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Democratization and Gender-neutrality in English(es) 民主化与英语性别中立(上)

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Journal of English Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-07-18 DOI: 10.1177/0075424220935967

Lucía Loureiro-Porto, Turo Hiltunen

引用次数: 6

Non-sexist Language Policy and the Rise (and Fall?) of Combined Pronouns in British and American Written English 非性别歧视的语言政策与英美书面英语中组合代词的兴衰

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Journal of English Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-07-18 DOI: 10.1177/0075424220938949

Laura L. Paterson

引用次数: 4

Review: Prosodic Patterns in English Conversation 英语会话中的韵律模式

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Journal of English Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-06-01 DOI: 10.1177/0075424220913611

R. Burdin

引用次数: 1

“Holding Grudges Is So Last Century”: The Use of GenX So as a Modifier of Noun Phrases “怀恨在心是上个世纪的事”:GenX So作为名词短语修饰语的使用

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Journal of English Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-06-01 DOI: 10.1177/0075424220911070

Ulrike Stange

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引用次数: 3

Review: Language, Sexuality and Education 回顾:语言、性与教育

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Journal of English Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-06-01 DOI: 10.1177/0075424220924116

B. W. King

引用次数: 0

Three Types of Old English Adjectival Postposition: A Corpus-Based Construction Grammar Approach 古英语形容词后置的三种类型：基于语料库的构造语法方法

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Journal of English Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-04-27 DOI: 10.1177/0075424220911067

Maciej Grabski

引用次数: 2

Book Review: English Historical Linguistics: Approaches and Perspectives 书评:《英国历史语言学:方法与观点》

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Journal of English Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-04-24 DOI: 10.1177/0075424220913087

Lauren Fonteyn

引用次数: 0

Conceptual Metaphors and Image Schemas: A Corpus Analysis of the Development of the On Track/Off Track Idiom Pair 概念隐喻与意象图式:轨道上/脱轨成语对发展的语料库分析

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Journal of English Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-04-23 DOI: 10.1177/0075424220912455

Dilin Liu, Qiyang Mo

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引用次数: 4

A Cool Comparison: Adjectives of Positive Evaluation in Toronto, Canada and York, England 一个很酷的比较:加拿大多伦多和英国约克的积极评价形容词

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Journal of English Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-02-07 DOI: 10.1177/0075424219881487

Sali A. Tagliamonte, K. Pabst

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引用次数: 9

Foreign (a) in North American English: Variation and Change in Loan Phonology 北美英语中的外来语（a）：外来语语音的变异与变化

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Journal of English Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-01-11 DOI: 10.1177/0075424219896397

Charles Boberg

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引用次数: 14