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The femininization of AI-powered voice assistants: Personification, anthropomorphism and discourse ideologies 人工智能语音助手的女性化：人格化、拟人化与话语意识形态

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Discourse Context & Media Pub Date : 2024-11-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.dcm.2024.100833

Maria Grazia Sindoni

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Scaling as method: A three-stage, mixed-methods approach to digital discourse analysis 规模即方法：数字话语分析的三阶段混合方法

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Discourse Context & Media Pub Date : 2024-10-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.dcm.2024.100817

Jannis Androutsopoulos

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Sharing second stories in online comforting interactions 在网络慰藉互动中分享第二故事

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Discourse Context & Media Pub Date : 2024-10-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.dcm.2024.100835

Wei Ren, Yufei Li

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Surveillance at the (inter)face: A nexus analysis 面（间）监视：关联分析

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Discourse Context & Media Pub Date : 2024-10-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.dcm.2024.100832

Rodney H. Jones

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Transmodal messenger interaction–Analysing the sequentiality of text and audio postings in WhatsApp chats 跨模式信使互动--分析 WhatsApp 聊天中文字和音频发布的先后顺序

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Discourse Context & Media Pub Date : 2024-10-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.dcm.2024.100818

Katharina König

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Digital facilitation-as-a-process: The mismatch between promotional text and situated interaction 数字促进即过程：宣传文本与情景互动之间的不匹配

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Discourse Context & Media Pub Date : 2024-10-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.dcm.2024.100834

Elina Salomaa

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Perspectivization in the thematic exploration of atypical depressive self-talk in an unmanaged online depression community on Weibo 在一个无人管理的微博抑郁社区中对非典型抑郁自言自语进行主题探索的透视化研究

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Discourse Context & Media Pub Date : 2024-09-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.dcm.2024.100820

Yating Chen, Charity Lee, Pei Soo Ang

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“Yu haf no idr how feckin fablus I feel rite now”: “Wine mom” humour in an online support group for mothers during COVID-19 "你不知道我现在感觉有多糟糕吗？COVID-19 期间母亲在线支持小组中的 "酒妈妈 "幽默

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Discourse Context & Media Pub Date : 2024-09-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.dcm.2024.100816

Vincent Wai Sum Tse , Olga Zayts-Spence

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“Zhuge Kongming becomes reborn as a clownish partygoer!”: Linguistic carnivalization, critical metapragmatics of danmu, and mediatized neoliberal (inter)subjectivity "诸葛孔明转世为小丑！"：语言狂欢化、丹青的批判元语用学和媒介化的新自由主义（主体间性）。

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Discourse Context & Media Pub Date : 2024-09-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.dcm.2024.100815

Zhixin Liu

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HRT in DMC? the orthographic representation of high rising terminals in WhatsApp DMC 中的 HRT？WhatsApp 中高位上升终端的正交表示法

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Discourse Context & Media Pub Date : 2024-08-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.dcm.2024.100819

Christian Ilbury

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