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“As if I were otherwise” metapragmatics of ego-splitting and virtualization, nanchatte! 自我分裂和虚拟化的 "恍若隔世 "形而上学，nanchatte！

International Journal of the Sociology of Language Pub Date : 2023-11-01 DOI: 10.1515/ijsl-2022-0086

Miyako Inoue

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Wearing embarrassment: television discourse and the ideologies of T-shirt English in Japan 穿着尴尬：电视话语与日本 T 恤英语的意识形态

International Journal of the Sociology of Language Pub Date : 2023-11-01 DOI: 10.1515/ijsl-2022-0085

Gavin Furukawa

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The regimentation of femininities in the world: the translated speech of non-Japanese women in a Japanese TV documentary series 世界上女性的规范化：日本电视纪录片系列中的非日本女性翻译言论

International Journal of the Sociology of Language Pub Date : 2023-11-01 DOI: 10.1515/ijsl-2022-0081

Momoko Nakamura

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Introduction: ideologies of contact and space in Japan: a theoretical expansion of language ideological work 导言：日本的接触和空间意识形态：语言意识形态工作的理论拓展

International Journal of the Sociology of Language Pub Date : 2023-11-01 DOI: 10.1515/ijsl-2023-0066

Ayumi Miyazaki

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Linguistic ideologies and the fabric of everyday life 语言意识形态与日常生活结构

International Journal of the Sociology of Language Pub Date : 2023-11-01 DOI: 10.1515/ijsl-2023-0088

P. Seargeant

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Exploring the role of language ideology in disaster contexts: case study of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami 探索语言意识形态在灾害背景下的作用：2011 年东日本大地震和海啸案例研究

International Journal of the Sociology of Language Pub Date : 2023-11-01 DOI: 10.1515/ijsl-2022-0061

Shinya Uekusa, Sunhee Lee

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Irish English and national identity in the linguistic landscape of Ireland’s 2018 abortion referendum 爱尔兰 2018 年堕胎公投语言景观中的爱尔兰英语与国家认同

International Journal of the Sociology of Language Pub Date : 2023-11-01 DOI: 10.1515/ijsl-2023-0005

Louise Strange

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Masculine pronouns are not only for boys: Japanese girls breaking traditional relationships between gender and language in a school context 男性代词不只是男生的专利：日本女孩在学校打破性别与语言之间的传统关系

International Journal of the Sociology of Language Pub Date : 2023-11-01 DOI: 10.1515/ijsl-2022-0093

Ayumi Miyazaki

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The concentration booth and the handshaking lane: ideologies of the phatic 集中营和握手通道：相声的意识形态

International Journal of the Sociology of Language Pub Date : 2023-11-01 DOI: 10.1515/ijsl-2022-0083

Shunsuke Nozawa

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Muslim personal names in Urdu: structure, meaning, and change 乌尔都语中穆斯林人名的结构、意义和变化

International Journal of the Sociology of Language Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.1515/ijsl-2023-0004

Rizwan Ahmad, Vladimir Kulikov, Noorin Iqbal

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