Pragmatics

Papers
(The TQCC of Pragmatics is 13. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Social beliefs for the realization of the speech acts of apology and complaint as defined in Ciluba, French, and English298
Talking about things148
Orderly affect137
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’119
Vernacular style writing115
Orthopraxy, writing and identity112
Refusals in Early Modern English drama texts106
Hearing between the lines105
Everyday interactions and the domestication of social inequality98
FromHóyéétoHajinei96
Piropos as metaphors for gender roles in Spanish speaking cultures95
Ethnomethodology, culture, and implicature86
Constructing Korean and Japanese interculturality in talk84
Establishing emergent common ground81
Linguistic ideology and praxis in U.S. law school classrooms79
Smoothing the rough edges73
The functions of formulaic speech in the L2 class67
Politeness of service encounters in Hong Kong65
Contexts and meanings of Japanese speech styles64
Obituary – Susan Ervin-Tripp62
On the internalization of language and its use61
The interactional context of humor in Nigerian stand-up comedy59
The structural format and rhetorical variation of writing Chinese judicial opinions56
The pragmatics of play55
Linguistic ideologies And the naturalization of power in warao discourse55
Identity in guanxi space54
“Thank you for your participation”54
Communicative strategies and socio-cultural identities in talk shows53
Concepts and context in relevance-theoretic pragmatics52
“I have a question for you”52
Computer-mediated communication and scholarly discourse52
Letting go of the past in Spanish therapeutic discourse50
‘A hypnotic viewing experience’. promotional features in the language of exhibition press announcements49
Identity construction in Chinese heritage language classes49
Constraint factors in the formulation of questions in conflictual discourse49
The slow shift in orthodoxy48
Compliments and compliment responses in Kunming Chinese48
Deceptive clickbaits in the relevance-theoretic lens46
Multimodal language use in Savosavo45
The historical present in Spanish and semantic/pragmatic structure43
Self-representation by auto-portrait in research interviews43
Semantic and pragmatic properties of post-truth discourse43
A cross-generational and cross-cultural study on demonstration of attentiveness43
Cohesion strategies and genre in expository prose: An analysis of the writing of children of ethnolinguistic cultural groups42
Address practices in academic interactions in a pluricentric language42
Nationalism and gender in the representation of non-Japanese characters’ speech in contemporary Japanese novels41
The son (érzi) is not really a son41
The semantics of coming and going41
Accounts as acts of identity39
Ethnicity and codeswitching38
“You are not allowed to pull someone’s tail!” a cross-cultural comparison of socio-moral comments in Estonian and Swedish peer interaction38
Press releases as a hybrid genre37
Ideologies of honorific language37
Construction of institutional identities by male individuals in subordinate positions in the Japanese workplace36
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Incorporation of information and complementizers in Japanese35
Pragmatics of discourse modality34
Teaching oral requests34
Definite reference and discourse prominence in Longxi Qiang33
Memory for dialogue in different modes of interaction33
Concepts and Context in Relevance-Theoretic Pragmatics32
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Communicated and non-communicated acts in relevance theory30
On assigning pragmatic functions in English30
NPs in Japanese conversation30
The co-construction of whiteness in an MC battle29
Whose side are we on?28
In between spectacle and political correctness28
A touch of class28
An investigation of the formation and pragmatic strategies of “xx-zi28
Non-literal uses of proper names in XYZ constructions28
Indexing traditional and modern professional values27
Increments in Navajo conversation27
Evaluation of (im)politeness27
Generic uses of the second person singular – how speakers deal with referential ambiguity and misunderstandings26
Teacher talk reflecting pragmatic awareness26
Critical discourse analysis and its critics25
Viewpoint shifting in Korean and Bulgarian25
The intuitive basis of implicature25
Latina girls’ peer play interactions in a bilingual Spanish-English U.S. preschool25
Negotiating stories25
Personal perspective in TV news interviews24
Using a category to accomplish resistance in the context of an emergency call24
Formulaic speech in the L2 classroom24
The pragmatics of advice-giving in the media discourse23
Metaphor-based zeugmas in web-based promotional tourism discourse23
Dynamism and assertiveness in the public voice23
Language, identity, performance23
Sigain interaction22
Constructing self–other distinction in dialogic contexts22
Selected works on Asian Pacific American language practices22
Interactional and categorial analyses of identity construction in the talk of female-to-male (FtM) transgender individuals in Japan22
Hong Kong Cantonese TV talk shows22
The effects of English-medium instruction on the use of textual and interpersonal pragmatic markers22
A contrastive study of hedging in English and Chinese academic spoken discourse22
Speech levels21
Language ideologies in Barbados21
Editing and genre conflict21
When husbands die21
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Categorization in talk21
Perceptions of (Im)politeness in Venezuelan Spanish21
Move combinations in the conclusion section of applied linguistics research articles20
On the manifestness of assumptions20
Modal particles in ironic utterances20
The use of invitations to bid in classroom interaction20
Is formality relevant? Japanese tokenshai,eeandun20
Imperatives and commitments in Romanian academic meeting interactions19
Tang’s Dilemma and other problems19
Analysis of politeness strategies in Japanese and Korean conversations between males19
Interaction and conversational constrictions in the relationships between suppliers of services and immigrant users19
Intergroup rudeness and the metapragmatics of its negotiation in online discussion fora19
Introduction19
Perspective and politeness in Finnish Requests19
Managing relationships through repetition19
The uses and utility of ideology18
The pausative pattern of speakers with and without high-functioning autism spectrum disorder from long silences18
The discursive construction of gender, ethnicity and the workplace in second generation immigrants’ narratives the case of moroccan women in belgium18
Ideologies of language at Hippo Family Club18
Notes on word order variation in Korean18
Simplifying Sanskrit18
Syrian service encounters18
Compromising progressivity18
Brazilian Portuguese wh-clefts in a multilevel analytic perspective18
“Peter is a dumb nut”18
Inter-mind phenomena in child narrative discourse18
On developing a systematic methodology for analyzing categories in talk-in-interaction: Sequential categorization analysis17
Commentary17
Support and evidence for considering local contingencies in studying and transcribing silence in conversation17
Lewis Carroll17
Natural conversations in males and females: Conversational styles, content recall and quality of interaction17
Constructing Japanese men’s multidimensional identities17
Discourse of (il)literacy17
Discoursal representation of masculine parenting in Arabic and English websites17
Introduction17
Management discourse in university administrative documents in Sweden17
Translating phatic expressions17
Perspective in the discourse of war17
Fabricated ignorance17
Meaning potentials and the interaction between lexis and contexts16
Debate with zhuangzi16
Lebanese political advertising and the dialogic emergence of signs16
On the interplay of syntax and prosody in the constitution of turn-constructional units and turns in conversation16
Reconsidering the development of the discourse completion test in interlanguage pragmatics16
Perspectives on intercultural communication16
Analysis of appropriateness in a speech act of request in L2 English16
“can you tell me how to get there?”16
Locutions in medical discourse in Southwestern Nigeria15
Are transcripts reproducible?15
The use of interlocking multi-unit turns in topic shifts15
Toward a pragmatic account and taxonomy of valuative speech acts15
Argumentation and inhibition: Sexism in the discourse of Spanish executives15
Deliberate dispute and the construction of oppositional stance15
Writing right15
Su(m)imasen and gomen nasai15
Concealment in consultative encounters in Nigerian hospitals15
How to be authentic on Instagram15
Theoretical ideals and their violation15
Analysis of a first therapy interview15
The interplay between professional identities and age, gender and ethnicity introduction14
On the referential ambiguity of personal pronouns and its pragmatic consequences14
Gender and professional identity in three institutional settings in Brazil14
On interaction and grammar14
Towards a distinction between non-euphemistic and euphemism-based politically correct expressions14
Utterance-final conjunctive particles and implicature in Japanese conversation14
Fearful, forceful agents of the law14
A matter of politeness? A contrastive study of phatic talk in teenage conversation14
Eye closures in spoken Hebrew14
‘So many “virologists” in this thread!’14
Increments in cross-linguistic perspective14
Skype appearances, multiple greetings and ‘coucou’13
Malinowski’s last word on the anthropological approach to language13
“Doing deference”13
Situated politeness13
Code choice in intercultural conversation13
Some current transcription systems for spoken discourse: A critical analysis13
Calling in13
Pragmatic markers13
An appraisal of pragmatic elicitation techniques for the social psychological study of talk13
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
Spontaneous and non-spontaneous turn-taking13
“You gotta be a man or a girl”13
Complement clauses as turn continuations13
What’s in a name? Names, national identity, assimilation, and the new racist discourse of Marine Le Pen13
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“Go up to miss thingy”. “He’s probably like a whatsit or something”.13
Sequential organization of post-predicate elements in Korean conversation13
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