Journal of Pragmatics

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Pragmatics is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Everybody swears on Only Murders in the Building: The interpersonal functions of scripted television swearing38
Editorial Board37
The pragmatics of encouragement: An inquiry into defaults vis-à-vis inferences33
Editorial Board29
Book review25
On the evolution of a multifunctional discourse marker: A Discourse Grammar analysis of Korean com24
Editorial Board24
Disagreements in casual Taiwanese Mandarin conversations: A gender-based study23
Book review23
Engaging readers across participants: A cross-interactant analysis of metadiscourse in letters of advice during the COVID-19 pandemic22
Asking more than one question in one turn in oral examinations and its impact on examination quality22
Performing good diplomatic relations: The case of presidential introductory conversations during credential ceremonies22
First-person pronouns with and without wa in parenthetical inserts in Japanese telling sequences22
Book review22
The dentist's first turn-at-talk in Korean dental visits21
“Can you read my mind?” Conventionalized indirect requests and Theory of Mind abilities20
Book review20
Toward a pragmatics of relating in conversational interaction19
Like and dislike scales in couples’ argumentative interaction19
Book review19
Syntactic constraints on relevance: The case of causal pre-position in Modern Greek19
Sequence organization in human–animal interaction. An exploration of two canonical sequences18
Book review18
Toward a multimodal pragmatics analysis of ambulant vending on a Buenos Aires trainline18
Negation as involvement: Building intersubjectivity via the Hebrew lo tagid construction17
Interaction Ritual and (Im)Politeness17
“I appreciate u not being a total prick …”: Oppositional stancetaking, impoliteness and relational work in adversarial Twitter interactions16
Pragmatic functions of versatile unsa ‘what’ in Cebuano: From interrogative pronoun to placeholder to stance marker16
The interpretation of plural mass nouns in Greek16
Beyond stereotypes: Cognitive abilities underlying social meaning16
Epistemic vigilance and persuasion: The construction of trust in online marketing16
Approaching institutional boundaries: Comparative conversation analysis of practices for assisting suicidal callers in emergency and suicide helpline calls15
Data constitution and engagement with the field of asylum and migration15
Book review15
Semantic incorporation and discourse prominence: Experimental evidence from English pronoun resolution15
Speech reports and evidence15
Pragmatic reframing from distress to playfulness: !Xun caregiver responses to infant crying15
Experiencing space: Some uses of Japanese proximal spatial deictic expressions15
Reasons for trust. The (counter-) argumentative dynamics of image-repair strategies15
All the more reasons: Mismatches in topoi in dialogue14
Prosodic linking in apology sequences in Finnish elementary school mediations14
Emotional labor in webcare and beyond: A linguistic framework and case study14
The mother of all worries: Formulations of parents' gender in their talk about the transition to the empty nest phase14
Humor production through breaches of a pre-allocated turn-taking organization in television talk shows involving interpreters14
Book review13
An interactional perspective on grammaticalization of turn-initial linguistic forms in turn-final position: The case of Chinese turn-continuations13
Crying and crying responses: A comparative exploration of pragmatic socialization in a Swedish and Japanese preschool13
Book review13
Book review13
In your face? Exploring multimodal response patterns involving facial responses to verbal and gestural stance-taking expressions13
Desperately seeking intentions: Genuine and jocular insults on social media13
Outside the clause: Functions of the Persian na ‘no’13
Procedural structures: The case of sentence-initial subordinate clauses13
Book review13
Topicalizing peers’ language: Situated linguistic identities at workplaces12
Editorial Board12
Doing swearing across languages – The curious case of subtitling12
Using prosody to express evidentiality. The case of the quotative12
Welp in talk-in-interaction: Moving on from publicly available disappointments12
The wanderlust of German words and their pragmatic adaptation in English12
Which word gets the nuclear stress in a turn-at-talk?12
The evidentiality system in Galician and the seica marker11
Editorial Board11
Revisiting grammatical particles from an interactional perspective: The case of the so-called ‘subject’ and ‘topic’ particles as pragmatic markers in Japanese and Korean: An introduction11
Editorial Board11
Diachronic pragmatics: New perspectives on recent developments of spoken English10
Argumentation profiles and the manipulation of common ground. The arguments of populist leaders on Twitter10
Just thank God for Donald Trump – Dialogue practices of populists and their supporters before and after taking office10
Referential choices. A study on quantification and discourse salience in sentence production in Swedish10
Unravelling the complexity of semantic prosody: A theoretical inquiry10
Presupposing indefinite descriptions☆10
“How's the wife?”: Pragmatic reasoning in spousal reference10
Disagreement, epistemic stance and contrastive marking in Catalan parliamentary debate10
Beyond questions: Non-interrogative uses of ano ‘what’ in Tagalog10
Embedding answers into ongoing story (and other extended) telling in conversational interaction10
“This apology doesn't seem sincere at all” (Meta)discourses around Will Smith's apology in English and Japanese YouTube comments10
The effect of the use of T or V pronouns in Dutch HR communication10
Editorial Board10
Pragmatics in the service of marketing: The case of COVID-19 semi-commercial public signs10
Assessments and actions: Instances from Arabic broadcast political interviews10
Editorial Board10
Editorial Board9
Editorial Board9
Book review9
How the medium shapes the message: Stance in two forms of book reviews9
Digitally saving face: An experimental investigation of cross-cultural differences in the use of emoticons and emoji9
Book review9
We need to talk about Hearer's Meaning!9
On the interpretation of response particles méi(yǒu) and bù to negative polar questions in Mandarin Chinese9
Joint planning in conversations with a person with aphasia9
Introducing the special issue on the pragmatics of translation9
Book review9
Book review9
Book review9
“#HaveYouNoShame”: Unraveling the pragmatics of impolite political hashtags9
The epistemics of social relations in Murrinhpatha, Garrwa and Jaru conversations9
Editorial Board9
Celebrity gossip headlines and reliability in a Common Ground-based framework9
Cultural values and the pragmatic significance of proverbial sayings in Tafi and Ewe9
Book review9
Book review9
Book review9
Pragmatic aspects of wh-interrogatives in Marzahn German9
“Egungun be careful, na Express you dey go”: Socialising a newcomer-celebrity and co-constructing relational connection on Twitter Nigeria8
Performance of face-threatening speech acts in Chinese and Japanese BELF emails8
Problematising expressives: The case of magical affirmations in the pick-up artist paradigm8
Modelability across time as a signature of identity construction on YouTube8
Impoliteness and hate speech: Compare and contrast8
Book review8
“Itsyourownfault”: Space omission in a Russian women's support group8
Affective text trajectories: Toward a linguistic anthropology of critique8
A corpus-based analysis of corporate apologies and public responses on Chinese social media8
Beyond negation: “Not” as evaluation and speech-act trigger in Mandarin Chinese negative markers8
Logical Form – Not logical enough for logic, not linguistic enough for linguistics8
Ostension and the communicative function of natural language8
Book review8
Metaphor and creativity in the act of making her heart flutter: Toward a cognitive-emotive perspective8
The use of the discourse markers yaʕni and ʔinnu: ‘I mean’ in Syrian Arabic8
A contrastive investigation of the performative and descriptive use of surprise frames in judicial opinions of the HKSAR8
Social meaning in reverse: Expectations of English role noun use based on speaker identity8
Opening interspecies encounters – Greetings between humans and nonhuman animals8
“See you soon! ADD OIL AR!”: Code-switching for face-work in edu-social Facebook groups8
Shared laughter as relational strategy at intercultural conflictual workplace interactions7
Creating space for interpreting within extended turns at talk7
Editorial Board7
Editorial Board7
Assessing impoliteness-related language in response to a season's greeting posted by the Spanish and English Prime Ministers on Twitter7
Humour support and emotive stance in comments on Korean TV drama7
Editorial Board7
Book review7
“I don't mean to humblebrag”—on the reception of humblebrags from a cognitive-pragmatic perspective7
Editorial Board7
Audience design and pragmatic conceptions of moves and upvotes during advice-giving on Reddit7
Mitigation revisited. An operative and integrated definition of the pragmatic concept, its strategic values, and its linguistic expression7
Illocutionary context and management allocation of emoji and other graphicons in Mexican parent school WhatsApp communities7
Motion verbs and future constructions: the case of Hebrew omed le-V ‘standing (up) to-V’/‘(be) about to-V’7
Accounting for changes in series of vocalisations – Professional vision in a gym-training session7
Children seeking the driver's attention in cars: Position and composition of children's summons turns and children's rights to engage7
Formulating WH-questions in Korean adult-child conversation: ‘Subject’, ‘topic’, and ‘zero’ particle as interactional resources7
Grammar and stance: The use of Korean interrogative suffixes –nya and –ni as alignment markers7
Demonstratives and speaker stance in Thai7
Rationalizing impoliteness: Taking offence and providing vicarious accounts in mother-in-law/daughter-in-law conflict mediation7
How people perceive and talk about miscommunication7
The role of inference and inferencing in pragmatic models of communication7
Backchannels are not always very short utterances. The case of Italian Multi-Unit Backchannels6
Rephrasing is not arguing, but it is still persuasive: An experimental approach to perlocutionary effects of rephrase6
Relationships between construction grammar(s) and genre: Evidence from an analysis of Instagram posts6
“It seems to be some kind of an accident”: Perception and team decision-making in time critical situations6
Interrogatives and speaker stance: From information-seeking to interpersonal (dis)affiliation6
Sharing travel experiences on TripAdvisor: A genre analysis of negative hotel reviews written in French, Spanish and Italian6
Text, discourse, context: A meta-trilogy for discourse analysis6
Face-saving strategies and the burden of opioid policy enactments: When physicians’ compliance makes patients non-compliant6
Epistemic independence and speaker roles: Highlighting the role of second speaker and mitigating the role of first speaker6
Intonational cues to speaker bias in questions and the role of language exposure6
Communication: Inferring speaker intentions or perceiving the world? Insights from developmental research6
Embodied and affective negotiation over spatial and epistemic group territories among school-children: (Re)producing moral orders in open learning environments6
Book review6
Editorial Board6
Informings as recruitment in nurses′ intrahospital telephone calls6
Book review6
When veracity is in the balance: Requests for reconfirmation as preliminary information receipts6
Premise conditionals are echoic thematic conditionals6
Questions with address terms in Indonesian conversation: Managing next-speaker selection and action formation6
Book review6
Dogs responding to human utterances in embodied ways6
Are you serious? Workplace agenda and aesthetic negotiations with depictions at opera rehearsals6
The use of praise upgrades in compliment sequences in natural conversations between young adults in dating relationships6
The role of intonation in Construction Grammar: On prosodic constructions6
Multiplicity in grammar: Modes, genres and Speaker's knowledge6
Low spirits vs. high spirits: How failure and success influence sharing in social media groups6
Orienting to knowledge as remarkable: The newsmark be'emet (‘in-truth’) in Hebrew conversation6
Book review6
Book review6
The rise and fall of illocutionary negation: Evidence from Veneto6
Confessions of lockdown breaches. Problematising morality during the Covid-19 pandemic6
On unsuccessful utterances in pragmatics5
Face threatening and speaker presuppositions: The case of feminine polite particles in Thai5
Newspaper headlines, relevance and emotive effects5
Book review5
Book review5
“This word no get concrete meaning oo”: Pragmatic markers in Nigerian online communication5
Sleep well in Småland, whether you prefer a castle or a hut: Performing persuasion through patterns of you in tourism discourse5
In memoriam: Emanuel A. Schegloff 1937–20245
Book review5
Trust-indicating pragmatic markers in selected African englishes5
“One, two, three!”: Coordinating and projecting simultaneous start and end of joint actions in drills of rescue activities in mass casualty incidents5
From words to multimodalities: Compliment perceptions across lingua cultures5
On the metapragmatics of ‘conspiracy theory’: Scepticism and epistemological debates in online conspiracy comments5
Direct words, deep bonds: The tradition of father-son advice in ancient Arabia5
Uso “lie” or hontoo “truth”?: Two lexical response tokens in Japanese informings5
Book review5
Defending speaker intention in a model of the hearer's meaning5
Recognising understandability: How police officers respond to drunk persons’ undecipherable turns5
The pragmatics of headlines. Central issues and future research avenues5
“Being your son is rather tiring”: Assessments and assessment responses in initial interactions in Mandarin Chinese5
Reciprocity and epistemicity: On the (proto)social and cross-cultural ‘value’ of information transmission5
Coding empathy in dialogue5
(Inter)subjectivity and information structure: The pragmatics of left and right peripheries in spoken Mandarin5
Book review5
Editorial Board5
Sociopragmatic variation in Britain: A corpus-based study of politeness5
Book review5
Narratives of geopolitical representation in the discourse of the Russia–Ukraine war5
Re-borrowing of swearwords in the English translations of Jo Nesbø’s Harry Hole novels5
Book review5
Young Greek Cypriot and Norwegian EFL learners: Pragmalinguistic development in request production5
On the fringes of metaphor: Using ambiguously figurative vague language to pragmatically negotiate sensitive topics in the English as a Medium of Instruction classroom5
Hashtag swearing: Pragmatic polysemy and polyfunctionality of #FuckPutin as solidary flaming4
Covertly communicated hate speech: A corpus-assisted pragmatic study4
There as a discourse-pragmatic marker in Irish English4
Editorial Board4
Identical linguistic forms in multiple turn and sequence positions in Asian languages4
Introducing the Special Issue on Revisiting problems on pragmatic mitigation: New methodological insights4
Explaining reversible discourse marker sequences: A case study of and and so4
Mediating expert knowledge: The use of pragmatic strategies in digital research digests4
Italian non vedo/non si vede + indirect wh-interrogative clause (‘I don't see why/what/how...’) as a marker of disagreement4
Editorial Board4
Book review4
“Don't act like a Sati-Savitri!”: Hinglish and other impoliteness strategies in Indian YouTube comments4
Types and functions of insubordinate complement clauses with hogy ‘that’ in Hungarian4
Book review4
Italian davvero (‘really’) as a trigger of implicit contents in persuasive discourse4
Proper names as anaphoric expressions in short crime stories: Doing more than referring within and across paragraphs4
Self-praise in Japanese conversation4
In/directness in requests and refusals in EFL by multilinguals with L1 Hebrew or Arabic: A linguistic and textual perspective4
Editorial Board4
Editorial Board4
Japanese onomatopoeia in bodily demonstrations in a traditional dance instruction: A resource for synchronizing body movements4
Special issue: (Im)politeness, humour, and the role of intentions: Essays presented to Michael Haugh4
Shaping the perceptual field in interaction: The use and non-use of ga in the speech of very young Japanese children4
Book review4
Inherent linguistic impoliteness: The case of insultive you+np in Dutch, English and Polish4
Quasi-instructions: Orienting to the projectable trajectories of imminent bodily movements with instruction-like utterances4
Caught on page! Micro and macro pragmatics of stage directions parentheticals in Tom Stoppard's Professional Foul4
The pragmatics of sharing memes on Twitter4
Impact of social cognitive propensity on the processing of nontransparent sentential meaning4
Historical poem-quoting interaction: An interaction-speech act-ritual integrative study of fù in ancient China4
Pragmatic patterns and discourses on Twitter: Unpacking perspectives in the discussion of the Turów lignite mine4
Making refusals via English as a lingua franca: Chinese English speakers’ strategies and sequences4
Expressing thinking in institutional interaction: Stancetaking in mental health rehabilitation group discussions4
Trademark™: A usage-based theory of the trademark sign4
Stance and alignment in police traffic stops: The case of citizen account solicitations4
Questions in argumentative dialogue4
Book review4
Book review4
Book review4
“Ay no I do feel exhausted”: Affiliative practices and interpersonal relationships in indirect complaints in Spanish4
Expressive meanings and social applications of ‘do’-support questions in Camuno4
Remediation of infelicitous epistemic stance4
The role of explicit and implicit contrast in differentiating two uses of the Mandarin adversative marker ke(shi)4
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