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Learning how to mean in a second language: uses of system networks in L2 education 学习如何用第二语言表达意思：系统网络在第二语言教育中的应用

Journal of World Languages Pub Date : 2024-02-27 DOI: 10.1515/jwl-2023-0056

Jorge Arús-Hita, Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen, W. Xuan

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Ambivalent or beneficial? An ecological discourse analysis of news reports on the adventures of China’s wandering elephants 矛盾还是有益？对有关中国流浪象冒险的新闻报道的生态话语分析

Journal of World Languages Pub Date : 2024-02-14 DOI: 10.1515/jwl-2022-0043

Jianxin Zhang, Lulu Cheng

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Ambivalent or beneficial? An ecological discourse analysis of news reports on the adventures of China’s wandering elephants 矛盾还是有益？对有关中国流浪象冒险的新闻报道的生态话语分析

Journal of World Languages Pub Date : 2024-02-14 DOI: 10.1515/jwl-2022-0043

Jianxin Zhang, Lulu Cheng

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Bo Wang & Yuanyi Ma (eds.). 2024. Theorizing and applying systemic functional linguistics: Developments by Christian M. I. M. Matthiessen Bo Wang & Yuanyi Ma (eds.).2024.系统功能语言学的理论化和应用》：Christian M. I. M. Matthiessen 的研究进展

Journal of World Languages Pub Date : 2024-02-01 DOI: 10.1515/jwl-2023-0006

Jing Dai

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Bo Wang & Yuanyi Ma (eds.). 2024. Theorizing and applying systemic functional linguistics: Developments by Christian M. I. M. Matthiessen Bo Wang & Yuanyi Ma (eds.).2024.系统功能语言学的理论化和应用》：Christian M. I. M. Matthiessen 的研究进展

Journal of World Languages Pub Date : 2024-02-01 DOI: 10.1515/jwl-2023-0006

Jing Dai

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Rethinking context: realisation, instantiation, and individuation in systemic functional linguistics 反思语境：系统功能语言学中的实现、实例化和个性化

Journal of World Languages Pub Date : 2024-01-16 DOI: 10.1515/jwl-2023-0051

Y. J. Doran, J. R. Martin, Michele Herrington

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Readability and adaptation of children’s literature: an interpersonal metaphor perspective 儿童文学的可读性和改编：人际隐喻视角

Journal of World Languages Pub Date : 2023-11-28 DOI: 10.1515/jwl-2022-0039

Yan Liu

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Latin American ecolinguistics: deconstructing discourse studies, coloniality and industrial environmentalism 拉丁美洲生态语言学：解构话语研究、殖民主义和工业环保主义

Journal of World Languages Pub Date : 2023-11-22 DOI: 10.1515/jwl-2023-0052

Diego L. Forte

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