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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)
ArticleCitations
Frege's triangle and Austin's square: the meaning and use of no-predicates in English59
“Language art is to console those who are broken by life”: A discursive analysis of legitimation in Chinese comforting17
Nominal classification in Mabia languages of West Africa15
Further semantic change of the derogatory sociomorpheme tái in Chinese gender-related Internet neologisms14
Inference and indexicality, or how to solve Bakhtin's problem with heteroglossia13
Sequential Time construal is primary in temporal uses of Mandarin Chinese qian ‘front’ and hou ‘back’10
A drawback for substitutional arguments10
Editorial Board9
Challenging ‘definite article’ as a comparative concept: The case of Mopan Maya9
Complement-taking predicates, parentheticals and grammaticalization8
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
Editorial Board7
Editorial Board6
Voice, rhythm, and genre in children's early writing6
States of idiosyncratic idealized cognitive models in acts of pragmatic meaning6
Disagreement by Chinese speakers of English: evidence of pragmatic transfer6
Responses to CAT at 50: Reflections on accommodation from a sociolinguist6
Editorial Board6
Print exposure leads to individual differences in the Turkish aorist6
Editorial Board5
Forms and functions of self-repetition in Mandarin child-directed speech5
Dialogical cognition5
Proximal and distal terms in Persian interactions: an integrative approach5
A quantitative study on zero copula in Japanese5
The Hamar cattle model: the semantics of appearance in a pastoral linguaculture5
A dynamic approach to understanding motivation in an interpreting course5
Grammaticalization of prosodic configurations? The case of evidential interrogative in Spanish5
The practice of metaphor in conversation: an ecological integrational approach5
Diachronic changes of number use in written American English from 1923 to 20084
Cognitive factive verbs across languages4
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
Remarks on Pāṇini's grammar4
Event structure, force dynamics and verb semantics4
An Interview with Per Linell4
Tracking identity in minority language policy: a reflexive approach to hybrid concepts in the language sciences4
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 reports3
Modesty differs between historical and modern Chinese: A computational analysis of modesty metalinguistics3
The reflexive roots of reference3
The negotiation of epistemic and deontic rights in child-adult interactions in colloquial Jakartan Indonesian3
Editorial Board3
Editorial Board3
Deixis and dementia: Insights from phenomenological philosophy3
A little less conversation – On the completeness of discourse-initial action-guiding subsententials3
Beyond definiteness: exploring epistemic and relational accounts of e-marked formulations in Persian interactions3
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