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Laughter and language attitudes in students’ discussions about language use in Nigeria 尼日利亚学生讨论语言使用时的笑声与语言态度

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Language & Communication Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2024-12-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2024.11.008

Sopuruchi Christian Aboh, Hans J. Ladegaard

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“Two hands are powerful”. Handedness variation and genre in New Zealand Sign Language “两只手很有力”。新西兰手语的偏手性变化和体裁

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Language & Communication Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2024-12-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2024.07.003

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

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How does the state ignore? Ideologies and practices of substantive and procedural listening in U.S. school board meetings 政府是如何忽视的？美国学校董事会会议中实质性和程序性倾听的意识形态与实践

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Language & Communication Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2024-12-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2024.12.007

Joshua Babcock , Ilana Gershon

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Mediating social and informational serendipity 调解社会和信息意外

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Language & Communication Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-01-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2024.12.010

Jacqueline Militello

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Depicting force at the potter's wheel 描绘陶工轮子上的力量

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Language & Communication Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-01-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2024.12.009

Eton Churchill

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How to teach know-how? Corrective manual demonstrations in teaching construction work 如何传授知识？在教学施工工作中进行纠正手册演示

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Language & Communication Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2024-12-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2024.12.008

Hanna-Ilona Härmävaara , Nathalie Schümchen-Schram

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Sequence organization in the instruction of embodied activities 在具体活动指导中的顺序组织

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Language & Communication Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2024-11-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2024.11.003

Oskar Lindwall , Lorenza Mondada

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“Democracy under attack”: Viewpoint and doxa in the coverage of the Jan. 6th, 2021 events at the US Capitol “民主受到攻击”：2021年1月6日美国国会大厦事件报道中的观点和观点

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Language & Communication Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2024-11-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2024.11.001

Philippe Hambye , Samuel Vernet

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Affective place branding: Mediatization of the Wutong-scape in Shanghai 情感性场所品牌化：上海梧桐景观的媒介化

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Language & Communication Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-01-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2024.12.012

Jiajie Chen

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Disorienting discourses and the making of gentrifiers in redeveloping Brooklyn 迷失方向的话语和重建布鲁克林的中产阶级的形成

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Language & Communication Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2024-12-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2024.12.001

Shonna Trinch, Edward Snajdr

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