Language Sciences

Papers
(The median citation count of Language Sciences 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Frege's triangle and Austin's square: the meaning and use of no-predicates in English53
“Language art is to console those who are broken by life”: A discursive analysis of legitimation in Chinese comforting17
Editorial Board14
Nominal classification in Mabia languages of West Africa13
Inference and indexicality, or how to solve Bakhtin's problem with heteroglossia12
Further semantic change of the derogatory sociomorpheme tái in Chinese gender-related Internet neologisms12
A drawback for substitutional arguments10
Challenging ‘definite article’ as a comparative concept: The case of Mopan Maya10
Editorial Board9
Sound-meaning mapping: Verbal imitation of Super Mario music by Yorùbá gamers8
On the place and role of ‘discourse’ in the Functional Discourse Grammar model. The interface between language system and language use8
Complement-taking predicates, parentheticals and grammaticalization7
Disagreement by Chinese speakers of English: evidence of pragmatic transfer6
Sequential Time construal is primary in temporal uses of Mandarin Chinese qian ‘front’ and hou ‘back’6
Voice, rhythm, and genre in children's early writing6
Print exposure leads to individual differences in the Turkish aorist6
Editorial Board6
Responses to CAT at 50: Reflections on accommodation from a sociolinguist5
Grammaticalization of prosodic configurations? The case of evidential interrogative in Spanish5
A quantitative study on zero copula in Japanese5
States of idiosyncratic idealized cognitive models in acts of pragmatic meaning5
Editorial Board5
The practice of metaphor in conversation: an ecological integrational approach5
Editorial Board5
The Hamar cattle model: the semantics of appearance in a pastoral linguaculture5
Forms and functions of self-repetition in Mandarin child-directed speech4
Editorial Board4
Diachronic changes of number use in written American English from 1923 to 20084
A dynamic approach to understanding motivation in an interpreting course4
From size measurement to simultaneity: the case of Russian po mere ‘by measure’4
Linguistic synesthesia and embodiment: A study based on Mandarin modality exclusivity norms4
Dialogical cognition4
Proximal and distal terms in Persian interactions: an integrative approach4
Event structure, force dynamics and verb semantics4
Remarks on Pāṇini's grammar3
Cognitive factive verbs across languages3
The negotiation of epistemic and deontic rights in child-adult interactions in colloquial Jakartan Indonesian3
Editorial Board3
An Interview with Per Linell3
Deixis and dementia: Insights from phenomenological philosophy3
The reflexive roots of reference3
Tracking identity in minority language policy: a reflexive approach to hybrid concepts in the language sciences3
Examining textism convergence in mediated interactions3
Prosody in recognizing dialogue-specific functions of speech acts. Evidence from Polish3
When translation meets dissemination: Translations of the Chinese diplomatic term Mìngyùn Gòngtóngtǐ in English news reports2
Modesty differs between historical and modern Chinese: A computational analysis of modesty metalinguistics2
A defense of a weak linguistic relativist thesis2
Editorial Board2
Communication accommodation theory: Past accomplishments, current trends, and future prospects2
Editorial Board2
‘Face’-related expressions in the Minnan Dialect of Chinese2
Reconceptualizing the critical period hypothesis for second language acquisition: An appraisal of Lenneberg's work on the epigenesis of language2
A little less conversation – On the completeness of discourse-initial action-guiding subsententials2
Beyond definiteness: exploring epistemic and relational accounts of e-marked formulations in Persian interactions2
Conversation analysis, dialogism, and the case for a minimal communicative unit2
From complementizing to modifying status: On the grammaticalization of the complement-taking-predicate-clauses chances are and odds are2
A multidimensional alignment sustainability model for language development: Evidence from L1 and L2 semio-semantic and semio-pragmatic markers1
Lost and found language: From fuzzy logic to yūgen1
Naming multiplicity: Taíno ecolinguistics and naming conventions, and implications for language reclamation and decolonizing environmental relationalities1
Communication frequency, identity accommodation, and attitudes toward people with disabilities in the United States: Disability salience and intergroup anxiety1
More to gesture than meets the (analyst's) eye? Querying the problem of online gestural loss from applied linguistics and psychotherapy perspectives1
Discursive practices of the performative theory of solidarity discourse1
Does embodied simulation contain schematic motional imagery when it comes to action concepts?1
“This is perplexing because…”: Examining the impact of gender and geo-academic location on expressions of confusion in research articles1
From clause to discourse marker: on the development of comment clauses1
Middle-aged children's perceptions of receiving accommodation from their parent and instrumental caregiving intentions1
Bibliography as a language communication tool1
English as an index of neoliberal globalization: The linguistic landscape of Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan1
Introduction to the Festschrift for Per Linell: Dialogism as a General Epistemology for the Language Sciences1
Expectation through imitation: towards a unified protocol for roleplay in developmental sociolinguistics1
Linguistic relativity from an enactive perspective: the entanglement of language and cognition1
A multifunctional analysis of off-record indirectness in Chinese interactions1
Language awareness: On the semiotics of talk and text1
Generative linguistics: ‘Galilean style’1
Ambient identity construction via massive anonymous danmu comments1
Linguistic appropriation and/or dispossession: Two sides of the Marxist coin1
Participatory sense-making and knowing-in-connection in VR1
The construction of “Wangmian Si-le Fuqin” in Mandarin Chinese: A Cardiff Grammar approach1
Editorial Board1
I am criticizing you when I say “I am not criticizing you”: a prosodic-pragmatic exploration of the Chinese metapragmatic negation bùshì wǒ shuō nǐ1
Principles of variation in the use of diacritics (taškīl) in Arabic books1
Reconceptualising the notion of cross-linguistic transfer in multilingual spaces: A Global South perspective from South Africa1
A study of visual path expressions in Mandarin Chinese from the perspective of motion event typology1
Time-to-smile, time-to-speak, time-to-resolve: timescales for shaping engagement in language1
Languaging territorial assemblage: regional integration through language policy practices in southern China1
Students’ perception of an instructor: The effects of instructor accommodation to student swearing1
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