Journal of Pragmatics

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of Pragmatics is 4. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Beyond sentence grammar: Persian directives in interaction74
Non-propositional effects in verbal communication: The case of metaphor37
A study of linguistic mitigation, writer empathy and recipient personality in requesting and bringing bad news via email33
Syntactic constraints on relevance: The case of causal pre-position in Modern Greek33
Secondary grammaticalization and subjectification: A case study of Korean conditional, concessive, and deontic modal eya29
Book review27
The climate of climate change: Impoliteness as a hallmark of homophily in YouTube comment threads on Greta Thunberg's environmental activism25
How to identify an argument type? On the hermeneutics of persuasive discourse25
The pragmatics of encouragement: An inquiry into defaults vis-à-vis inferences23
Editorial Board22
When is it legitimate to cancel a potential scalar implicature? The roles of the Question Under Discussion and optimal relevance22
Payment offers, suggestions to share expenses and payment negotiation sequences on initial dates in Germany and the United Kingdom21
Leadership style in transition? Decision-making processes in cabin crew's pre-flight briefings20
Book review20
Book review20
Editorial Board20
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Negation as involvement: Building intersubjectivity via the Hebrew lo tagid construction19
Book review18
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Political Language in Contrast: An Introduction18
The dentist's first turn-at-talk in Korean dental visits18
Book review18
Book review18
Intertextuality and comembership by university police call-takers in relaying information from laypeople in emergency calls to 91117
Editorial Board16
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Text, discourse, context: A meta-trilogy for discourse analysis16
Book review16
Picture this! The effects of positivity bias, situation saliency, and verbal politeness in valence framing research16
Book review15
Editorial Board15
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Jacob L. Mey III (1926–2023)15
Book review15
Interaction Ritual and (Im)Politeness15
Toward a pragmatics of relating in conversational interaction15
Pragmatic overlap and consecutive change: The case of Hebrew (inter)subjective markers yeʃ/en matsav/sikuy14
The rise and fall of illocutionary negation: Evidence from Veneto14
Editorial Board14
Book review13
Questions with address terms in Indonesian conversation: Managing next-speaker selection and action formation13
Book review13
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Face-saving strategies and the burden of opioid policy enactments: When physicians’ compliance makes patients non-compliant12
First-person pronouns with and without wa in parenthetical inserts in Japanese telling sequences12
Book review12
Book review12
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Meaning non-verbally: The neglected corners of the bi-dimensional continuum communication in people with aphasia12
Book review12
Book review12
Book review12
Child-initiated informings and conversational participation in a bilingual preschool11
Motion verbs and future constructions: the case of Hebrew omed le-V ‘standing (up) to-V’/‘(be) about to-V’11
Editorial Board11
Challenging askability through particles: uei-prefaced responses in Catalan11
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Pursuing and resisting argumentative projects in Q&A sequences during a trial11
Editorial Board11
Final tteyuu as a mockery stance marker: Multifunctionality and ongoing semantic change in Japanese social media11
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Headlines as illocutionary subacts: The genre-specificity of headlines10
“That's amazing!”: Making self-praise work in Japanese conversation10
The procedural meaning of Spanish adverb apenas10
Everybody swears on Only Murders in the Building: The interpersonal functions of scripted television swearing10
What the meta-illocutionary lexicon can tell us about speech act taxonomies10
Editorial Board10
“By then you'd say ‘why hadn't I hung on a little bit longer?’”: Ventriloquizing as indirectness in Chinese medical interaction10
Sharing is caring: An ethnographic approach to Spanish WhatsApp groups10
Expressing evidence10
Toward a multimodal pragmatics analysis of ambulant vending on a Buenos Aires trainline10
The pragmatic differences between grammatical and lexical evidentiality: A corpus-based study of Tibetan and English10
Saving one's face from unintended humour: Impression management in follow-up sports interviews10
Book review10
Book review10
And now, co-occurrence and functionality of discourse markers on the Oregon Coast9
Phrasal alternation and Kerinci demonstrative (i)neh: Implications for spatial and socio-interactional deixis9
Phygital highlighting: Achieving joint visual attention when physically co-editing a digital text9
Pragmatic competence without a language model: Other-Initiated Repair in Balinese homesign9
Moderate versus extreme interpretations of political slogans9
Jocular self-deprecation in Japanese initial interactions9
“Sorry it took me a long time to reply”: Sorry as a discourse-pragmatic feature in African Englishes9
“Can you read my mind?” Conventionalized indirect requests and Theory of Mind abilities9
Book review9
Translating in times of crisis: A study about the emotional effects of the COVID19 pandemic on the translation of evaluative language9
Socio-pragmatic variation in request refusals in Cameroon French9
Orienting to knowledge as remarkable: The newsmark be'emet (‘in-truth’) in Hebrew conversation9
Like and dislike scales in couples’ argumentative interaction9
Book review9
(When) Can I say Du to You? The metapragmatics of forms of address on German-Speaking Twitter9
The English politeness marker please in Chinese9
Is low-arousal laughter a reliable cue for irony? Individual differences in integrating speech and laughter meanings9
Varieties of specification: Redefining over- and under-specification9
Book review8
Practical (un)cancellability8
Accounting for changes in series of vocalisations – Professional vision in a gym-training session8
Prosodic modulation as a mark to express pragmatic values: The case of mitigation in Spanish8
Discourse context cannot make ‘or’ inclusive (only experimental task can)8
Directives in the construction site: Grammatical design and work phases in second language interactions with crane operators8
Social interaction in high stakes crisis communication8
Lexical meaning contextualization and semantic changes: The case of the Mandarin Chinese discourse marker dangran8
Performing good diplomatic relations: The case of presidential introductory conversations during credential ceremonies8
The marking of weak stance in Cebuano: The case of the versatile demonstrative kanάng8
Diagnosis resistance in Chinese medical encounters and its implications on medical authority8
Epistemic independence and speaker roles: Highlighting the role of second speaker and mitigating the role of first speaker8
Interpersonal relationships in translation: Address terms in the English and Polish translations of Henning Mankell's The Dogs of Riga8
Book review8
Backflagging revisited: A case study on bueno in English-Spanish bilingual speech8
Premise conditionals are echoic thematic conditionals8
Persuasive presuppositions8
If and only if people were logical! The effect of pragmatic enrichment on reasoning with abstract and realistic materials8
Asking more than one question in one turn in oral examinations and its impact on examination quality8
The interpretation of plural mass nouns in Greek8
Book review8
Disagreements in casual Taiwanese Mandarin conversations: A gender-based study7
Can the reference of a use of “That” change? Assessing non-standard approaches to the semantics of demonstratives7
Onomatopoeia: A relevance-based eye-tracking study of digital manga7
Epistemic vigilance and persuasion: The construction of trust in online marketing7
Book review7
Book review7
Epistemic and non-epistemic modals: The key to interpreting the spirit of counter-terrorism United Nations Security Council resolutions7
Engaging readers across participants: A cross-interactant analysis of metadiscourse in letters of advice during the COVID-19 pandemic7
Using discourse markers to negotiate epistemic stance: A view from situated language use7
Multimodal action formats for managing preference: chais pas ‘dunno’ plus gaze conduct in dispreferred responses to questions7
Summarising in medical emergencies: The role of the discourse marker so7
Japanese first-person singular pronouns revisited: A semantic and cultural interpretation7
On the evolution of a multifunctional discourse marker: A Discourse Grammar analysis of Korean com6
Book review6
Corpus-pragmatic perspectives on the contemporary weakening of fuck: The case of teenage British English conversation6
‘Child's time’: Kinship carers' use of time reference to construct parental identities6
“I appreciate u not being a total prick …”: Oppositional stancetaking, impoliteness and relational work in adversarial Twitter interactions6
Sharing travel experiences on TripAdvisor: A genre analysis of negative hotel reviews written in French, Spanish and Italian6
Interrogatives and speaker stance: From information-seeking to interpersonal (dis)affiliation6
Gatekeeping and linguistic capital: A case study of the Cambridge university undergraduate admissions interview6
Low spirits vs. high spirits: How failure and success influence sharing in social media groups6
The interpretive mediation of social worlds: Intention markers in news headlines6
Sequence organization in human–animal interaction. An exploration of two canonical sequences6
The pragmatics of rebroadcasting content on Twitter: How is retweeting relevant?6
Editorial: Swearing and interpersonal pragmatics6
Fast and slow thinking as secret agents behind speakers’ (un)conscious pragmatic decisions and judgements6
Book review6
Cross-linguistic differences in demonstrative systems: Comparing spatial and non-spatial influences on demonstrative use in Ticuna and Dutch6
The development of non-literal uses of language: Sense conventions and pragmatic competence6
The role of inference and inferencing in pragmatic models of communication6
Corrigendum to “Speech act recognition in Spanish speakers” [J. Prag. 141 (2019) 44–56]6
Pragmatic reframing from distress to playfulness: !Xun caregiver responses to infant crying6
Growing up laughing: Laughables and pragmatic functions between 12 and 36 months6
What is “Versailles Literature”?: Humblebrags on Chinese social networking sites6
Moments of sharing, language style and resources for solidarity on social media: A comparative analysis6
Pragmatic functions of versatile unsa ‘what’ in Cebuano: From interrogative pronoun to placeholder to stance marker6
Book review5
Adjusting entitlement degrees in inappropriate requests: TCU-final particle bei (呗) in Mandarin Chinese conversation5
Editorial Board5
Information structure in Korean: What's new and what's old?5
Book review5
Explaining the distribution of implicit means of misrepresentation: A case study on Italian immigration discourse5
Development of the Korean proximal demonstrative into an affective stance marker5
An interactional perspective on grammaticalization of turn-initial linguistic forms in turn-final position: The case of Chinese turn-continuations5
Ethnomethodology of written discourse: An analytical model for treating written discourse as ongoing social action5
Ghosts and the haunting of the American dream: The pragmatics of stance and suspense in making the improbable sound possible5
Book review5
Okay as a marker for coordinating transitions in joint actions: Effects of participant role and age in Swiss German and Swiss French interviews5
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Reasons for trust. The (counter-) argumentative dynamics of image-repair strategies5
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All-cleft constructions in the London–Lund Corpora of spoken English: Empirical and methodological perspectives5
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Polyfunctional particles in spoken Russian: The case of čto li5
The use of praise upgrades in compliment sequences in natural conversations between young adults in dating relationships5
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Organizing talk with contrasts: Nixon and Colson discuss watergate5
Editorial Board5
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From interrogative to disaffiliative stance marker: An analysis of mwusun ‘what’ in Korean conversation5
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Post-truth assertion and assertoric competence5
Dialogic patterns of the oppressor-oppressed dynamic in climate change denial5
Book review5
Book review5
Book review5
Hendiadys in naturally occurring interactions: A cross-linguistic study of double verb constructions5
Editorial Board5
Book review5
Metapragmatic awareness development in Chinese Children: A conversational competence perspective5
What the mirrors won't tell: Instructing the blind spot check in driver training4
The pragmatics of initial interactions: Cross-cultural and intercultural perspectives4
Editorial Board4
Disrupted vs. sustained humor in colloquial conversations in peninsular Spanish4
Recent advances in the syntax of speech acts4
Requesting an account for the unaccountable: The primordial nature of [NP+wa?]-format turns used by young Japanese children4
Direct words, deep bonds: The tradition of father-son advice in ancient Arabia4
Accepting invitations and offers in second language Chinese: Effect of proficiency on pragmatic competence in interaction4
Book review4
Confessions of lockdown breaches. Problematising morality during the Covid-19 pandemic4
Metaphorical space in academic talk4
Intonational cues to speaker bias in questions and the role of language exposure4
A corpus-based analysis of (im)politeness metalanguage and speech acts: The case of insults in Shakespeare's plays4
Teacher responses to toddler crying in the New Zealand outdoor environment4
The pragmatics of metapragmatics in death trials4
All the more reasons: Mismatches in topoi in dialogue4
Procedural structures: The case of sentence-initial subordinate clauses4
“Did you just say transformers?” A Child's agency and social actions in language-focused sequences4
Getting your inferences in order: Limiting variability in pragmatic inferences4
Using information of relationship closeness in the comprehension of Chinese ironic criticism: Evidence from behavioral experiments4
Beyond ostension: Introducing the expressive principle of relevance4
Virtual performatives as face-work practices on Twitter: Relying on self-reference and humour4
The granularity of seeing in interaction4
Know what? How digital technologies undermine learning and remembering4
The role of intonation in Construction Grammar: On prosodic constructions4
Editorial Board4
Semantic incorporation and discourse prominence: Experimental evidence from English pronoun resolution4
On epistemic modality and discourse strategy: Evidence from Galician adverbs4
Outside the clause: Functions of the Persian na ‘no’4
In your face? Exploring multimodal response patterns involving facial responses to verbal and gestural stance-taking expressions4
Book review4
Informings as recruitment in nurses′ intrahospital telephone calls4
Are you serious? Workplace agenda and aesthetic negotiations with depictions at opera rehearsals4
Dogs responding to human utterances in embodied ways4
Superman or Homelander? The pragmatic features and argumentative potential of online victimhood narratives of Israeli-Palestinian conflict4
Social media quotation practices and ambient affiliation: Weaponising ironic quotation for humorous ridicule in political discourse4
What makes inferences reliable? The unpredictable relationship between pragmatic inference and truth4
Moving civilians to the front of patrol cars: Built space, embodiment, and social control during police encounters4
Humor production through breaches of a pre-allocated turn-taking organization in television talk shows involving interpreters4
Interactional use of compliments in mental health rehabilitation4
Pragmatic functions of question tags in Indian and Sri Lankan English4
Approaching institutional boundaries: Comparative conversation analysis of practices for assisting suicidal callers in emergency and suicide helpline calls4
On the communicative affordances of instrumental action: Offering meal service to others, whilst serving oneself4
Book review4
Editorial Board4
Resonance and engagement through (dis-)agreement: Evidence of persistent constructional priming from Mandarin naturalistic interaction4
Embodied and affective negotiation over spatial and epistemic group territories among school-children: (Re)producing moral orders in open learning environments4
On linguistic communication based on resemblance in form4
Editorial Board4
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