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Problematizing language 桎梏的语言

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Language Sciences Pub Date : 2025-09-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.langsci.2025.101758

Alexander V. Kravchenko

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The epistemic marking of questions in Colloquial Jakartan Indonesian 雅加达印尼语口语化问题的认知标记

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Language Sciences Pub Date : 2025-09-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.langsci.2025.101755

Rika Mutiara

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Do metaphors we move by follow the same patterns across structurally different languages? 在结构不同的语言中，我们使用的隐喻是否遵循相同的模式？

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Language Sciences Pub Date : 2025-08-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.langsci.2025.101757

Wojciech Lewandowski , Şeyda Özçalışkan

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Construing chemistry knowledge through English systematic names of organic compounds: a Systemic Functional Linguistics perspective 从有机化合物的英文系统名称构建化学知识：系统功能语言学的视角

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Language Sciences Pub Date : 2025-08-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.langsci.2025.101756

Zhigang Yu

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Productivity of Assamese derivational suffixes 阿萨姆语派生后缀的生产力

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Language Sciences Pub Date : 2025-08-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.langsci.2025.101746

Pinky Moni Gayan, Arup Kumar Nath

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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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