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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Social beliefs for the realization of the speech acts of apology and complaint as defined in Ciluba, French, and English	292
Talking about things	148
Orderly affect	133
Constructing Korean and Japanese interculturality in talk	122
The influence of the addressers’ and the addressees’ gender identities on the addressers’ linguistic politeness behavior	120
Japanese epistemic sentence-final particle kana	115
Piropos as metaphors for gender roles in Spanish speaking cultures	114
Vernacular style writing	112
Ethnomethodology, culture, and implicature	106
Orthopraxy, writing and identity	101
Refusals in Early Modern English drama texts	96
Hearing between the lines	94
‘It seems my enemy is about having malaria’	93
Everyday interactions and the domestication of social inequality	83
FromHóyéétoHajinei	83
Linguistic ideology and praxis in U.S. law school classrooms	81
On the internalization of language and its use	79
Smoothing the rough edges	76
The functions of formulaic speech in the L2 class	67
Politeness of service encounters in Hong Kong	64
Contexts and meanings of Japanese speech styles	63
Identity construction in Chinese heritage language classes	61
Obituary – Susan Ervin-Tripp	61
Linguistic ideologies And the naturalization of power in warao discourse	57
The structural format and rhetorical variation of writing Chinese judicial opinions	57

Computer-mediated communication and scholarly discourse	55
Communicative strategies and socio-cultural identities in talk shows	55
Identity in guanxi space	55
Letting go of the past in Spanish therapeutic discourse	52
“I have a question for you”	52
The pragmatics of play	51
‘A hypnotic viewing experience’. promotional features in the language of exhibition press announcements	51
Constraint factors in the formulation of questions in conflictual discourse	51
The interactional context of humor in Nigerian stand-up comedy	50
Concepts and context in relevance-theoretic pragmatics	49
The slow shift in orthodoxy	48
Compliments and compliment responses in Kunming Chinese	48
Deceptive clickbaits in the relevance-theoretic lens	47
Multimodal language use in Savosavo	46
Accounts as acts of identity	46
A cross-generational and cross-cultural study on demonstration of attentiveness	44
Address practices in academic interactions in a pluricentric language	43
Self-representation by auto-portrait in research interviews	43
Nationalism and gender in the representation of non-Japanese characters’ speech in contemporary Japanese novels	43
Ideologies of honorific language	43