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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Linguistic tools of empowerment and alienation in the Chinese official press290
Framing and manipulation of person deixis in Hosni Mubarak’s last three speeches142
Taking the higher ground between West and Middle East132
Indexical ‘mismatch’; or, adaptability at work122
Syrian service encounters120
Plastic letters115
Managing criticisms in US-based and Taiwan-based reality talent contests113
Standardizing opinion112
Principles we talk by102
Refusals in Early Modern English drama texts91
On where stereotypes come from so that kids can recruit them91
Making ‘yes’ stronger by saying ‘no’89
Global subjects87
Commentary: Frames and contexts84
Class and parenting in accounts of child protection82
The shift from lexical to subjective readings of Spanish prometer ‘to promise’ and amenazar ‘to threaten’. a corpus-based account77
Effects of Spanish pragmatic and lexical constraints in the interpretation of L2 English anaphora76
Orderly affect73
Mutual understanding mechanism in verbal exchanges between carers and multiply-disabled young people69
Social beliefs for the realization of the speech acts of apology and complaint as defined in Ciluba, French, and English66
Business communication plans and strategies63
“Plaza ‘góó and before he can respond…”61
Talking about things57
Polar answers and epistemic stance in Greek conversation57
Face as an interactional construct in the context of connectedness and separateness56
The discourse of news management55
Singing and codeswitching in sequence closings55
Impoliteness in institutional and non-institutional contexts53
Interrogative allo-repetitions in Mexican Spanish52
The discursive construction of gender, ethnicity and the workplace in second generation immigrants’ narratives the case of moroccan women in belgium51
The trouble with tongzhi51
Piropos as metaphors for gender roles in Spanish speaking cultures50
The pausative pattern of speakers with and without high-functioning autism spectrum disorder from long silences49
Ideologies of language at Hippo Family Club49
The use of boosters and evidentials in British campaign debates on the Brexit referendum47
Modularity and pragmatics47
Beyond the deferential view of the Chinese V pronoun nin46
Attention, accessibility, and the addressee45
‘That is very important, isn’t it?’45
Ethnomethodology, culture, and implicature43
“Communication is a two-way street”43
Rapport management in Thai and Japanese social talk during group discussions42
On developing a systematic methodology for analyzing categories in talk-in-interaction: Sequential categorization analysis42
Japanese epistemic sentence-final particle kana42
“Today there is no respect”41
Hearing between the lines41
Interculturality serving multiple interactional goals in African American and Korean service encounters40
On the polite use of vamos in Peninsular Spanish40
The influence of the addressers’ and the addressees’ gender identities on the addressers’ linguistic politeness behavior39
Material and embodied resources in the accomplishment of closings in technology-mediated business meetings39
Manipulation as an ideological tool in the political genre of Parliamentary discourses39
Inter-mind phenomena in child narrative discourse37
The natural logic of language and cognition37
An empirical investigation of pause notation37
Interaction in the oral proficiency interview36
Negotiating alignment in newspaper editorials35
The rhetoric of the extraordinary moment35
Polar answers34
Frames for politeness34
Register, genre and referential ambiguity of personal pronouns32
“Peter is a dumb nut”32
‘It seems my enemy is about having malaria’32
Vernacular style writing31
The tabloid talkshow as a quasi-conversational type of face-to-face interaction31
Discursive hegemony in the Kennedy Smith rape trial31
Children’s formal division of labor in requests29
Ideologies of politeness29
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Managing relationships through repetition28
The Skype paradox28
FromHóyéétoHajinei27
“No flips in the pool”27
Orthopraxy, writing and identity27
Constructing Korean and Japanese interculturality in talk27
The inferential gap condition27
Natural conversations in males and females: Conversational styles, content recall and quality of interaction26
How broadcasters enhance rapport with viewers in live streaming commerce26
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Metapragmatics in a courtroom genre25
Everyday interactions and the domestication of social inequality25
Analysis of politeness strategies in Japanese and Korean conversations between males24
Brazilian Portuguese wh-clefts in a multilevel analytic perspective24
The role of language in European nationalist ideologies24
Constructing ethnic identity through discourse24
Japanese and American meetings and what goes on before them24
If I testify about others, my testimony is valid24
Simplifying Sanskrit23
Dissenting emails in academia23
A child of necessity23
Politeness in compliment responses22
The effect of study abroad on the pragmatic development of the internal modification of refusals22
German-Chinese interactions differences in contextualization conventions and resulting miscommunication22
Explicit and implicit ways of enhancing common ground in conversations22
Dramatic monologues21
Affect in Japanese women’s letter writing21
Diglossia21
An analysis ofThe thing is that Ssentences21
How face is perceived in Chinese and Japanese21
The process of children’s ability to ask questions from an interactive perspective21
Introduction21
Compromising progressivity21
Enticing a challengeable in arguments20
Notes on word order variation in Korean20
The uses and utility of ideology20
Writer’s argumentative attitude20
Management discourse in university administrative documents in Sweden20
The social-pragmatic theory of word learning20
Ad hoc concepts and the relevance heuristics20
Paralanguage and ad hoc concepts19
“can you tell me how to get there?”19
Navigating the complex social ecology of screen-based activity in video-mediated interaction19
“Let’s … together”19
To pursue the discussion without concluding19
The making of history18
Global issues and local findings from Greek contexts18
In Memory of Josie Bernicot (1955-2015)18
Discourse, authority and mediation in an ethnographic encounter in Eastern Mexico18
The concept of complimenting in light of the Moore language in Burkina Faso18
Communicative strategies and socio-cultural identities in talk shows18
School administrators’ discursive positioning in talk about deviant high school students18
Reconstructing the participants’ treatments of ‘interculturality’18
Reanalysis of contrastive -wa in Japanese18
Perspective in the discourse of war18
Dichotomy in the structures of honorifics of Japanese18
Institutional talk in referral meetings18
Introduction reframing framing18
Sol, sombra, y media luz18
Critique of puerile reason18
Subjective and intersubjective uses of Japanese verbs of cognition in conversation17
On the ideology of Indonesian language development17
Obituary – Susan Ervin-Tripp17
Embodied interaction with face masks and social distancing17
Evidentiality and morality in a Korean heritage language school17
Children's strategies when reporting appropriate and inappropriate speech events17
Discourse as communicative action17
Computer-mediated communication and scholarly discourse17
Speaking like Asian immigrants17
Quotation headlines in the printed British quality press17
Invoking divine blessing17
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Commentary16
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Introduction16
Implications of translational shifts in interpreter-mediated texts16
On the meanings and functions of grammatical choice15
Contexts and meanings of Japanese speech styles15
Translating phatic expressions15
‘A hypnotic viewing experience’. promotional features in the language of exhibition press announcements15
Identity construction in Chinese heritage language classes15
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Discoursal representation of masculine parenting in Arabic and English websites15
Smoothing the rough edges15
Youthful concerns14
Graphemic representation of text-messaging14
A pragmatic perspective on contact-induced language change14
Transforming the label of ‘whore’14
A corpus-based study on contrast and concessivity of the connective ‑cimanin Korean14
Asking to ask14
Commentary14
Lewis Carroll14
Apology responses and gender differences in spoken British English14
When is oral narrative poetry? generative form and its pragmatic conditions14
An indecent call from a man14
Linguistic ideologies And the naturalization of power in warao discourse14
Pragmatic development in the instructed context13
The structural format and rhetorical variation of writing Chinese judicial opinions13
The communicative role of silence in Akan13
Meaning potentials and the interaction between lexis and contexts13
Politeness of service encounters in Hong Kong13
Epistemic calibration13
“Moral irony”13
Debate with zhuangzi13
Order and disorder in the classroom13
Constructing Japanese men’s multidimensional identities13
Language and politeness in early eighteenth century Britain13
On the internalization of language and its use13
Crazy literature13
Turn-taking in Japanese television interviews13
Lebanese political advertising and the dialogic emergence of signs13
Referring to arbitrary entities with placeholders13
“Are you saying …?”13
The functions of formulaic speech in the L2 class13
How to read Austin13
Power and socialization in sibling interaction12
Creative metaphors and non-propositional effects12
Letting go of the past in Spanish therapeutic discourse12
(Im)politeness in Spanish-speaking socio-cultural contexts12
Interaction-based studies of language12
Interpersonal video communication as a site of human sociality12
Ideology and facts on African American English12
Reconsidering the development of the discourse completion test in interlanguage pragmatics12
Fabricated ignorance12
Retrospective turn continuations in Mandarin Chinese conversation12
Beyond Bakhtin or the dialogic imagination in academia12
Pragmatic use of ancient greek pronouns in two communicative frameworks12
Showing structure12
Constructing academic hierarchies12
Dialogicality and dialogue12
Constraint factors in the formulation of questions in conflictual discourse12
Constructing membership in the in-group12
Perspectives on intercultural communication12
Vicissitudes of laughter12
Leadership and managing conflict in meetings11
Discourse of (il)literacy11
Dual function of (inter)subjectivity in the use of well as a discourse marker11
Indirectness and interpretation in African American women’s discourse11
Accomplishing multiethnic identity in mundane talk11
Language socialization of affect in Mandarin parent–child conversation11
Ordering burgers, reordering relations11
Linguistic ideology and praxis in U.S. law school classrooms11
Speech therapy for elderly people11
Styles and stereotypes11
Compliments and responses during Chinese New Year celebrations in Singapore10
To be or not to be your son’s father/mother10
Framing in interactive academic talk10
“I have a question for you”10
The interactional context of humor in Nigerian stand-up comedy10
Political language and textual vagueness10
Compliments and compliment responses in Kunming Chinese10
Support and evidence for considering local contingencies in studying and transcribing silence in conversation10
Concepts and context in relevance-theoretic pragmatics10
Language crossing and the problematisation of ethnicity and socialisation10
Oral genres of humor10
Metarepresentational phenomena in Japanese and English10
Tradition, modernity, and Chinese masculinity10
Introduction10
The pragmatics of play10
The pre-front field in spoken german and its relevance as a grammaticalization position10
Serious games10
Indirectness, inexplicitness and vagueness made clearer10
On preposing and word order rigidity9
Politeness ideology in Spanish colloquial conversation9
On the nature of “laughables”9
Constructing a proposal as a thought9
The acquisition of locative inversion at the syntax-pragmatics interface by Chinese learners of English9
Submission strategies as an expression of the ideology of politeness9
The particle baš in contemporary Serbian9
Introducing relational work in Facebook and discussion boards9
The semantics of coming and going9
On the interplay of syntax and prosody in the constitution of turn-constructional units and turns in conversation9
Caution and consensus in American business meetings9
Lexical choices of gender identity in Greek genres9
Discourse marking in spoken intercultural communication between British and Taiwanese adolescent learners9
Obituary9
Use and abuse of the strategic function ofin factandfranklywhen qualifying a standpoint9
Doing (Bi)lingualism: Language alternation as performative construction of online identities9
Analysis of appropriateness in a speech act of request in L2 English9
“It’s like, ‘I’ve never met a lesbian before!’”9
Requesting strategies in the cross-cultural business meeting9
Perspective and production8
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