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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Social beliefs for the realization of the speech acts of apology and complaint as defined in Ciluba, French, and English292
Talking about things148
Orderly affect133
Constructing Korean and Japanese interculturality in talk122
The influence of the addressers’ and the addressees’ gender identities on the addressers’ linguistic politeness behavior120
Japanese epistemic sentence-final particle kana115
Piropos as metaphors for gender roles in Spanish speaking cultures114
Vernacular style writing112
Ethnomethodology, culture, and implicature106
Orthopraxy, writing and identity101
Refusals in Early Modern English drama texts96
Hearing between the lines94
‘It seems my enemy is about having malaria’93
Everyday interactions and the domestication of social inequality83
FromHóyéétoHajinei83
Linguistic ideology and praxis in U.S. law school classrooms81
On the internalization of language and its use79
Smoothing the rough edges76
The functions of formulaic speech in the L2 class67
Politeness of service encounters in Hong Kong64
Contexts and meanings of Japanese speech styles63
Identity construction in Chinese heritage language classes61
Obituary – Susan Ervin-Tripp61
Linguistic ideologies And the naturalization of power in warao discourse57
The structural format and rhetorical variation of writing Chinese judicial opinions57
Computer-mediated communication and scholarly discourse55
Communicative strategies and socio-cultural identities in talk shows55
Identity in guanxi space55
Letting go of the past in Spanish therapeutic discourse52
“I have a question for you”52
The pragmatics of play51
‘A hypnotic viewing experience’. promotional features in the language of exhibition press announcements51
Constraint factors in the formulation of questions in conflictual discourse51
The interactional context of humor in Nigerian stand-up comedy50
Concepts and context in relevance-theoretic pragmatics49
Compliments and compliment responses in Kunming Chinese48
The slow shift in orthodoxy48
Deceptive clickbaits in the relevance-theoretic lens47
Accounts as acts of identity46
Multimodal language use in Savosavo46
A cross-generational and cross-cultural study on demonstration of attentiveness44
Self-representation by auto-portrait in research interviews43
Nationalism and gender in the representation of non-Japanese characters’ speech in contemporary Japanese novels43
Ideologies of honorific language43
Address practices in academic interactions in a pluricentric language43
The historical present in Spanish and semantic/pragmatic structure42
Semantic and pragmatic properties of post-truth discourse41
Cohesion strategies and genre in expository prose: An analysis of the writing of children of ethnolinguistic cultural groups40
Ethnicity and codeswitching39
“You are not allowed to pull someone’s tail!” a cross-cultural comparison of socio-moral comments in Estonian and Swedish peer interaction39
The semantics of coming and going38
Press releases as a hybrid genre38
The son (érzi) is not really a son38
Incorporation of information and complementizers in Japanese37
Construction of institutional identities by male individuals in subordinate positions in the Japanese workplace37
NPs in Japanese conversation35
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Communicated and non-communicated acts in relevance theory34
Teaching oral requests34
Pragmatics of discourse modality34
Definite reference and discourse prominence in Longxi Qiang33
Memory for dialogue in different modes of interaction33
Concepts and Context in Relevance-Theoretic Pragmatics31
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On assigning pragmatic functions in English30
Latina girls’ peer play interactions in a bilingual Spanish-English U.S. preschool30
Whose side are we on?30
A touch of class29
The intuitive basis of implicature29
An investigation of the formation and pragmatic strategies of “xx-zi28
Generic uses of the second person singular – how speakers deal with referential ambiguity and misunderstandings28
In between spectacle and political correctness28
Non-literal uses of proper names in XYZ constructions28
Critical discourse analysis and its critics27
Evaluation of (im)politeness27
Increments in Navajo conversation26
Teacher talk reflecting pragmatic awareness26
The co-construction of whiteness in an MC battle26
Negotiating stories25
Indexing traditional and modern professional values25
Formulaic speech in the L2 classroom24
The pragmatics of advice-giving in the media discourse24
Personal perspective in TV news interviews24
Using a category to accomplish resistance in the context of an emergency call24
Language, identity, performance24
Viewpoint shifting in Korean and Bulgarian24
Dynamism and assertiveness in the public voice23
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
Metapragmatics in indirect reports23
The effects of English-medium instruction on the use of textual and interpersonal pragmatic markers23
Sigain interaction22
Interaction and conversational constrictions in the relationships between suppliers of services and immigrant users22
Selected works on Asian Pacific American language practices22
Categorization in talk21
Tang’s Dilemma and other problems21
Imperatives and commitments in Romanian academic meeting interactions21
Speech levels21
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Perspective and politeness in Finnish Requests21
Hong Kong Cantonese TV talk shows21
When husbands die21
Language ideologies in Barbados21
Editing and genre conflict21
Is formality relevant? Japanese tokenshai,eeandun20
Perceptions of (Im)politeness in Venezuelan Spanish20
Modal particles in ironic utterances20
Intergroup rudeness and the metapragmatics of its negotiation in online discussion fora20
Move combinations in the conclusion section of applied linguistics research articles20
The use of invitations to bid in classroom interaction20
Natural conversations in males and females: Conversational styles, content recall and quality of interaction19
Analysis of politeness strategies in Japanese and Korean conversations between males19
Managing relationships through repetition19
Simplifying Sanskrit19
On the manifestness of assumptions19
Introduction19
The uses and utility of ideology19
Navigating the complex social ecology of screen-based activity in video-mediated interaction18
Inter-mind phenomena in child narrative discourse18
Compromising progressivity18
Brazilian Portuguese wh-clefts in a multilevel analytic perspective18
The discursive construction of gender, ethnicity and the workplace in second generation immigrants’ narratives the case of moroccan women in belgium18
“Peter is a dumb nut”18
Notes on word order variation in Korean18
The pausative pattern of speakers with and without high-functioning autism spectrum disorder from long silences18
Syrian service encounters18
Management discourse in university administrative documents in Sweden18
Polar answers and epistemic stance in Greek conversation18
Support and evidence for considering local contingencies in studying and transcribing silence in conversation17
On developing a systematic methodology for analyzing categories in talk-in-interaction: Sequential categorization analysis17
Constructing Japanese men’s multidimensional identities17
Discoursal representation of masculine parenting in Arabic and English websites17
Introduction17
Ideologies of language at Hippo Family Club17
Translating phatic expressions17
Fabricated ignorance17
Discourse of (il)literacy17
Commentary17
“can you tell me how to get there?”17
Perspectives on intercultural communication16
Reconsidering the development of the discourse completion test in interlanguage pragmatics16
Debate with zhuangzi16
Lebanese political advertising and the dialogic emergence of signs16
Perspective in the discourse of war16
Lewis Carroll16
On the interplay of syntax and prosody in the constitution of turn-constructional units and turns in conversation16
Meaning potentials and the interaction between lexis and contexts16
Theoretical ideals and their violation15
Skype appearances, multiple greetings and ‘coucou’15
Analysis of a first therapy interview15
Su(m)imasen and gomen nasai15
Concealment in consultative encounters in Nigerian hospitals15
The use of interlocking multi-unit turns in topic shifts15
Deliberate dispute and the construction of oppositional stance15
Analysis of appropriateness in a speech act of request in L2 English15
On interaction and grammar15
Writing right15
Toward a pragmatic account and taxonomy of valuative speech acts15
Eye closures in spoken Hebrew14
How to be authentic on Instagram14
Are transcripts reproducible?14
Towards a distinction between non-euphemistic and euphemism-based politically correct expressions14
Utterance-final conjunctive particles and implicature in Japanese conversation14
Gender and professional identity in three institutional settings in Brazil14
Increments in cross-linguistic perspective14
On the referential ambiguity of personal pronouns and its pragmatic consequences14
‘So many “virologists” in this thread!’14
Argumentation and inhibition: Sexism in the discourse of Spanish executives14
Malinowski’s last word on the anthropological approach to language13
A matter of politeness? A contrastive study of phatic talk in teenage conversation13
Calling in13
Some current transcription systems for spoken discourse: A critical analysis13
A contrastive study of apologies performed by Greek native speakers and English learners of Greek as a foreign language13
Code choice in intercultural conversation13
The interplay between professional identities and age, gender and ethnicity introduction13
“You gotta be a man or a girl”13
Locutions in medical discourse in Southwestern Nigeria13
Situated politeness13
Complement clauses as turn continuations13
What’s in a name? Names, national identity, assimilation, and the new racist discourse of Marine Le Pen13
Multiple repair solutions in response to open class repair initiators (OCRIs) in next turn13
An appraisal of pragmatic elicitation techniques for the social psychological study of talk13
Fearful, forceful agents of the law13
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Spontaneous and non-spontaneous turn-taking13
Sequential organization of post-predicate elements in Korean conversation13
Pragmatic markers13
“Go up to miss thingy”. “He’s probably like a whatsit or something”.13
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Perceiving the organisation through a coding scheme12
The story of ö12
¡A mi no me manda nadie!12
On the Spanish inferential construction ser que12
The “real” Haitian creole12
Flattery in historical China12
Analyzing equivalences in discourse12
Medial deictic demonstratives in Arabic12
Sequential and interpersonal aspects of English and Greek answering machine messages12
The ‘interrogative gaze’12
Taboo effects at the syntactic level12
Nigerian stand-up comediennes performing femininity12
“Doing deference”12
Translocal style communities12
The acquisition of Warlpiri kin terms12
Politeness and other types of facework11
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Loan words can cause intercultural miscommunication11
Forever FOB11
What’s next?11
The strategic value of pronominal choice11
Anger, gender, language shift and the politics of revelation in a Papua New Guinean village11
Interjections in literary readings and artistic performance11
“I want a real apology”11
Reported threats11
The use and perception of question tags in Trinidadian English10
Dramatic monologues10
Manipulation as an ideological tool in the political genre of Parliamentary discourses10
The inferential gap condition10
Business communication plans and strategies10
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Enregistering the voices of discursive figures of authority in Antonero children’s socio-dramatic play10
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Commentary: Frames and contexts10
Discursive hegemony in the Kennedy Smith rape trial10
Plastic letters10
‘Where have you been hiding this voice?’10
Notes on the role of metapragmatic awareness in language use10
“Plaza ‘góó and before he can respond…”10
German-Chinese interactions differences in contextualization conventions and resulting miscommunication10
Writer’s argumentative attitude10
The effect of study abroad on the pragmatic development of the internal modification of refusals10
Constructing ethnic identity through discourse10
Offers by Greek FL learners10
Enticing a challengeable in arguments9
Paralanguage and ad hoc concepts9
Discourse as communicative action9
Order and disorder in the classroom9
The acquisition of locative inversion at the syntax-pragmatics interface by Chinese learners of English9
Critique of puerile reason9
Negotiating alignment in newspaper editorials9
The Skype paradox9
The concept of complimenting in light of the Moore language in Burkina Faso9
To pursue the discussion without concluding9
Subjective and intersubjective uses of Japanese verbs of cognition in conversation9
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Polar answers9
Taking the higher ground between West and Middle East9
Accomplishing multiethnic identity in mundane talk9
Implications of translational shifts in interpreter-mediated texts9
Children's strategies when reporting appropriate and inappropriate speech events9
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