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Mock foreigner speech and the reification of mediatized (white) foreignness in Japanese media

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Language & Communication Pub Date : 2025-02-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2025.01.001

Hannah E. Dahlberg-Dodd

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Chinese thanking interaction from premodern to modern China: A diachronic analysis

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Language & Communication Pub Date : 2025-01-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2024.12.013

Limin Huang , Dengshan Xia

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Hidden behind the text: A linguistic ethnographic study of stancetaking in news production

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Language & Communication Pub Date : 2025-01-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2024.12.014

Gilles Merminod , Lauri Haapanen

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Human affiliative responses to companion animal vocalizations

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Language & Communication Pub Date : 2025-01-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2024.12.011

Stefan Norrthon , Jenny Nilsson

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Appraisal theory and the analysis of point of view in news and views journalism – unpacking journalistic “persuasiveness”

IF 1.3 2区文学

Language & Communication Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2024.11.005

Peter R. White

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Virtual spaces, real interactions - Analyzing communication in virtual reality

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Language & Communication Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2024.12.004

Karsten Senkbeil

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Horse-directed vocalizations: Clicks, trills, and /ho:/

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Language & Communication Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2024.11.006

Beatrice Szczepek Reed

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Laughter and language attitudes in students’ discussions about language use in Nigeria

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Language & Communication Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2024.11.008

Sopuruchi Christian Aboh, Hans J. Ladegaard

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Texting in Time: Approaching time and temporalities of smartphone-based interactions

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Language & Communication Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2024.12.005

Florian Busch

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“Two hands are powerful”. Handedness variation and genre in New Zealand Sign Language

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Language & Communication Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2024.07.003

Rachel McKee , Mireille Vale , George Major , Sara Pivac Alexander , Miriam Meyerhoff

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