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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
The influence of the addressers’ and the addressees’ gender identities on the addressers’ linguistic politeness behavior268
Orderly affect146
Social beliefs for the realization of the speech acts of apology and complaint as defined in Ciluba, French, and English125
Talking about things120
Constructing Korean and Japanese interculturality in talk109
Piropos as metaphors for gender roles in Spanish speaking cultures109
‘It seems my enemy is about having malaria’103
Orthopraxy, writing and identity102
Refusals in Early Modern English drama texts98
Vernacular style writing93
Establishing emergent common ground92
FromHóyéétoHajinei85
Everyday interactions and the domestication of social inequality81
Japanese epistemic sentence-final particle kana79
Ethnomethodology, culture, and implicature79
Hearing between the lines79
The functions of formulaic speech in the L2 class76
Obituary – Susan Ervin-Tripp71
Letting go of the past in Spanish therapeutic discourse64
‘A hypnotic viewing experience’. promotional features in the language of exhibition press announcements62
Constraint factors in the formulation of questions in conflictual discourse61
Concepts and context in relevance-theoretic pragmatics59
Communicative strategies and socio-cultural identities in talk shows54
Identity in guanxi space54
On the internalization of language and its use53
“Thank you for your participation”53
Linguistic ideologies And the naturalization of power in warao discourse52
The interactional context of humor in Nigerian stand-up comedy51
Smoothing the rough edges50
Contexts and meanings of Japanese speech styles50
“I have a question for you”49
Linguistic ideology and praxis in U.S. law school classrooms49
Politeness of service encounters in Hong Kong48
The pragmatics of play47
The structural format and rhetorical variation of writing Chinese judicial opinions47
Compliments and compliment responses in Kunming Chinese46
Identity construction in Chinese heritage language classes46
Self-representation by auto-portrait in research interviews44
Computer-mediated communication and scholarly discourse44
Ideologies of honorific language43
Accounts as acts of identity43
Multimodal language use in Savosavo43
Cohesion strategies and genre in expository prose: An analysis of the writing of children of ethnolinguistic cultural groups43
A cross-generational and cross-cultural study on demonstration of attentiveness43
Address practices in academic interactions in a pluricentric language40
The slow shift in orthodoxy39
Semantic and pragmatic properties of post-truth discourse37
The historical present in Spanish and semantic/pragmatic structure37
Nationalism and gender in the representation of non-Japanese characters’ speech in contemporary Japanese novels36
Ethnicity and codeswitching35
“You are not allowed to pull someone’s tail!” a cross-cultural comparison of socio-moral comments in Estonian and Swedish peer interaction35
The son (érzi) is not really a son35
Press releases as a hybrid genre34
Pragmatics of discourse modality34
The semantics of coming and going34
Deceptive clickbaits in the relevance-theoretic lens34
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Teaching oral requests33
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Construction of institutional identities by male individuals in subordinate positions in the Japanese workplace32
Concepts and Context in Relevance-Theoretic Pragmatics31
Definite reference and discourse prominence in Longxi Qiang31
Memory for dialogue in different modes of interaction28
Communicated and non-communicated acts in relevance theory28
Increments in Navajo conversation27
An investigation of the formation and pragmatic strategies of “xx-zi27
A touch of class27
In between spectacle and political correctness27
NPs in Japanese conversation27
Non-literal uses of proper names in XYZ constructions27
Latina girls’ peer play interactions in a bilingual Spanish-English U.S. preschool26
The intuitive basis of implicature26
Indexing traditional and modern professional values26
Generic uses of the second person singular – how speakers deal with referential ambiguity and misunderstandings25
On assigning pragmatic functions in English25
Incorporation of information and complementizers in Japanese25
Teacher talk reflecting pragmatic awareness25
Evaluation of (im)politeness25
The co-construction of whiteness in an MC battle24
Whose side are we on?23
Critical discourse analysis and its critics23
Viewpoint shifting in Korean and Bulgarian22
Negotiating stories22
The pragmatics of advice-giving in the media discourse22
Interactional and categorial analyses of identity construction in the talk of female-to-male (FtM) transgender individuals in Japan21
Metaphor-based zeugmas in web-based promotional tourism discourse21
Constructing self–other distinction in dialogic contexts21
Language, identity, performance21
A contrastive study of hedging in English and Chinese academic spoken discourse20
Dynamism and assertiveness in the public voice20
Sigain interaction20
The effects of English-medium instruction on the use of textual and interpersonal pragmatic markers20
Formulaic speech in the L2 classroom20
Selected works on Asian Pacific American language practices20
Personal perspective in TV news interviews20
Using a category to accomplish resistance in the context of an emergency call20
Speech levels20
When husbands die20
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Imperatives and commitments in Romanian academic meeting interactions19
The use of invitations to bid in classroom interaction19
Language ideologies in Barbados19
On the manifestness of assumptions19
Hong Kong Cantonese TV talk shows19
Interaction and conversational constrictions in the relationships between suppliers of services and immigrant users19
Move combinations in the conclusion section of applied linguistics research articles19
Simplifying Sanskrit18
Modal particles in ironic utterances18
Editing and genre conflict18
Perspective and politeness in Finnish Requests18
Analysis of politeness strategies in Japanese and Korean conversations between males18
Is formality relevant? Japanese tokenshai,eeandun18
Tang’s Dilemma and other problems18
Managing relationships through repetition18
Categorization in talk18
Perceptions of (Im)politeness in Venezuelan Spanish18
Intergroup rudeness and the metapragmatics of its negotiation in online discussion fora18
Introduction18
Natural conversations in males and females: Conversational styles, content recall and quality of interaction17
Syrian service encounters17
Ideologies of language at Hippo Family Club17
Compromising progressivity17
Notes on word order variation in Korean17
Inter-mind phenomena in child narrative discourse17
The pausative pattern of speakers with and without high-functioning autism spectrum disorder from long silences17
On developing a systematic methodology for analyzing categories in talk-in-interaction: Sequential categorization analysis17
The discursive construction of gender, ethnicity and the workplace in second generation immigrants’ narratives the case of moroccan women in belgium17
Management discourse in university administrative documents in Sweden16
Commentary16
Brazilian Portuguese wh-clefts in a multilevel analytic perspective16
The uses and utility of ideology16
Introduction16
“Peter is a dumb nut”16
Constructing Japanese men’s multidimensional identities16
Fabricated ignorance15
Support and evidence for considering local contingencies in studying and transcribing silence in conversation15
Analysis of appropriateness in a speech act of request in L2 English15
Translating phatic expressions15
Discoursal representation of masculine parenting in Arabic and English websites15
Perspective in the discourse of war15
On the interplay of syntax and prosody in the constitution of turn-constructional units and turns in conversation15
Lebanese political advertising and the dialogic emergence of signs15
Lewis Carroll15
“can you tell me how to get there?”15
Discourse of (il)literacy15
Reconsidering the development of the discourse completion test in interlanguage pragmatics14
Meaning potentials and the interaction between lexis and contexts14
Su(m)imasen and gomen nasai14
Toward a pragmatic account and taxonomy of valuative speech acts14
Towards a distinction between non-euphemistic and euphemism-based politically correct expressions14
Analysis of a first therapy interview14
Debate with zhuangzi14
The use of interlocking multi-unit turns in topic shifts14
Writing right14
Fearful, forceful agents of the law14
How to be authentic on Instagram14
Perspectives on intercultural communication14
A matter of politeness? A contrastive study of phatic talk in teenage conversation14
Deliberate dispute and the construction of oppositional stance14
Eye closures in spoken Hebrew14
The interplay between professional identities and age, gender and ethnicity introduction14
On interaction and grammar13
Theoretical ideals and their violation13
Are transcripts reproducible?13
Argumentation and inhibition: Sexism in the discourse of Spanish executives13
Increments in cross-linguistic perspective13
Locutions in medical discourse in Southwestern Nigeria13
Gender and professional identity in three institutional settings in Brazil13
Concealment in consultative encounters in Nigerian hospitals13
On the referential ambiguity of personal pronouns and its pragmatic consequences13
Pragmatic markers12
Utterance-final conjunctive particles and implicature in Japanese conversation12
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What’s in a name? Names, national identity, assimilation, and the new racist discourse of Marine Le Pen12
Sequential organization of post-predicate elements in Korean conversation12
“Go up to miss thingy”. “He’s probably like a whatsit or something”.12
“Doing deference”12
Skype appearances, multiple greetings and ‘coucou’12
‘So many “virologists” in this thread!’12
Situated politeness12
An appraisal of pragmatic elicitation techniques for the social psychological study of talk12
Spontaneous and non-spontaneous turn-taking12
Malinowski’s last word on the anthropological approach to language12
A contrastive study of apologies performed by Greek native speakers and English learners of Greek as a foreign language12
Calling in12
Code choice in intercultural conversation12
Multiple repair solutions in response to open class repair initiators (OCRIs) in next turn12
Complement clauses as turn continuations12
Some current transcription systems for spoken discourse: A critical analysis12
Politeness and other types of facework11
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Medial deictic demonstratives in Arabic11
Sequential and interpersonal aspects of English and Greek answering machine messages11
Taboo effects at the syntactic level11
The ‘interrogative gaze’11
The story of ö11
Translocal style communities11
¡A mi no me manda nadie!11
The “real” Haitian creole11
Analyzing equivalences in discourse11
On the Spanish inferential construction ser que11
“You gotta be a man or a girl”11
The acquisition of Warlpiri kin terms11
Flattery in historical China11
Forever FOB11
The strategic value of pronominal choice10
Perceiving the organisation through a coding scheme10
Reported threats10
Ad hoc concepts and the relevance heuristics10
Business communication plans and strategies10
What’s next?10
Loan words can cause intercultural miscommunication10
Nigerian stand-up comediennes performing femininity10
Anger, gender, language shift and the politics of revelation in a Papua New Guinean village10
Enregistering the voices of discursive figures of authority in Antonero children’s socio-dramatic play10
Linguistic tools of empowerment and alienation in the Chinese official press10
The inferential gap condition10
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The use and perception of question tags in Trinidadian English10
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Offers by Greek FL learners10
“I want a real apology”10
Commentary: Frames and contexts10
Notes on the role of metapragmatic awareness in language use10
‘Where have you been hiding this voice?’10
Interjections in literary readings and artistic performance10
Writer’s argumentative attitude9
The Skype paradox9
Polar answers9
“Plaza ‘góó and before he can respond…”9
Dramatic monologues9
Discourse as communicative action9
Critique of puerile reason9
Negotiating alignment in newspaper editorials9
Manipulation as an ideological tool in the political genre of Parliamentary discourses9
The trouble withtongzhi9
Plastic letters9
Enticing a challengeable in arguments9
The effect of study abroad on the pragmatic development of the internal modification of refusals9
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Discursive hegemony in the Kennedy Smith rape trial9
Paralanguage and ad hoc concepts9
Taking the higher ground between West and Middle East9
Managing criticisms in US-based and Taiwan-based reality talent contests9
German-Chinese interactions differences in contextualization conventions and resulting miscommunication9
Constructing ethnic identity through discourse9
Implications of translational shifts in interpreter-mediated texts9
The pragma-ideological implications of using reported speech8
How to read Austin8
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