Pragmatics

Papers
(The median citation count of Pragmatics is 5. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Social beliefs for the realization of the speech acts of apology and complaint as defined in Ciluba, French, and English297
Talking about things148
Orderly affect134
The influence of the addressers’ and the addressees’ gender identities on the addressers’ linguistic politeness behavior128
Japanese epistemic sentence-final particle kana121
‘It seems my enemy is about having malaria’116
Vernacular style writing114
Orthopraxy, writing and identity112
Refusals in Early Modern English drama texts106
Hearing between the lines104
FromHóyéétoHajinei98
Everyday interactions and the domestication of social inequality95
Piropos as metaphors for gender roles in Spanish speaking cultures95
Constructing Korean and Japanese interculturality in talk86
Ethnomethodology, culture, and implicature84
Linguistic ideology and praxis in U.S. law school classrooms81
Smoothing the rough edges79
The functions of formulaic speech in the L2 class73
Politeness of service encounters in Hong Kong67
Contexts and meanings of Japanese speech styles64
Obituary – Susan Ervin-Tripp63
Identity construction in Chinese heritage language classes62
The interactional context of humor in Nigerian stand-up comedy61
On the internalization of language and its use59
Linguistic ideologies And the naturalization of power in warao discourse56
Identity in guanxi space55
Communicative strategies and socio-cultural identities in talk shows55
“I have a question for you”54
Computer-mediated communication and scholarly discourse54
‘A hypnotic viewing experience’. promotional features in the language of exhibition press announcements52
The pragmatics of play52
Letting go of the past in Spanish therapeutic discourse52
Constraint factors in the formulation of questions in conflictual discourse52
Concepts and context in relevance-theoretic pragmatics50
Compliments and compliment responses in Kunming Chinese49
The slow shift in orthodoxy49
The structural format and rhetorical variation of writing Chinese judicial opinions49
Deceptive clickbaits in the relevance-theoretic lens47
Multimodal language use in Savosavo47
Accounts as acts of identity46
Self-representation by auto-portrait in research interviews44
Semantic and pragmatic properties of post-truth discourse43
“You are not allowed to pull someone’s tail!” a cross-cultural comparison of socio-moral comments in Estonian and Swedish peer interaction43
The historical present in Spanish and semantic/pragmatic structure43
Cohesion strategies and genre in expository prose: An analysis of the writing of children of ethnolinguistic cultural groups43
Ethnicity and codeswitching42
Ideologies of honorific language41
The semantics of coming and going41
Address practices in academic interactions in a pluricentric language40
The son (érzi) is not really a son40
Nationalism and gender in the representation of non-Japanese characters’ speech in contemporary Japanese novels39
A cross-generational and cross-cultural study on demonstration of attentiveness38
Press releases as a hybrid genre38
Incorporation of information and complementizers in Japanese37
Construction of institutional identities by male individuals in subordinate positions in the Japanese workplace37
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Pragmatics of discourse modality35
Teaching oral requests34
Definite reference and discourse prominence in Longxi Qiang34
Memory for dialogue in different modes of interaction34
Concepts and Context in Relevance-Theoretic Pragmatics33
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Communicated and non-communicated acts in relevance theory31
The co-construction of whiteness in an MC battle31
Latina girls’ peer play interactions in a bilingual Spanish-English U.S. preschool30
NPs in Japanese conversation30
Generic uses of the second person singular – how speakers deal with referential ambiguity and misunderstandings30
On assigning pragmatic functions in English29
An investigation of the formation and pragmatic strategies of “xx-zi28
Whose side are we on?28
In between spectacle and political correctness28
The intuitive basis of implicature28
A touch of class28
Indexing traditional and modern professional values27
Evaluation of (im)politeness27
Non-literal uses of proper names in XYZ constructions27
Increments in Navajo conversation26
Negotiating stories25
Personal perspective in TV news interviews25
Viewpoint shifting in Korean and Bulgarian25
Using a category to accomplish resistance in the context of an emergency call25
Critical discourse analysis and its critics25
Teacher talk reflecting pragmatic awareness25
Dynamism and assertiveness in the public voice24
Language, identity, performance24
Formulaic speech in the L2 classroom24
The pragmatics of advice-giving in the media discourse24
Metapragmatics in indirect reports23
The effects of English-medium instruction on the use of textual and interpersonal pragmatic markers23
Constructing self–other distinction in dialogic contexts23
Interactional and categorial analyses of identity construction in the talk of female-to-male (FtM) transgender individuals in Japan23
Editing and genre conflict22
Sigain interaction22
Speech levels22
Hong Kong Cantonese TV talk shows22
Categorization in talk22
Selected works on Asian Pacific American language practices22
When husbands die21
Is formality relevant? Japanese tokenshai,eeandun21
Move combinations in the conclusion section of applied linguistics research articles21
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Modal particles in ironic utterances21
Language ideologies in Barbados21
The use of invitations to bid in classroom interaction21
Perspective and politeness in Finnish Requests20
Intergroup rudeness and the metapragmatics of its negotiation in online discussion fora20
Imperatives and commitments in Romanian academic meeting interactions20
On the manifestness of assumptions20
Tang’s Dilemma and other problems20
Perceptions of (Im)politeness in Venezuelan Spanish20
Managing relationships through repetition19
The pausative pattern of speakers with and without high-functioning autism spectrum disorder from long silences19
Interaction and conversational constrictions in the relationships between suppliers of services and immigrant users19
Analysis of politeness strategies in Japanese and Korean conversations between males19
Brazilian Portuguese wh-clefts in a multilevel analytic perspective19
Natural conversations in males and females: Conversational styles, content recall and quality of interaction19
Introduction19
Simplifying Sanskrit19
Navigating the complex social ecology of screen-based activity in video-mediated interaction18
Inter-mind phenomena in child narrative discourse18
On developing a systematic methodology for analyzing categories in talk-in-interaction: Sequential categorization analysis18
Polar answers and epistemic stance in Greek conversation18
Notes on word order variation in Korean18
Syrian service encounters18
Management discourse in university administrative documents in Sweden18
Compromising progressivity18
Ideologies of language at Hippo Family Club18
The discursive construction of gender, ethnicity and the workplace in second generation immigrants’ narratives the case of moroccan women in belgium18
The uses and utility of ideology18
“can you tell me how to get there?”17
Introduction17
Support and evidence for considering local contingencies in studying and transcribing silence in conversation17
Discourse of (il)literacy17
Commentary17
Translating phatic expressions17
Fabricated ignorance17
“Peter is a dumb nut”17
Constructing Japanese men’s multidimensional identities17
Discoursal representation of masculine parenting in Arabic and English websites17
Lewis Carroll17
Meaning potentials and the interaction between lexis and contexts16
Analysis of appropriateness in a speech act of request in L2 English16
Skype appearances, multiple greetings and ‘coucou’16
Perspective in the discourse of war16
On the interplay of syntax and prosody in the constitution of turn-constructional units and turns in conversation16
Perspectives on intercultural communication16
Debate with zhuangzi16
Lebanese political advertising and the dialogic emergence of signs16
Reconsidering the development of the discourse completion test in interlanguage pragmatics16
Theoretical ideals and their violation16
Eye closures in spoken Hebrew15
The use of interlocking multi-unit turns in topic shifts15
Toward a pragmatic account and taxonomy of valuative speech acts15
On the referential ambiguity of personal pronouns and its pragmatic consequences15
How to be authentic on Instagram15
Writing right15
Su(m)imasen and gomen nasai15
Utterance-final conjunctive particles and implicature in Japanese conversation15
Deliberate dispute and the construction of oppositional stance15
Analysis of a first therapy interview15
Towards a distinction between non-euphemistic and euphemism-based politically correct expressions15
‘So many “virologists” in this thread!’15
A matter of politeness? A contrastive study of phatic talk in teenage conversation14
Are transcripts reproducible?14
On interaction and grammar14
The interplay between professional identities and age, gender and ethnicity introduction14
Fearful, forceful agents of the law14
Argumentation and inhibition: Sexism in the discourse of Spanish executives14
Calling in14
Gender and professional identity in three institutional settings in Brazil14
Increments in cross-linguistic perspective14
Concealment in consultative encounters in Nigerian hospitals14
Locutions in medical discourse in Southwestern Nigeria14
Code choice in intercultural conversation13
“You gotta be a man or a girl”13
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Situated politeness13
What’s in a name? Names, national identity, assimilation, and the new racist discourse of Marine Le Pen13
Spontaneous and non-spontaneous turn-taking13
“Doing deference”13
Malinowski’s last word on the anthropological approach to language13
Pragmatic markers13
Multiple repair solutions in response to open class repair initiators (OCRIs) in next turn13
A contrastive study of apologies performed by Greek native speakers and English learners of Greek as a foreign language13
Some current transcription systems for spoken discourse: A critical analysis13
Complement clauses as turn continuations13
An appraisal of pragmatic elicitation techniques for the social psychological study of talk13
Translocal style communities13
“Go up to miss thingy”. “He’s probably like a whatsit or something”.13
Sequential organization of post-predicate elements in Korean conversation13
¡A mi no me manda nadie!12
Perceiving the organisation through a coding scheme12
On the Spanish inferential construction ser que12
Politeness and other types of facework12
Sequential and interpersonal aspects of English and Greek answering machine messages12
The “real” Haitian creole12
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Flattery in historical China12
Forever FOB12
Analyzing equivalences in discourse12
The acquisition of Warlpiri kin terms12
The story of ö12
Interjections in literary readings and artistic performance12
Taboo effects at the syntactic level12
Nigerian stand-up comediennes performing femininity12
The ‘interrogative gaze’12
Medial deictic demonstratives in Arabic12
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Loan words can cause intercultural miscommunication11
Offers by Greek FL learners11
Anger, gender, language shift and the politics of revelation in a Papua New Guinean village11
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“I want a real apology”11
What’s next?11
The use and perception of question tags in Trinidadian English11
‘Where have you been hiding this voice?’11
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The strategic value of pronominal choice10
Discursive hegemony in the Kennedy Smith rape trial10
Negotiating alignment in newspaper editorials10
Ad hoc concepts and the relevance heuristics10
The effect of study abroad on the pragmatic development of the internal modification of refusals10
Notes on the role of metapragmatic awareness in language use10
“Plaza ‘góó and before he can respond…”10
Enregistering the voices of discursive figures of authority in Antonero children’s socio-dramatic play10
German-Chinese interactions differences in contextualization conventions and resulting miscommunication10
Manipulation as an ideological tool in the political genre of Parliamentary discourses10
Polar answers10
Plastic letters10
Writer’s argumentative attitude10
Commentary: Frames and contexts10
Reported threats10
Paralanguage and ad hoc concepts10
Constructing ethnic identity through discourse10
Managing criticisms in US-based and Taiwan-based reality talent contests10
Enticing a challengeable in arguments10
The inferential gap condition10
Linguistic tools of empowerment and alienation in the Chinese official press10
Business communication plans and strategies10
Subjective and intersubjective uses of Japanese verbs of cognition in conversation9
To pursue the discussion without concluding9
The acquisition of locative inversion at the syntax-pragmatics interface by Chinese learners of English9
Global issues and local findings from Greek contexts9
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Order and disorder in the classroom9
Crazy literature9
Implications of translational shifts in interpreter-mediated texts9
Critique of puerile reason9
Accomplishing multiethnic identity in mundane talk9
Invoking divine blessing9
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