OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Pragmatics is 43. 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.)

Article	Citations
Social beliefs for the realization of the speech acts of apology and complaint as defined in Ciluba, French, and English	297
Talking about things	148
Orderly affect	134
The influence of the addressers’ and the addressees’ gender identities on the addressers’ linguistic politeness behavior	128
Japanese epistemic sentence-final particle kana	121
‘It seems my enemy is about having malaria’	116
Vernacular style writing	114
Orthopraxy, writing and identity	112
Refusals in Early Modern English drama texts	106
Hearing between the lines	104
FromHóyéétoHajinei	98
Piropos as metaphors for gender roles in Spanish speaking cultures	95
Everyday interactions and the domestication of social inequality	95
Constructing Korean and Japanese interculturality in talk	86
Ethnomethodology, culture, and implicature	84
Linguistic ideology and praxis in U.S. law school classrooms	81
Smoothing the rough edges	79
The functions of formulaic speech in the L2 class	73
Politeness of service encounters in Hong Kong	67
Contexts and meanings of Japanese speech styles	64
Obituary – Susan Ervin-Tripp	63
Identity construction in Chinese heritage language classes	62
The interactional context of humor in Nigerian stand-up comedy	61
On the internalization of language and its use	59
Linguistic ideologies And the naturalization of power in warao discourse	56

Communicative strategies and socio-cultural identities in talk shows	55
Identity in guanxi space	55
Computer-mediated communication and scholarly discourse	54
“I have a question for you”	54
The pragmatics of play	52
Letting go of the past in Spanish therapeutic discourse	52
Constraint factors in the formulation of questions in conflictual discourse	52
‘A hypnotic viewing experience’. promotional features in the language of exhibition press announcements	52
Concepts and context in relevance-theoretic pragmatics	50
The slow shift in orthodoxy	49
The structural format and rhetorical variation of writing Chinese judicial opinions	49
Compliments and compliment responses in Kunming Chinese	49
Multimodal language use in Savosavo	47
Deceptive clickbaits in the relevance-theoretic lens	47
Accounts as acts of identity	46
Self-representation by auto-portrait in research interviews	44
“You are not allowed to pull someone’s tail!” a cross-cultural comparison of socio-moral comments in Estonian and Swedish peer interaction	43
The historical present in Spanish and semantic/pragmatic structure	43
Cohesion strategies and genre in expository prose: An analysis of the writing of children of ethnolinguistic cultural groups	43
Semantic and pragmatic properties of post-truth discourse	43