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Communicating intergenerational justice and climate change: a study of youth-generated environmental discourses 传播代际正义与气候变化：对青年生成的环境话语的研究

Journal of World Languages Pub Date : 2024-07-17 DOI: 10.1515/jwl-2024-0007

Jacqueline Aiello, Emilia Di Martino

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Language and ecology in social imaginaries: ecolinguistic perspectives 社会想象中的语言与生态：生态语言学视角

Journal of World Languages Pub Date : 2024-07-17 DOI: 10.1515/jwl-2024-0052

D. Ponton

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What is finiteness in Dagaare? 什么是 Dagaare 中的有限性？

Journal of World Languages Pub Date : 2024-07-11 DOI: 10.1515/jwl-2024-0010

Isaac N. Mwinlaaru

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Transmigrant identities and attitudes: the case of a Pangasinan-American family 移民身份和态度：一个美籍彭加锡人家庭的案例

Journal of World Languages Pub Date : 2024-07-08 DOI: 10.1515/jwl-2024-0025

Sheryl Bernardo-Hinesley, Alba Arias Álvarez

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Lexical niche and sustainability: an ecolinguistic perspective 词位与可持续性：生态语言学视角

Journal of World Languages Pub Date : 2024-07-01 DOI: 10.1515/jwl-2024-0012

Ruifeng Mo, Hao-Zhang Xiao

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A comparative corpus-based ecological discourse analysis of Chinese, Indian, and American news reports on the Belt and Road Initiative (2013–2022) 基于语料库的中国、印度和美国关于 "一带一路 "倡议（2013-2022 年）新闻报道的生态话语比较分析

Journal of World Languages Pub Date : 2024-04-25 DOI: 10.1515/jwl-2023-1007

R. Wei, Yanlan Hu

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Grammar, cohesion and the co-ordination of the ‘self’ in a current psychotherapeutic technique 当前心理治疗技术中的语法、内聚力和 "自我 "协调

Journal of World Languages Pub Date : 2024-04-24 DOI: 10.1515/jwl-2023-2087

David G. Butt, Alison R. Moore, Caroline Henderson-Brooks, Kristin Khoo

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Japanese mood and modality in systemic functional linguistics 系统功能语言学中的日语情态和模态

Journal of World Languages Pub Date : 2024-04-05 DOI: 10.1515/jwl-2024-0009

Fang Geng

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Systemic functional linguistics: advances and applications 系统功能语言学：进展与应用

Journal of World Languages Pub Date : 2024-04-04 DOI: 10.1515/jwl-2023-0083

David Banks

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Robert Poole. 2022. Corpus-assisted ecolinguistics 罗伯特-普尔2022.语料库辅助生态语言学

Journal of World Languages Pub Date : 2024-04-01 DOI: 10.1515/jwl-2024-0004

Hossein Davari, Amir Ghorbanpour

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