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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Editorial Board43
The pragmatics of encouragement: An inquiry into defaults vis-à-vis inferences30
Book review27
Performing good diplomatic relations: The case of presidential introductory conversations during credential ceremonies26
On the evolution of a multifunctional discourse marker: A Discourse Grammar analysis of Korean com26
Beyond stereotypes: Cognitive abilities underlying social meaning24
Book review24
“Not right now”: Children's resistance during online grooming interactions24
Engaging readers across participants: A cross-interactant analysis of metadiscourse in letters of advice during the COVID-19 pandemic23
Sequence organization in human–animal interaction. An exploration of two canonical sequences22
Like and dislike scales in couples’ argumentative interaction22
Disagreements in casual Taiwanese Mandarin conversations: A gender-based study21
Negation as involvement: Building intersubjectivity via the Hebrew lo tagid construction21
Pragmatic functions of versatile unsa ‘what’ in Cebuano: From interrogative pronoun to placeholder to stance marker20
Epistemic vigilance and persuasion: The construction of trust in online marketing20
Editorial Board19
“Can you read my mind?” Conventionalized indirect requests and Theory of Mind abilities18
Toward a multimodal pragmatics analysis of ambulant vending on a Buenos Aires trainline18
Everybody swears on Only Murders in the Building: The interpersonal functions of scripted television swearing18
Syntactic constraints on relevance: The case of causal pre-position in Modern Greek17
The dentist's first turn-at-talk in Korean dental visits17
Book review17
First-person pronouns with and without wa in parenthetical inserts in Japanese telling sequences16
Book review16
Editorial Board16
Book review15
Book review15
Humor production through breaches of a pre-allocated turn-taking organization in television talk shows involving interpreters14
“I appreciate u not being a total prick …”: Oppositional stancetaking, impoliteness and relational work in adversarial Twitter interactions14
Interpreting verbal irony in Mandarin Chinese: The role of prosody and proficiency among L2 learners of Chinese14
Reasons for trust. The (counter-) argumentative dynamics of image-repair strategies14
Procedural structures: The case of sentence-initial subordinate clauses14
Experiencing space: Some uses of Japanese proximal spatial deictic expressions14
Book review13
Prosodic linking in apology sequences in Finnish elementary school mediations13
Approaching institutional boundaries: Comparative conversation analysis of practices for assisting suicidal callers in emergency and suicide helpline calls13
All the more reasons: Mismatches in topoi in dialogue13
The mother of all worries: Formulations of parents' gender in their talk about the transition to the empty nest phase13
Outside the clause: Functions of the Persian na ‘no’13
Speech reports and evidence13
In your face? Exploring multimodal response patterns involving facial responses to verbal and gestural stance-taking expressions12
Book review12
Can AI simulate or emulate human stance? Using metadiscourse to compare GPT-generated and human-authored academic book reviews12
Book review12
Semantic incorporation and discourse prominence: Experimental evidence from English pronoun resolution12
Topicalizing peers’ language: Situated linguistic identities at workplaces12
Book review12
Book review12
Emotional labor in webcare and beyond: A linguistic framework and case study12
Welp in talk-in-interaction: Moving on from publicly available disappointments12
Book review11
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
“How's the wife?”: Pragmatic reasoning in spousal reference11
Doing swearing across languages – The curious case of subtitling11
Using prosody to express evidentiality. The case of the quotative11
Editorial Board11
“This apology doesn't seem sincere at all” (Meta)discourses around Will Smith's apology in English and Japanese YouTube comments11
Diachronic pragmatics: New perspectives on recent developments of spoken English10
Editorial Board10
The impact of self-access web-based instruction on EFL learners' pragmatic awareness of email requests to faculty10
Unravelling the complexity of semantic prosody: A theoretical inquiry10
Book review10
Book review10
Argumentation profiles and the manipulation of common ground. The arguments of populist leaders on Twitter10
Embedding answers into ongoing story (and other extended) telling in conversational interaction10
Referential choices. A study on quantification and discourse salience in sentence production in Swedish10
How students get help: Institutional identities as a resource for recruitment10
The effect of the use of T or V pronouns in Dutch HR communication10
Book review9
Beyond questions: Non-interrogative uses of ano ‘what’ in Tagalog9
Book review9
How the medium shapes the message: Stance in two forms of book reviews9
Assessments and actions: Instances from Arabic broadcast political interviews9
Pragmatics in the service of marketing: The case of COVID-19 semi-commercial public signs9
Book review9
Book review9
Digitally saving face: An experimental investigation of cross-cultural differences in the use of emoticons and emoji9
Book review9
Editorial Board9
Disagreement, epistemic stance and contrastive marking in Catalan parliamentary debate9
We need to talk about Hearer's Meaning!9
The epistemics of social relations in Murrinhpatha, Garrwa and Jaru conversations9
Just thank God for Donald Trump – Dialogue practices of populists and their supporters before and after taking office9
Celebrity gossip headlines and reliability in a Common Ground-based framework9
Problematising expressives: The case of magical affirmations in the pick-up artist paradigm8
Joint planning in conversations with a person with aphasia8
Demonstratives and speaker stance in Thai8
Pragmatic aspects of wh-interrogatives in Marzahn German8
“#HaveYouNoShame”: Unraveling the pragmatics of impolite political hashtags8
A corpus-based analysis of corporate apologies and public responses on Chinese social media8
On the interpretation of response particles méi(yǒu) and bù to negative polar questions in Mandarin Chinese8
Editorial Board8
Editorial Board8
A contrastive investigation of the performative and descriptive use of surprise frames in judicial opinions of the HKSAR8
Dynamic interplay of social variables in request strategies of workplace e-mails8
Editorial Board8
Editorial Board8
Ostension and the communicative function of natural language8
Social meaning in reverse: Expectations of English role noun use based on speaker identity8
Editorial Board8
Book review8
Beyond negation: “Not” as evaluation and speech-act trigger in Mandarin Chinese negative markers8
Affective text trajectories: Toward a linguistic anthropology of critique8
Opening interspecies encounters – Greetings between humans and nonhuman animals8
Metaphor and creativity in the act of making her heart flutter: Toward a cognitive-emotive perspective8
Low spirits vs. high spirits: How failure and success influence sharing in social media groups7
Shared laughter as relational strategy at intercultural conflictual workplace interactions7
Assessing impoliteness-related language in response to a season's greeting posted by the Spanish and English Prime Ministers on Twitter7
Editorial Board7
Orienting to knowledge as remarkable: The newsmark be'emet (‘in-truth’) in Hebrew conversation7
Text, discourse, context: A meta-trilogy for discourse analysis7
The role of inference and inferencing in pragmatic models of communication7
“I don't mean to humblebrag”—on the reception of humblebrags from a cognitive-pragmatic perspective7
Audience design and pragmatic conceptions of moves and upvotes during advice-giving on Reddit7
Wait, espera, peraí: Signalling discourse model misalignment in English, Spanish, and Portuguese7
When veracity is in the balance: Requests for reconfirmation as preliminary information receipts7
Questions with address terms in Indonesian conversation: Managing next-speaker selection and action formation7
Rationalizing impoliteness: Taking offence and providing vicarious accounts in mother-in-law/daughter-in-law conflict mediation7
Editorial Board7
How people perceive and talk about miscommunication7
Illocutionary context and management allocation of emoji and other graphicons in Mexican parent school WhatsApp communities7
Relevance beyond the implicated proposition7
Direct words, deep bonds: The tradition of father-son advice in ancient Arabia6
Book review6
Sociopragmatic variation in Britain: A corpus-based study of politeness6
Communication: Inferring speaker intentions or perceiving the world? Insights from developmental research6
Multiplicity in grammar: Modes, genres and Speaker's knowledge6
The use of praise upgrades in compliment sequences in natural conversations between young adults in dating relationships6
Motion verbs and future constructions: the case of Hebrew omed le-V ‘standing (up) to-V’/‘(be) about to-V’6
Interrogatives and speaker stance: From information-seeking to interpersonal (dis)affiliation6
Premise conditionals are echoic thematic conditionals6
Book review6
Editorial Board6
Style markers in speech act realization: A corpus-based analysis of the cute style sajiao in Chinese6
Book review6
Rephrasing is not arguing, but it is still persuasive: An experimental approach to perlocutionary effects of rephrase6
Book review6
Book review6
Editorial Board6
Face-saving strategies and the burden of opioid policy enactments: When physicians’ compliance makes patients non-compliant6
Accounting for changes in series of vocalisations – Professional vision in a gym-training session6
Book review6
Uso “lie” or hontoo “truth”?: Two lexical response tokens in Japanese informings6
Book review6
Book review6
Newspaper headlines, relevance and emotive effects6
“It seems to be some kind of an accident”: Perception and team decision-making in time critical situations6
Are you serious? Workplace agenda and aesthetic negotiations with depictions at opera rehearsals6
Sharing travel experiences on TripAdvisor: A genre analysis of negative hotel reviews written in French, Spanish and Italian6
The rise and fall of illocutionary negation: Evidence from Veneto6
Book review5
On the fringes of metaphor: Using ambiguously figurative vague language to pragmatically negotiate sensitive topics in the English as a Medium of Instruction classroom5
On unsuccessful utterances in pragmatics5
“Being your son is rather tiring”: Assessments and assessment responses in initial interactions in Mandarin Chinese5
Coding empathy in dialogue5
Managers see, analysts hear. Epistemic divide in financial dialogues5
Defending speaker intention in a model of the hearer's meaning5
In memoriam: Emanuel A. Schegloff 1937–20245
Embodied and affective negotiation over spatial and epistemic group territories among school-children: (Re)producing moral orders in open learning environments5
Book review5
Book review5
Speech prosody and pragmatic scalar inferences: Divergent cognitive strategies in adults with high and low levels of autistic traits5
Narratives of geopolitical representation in the discourse of the Russia–Ukraine war5
Informings as recruitment in nurses′ intrahospital telephone calls5
Mediating expert knowledge: The use of pragmatic strategies in digital research digests5
The pragmatics of online healthcare communication: Politeness strategies in an anxiety and depression support community5
Gender variability in the prosodic production of compliments in Italian: A pilot study5
Book review5
Trust-indicating pragmatic markers in selected African englishes5
Reciprocity and epistemicity: On the (proto)social and cross-cultural ‘value’ of information transmission5
Face threatening and speaker presuppositions: The case of feminine polite particles in Thai5
Dogs responding to human utterances in embodied ways5
Intonational cues to speaker bias in questions and the role of language exposure5
Backchannels are not always very short utterances. The case of Italian Multi-Unit Backchannels5
“One, two, three!”: Coordinating and projecting simultaneous start and end of joint actions in drills of rescue activities in mass casualty incidents5
Editorial Board5
“This word no get concrete meaning oo”: Pragmatic markers in Nigerian online communication5
The pragmatics of sharing memes on Twitter5
(Inter)subjectivity and information structure: The pragmatics of left and right peripheries in spoken Mandarin5
Re-borrowing of swearwords in the English translations of Jo Nesbø’s Harry Hole novels5
Sleep well in Småland, whether you prefer a castle or a hut: Performing persuasion through patterns of you in tourism discourse5
From words to multimodalities: Compliment perceptions across lingua cultures5
Putting negotiation on a ‘principal-ed’ footing: A corpus-informed discourse analysis of person deixis in diplomatic debates5
Editorial Board5
Towards interspecies pragmatics: Language use and embodied interaction in human-animal activities, encounters, and narratives4
Predicating Truth: An empirically based analysis4
Wake up New Zealand! Directives, politeness and stance in Twitter #Covid19NZ posts4
Making refusals via English as a lingua franca: Chinese English speakers’ strategies and sequences4
Book review4
Italian non vedo/non si vede + indirect wh-interrogative clause (‘I don't see why/what/how...’) as a marker of disagreement4
Editorial Board4
Questions in argumentative dialogue4
Types and functions of insubordinate complement clauses with hogy ‘that’ in Hungarian4
Caught on page! Micro and macro pragmatics of stage directions parentheticals in Tom Stoppard's Professional Foul4
Pragmatic patterns and discourses on Twitter: Unpacking perspectives in the discussion of the Turów lignite mine4
Challenging racism in public spaces: Practices for interventions into disputes4
Identical linguistic forms in multiple turn and sequence positions in Asian languages4
Editorial Board4
There as a discourse-pragmatic marker in Irish English4
Hashtag swearing: Pragmatic polysemy and polyfunctionality of #FuckPutin as solidary flaming4
Covertly communicated hate speech: A corpus-assisted pragmatic study4
Historical poem-quoting interaction: An interaction-speech act-ritual integrative study of fù in ancient China4
“Don't act like a Sati-Savitri!”: Hinglish and other impoliteness strategies in Indian YouTube comments4
Self-praise in Japanese conversation4
Book review4
Corrective demonstrations and embodied resources for modeling speech sounds in aphasia speech-language therapy4
Quasi-instructions: Orienting to the projectable trajectories of imminent bodily movements with instruction-like utterances4
Book review4
Expressive meanings and social applications of ‘do’-support questions in Camuno4
Book review4
Recognising understandability: How police officers respond to drunk persons’ undecipherable turns4
Editorial Board4
Interactional and rhetorical functions of placeholders: A relevance-theoretic approach4
Gender/power relationships in fictional conflict talk at the workplace: Analyzing television dramatic dialogue in The Newsroom4
Book review4
Book review4
Inherent linguistic impoliteness: The case of insultive you+np in Dutch, English and Polish4
Opinion shaping in the context of the “Me Too” movement. An investigation of presuppositions triggered by additive focus adverbs in traditional and social media4
The forms and functions of ‘naming interrogatives’ in Hebrew word searches4
Explaining reversible discourse marker sequences: A case study of and and so4
Pragmalinguistic and sociopragmatic patterns of requestive acts in English and Italian: Insights from film conversation4
Book review4
Meaning-making in tactile cross-signing context4
Proper names as anaphoric expressions in short crime stories: Doing more than referring within and across paragraphs4
Italian davvero (‘really’) as a trigger of implicit contents in persuasive discourse4
The pragmatics of headlines. Central issues and future research avenues4
Remediation of infelicitous epistemic stance4
Japanese onomatopoeia in bodily demonstrations in a traditional dance instruction: A resource for synchronizing body movements4
Egyptian parents’ responses to children's complaints focusing on the influence of sex and age4
‘Did you just basically steal everything?’ – A study of discourse -pragmatic variation and change4
“Ay no I do feel exhausted”: Affiliative practices and interpersonal relationships in indirect complaints in Spanish4
Impact of social cognitive propensity on the processing of nontransparent sentential meaning4
Editorial Board4
Suggestions in digital discourse: The case of MOOC reviews3
A linguistic-pragmatic analysis of cat-induced deixis in cat-human interactions3
Book review3
Corpus-pragmatic perspectives on the contemporary weakening of fuck: The case of teenage British English conversation3
Editorial Board3
How to identify an argument type? On the hermeneutics of persuasive discourse3
Editorial Board3
Editorial: Swearing and interpersonal pragmatics3
Pursuing and resisting argumentative projects in Q&A sequences during a trial3
Expressing evidence3
Book review3
Book review3
Emotion and self-branding in YouTube travel vlogs: A corpus-based analysis3
Forms of address, performative prefixes, and the syntax-pragmatics interface3
Book review3
Book review3
Pragmatic competence without a language model: Other-Initiated Repair in Balinese homesign3
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