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Making sense of a new language: authenticity and semiotics in additional language learning 新语言的意义：额外语言学习中的真实性和符号学

Language and Semiotic Studies Pub Date : 2024-08-09 DOI: 10.1515/lass-2024-0021

Ningyang Chen, Chunxia Zhou

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War and liar: a semiotic account of metaphors in the reports on the discharge of Fukushima nuclear-contaminated water in Chinese media 战争与谎言：对中国媒体有关福岛核污染水排放报道中隐喻的符号学解读

Language and Semiotic Studies Pub Date : 2024-08-09 DOI: 10.1515/lass-2024-0020

Shukang Li, Zihan Chen

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Subjective transformation in poeticized language and the formation of poeticness 诗化语言中的主观转化与诗意的形成

Language and Semiotic Studies Pub Date : 2024-03-13 DOI: 10.1515/lass-2024-0005

Hui Yang

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The semiotics of humor in cultural trauma: a pilot study on digital methodology concerning the evolution and overcoming of trauma through humor on the example of Rick and Morty 文化创伤中的幽默符号学：以《瑞克和莫蒂》为例，对通过幽默演变和克服创伤的数字方法进行试点研究

Language and Semiotic Studies Pub Date : 2024-03-11 DOI: 10.1515/lass-2023-0041

Felix Poschinger, Christopher Shannon

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The traumatic narratives of sexuality in Taiwanese writer Shao-Lin Chu’s trilogy 台湾作家朱绍麟三部曲中的性创伤叙事

Language and Semiotic Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-07 DOI: 10.1515/lass-2023-0044

Hsiu-Chih Tsai

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The traumatic narratives of sexuality in Taiwanese writer Shao-Lin Chu’s trilogy 台湾作家朱绍麟三部曲中的性创伤叙事

Language and Semiotic Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-07 DOI: 10.1515/lass-2023-0044

Hsiu-Chih Tsai

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Meaning construction in Nigerian multilingual hip hop: a study in sociology of music 尼日利亚多语言嘻哈音乐中的意义建构：音乐社会学研究

Language and Semiotic Studies Pub Date : 2024-01-18 DOI: 10.1515/lass-2023-0021

O. Liadi

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