Functions of Language

Papers
(The median citation count of Functions of Language is 0. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Verbalisation and the One-New-Idea Constraint10
Review of Ngo, Hood, Martin, Painter, Smith & Zappavigna (2022): Modelling paralanguage using systemic functional semiotics: Theory and application7
Changes to the editorial team3
The semantic continuum from disposition to causative meaning3
The Functions of Evidentiality3
Noun incorporation in English3
Emerging inferentials in English?2
Continuative and contrastive discourse relations across discourse domains2
Exchange Structure: Refinements to the model through a study of multiparty discourse of 4 to 5 year-old children2
The one–new–idea constraint, functor–argument metaphors, and holistic speech processing2
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A computational approach to mapping replacement processes in language change2
Review of Kim, Martin, Shin & Choi (2023): Korean grammar: A systemic functional approach2
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On the discourse marker yěshì ‘also’ in Chinese constructions of blame1
Contrast marking variation in Romance and Germanic languages1
Review of Yus (2023): Pragmatics of internet humour1
Today’s innovations, tomorrow’s conventions1
Effects of verb and construction frequency in sentence comprehension1
From constructional innovation to linguistic change1
Dependent-marked anticausatives in Old Norse-Icelandic1
Review of Martin, Quiroz & Wang (2023): Systemic functional grammar: A text-based description of English, Spanish and Chinese1
Review of He (2025): Weibo news package: A systemic functional perspective on the text-reader relationship1
Discourse markers in the making1
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Review of Sparks (2025): Second language anxiety: Affective or linguistic variable?0
Review of Fusari (2026): A corpus linguistic approach to analyzing “empathy”0
Do ‘say’ verbs really grammaticalize into complementizers through clause combination?0
Review of Mannaioli (2025): Vagueness as an implicitating persuasive strategy0
Review of Yang (2022): Non-finiteness: A process-relation perspective0
The function of extra negation0
Seeing and knowing0
Review of Wu, Huang & Polley (2024): Cognitive Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition of Chinese: Theories and applications0
Everything-cleft constructions in spoken British English0
Review of Huang (2022): Toward multimodal pragmatics: A Study of illocutionary force in Chinese situated discourse0
Self-denigration in academic discourse0
Continuative and contrastive discourse relations across discourse domains0
Semi-embedded clauses in Aisi0
Review of Maagerø, Mulvad & Tønnessen (2022): Women in social semiotics and SFL: Making a difference0
Cardinal direction judgment based on the integration of spatial reference frames in different languages0
The functions of evidentiality0
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Adjustment, mismatches and accommodation of procedural and conceptual meaning0
How much is too much?0
The Mandarin rising-intoned Éi (诶) particle in third position0
Review of Martin, Maton & Doran (2020): Accessing academic discourse: Systemic Functional Linguistics and Legitimation Code Theory0
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Explicitness and implicitness of discourse relations in a multilingual discourse bank0
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Review of Kiaer & Lo (2025): Fandom language learning: A digital transformation of language education in the AI age0
Four types of English evidential -ly adverbs0
The many things that thing can become0
Review of Kiaer (2023): Multimodal communication in young multilingual children: Learning beyond words0
Review of Davidse, Njende & O’Grady (2023): Specificational and presentational there-clefts: Redefining the field of clefts0
Functional transition from hear to nonvisual sensory and hearsay evidential categories0
Review of Bednarek (2023): Language and characterisation in television series: A corpus-informed approach to the construction of social identity in the media0
On the co-optation of according to as an evidential in English0
Today’s Innovations, Tomorrow’s Conventions0
Negative conditionals in English0
Review of Traugott (2022): Discourse structuring markers in English: A historical constructionalist perspective on pragmatics0
Continuity in discourse relations0
Review of Steen (2023): Slowing metaphor down: Elaborating Deliberate Metaphor Theory0
Review of Shimojo (2024): Salience of information in Japanese: Discourse and the syntax-pragmatics interface0
A critical redesign of the attitude spectrum0
Definite-like meaning of bare classifiers in Nung0
Review of Sarda & Lena (2023): Existential constructions across languages: Forms, meanings and functions0
Review of Ellis, Roever, Shintani & Zhu (2024): Measuring second language pragmatic competence: A psycholinguistic perspective0
The genre specifics of Englishwh-exclamatives0
Doing things with grammar0
The ‘idea’ in the one-new-idea constraint0
Review of Dove (2022): Abstract concepts and the embodied mind: Rethinking grounded cognition0
Editorial announcement0
A cross-linguistic computational study on one new idea per clause0
Some as an indefinite article in Present Day English0
Review of Verschueren (2022): Complicity in discourse and practice0
Review of Matthiessen (2023): System in Systemic Functional Linguistics0
Joint attention, interaction-management, and other factors0
Constructing humour through the use of English in Chinese stand-up comedy0
The link between syntax, semantics, discourse, and lexicon in counteridenticals0
The linguistic realization of continuative discourse relations in English discourse0
Review of Ladegaard (2024): Migrant workers’ narratives of return: Alienation and identity transformations0
The discourse functions of simple copulas in Dzongkha0
Potential grammaticalization of epistemic phrases0
Review of Wang & Ma (2025): Introducing Chinese discourse: Methods of analysis empowered by Systemic Functional Linguistics0
Preaching in uncertain terms0
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On the L1-acquisition of the pragmatics of discourse like0
Eyes do not lie but words do0
‘What we found is’0
I’m all virtual-peopled out0
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