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Chinese coverbal phrases and coverbs: a systemic functional account 汉语口头禅与口头禅：系统的功能描述

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Lingua Pub Date : 2025-04-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2025.103939

Pin Wang

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Emotion and moral stance in evaluations of impoliteness in L1 and L2 from video clips of workplace interactions 职场互动视频片段对第一、二语言不礼貌行为的情感和道德立场评价

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Lingua Pub Date : 2025-04-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2025.103949

Nicola McNab , Irini Mavrou

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‘What the X’ in Anglophone government meetings: Areal distribution, emotionality, and euphemism 英语国家政府会议中的“What the X”：地域分布、情绪和委婉语

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Lingua Pub Date : 2025-04-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2025.103947

Steven Coats

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Vulgarity in online discourse around the English-speaking world 英语世界网络话语中的粗俗

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Lingua Pub Date : 2025-04-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2025.103946

Martin Schweinberger , Kate Burridge

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Nominalised Activities in Chinese History Texts: A Systemic Functional Linguistic Perspective 中国历史文本中的名词化活动：系统功能语言学视角

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Lingua Pub Date : 2025-04-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2025.103935

Jing Hao

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Language contact and translation: dependency relations as a lens for source language influence in fiction 语言接触与翻译：从依存关系看小说中源语的影响

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Lingua Pub Date : 2025-04-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2025.103937

Isabelle Chou , Kanglong Liu , Han Xu

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Mandarin-speaking children’s acquisition of the additive particle ye ‘also’ 讲普通话的儿童对加点词 "也 "的习得

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Lingua Pub Date : 2025-04-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2025.103936

Haiquan Huang , Yixiong Chen , Xuewu Qin , Xin Wang , Jie Xu

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Linguistic indicators differentiating translated and untranslated diplomatic discourse: A diachronic analysis of the United Nations General Debate (1946–2022) 区分翻译和非翻译外交话语的语言指标：联合国一般性辩论的历时分析（1946-2022）

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Lingua Pub Date : 2025-04-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2025.103933

Lin Shen , Haidee Kotze

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“How is that unparliamentary?”: The metapragmatics of ‘unparliamentary’ language in the Australian Federal Parliament “这怎么不符合议会？”：澳大利亚联邦议会中“非议会”语言的元语用

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Lingua Pub Date : 2025-03-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2025.103932

Sam Hames, Michael Haugh, Simon Musgrave

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Do we swear more with friends or with acquaintances? F#ck in social networks 我们对朋友骂人多还是对熟人骂人多？f# ck在社交网络

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Lingua Pub Date : 2025-03-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2025.103931

Mikko Laitinen , Paula Rautionaho , Masoud Fatemi , Mikko Halonen

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