Language Sciences

Papers
(The TQCC of Language Sciences is 3. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)
ArticleCitations
Frege's triangle and Austin's square: the meaning and use of no-predicates in English68
“Language art is to console those who are broken by life”: A discursive analysis of legitimation in Chinese comforting17
Inference and indexicality, or how to solve Bakhtin's problem with heteroglossia16
Further semantic change of the derogatory sociomorpheme tái in Chinese gender-related Internet neologisms16
Nominal classification in Mabia languages of West Africa15
Challenging ‘definite article’ as a comparative concept: The case of Mopan Maya10
Editorial Board9
On the place and role of ‘discourse’ in the Functional Discourse Grammar model. The interface between language system and language use9
Sound-meaning mapping: Verbal imitation of Super Mario music by Yorùbá gamers9
Sequential Time construal is primary in temporal uses of Mandarin Chinese qian ‘front’ and hou ‘back’8
Disagreement by Chinese speakers of English: evidence of pragmatic transfer8
States of idiosyncratic idealized cognitive models in acts of pragmatic meaning7
Responses to CAT at 50: Reflections on accommodation from a sociolinguist7
Editorial Board7
Editorial Board6
The Hamar cattle model: the semantics of appearance in a pastoral linguaculture6
Voice, rhythm, and genre in children's early writing6
The practice of metaphor in conversation: an ecological integrational approach6
Grammaticalization of prosodic configurations? The case of evidential interrogative in Spanish6
Dialogical cognition6
Print exposure leads to individual differences in the Turkish aorist6
A quantitative study on zero copula in Japanese6
Construing chemistry knowledge through English systematic names of organic compounds: a Systemic Functional Linguistics perspective6
Editorial Board6
From size measurement to simultaneity: the case of Russian po mere ‘by measure’5
Editorial Board5
Diachronic changes of number use in written American English from 1923 to 20085
Proximal and distal terms in Persian interactions: an integrative approach5
Event structure, force dynamics and verb semantics5
A dynamic approach to understanding motivation in an interpreting course5
Forms and functions of self-repetition in Mandarin child-directed speech5
Editorial Board4
Tracking identity in minority language policy: a reflexive approach to hybrid concepts in the language sciences4
The reflexive roots of reference4
A little less conversation – On the completeness of discourse-initial action-guiding subsententials4
Remarks on Pāṇini's grammar4
Linguistic synesthesia and embodiment: A study based on Mandarin modality exclusivity norms4
An Interview with Per Linell4
Examining textism convergence in mediated interactions4
Cognitive factive verbs across languages4
Editorial Board4
Deixis and dementia: Insights from phenomenological philosophy4
Communication accommodation theory: Past accomplishments, current trends, and future prospects3
When translation meets dissemination: Translations of the Chinese diplomatic term Mìngyùn Gòngtóngtǐ in English news reports3
The negotiation of epistemic and deontic rights in child-adult interactions in colloquial Jakartan Indonesian3
Editorial Board3
Prosody in recognizing dialogue-specific functions of speech acts. Evidence from Polish3
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