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(Don’t) click here: Hyperlinks as a quasi-objectification strategy in epistemic legitimisation in extremists’ blog posts on sexual violence （不要）点击这里：在极端分子关于性暴力的博客文章中，超链接是一种准客观化策略

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Discourse Context & Media Pub Date : 2025-07-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.dcm.2025.100912

Kate Barber

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Facts, hopes, and fears: Recontextualising experimental drug results for diverse audiences 事实、希望和恐惧：为不同受众重新定位实验性药物结果

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Discourse Context & Media Pub Date : 2025-07-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.dcm.2025.100914

Krystyna Warchał

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Complex social networks in online sharing of experiences: Self- and other-positioning 在线经验分享中的复杂社会网络：自我与他人定位

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Discourse Context & Media Pub Date : 2025-07-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.dcm.2025.100913

Xi Chen

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“You have nothing to fear because we love you” – Expressing emotions in a digital community of practice of persons living with dementia “你没有什么可害怕的，因为我们爱你”——在痴呆症患者实践的数字社区中表达情感

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Discourse Context & Media Pub Date : 2025-06-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.dcm.2025.100911

Birte Bös, Carolin Schneider

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Back-to-Nature with technologies of the self: A critical mixed methods analysis of aestheticized ideologies on Instagram 用自我的技术回归自然：对Instagram上审美化意识形态的批判性混合方法分析

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Discourse Context & Media Pub Date : 2025-06-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.dcm.2025.100900

Catherine Tebaldi, Alistair Plum

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Digital crossings: A case study of a knowledge mobilisation approach for translating research into practice 数字交叉：将研究转化为实践的知识动员方法的案例研究

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Discourse Context & Media Pub Date : 2025-06-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.dcm.2025.100910

Chin Ee Loh, Fei Victor Lim, Ren Feng Lorraine Ow

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Big sister, dog, and ethnic names: Semiotic ideologies of self-naming on Xiaohongshu (RED) 大姐、狗、民族名：小红书自命名的符号学意识

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Discourse Context & Media Pub Date : 2025-06-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.dcm.2025.100898

Alex Wang, Ibrar Bhatt

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Co-constructing community and sociability in game streaming chats 在游戏直播聊天中共同构建社区和社交性

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Discourse Context & Media Pub Date : 2025-06-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.dcm.2025.100894

Carolin Debray

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Deictic and non-deictic reference at the online-offline nexus: Discussing death on Reddit 在线-离线关系中的指示性和非指示性参考：在Reddit上讨论死亡

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Discourse Context & Media Pub Date : 2025-06-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.dcm.2025.100899

Carolin Schneider

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The motives attributed to trollers in metapragmatic comments on alleged Chinese yinzhan (conflict-provoking trolling) posts 在所谓的中国引战（挑起冲突的喷子）帖子上的元实用主义评论中，喷子的动机

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Discourse Context & Media Pub Date : 2025-06-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.dcm.2025.100892

Hao Liu

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