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A corpus-based study on the “ungrammatical” aren't I 基于语料库的 "非语法""是不是 "研究

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English Today Pub Date : 2024-09-18 DOI: 10.1017/s0266078424000245

Mingyou Xiang, Xiao Jiang

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English signage shaping Tokyo's mosaic cityscape 英文标识塑造东京马赛克式城市景观

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English Today Pub Date : 2024-09-12 DOI: 10.1017/s0266078424000142

Satoshi Nambu

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Production of English vowel duration by multilingual speakers of Namibian English 纳米比亚英语多语种使用者的英语元音时长生成

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English Today Pub Date : 2024-09-12 DOI: 10.1017/s0266078424000130

Katja Haapanen, Antti Saloranta, Kimmo U. Peltola, Henna Tamminen, Lannie Uwu-khaeb, Maija S. Peltola

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English-medium education and the perpetuation of girls’ disadvantage 以英语为教学语言的教育与女童弱势地位的长期存在

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English Today Pub Date : 2024-09-12 DOI: 10.1017/s0266078424000075

Anna Kristina Hultgren, Anu Upadhaya, Lauren O'Hagan, Peter Wingrove, Amina Adamu, Mari Greenfield, Lorena Lombardozzi, Pramod K. Sah, Ismaila A. Tsiga, Aishat Umar, Freda Wolfenden

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Stylistic functions of anglicisms in German radio 德语广播中英语的文体功能

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English Today Pub Date : 2024-05-13 DOI: 10.1017/s0266078424000099

Sarah Josefine Schaefer

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A machine that still doesn't quite understand us: Putting ChatGPT to the test 一台还不太了解我们的机器：测试 ChatGPT

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English Today Pub Date : 2024-01-11 DOI: 10.1017/s0266078423000433

Carrie A. Ankerstein

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POV: me, an empath, sensing the linguistic urge . . . to study the forms and functions of text-memes 视角：我，一个感同身受者，感受到语言的冲动......研究文本记忆的形式和功能

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English Today Pub Date : 2024-01-04 DOI: 10.1017/s0266078423000469

Jacqueline Hirsh Greene, Hans–Jörg Schmid

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Around the World in 400 Pages Raymond Hickey, Sounds of English Worldwide. New Jersey: Wiley–Blackwell, 2023. Pp. xxiii + 408. Paperback $59.95, ISBN: 978-1-119-13127-4; e-book $48, ISBN: 978-1-119-13129-8 400 页环游世界 Raymond Hickey，《全球英语之声》。新泽西州：Wiley-Blackwell, 2023。第 xxiii + 408 页。平装本 59.95 美元，ISBN：978-1-119-13127-4；电子书 48 美元，ISBN：978-1-119-13129-8

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English Today Pub Date : 2023-12-13 DOI: 10.1017/s0266078423000378

Caroline Wiltshire

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Rethinking the concept of linguistic assemblage to revisit the understanding of agency, creativity and language policy Lionel Wee, Posthumanist Word Englishes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. vi+75. Hardback $22.00, ISBN: 9781108990615 重新思考语言组合的概念，重新理解代理、创造力和语言政策 Lionel Wee，《后人文主义文字语言》。剑桥：剑桥大学出版社，2021 年。第 vi+75 页。精装 22.00 美元，ISBN：9781108990615

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English Today Pub Date : 2023-12-13 DOI: 10.1017/s026607842300038x

I. Irham

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Azerbaijani Higher Education to implement mass English Medium Instruction (EMI) Policies: From brain drain to brain bridging 阿塞拜疆高等教育实施大规模英语教学（EMI）政策：从人才外流到人才衔接

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English Today Pub Date : 2023-12-11 DOI: 10.1017/s0266078423000421

Tamilla Mammadova

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