OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Pragmatics is 42. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Linguistic tools of empowerment and alienation in the Chinese official press	290
Framing and manipulation of person deixis in Hosni Mubarak’s last three speeches	142
Taking the higher ground between West and Middle East	132
Indexical ‘mismatch’; or, adaptability at work	122
Syrian service encounters	120
Plastic letters	115
Managing criticisms in US-based and Taiwan-based reality talent contests	113
Standardizing opinion	112
Principles we talk by	102
Refusals in Early Modern English drama texts	91
On where stereotypes come from so that kids can recruit them	91
Making ‘yes’ stronger by saying ‘no’	89
Global subjects	87
Commentary: Frames and contexts	84
Class and parenting in accounts of child protection	82
The shift from lexical to subjective readings of Spanish prometer ‘to promise’ and amenazar ‘to threaten’. a corpus-based account	77
Effects of Spanish pragmatic and lexical constraints in the interpretation of L2 English anaphora	76
Orderly affect	73
Mutual understanding mechanism in verbal exchanges between carers and multiply-disabled young people	69
Social beliefs for the realization of the speech acts of apology and complaint as defined in Ciluba, French, and English	66
Business communication plans and strategies	63
“Plaza ‘góó and before he can respond…”	61
Talking about things	57
Polar answers and epistemic stance in Greek conversation	57
Face as an interactional construct in the context of connectedness and separateness	56

The discourse of news management	55
Singing and codeswitching in sequence closings	55
Impoliteness in institutional and non-institutional contexts	53
Interrogative allo-repetitions in Mexican Spanish	52
The discursive construction of gender, ethnicity and the workplace in second generation immigrants’ narratives the case of moroccan women in belgium	51
The trouble with tongzhi	51
Piropos as metaphors for gender roles in Spanish speaking cultures	50
The pausative pattern of speakers with and without high-functioning autism spectrum disorder from long silences	49
Ideologies of language at Hippo Family Club	49
Modularity and pragmatics	47
The use of boosters and evidentials in British campaign debates on the Brexit referendum	47
Beyond the deferential view of the Chinese V pronoun nin 您	46
‘That is very important, isn’t it?’	45
Attention, accessibility, and the addressee	45
“Communication is a two-way street”	43
Ethnomethodology, culture, and implicature	43
Rapport management in Thai and Japanese social talk during group discussions	42
On developing a systematic methodology for analyzing categories in talk-in-interaction: Sequential categorization analysis	42
Japanese epistemic sentence-final particle kana	42