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Language and Law=Linguagem e Direito · Mon Oct 12 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Understanding problems with “open” questions – what are your thoughts?: Hva tenker du in Norwegian police interviews

Søren Sandager Sørensen

Modern approaches to police interviews highlight the use of open questions and other strategies to make the interviewee able to give a free statement. One common question type in Norwegian police interviews is a question formulated with hva tenker du ‘what ar...

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HSR (London) · Sun Oct 11 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

THE EXPRESSION OF PHATIC SPEECH ACTS THROUGH NONVERBAL MEANS

Akramova Dilnoza Numonjonovna, Worldly Knowledge Publishing Centre

This article investigates the manifestation of phatic speech acts through nonverbal communication channels. It analyzes how facial expressions, gestures, eye contact, and body language function to establish, maintain, and terminate social contact. The finding...

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American Journal of Language, Literacy and Learning in STEM Education (2993-2769) · Sun Oct 04 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Intersubjective Functions of You Know as a Discourse Marker in English Spoken Interaction

Aripova Mokhigul Fazliddinovna

This paper examines the intersubjective functions of you know as a discourse marker in English spoken interaction. Although the expression originates from the lexical combination of the second-person pronoun you and the cognitive verb know, its use in spontan...

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Journal of Pragmatics · Tue Oct 06 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Negotiating alignment and managing disalignment: Revisiting the function of haobuhao in Chinese talk-in-interaction

Mi Tian, 侯艺园, Lirui Zhang

This study investigates haobuhao as an interactional resource for negotiating alignment and managing disalignment in Chinese talk-in-interaction. Drawing on Conversation Analysis and Interactional Linguistics, this study analyzes 255 naturally occurring insta...

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Journal of Pragmatics · Mon Oct 12 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Third-party mentions and action forwarding in police interviews

Marijana Cerović, Sandra Vukasojević

This paper examines how police interviewers use references to non-present third parties as interactional resources for accomplishing institutional goals in interviews with suspects. Drawing on 24 police interviews analysed using conversation analysis, the stu...

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Discourse Context & Media · Fri Oct 09 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

More than just eating: eating practices and mediated interaction in mukbang

Sofia Rüdiger, Rita Tamara Vallentin

This article examines asynchronous mukbang (eating shows) as sites of video-mediated interaction that constitute a popular part of digital culinary practices. By analyzing the fine-grained sequencing of embodied eating and talk, our approach considering disco...

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Text and Talk · Fri Oct 02 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

The construction of embarrassment in Mandarin conversation

Lijun Xin, Guodong Yu

Abstract Experiences of embarrassment recur in social life, and this study focuses on experiences that are oriented to by participants as embarrassing and examines how social members construct embarrassment in their tellings. Drawing on a dataset of approxima...

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Acta Globalis Humanitatis et Linguarum · Sat Oct 10 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

The Pragmatic Functions of Rhetorical Questions in English Linguistics Textbooks

Türkan Ali Hasanli

Questions in English linguistics textbooks may introduce explanations, request student responses, or invite acceptance of conclusions presented as recoverable from context. These functions cannot be identified reliably from interrogative form or the presence...

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Applied Linguistics Research Review · Fri Oct 09 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

MULTIMODAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF WEBSITES OF SELECTED PUBLIC SECTOR UNIVERSITIES AND PRIVATE UNIVERSITIES IN LAHORE

Mariam Saleem, Amna Tariq

This research aims to explore the multimodal discourse strategies that are carried out by the selected Public and Private Universities in Lahore, Pakistan with a review of their official websites. In the digital academic world, the university websites have pr...

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English Language and Linguistics · Fri Oct 02 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

‘Woman observes, man reasons’: the presence of abstract reasoning in men’s and women’s nineteenth-century scientific texts from the Coruña Corpus

Leida María Mónaco

Abstract The increasingly popular research on the discourse of men and women that had emerged in the second part of the twentieth century gave rise to a number of generalisations, such as the assumption that women tend to use language to prioritise community...

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Linguistic Frontiers · Tue Sep 22 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Rhetorical Comparison in Academic English Writing: Metadiscourse Usage in Abstracts between Chinese and Malaysian Undergraduates’ Theses

Yanfei Liu, Ernisa Marzuki, Joseph Ramanair and 1 more

This study examines metadiscourse usage in undergraduate thesis abstracts by Chinese (EFL) and Malaysian (ESL) English majors, addressing gaps in existing literature that has understudied EFL-ESL comparisons among novice writers. Drawing on Hyland’s (2005) in...

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Social Sciences · Mon Oct 12 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Diachronic Register Variation in Saudi Business Journalism: A Multidimensional Analysis of the Vision 2030 Period

Mohammad Rishad Faridi, Sadia Ali

This study investigates diachronic register variation in Saudi business journalism across three stages of Vision 2030. Using Biber’s multidimensional framework, the study examines whether English-language business news in Saudi Arabia has changed in terms of...

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International Journal of English Language Studies · Mon Oct 12 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Writing Tasks and Learners’ Textual Theme Choices: An Analysis of First-year Non‑English Majors’ Routine English Writing

Jiaying Fan

This study is designed to analyze the use of Textual Themes in three different writing tasks, namely Dos and Don’ts in China, A Movie Review, and Introducing a Hotel. The data consist of 24 English compositions written by first-year non-English majors at a un...

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Humanities and Social Sciences Communications · Sat Oct 03 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

A corpus-based analysis of modality in legislative texts: a case study

Ly Tuan Phan, Truc Ngoc Thanh Hoang

This article investigates the use of modality in legislative discourse through a corpus-based analysis of the Malaysian Companies Act 2016. The Act, which received Royal Assent on 31 August 2016, was pre-processed by removing structural headings, resulting in...

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International Journal of Corpus Linguistics · Tue Oct 06 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Dissecting AI discourse

Feng Kevin Jiang

Investigating the discourse characteristics of AI-generated argumentative essays designed to simulate student writing reveals that ChatGPT essays are markedly more informationally dense, context-independent, and abstract, yet exhibit reduced interpersonal eng...

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Applied Linguistics Research Review · Fri Oct 09 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

A COMPARATIVE SYSTEMIC FUNCTIONAL LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF TRANSITIVITY AND MODALITY IN DAWN AND BBC PEACE TALK, NEWS DISCOURSE (APRIL 2026)

Afsheen Ekhteyar, Fatima Noor

This study observes the demonstration of ideology in news discourse of transitivity and modality in Pakistani and in international media through a comparative analysis. Based on (SFL) Systemic Functional Linguistics, the research paper observes how ideational...

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