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Book Reviews: Transgender Identities in the Press: A Corpus-based Discourse Analysis 书评：基于语料库的语篇分析

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Journal of English Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-07-17 DOI: 10.1177/00754242231186179

E. Hazenberg

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Hedged Performatives in Spoken American English: A Discourse-oriented Analysis 美国口语中的模糊修辞格:语篇分析

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Journal of English Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-06-09 DOI: 10.1177/00754242231173419

I. Depraetere, Gunther Kaltenböck

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Modals and Quasi-Modals in English World-Wide 英语世界中的情态与准情态

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Journal of English Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-06-02 DOI: 10.1177/00754242231173720

P. Collins

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Book Reviews: Accent in North American Film and Television: A Sociophonetic Analysis 书评：北美影视中的口音：一种社会声分析

IF 0.8 2区文学

Journal of English Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-06-02 DOI: 10.1177/00754242231175863

M. Durham

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Decompositionalization and Partial Recompositionalization: The Emergence of by the Same Token as a Polyfunctional Discourse Marker 分解与部分重组:作为多功能话语标记的同一符号的出现

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Journal of English Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-05-12 DOI: 10.1177/00754242231171392

M. Pinson

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Book Review: Earlier North American Englishes. Varieties of English Around the World 书评：早期北美英语。世界各地的英语变体

IF 0.8 2区文学

Journal of English Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-05-04 DOI: 10.1177/00754242231173417

S. Levey

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Could Be it’s Grammaticalization: Usage Patterns of the Epistemic Phrases (it) Could/Might Be 可能是它的语法化：认识式短语的用法模式

IF 0.8 2区文学

Journal of English Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-04-27 DOI: 10.1177/00754242231163264

David Lorenz

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Plus ça Change. . . Perceptions of New Orleans English Before and After the Storm Plusça更改。风暴前后新奥尔良英语的认知

IF 0.8 2区文学

Journal of English Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-04-23 DOI: 10.1177/00754242231163849

Nathalie Dajko, Katie Carmichael

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Book Review: Transforming Early English: The Reinvention of Early English and Older Scots 书评:《早期英语的转变:早期英语和古苏格兰语的再创造》

IF 0.8 2区文学

Journal of English Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-04-23 DOI: 10.1177/00754242231168138

Matti Peikola

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According to NP: A Diachronic Perspective on a Skeptical Evidential 根据NP:怀疑证据的历时性视角

IF 0.8 2区文学

Journal of English Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-04-22 DOI: 10.1177/00754242231163844

D. Ziegeler

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