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Four kinds of subjectivity: from speaking to communicating 四种主体性：从说话到交流

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Language Sciences Pub Date : 2025-07-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.langsci.2025.101745

Henrik Bergqvist

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Language ontologies and the worlding of language(s)/languaging: does language create the world or does worlding create language? 语言本体论和语言的世界/语言：是语言创造世界还是世界创造语言？

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Language Sciences Pub Date : 2025-07-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.langsci.2025.101743

Eugenia Demuro , Laura Gurney

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The situatedness of aesthetic emotions: a review of the literature and a proposal for its study in variationist linguistics 审美情感的情境性：变异语言学研究的文献综述及建议

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Language Sciences Pub Date : 2025-07-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.langsci.2025.101744

Javier E. Díaz-Vera

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Support verbs that are not verbs 支持非动词的动词

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Language Sciences Pub Date : 2025-06-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.langsci.2025.101741

Eric Laporte , Jeesun Nam , Jeannot Fils Ranaivoson , Takuya Nakamura

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Theorizing temporality in multimodal communication: linearity and non-linearity in bullet comments 多模态交流中的时间性理论化：项目符号注释中的线性和非线性

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Language Sciences Pub Date : 2025-06-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.langsci.2025.101740

Feifei Zhou, Liu Yang

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Ostensible invitations in Chinese – A pragmatic perspective 从语用学的角度看汉语的表面邀请

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Language Sciences Pub Date : 2025-06-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.langsci.2025.101742

Dániel Z. Kádár , Jihong Zhao , Juliane House , Fengguang Liu

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Paradoxical practices of being with others: Some experiential dynamics at play while interacting across differences 与他人相处的矛盾实践：跨差异互动时的一些经验动态

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Language Sciences Pub Date : 2025-06-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.langsci.2025.101731

Hanne De Jaegher , Rika Preiser , Elena Clare Cuffari

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I am criticizing you when I say “I am not criticizing you”: a prosodic-pragmatic exploration of the Chinese metapragmatic negation bùshì wǒ shuō nǐ 我说“我不批评你”是在批评你：汉语元语用否定的韵律语用探索bùshì wugshuu n_

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Language Sciences Pub Date : 2025-05-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.langsci.2025.101730

Zepeng Wang , Zhe Liang , Peibing Liu , Yansheng Mao , Ying Ma

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Modesty differs between historical and modern Chinese: A computational analysis of modesty metalinguistics 历史汉语与现代汉语的谦虚差异：谦虚元语言学的计算分析

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Language Sciences Pub Date : 2025-04-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.langsci.2025.101729

Xi Chen , Yunwen Su

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Feeding the imagination: Linguistic features of motion descriptions in audio-described movies 丰富想象力：有声电影中动作描述的语言特征

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Language Sciences Pub Date : 2025-04-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.langsci.2025.101728

Teresa Molés-Cases , Michele I. Feist

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