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Embodied framing, playfulness and touch in adult-child interactions 成人-儿童互动中的具身框架、游戏性和触摸

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Journal of Pragmatics

Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.10.005

Asta Cekaite

By using video-ethnographic data and multimodal interaction analysis, the present study examines how a shift in frame and frame laminations are achieved through embodied actions involving interpersonal touch. The study takes its analytical point of departure in the recognizable multimodal and multisensorial design of interactions between adults and young, 2–3-year-old, children (in early childhood educational settings in Sweden) and explores what are here viewed as “playful,” or ludic, embodied interactional practices. Multimodal configurations involving talk and touch are used by adults (caregivers) as a response to children's non-compliance, as well as to various actions, such as complaints or refusals, indexed by children's negative affective stances (manifesting distress, whining, complaining). A common feature is that playful touch and talk are used to index a positive stance (often, a contrasting stance to the addressee's) and to manipulate the recipient's bodily experiences. Playful re-keying and frame lamination have multiple functions: they are mobilized in the service of instrumental actions, they can also be enjoyable, resulting in a shared positive affect and social ambience. The study contributes to our understanding of human sociality, specifically, caregiving practices as multifaceted, characterized by playfulness and non-serious conduct, during matter-of-fact social interactions.

通过使用视频人种学数据和多模态交互分析，本研究探讨了框架和框架分层是如何通过涉及人际接触的具体行动实现的。该研究的分析出发点是成年人和2 - 3岁儿童（在瑞典的早期儿童教育环境中）互动的可识别的多模态和多感官设计，并探索这里被视为“好玩的”或滑稽的、具体化的互动实践。成人（照顾者）使用多模式配置，包括说话和触摸，作为对儿童不服从的反应，以及对各种行为的反应，如抱怨或拒绝，以儿童的消极情感立场（表现出痛苦、呜咽、抱怨）为指标。一个共同的特点是，开玩笑的触摸和谈话被用来表示积极的立场（通常是与收件人的立场形成对比），并操纵收件人的身体体验。有趣的重键和框架层压具有多种功能：它们可以为工具动作服务，它们也可以令人愉快，从而产生共享的积极影响和社会氛围。这项研究有助于我们对人类社会性的理解，特别是在现实的社会互动中，照顾行为是多方面的，以好玩和不严肃的行为为特征。

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Negotiating accountability for medicine non-adherence in interactions between pharmacists and patients 协商药剂师和患者之间相互作用的药物依从性责任

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Journal of Pragmatics

Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.10.010

Suvi Kaikkonen , Salla Kurhila , Johanna Komppa , Hanna Tolonen , Kirsi Kvarnström

This article examines how clinical pharmacists and patients negotiate medicine non-adherence in medication reconciliation—a discussion between a pharmacist and a patient to update the patient's list of home medications. We focus on instances that reveal a discrepancy between the doctor's prescription and the patient's actual use of the medicine. By analyzing such instances of medicine non-adherence, we show how the participants orient to the social normativity of taking one's medicines as prescribed, and how this is reflected in the participants' orientation to treat the patient as the one accountable for these violations. The analysis illustrates how the non-present doctor plays a major role in the pharmacists' and the patients' interactional management of accountability. We argue that even though both the pharmacists and the patients treat non-adherence as the violation of a norm, the pharmacists nevertheless treat non-adherence as unproblematic if the patient volunteers an account of the violation. In contrast, if the pharmacist needs to pursue an account, more problematic interactional trajectories can arise. The conclusion is that it is not so much the violation itself that is more likely to cause interactional trouble, but the actors' moral positioning with respect to the violation. The data consisted of video- or audio-recordings of 48 pharmacist–patient encounters, which were analyzed using Conversation Analysis.

本文探讨了临床药师和患者如何在药物调解中协商药物不依从性-药剂师和患者之间的讨论，以更新患者的家庭药物清单。我们关注的是那些医生的处方和病人实际使用药物之间存在差异的例子。通过分析这些药物不遵守的例子，我们展示了参与者如何适应按照规定服用药物的社会规范，以及这如何反映在参与者将患者视为对这些违规行为负责的人的取向中。分析表明，非在场医生在药师与患者的互动问责管理中发挥了重要作用。我们认为，即使药剂师和患者都将不遵守医嘱视为违反规范，但如果患者自愿说明违反医嘱的情况，药剂师仍将不遵守医嘱视为没有问题。相反，如果药剂师需要追求一个帐户，更多的问题互动轨迹可能会出现。结论是，与其说违规行为本身更有可能造成互动问题，不如说行为者对违规行为的道德定位更有可能造成互动问题。这些数据包括48个药剂师与病人接触的视频或音频记录，使用对话分析对其进行分析。

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Who said what? Epistemological positioning in police investigative interview reports 谁说了什么？警察调查采访报告的认识论定位

IF 1.7 1区文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

Journal of Pragmatics

Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.10.003

Aafke Diepeveen

This study is concerned with how suspects' statements are summarized and reproduced in writing in Norwegian police investigative interview reports. It explores epistemological positioning in such texts, understood as the expression of the source of information for what is written, and the author's commitment to its linguistic form and propositional content. The study encompasses both spoken interactional data (interview recordings) and written discourse (interview reports). It uses ethnomethodological conversation analysis (CA) as its main method to find how epistemological positioning is realized in the written version of the suspect's statement as compared to the original talk that it claims to represent. I find that epistemological positioning is expressed by (1) reporting speech in different formats; (2) obscuring the interviewer's and author's involvement in formulating the suspect's statement; (3) attributing talk to the suspect; and (4) omitting interactional detail. These practices work to either identify, obscure, ambiguate or manipulate the source of information for an utterance. They also involve varying degrees of commitment by the author to the linguistic form and propositional content of what they have written. The analysis shows that authors leave out much interactional detail and the texts display a focus on informational content, rather than on social actions and the way in which information was elicited. There is a clear tendency in these texts to underreport the police's role in shaping and (re)phrasing the suspect's story. The texts exhibit widespread use of constructions that are ambiguous and leave invisible shifts in voice – whether it is the author or someone else who should be considered responsible for what is written. The study provides insight into how interview reports function as a social and institutional practice and discusses implications for report writing practice.

本研究关注的是挪威警方调查采访报告中如何总结和以书面形式复制嫌疑人的陈述。它探讨了这些文本中的认识论定位，理解为对所写内容的信息来源的表达，以及作者对其语言形式和命题内容的承诺。该研究包括口头互动数据（采访录音）和书面话语（采访报告）。它使用民族方法学对话分析（CA）作为其主要方法，以发现与它声称代表的原始谈话相比，如何在嫌疑人陈述的书面版本中实现认识论定位。我发现认识论定位表现为：(1)不同格式的转述语；（二）掩盖采访者和作者参与制定嫌疑人供述的；（三）认定犯罪嫌疑人的谈话内容；(4)省略交互细节。这些做法的作用是识别、模糊、歧义或操纵话语的信息来源。它们还涉及作者对其所写内容的语言形式和命题内容的不同程度的承诺。分析表明，作者忽略了很多互动细节，文本更注重信息内容，而不是社会行为和信息的获取方式。在这些文本中有一种明显的倾向，低估了警察在塑造和（重新）措辞嫌疑人的故事中的作用。这些文本广泛使用了模棱两可的结构，并且在声音上留下了看不见的变化——无论是作者还是其他应该被认为对所写内容负责的人。该研究为访谈报告如何作为一种社会和制度实践发挥作用提供了见解，并讨论了报告写作实践的含义。

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Expressions of gratitude: Influences of social factors on thanking strategies in Yuan Dynasty China 感谢的表达：元代社会因素对感谢策略的影响

IF 1.7 1区文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

Journal of Pragmatics

Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.10.013

Limin Huang , Dengshan Xia

The historical study of speech acts is crucial for understanding the evolution of politeness and social interaction, yet empirical investigations into premodern Chinese sociopragmatics are scarce. This study addresses this gap by investigating Chinese thanking in the Yuan Dynasty (1271 A.D.-1368 A.D.) and exploring the influencing social factors of thanking strategies. We draw on data collected from zaju 杂剧, a poetic drama flourishing in the Yuan dynasty. The results show that among the three factors of social class, gender and age, only social class exerts significant influences on the variations of thanking strategies in the Yuan dynasty. We identify two competing trends in general thanking strategies and notable variations in specific implicit thanking strategies across different social classes. The politeness orientation manifested in thanking in the Yuan dynasty is neither positive- nor negative-dominant on the whole but features a positive-negative continuum. On this basis, we propose two rivaling interactional ethos, i.e., the solidarity ethos and the deference ethos, prevailing among different social classes. Our findings may offer a glimpse of Chinese politeness in a certain historical period during its long-term development.

言语行为的历史研究对于理解礼貌和社会互动的演变至关重要，但对前现代中国社会语用学的实证研究很少。本研究通过考察元代（公元1271年-公元1368年）中国人的感恩行为，探讨影响感恩策略的社会因素，弥补了这一空白。我们借鉴了元代盛极一时的诗剧《杂剧》中的数据。结果表明，在社会阶层、性别和年龄三个因素中，只有社会阶层对元代人的感谢策略变化有显著影响。我们确定了两种相互竞争的趋势，在一般的感谢策略和显着的变化在特定的隐式感谢策略在不同的社会阶层。元代感谢语所表现出的礼貌取向总体上既不是积极主导的，也不是消极主导的，而是一个积极-消极的连续体。在此基础上，我们提出了两种相互竞争的互动精神，即团结精神和顺从精神，它们盛行于不同的社会阶层。我们的研究结果可以让我们对中国礼貌在其长期发展过程中所处的特定历史时期有所了解。

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“Shortlisting candidates”: Syntactically incomplete turns in assessments of absent third parties “候选名单”：对缺席的第三方的评估在句法上不完整

IF 1.7 1区文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

Journal of Pragmatics

Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.10.007

Minghui Sun, Robert W. Schrauf

In group discussions where participants evaluate and make selections of non-present third parties, making negative assessments is a potentially face-threatening and socially delicate action that requires caution and deliberation. Previous research has identified syntactically incomplete turns as a key interactional resource in treating a matter as delicate, leaving negative assessments unsaid when they are due. However, the use of syntactically incomplete turns in multi-party interaction remains underexplored. The current study contributes to this line of research by investigating how a steering committee of older adults in a retirement community, who are non-hierarchical peers planning a community-wide event, assess their neighbors as candidates for leadership roles. Based on an examination of approximately 12 h of audio-visual recordings of meetings, we identify two types of syntactically incomplete turns: first, those appropriately received and responded to but not syntactically completed by recipients, and second, those syntactically co-completed by recipients. In the former case, speakers continue to either pursue or abandon the projection of delicacy. In the latter case, speakers eschew delicacy and express their epistemic authority in making the assessment. Our findings contribute to the existing knowledge of delicacy projection and management when making negative assessments as part of group decision-making. In particular, by examining the multimodal nature of syntactically incomplete turns in face-to-face interaction, this research illuminates how “hidden prejudices” of a selection committee might play out in the turn-by-turn deliberations by committee members.

在小组讨论中，参与者评估和选择不在场的第三方，做出负面评估是一种潜在的威胁脸和社会微妙的行为，需要谨慎和深思熟虑。先前的研究已经发现，句法不完整的转折是处理微妙问题的关键互动资源，在到期时留下负面评价。然而，在多人互动中使用语法不完全回合仍然有待探索。目前的研究通过调查一个退休社区的老年人指导委员会如何评估他们的邻居作为领导角色的候选人，为这一研究领域做出了贡献，这些老年人是没有等级制度的同龄人，计划着一个社区范围的活动。基于对大约12小时的会议视听记录的检查，我们确定了两种类型的语法不完整的转折：第一，那些适当地接收和回应，但没有语法上完成的收件人，第二，那些语法上共同完成的收件人。在前一种情况下，说话者要么继续追求微妙的投射，要么继续放弃微妙的投射。在后一种情况下，说话者在做出评估时避开了微妙，表达了他们的认知权威。我们的研究结果有助于现有的精细预测和管理知识，当做出负面评估作为群体决策的一部分。特别是，通过考察面对面互动中句法不完整回合的多模态性质，本研究阐明了评选委员会的“隐性偏见”如何在委员会成员的回合审议中发挥作用。

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Turn-taking, interruption and (Im)Politeness: Evidence from Saudi Arabic interactions 轮流，打断和（Im）礼貌：来自沙特阿拉伯互动的证据

IF 1.7 1区文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

Journal of Pragmatics

Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.10.004

Abdulrahman Alroumi

This study contributes to existing research on impoliteness, inappropriate social behaviors, and social relationships. It examines how politeness emerges in the practices of speakers and hearers when interruption occurs as an interactional phenomenon in Saudi Arabian interactions. The analysis applies a Conversation Analytic (CA) approach to observe participants' orientations toward impolite behavior. It also draws on Brown and Levinson's (1978, 1987) concept of face, while aligning more closely with Goffman's (1967) view of face as a dynamic construction of public image and social relationships. The data set comprises 172 min of recorded interactions among 24 male Saudi participants. The findings reveal that interrupters follow a culturally appropriate interactional pattern by 'doing interrupting' (Bilmes, 1997) to maintain speakers' positive face and to preempt potential complaints of disaffiliative behavior, which might arise if this pattern were not followed. They also reveal how participants orient to speakers' positive face by inviting them to resume their interrupted turns.

本研究对不礼貌、不恰当的社会行为和社会关系的研究有一定的贡献。它考察了在沙特阿拉伯的互动中，当打断作为一种互动现象发生时，礼貌是如何在说话者和听者的实践中出现的。该分析采用会话分析（CA）的方法来观察参与者对不礼貌行为的倾向。它还借鉴了Brown和Levinson（1978、1987）的“脸”概念，同时与Goffman（1967）关于“脸”是公共形象和社会关系的动态建构的观点更接近。该数据集包括24名沙特男性参与者之间172分钟的记录互动。研究结果表明，打断者遵循一种文化上适当的互动模式，即“打断”（Bilmes, 1997），以保持说话者的积极面貌，并先发制人，如果不遵循这种模式，可能会出现对脱离行为的潜在抱怨。他们还通过邀请演讲者继续他们被打断的回合来揭示参与者如何适应演讲者积极的面孔。

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Journal of Pragmatics

Pub Date : 2025-11-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.11.001

Yaomin Zhang, Guodong Yu

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How parents present therapeutic activities to health professionals through camerawork 家长如何通过摄影向卫生专业人员展示治疗活动

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Journal of Pragmatics

Pub Date : 2025-11-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.10.001

Evi Dalmaijer , Wyke Stommel , Berber Pas , Wilbert Spooren

This study explores the interactional dynamics of technology-enabled treatments in which parents record their child for remote assessment by physiotherapists and occupational therapists. Focusing on parents of children with cerebral palsy, we examine how video recordings function as a visual tool for professional evaluation and coaching. Specifically, we analyze the variety of recording practices parents use to present therapeutic activities. Using an ethnomethodology-inspired microanalysis, we investigate the parents' camerawork when documenting treatment sessions at home. Data consist of videos uploaded to a digital platform. Findings highlight how parents actively shape what is assessed through filming choices, reflecting a form of ‘reflection in action.’ By analyzing video beginnings, endings, and camera-strategies, we identify variations in planned versus spontaneous filming approaches, as well as differences between manipulating the camera or the environment to optimize the camera view. The recording practices we identified contribute to better understanding of asynchronous remote care, revealing the critical role of parents in facilitating professional assessment and coaching through asynchronous video submissions. The findings underscore the evolving role of video in healthcare, particularly in remote and home-based treatments, where parents' visual documentation considerably impacts the course of the therapeutic process. We discuss how the dual role parents take on during TET blurs the lines between caregiving and professional practice. We highlight the flexibility and challenges faced by parents in integrating treatment into daily life while ensuring that the video content meets the presumed requirements and shed light on what parents present as relevant for the professionals to assess.

本研究探讨了技术治疗的互动动力学，在这种治疗中，父母记录他们的孩子，供物理治疗师和职业治疗师远程评估。以脑瘫儿童的父母为研究对象，我们研究了视频记录如何作为专业评估和指导的视觉工具。具体地说，我们分析了父母用来呈现治疗活动的各种记录实践。使用民族方法学启发的微观分析，我们调查了父母在家里记录治疗过程时的摄影。数据包括上传到数字平台的视频。研究结果强调了父母如何通过选择拍摄影片来积极影响评估内容，这反映了一种“反思在行动”的形式。“通过分析视频的开头、结尾和拍摄策略，我们确定了计划与自发拍摄方法的差异，以及操纵摄像机或环境以优化摄像机视图之间的差异。”我们确定的录音实践有助于更好地理解异步远程护理，揭示了家长在通过异步视频提交促进专业评估和指导方面的关键作用。研究结果强调了视频在医疗保健中不断发展的作用，特别是在远程和家庭治疗中，父母的视觉记录对治疗过程的影响很大。我们讨论了父母在TET期间扮演的双重角色如何模糊了照顾和专业实践之间的界限。我们强调了父母在将治疗融入日常生活中所面临的灵活性和挑战，同时确保视频内容符合预期要求，并阐明了父母所呈现的与专业人员评估相关的内容。

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#greenCNPC, #CleanerEnergy: Pragmatic use of self-praise metaphors in Chinese corporate discourse on Twitter/X # greennpc， #CleanerEnergy: Twitter/X上中国企业话语中自我表扬隐喻的实用主义使用

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Journal of Pragmatics

Pub Date : 2025-11-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.09.001

Ya Sun, Pan Zheng, Chenle Li

In an era of globalized corporate communication, Chinese corporations face a pragmatic challenge of balancing cultural norms of modesty with the imperative of self-promotion on international social media platforms like Twitter/X. While metaphors offer an indirect strategy to moderate self-praise, their role in facilitating communication accommodation, particularly in cross-cultural contexts, remains understudied. This study uses the qualitative corpus analysis of tweets to investigate how two leading Chinese petroleum corporations strategically employ metaphors on Twitter to frame self-praise. This study identifies fourteen high-frequency metaphors (green, clean, friend, partner, home, smart, warm, high, low, lead, progress, advance, protect, and record) across four source domains (object, human, journey, and competition), encoding four key attributes of corporate self-praise: propriety, capacity, normality, and tenacity. Crucially, they modulate self-praise intensity via three tiers of pragmatic explicitness: explicit self-praise metaphors directly highlighting positive qualities; conventional self-praise ones aligning with cultural norms; contextual self-praise ones deriving positivity from situational framing. The analysis reveals how self-praise metaphors facilitate communication accommodation through enhancing interpretability, balancing interpersonal control, facilitating discourse management, and fostering emotional empathy. This study highlights metaphor as a dual pragmatic tool of mediating self-praise indirectness and communication accommodation and offers actionable strategies for enterprises to navigate global discourse.

在企业沟通全球化的时代，中国企业面临着一个务实的挑战，即如何平衡谦虚的文化规范与在Twitter/X等国际社交媒体平台上进行自我宣传的必要性。虽然隐喻提供了一种间接的策略来缓和自我表扬，但它们在促进沟通适应方面的作用，特别是在跨文化背景下，仍未得到充分研究。本研究采用推文的定性语料库分析，考察了两家中国领先的石油公司如何在推特上战略性地使用隐喻来构建自我表扬。本研究确定了14个高频隐喻（绿色、干净、朋友、伙伴、家、聪明、温暖、高、低、领导、进步、前进、保护和记录），涵盖了四个来源领域（对象、人、旅程和竞争），编码了企业自我赞扬的四个关键属性：得体、能力、正常和坚韧。重要的是，他们通过三个层次的语用明确性来调节自我表扬的强度：明确的自我表扬隐喻直接强调积极的品质；符合文化规范的传统自我表扬；情境性自我表扬从情境框架中获得积极性。分析揭示了自我赞美隐喻如何通过增强可解释性、平衡人际控制、促进话语管理和培养情感共情来促进沟通适应。本研究强调隐喻作为中介自我赞扬间接和沟通适应的双重语用工具，并为企业在全球话语中导航提供了可操作的策略。

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Narrative cues to implicatures in classic novels: Explorations in Pride and Prejudice and The Age of Innocence 经典小说的叙事暗示：《傲慢与偏见》和《纯真年代》的探索

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Journal of Pragmatics

Pub Date : 2025-11-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.09.008

Attila L. Nemesi

Understanding implicit meaning in face-to-face communication largely depends on background knowledge and context, including nonverbal and prosodic cues. Readers of novels, however, are confined to the written text, which requires authors and narrators to skillfully bridge informational gaps and compensate for missing modalities to facilitate comprehension. In doing so, they often integrate conversational implicatures to enhance the naturalness and authenticity of fictional dialogues. However, as Grice (1975, 1978) notes, conversational implicatures form only a certain subclass of nonconventional implicatures, raising the possibility that such phenomena might also emerge in the narrative passages and internal monologues of characters in novels. Through several examples drawn from two classic novels—Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence—this paper highlights various narrative techniques that guide the reader in recognizing nonconventional implicatures. While irony markers have been extensively studied, general discussions of implicatures tend to focus narrowly on the Cooperative Principle and its conversational maxims (or other principles, heuristics, etc.), often overlooking the multimodal cues that may aid inferential processing. By contrast, emphasis is placed here on the literary tools novelists employ to render implicatures accessible to readers, ranging from clarifying and elaborating background information to evoking verbal and nonverbal cues, paralinguistic signals, and expressive uses of punctuation and typography.

在面对面交流中理解隐含意义很大程度上取决于背景知识和语境，包括非语言和韵律线索。然而，小说的读者被限制在书面文本中，这就要求作者和叙述者巧妙地弥合信息差距，弥补缺失的形式，以促进理解。在这样做的过程中，他们经常整合对话的含义，以提高虚构对话的自然和真实性。然而，正如Grice（1974,1978）所指出的那样，会话暗示只是非常规暗示的一个子类，这就增加了这种现象也可能出现在小说中叙事段落和人物内心独白中的可能性。通过简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》和伊迪丝·沃顿的《纯真年代》这两部经典小说中的几个例子，本文强调了引导读者认识非传统含义的各种叙事技巧。虽然反语标记已被广泛研究，但一般意义上的讨论倾向于狭隘地关注合作原则及其会话准则（或其他原则、启发式等），往往忽略了可能有助于推理加工的多模态线索。相比之下，这里的重点放在小说家用来让读者理解隐含意义的文学工具上，从澄清和详细阐述背景信息到唤起口头和非口头线索、副语言信号，以及标点和排版的表达性使用。

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