东海争议岛屿的案例

IF 0.6 3区文学

Text & Talk Pub Date : 2022-04-28 DOI: 10.1515/text-2020-0187

Hideo Watanabe

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“I did not know that there were problems”: government officials’ blame avoidance strategies in the Life Esidimeni Arbitration Hearings “我不知道有问题”：政府官员在Life Esidimeni仲裁听证会上的回避策略

IF 0.6 3区文学

Text & Talk Pub Date : 2022-04-25 DOI: 10.1515/text-2020-0208

S. Brokensha, T. Conradie, W. Greyling

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Lifting the pen and the gaze: embodied recruitment in collaborative writing 提笔凝视:协作写作中的具体化招聘

IF 0.6 3区文学

Text & Talk Pub Date : 2022-04-20 DOI: 10.1515/text-2020-0148

J. Mlynář

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The chair’s use of address terms in workplace meetings 主席在工作场所会议中使用的称呼语

IF 0.6 3区文学

Text & Talk Pub Date : 2022-04-18 DOI: 10.1515/text-2020-0169

Innhwa Park

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“Oops! I can’t express this in English!”: managing epistemic challenges by Chinese EFL peer tutors in writing tutorials “哎呀！我不能用英语表达这一点！”：中国EFL同伴导师在写作教程中应对认知挑战

IF 0.6 3区文学

Text & Talk Pub Date : 2022-04-07 DOI: 10.1515/text-2020-0139

Fenghua Chen, Xueyu Wang

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