Pragmatics

Papers
(The TQCC of Pragmatics is 12. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
The influence of the addressers’ and the addressees’ gender identities on the addressers’ linguistic politeness behavior284
Orderly affect150
Social beliefs for the realization of the speech acts of apology and complaint as defined in Ciluba, French, and English130
Constructing Korean and Japanese interculturality in talk125
Piropos as metaphors for gender roles in Spanish speaking cultures111
Everyday interactions and the domestication of social inequality109
Vernacular style writing108
‘It seems my enemy is about having malaria’104
Orthopraxy, writing and identity100
Refusals in Early Modern English drama texts95
Establishing emergent common ground91
FromHóyéétoHajinei88
Japanese epistemic sentence-final particle kana83
Talking about things82
Hearing between the lines82
Ethnomethodology, culture, and implicature80
The functions of formulaic speech in the L2 class76
Obituary – Susan Ervin-Tripp72
Letting go of the past in Spanish therapeutic discourse67
Constraint factors in the formulation of questions in conflictual discourse62
Concepts and context in relevance-theoretic pragmatics60
Identity in guanxi space59
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Contexts and meanings of Japanese speech styles56
Computer-mediated communication and scholarly discourse56
The pragmatics of play55
On the internalization of language and its use53
‘A hypnotic viewing experience’. promotional features in the language of exhibition press announcements51
The interactional context of humor in Nigerian stand-up comedy51
“Thank you for your participation”51
The structural format and rhetorical variation of writing Chinese judicial opinions50
Smoothing the rough edges50
Linguistic ideologies And the naturalization of power in warao discourse50
Linguistic ideology and praxis in U.S. law school classrooms49
Communicative strategies and socio-cultural identities in talk shows49
Compliments and compliment responses in Kunming Chinese48
“I have a question for you”47
Identity construction in Chinese heritage language classes45
Politeness of service encounters in Hong Kong45
Self-representation by auto-portrait in research interviews44
Cohesion strategies and genre in expository prose: An analysis of the writing of children of ethnolinguistic cultural groups44
Ideologies of honorific language43
The historical present in Spanish and semantic/pragmatic structure43
Address practices in academic interactions in a pluricentric language43
The semantics of coming and going43
The slow shift in orthodoxy41
“You are not allowed to pull someone’s tail!” a cross-cultural comparison of socio-moral comments in Estonian and Swedish peer interaction39
Ethnicity and codeswitching38
Deceptive clickbaits in the relevance-theoretic lens37
Press releases as a hybrid genre36
Semantic and pragmatic properties of post-truth discourse36
The son (érzi) is not really a son36
Nationalism and gender in the representation of non-Japanese characters’ speech in contemporary Japanese novels35
Multimodal language use in Savosavo35
A cross-generational and cross-cultural study on demonstration of attentiveness34
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Pragmatics of discourse modality34
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Construction of institutional identities by male individuals in subordinate positions in the Japanese workplace33
Concepts and Context in Relevance-Theoretic Pragmatics32
Definite reference and discourse prominence in Longxi Qiang32
Memory for dialogue in different modes of interaction31
Communicated and non-communicated acts in relevance theory29
Whose side are we on?29
NPs in Japanese conversation28
Teaching oral requests28
Increments in Navajo conversation28
In between spectacle and political correctness27
A touch of class27
An investigation of the formation and pragmatic strategies of “xx-zi27
On assigning pragmatic functions in English26
Non-literal uses of proper names in XYZ constructions26
Incorporation of information and complementizers in Japanese26
Indexing traditional and modern professional values26
Generic uses of the second person singular – how speakers deal with referential ambiguity and misunderstandings25
The intuitive basis of implicature25
Evaluation of (im)politeness25
The co-construction of whiteness in an MC battle25
Teacher talk reflecting pragmatic awareness24
Latina girls’ peer play interactions in a bilingual Spanish-English U.S. preschool24
Interactional and categorial analyses of identity construction in the talk of female-to-male (FtM) transgender individuals in Japan23
Critical discourse analysis and its critics23
Viewpoint shifting in Korean and Bulgarian23
Negotiating stories23
Constructing self–other distinction in dialogic contexts22
Personal perspective in TV news interviews22
Dynamism and assertiveness in the public voice21
Using a category to accomplish resistance in the context of an emergency call21
A contrastive study of hedging in English and Chinese academic spoken discourse21
The effects of English-medium instruction on the use of textual and interpersonal pragmatic markers21
Language, identity, performance21
Metaphor-based zeugmas in web-based promotional tourism discourse21
Selected works on Asian Pacific American language practices20
Sigain interaction20
Perceptions of (Im)politeness in Venezuelan Spanish20
Language ideologies in Barbados20
The pragmatics of advice-giving in the media discourse20
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Categorization in talk20
Speech levels20
Formulaic speech in the L2 classroom20
Perspective and politeness in Finnish Requests20
The use of invitations to bid in classroom interaction19
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
Intergroup rudeness and the metapragmatics of its negotiation in online discussion fora19
Imperatives and commitments in Romanian academic meeting interactions19
Hong Kong Cantonese TV talk shows19
Is formality relevant? Japanese tokenshai,eeandun19
When husbands die19
Tang’s Dilemma and other problems18
A systematic review of reliability in corpus-based metadiscourse studies18
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
Editing and genre conflict18
On the manifestness of assumptions18
Analysis of politeness strategies in Japanese and Korean conversations between males18
Ideologies of language at Hippo Family Club18
Modal particles in ironic utterances18
Simplifying Sanskrit18
Inter-mind phenomena in child narrative discourse18
Introduction18
Brazilian Portuguese wh-clefts in a multilevel analytic perspective17
Notes on word order variation in Korean17
Compromising progressivity17
Natural conversations in males and females: Conversational styles, content recall and quality of interaction17
Managing relationships through repetition17
The uses and utility of ideology17
On developing a systematic methodology for analyzing categories in talk-in-interaction: Sequential categorization analysis17
Syrian service encounters17
Management discourse in university administrative documents in Sweden17
“Peter is a dumb nut”17
Commentary16
Constructing Japanese men’s multidimensional identities16
Reconsidering the development of the discourse completion test in interlanguage pragmatics15
Discourse of (il)literacy15
Lebanese political advertising and the dialogic emergence of signs15
Perspective in the discourse of war15
“can you tell me how to get there?”15
On the interplay of syntax and prosody in the constitution of turn-constructional units and turns in conversation15
Translating phatic expressions15
Meaning potentials and the interaction between lexis and contexts15
Perspectives on intercultural communication15
Support and evidence for considering local contingencies in studying and transcribing silence in conversation15
Introduction15
Debate with zhuangzi15
Fabricated ignorance15
Lewis Carroll14
Writing right14
Towards a distinction between non-euphemistic and euphemism-based politically correct expressions14
Are transcripts reproducible?14
Concealment in consultative encounters in Nigerian hospitals14
On the referential ambiguity of personal pronouns and its pragmatic consequences14
Fearful, forceful agents of the law14
The use of interlocking multi-unit turns in topic shifts14
Analysis of a first therapy interview14
How to be authentic on Instagram14
Argumentation and inhibition: Sexism in the discourse of Spanish executives14
Theoretical ideals and their violation14
On interaction and grammar14
Analysis of appropriateness in a speech act of request in L2 English14
Su(m)imasen and gomen nasai14
Toward a pragmatic account and taxonomy of valuative speech acts14
Deliberate dispute and the construction of oppositional stance14
Gender and professional identity in three institutional settings in Brazil14
Locutions in medical discourse in Southwestern Nigeria14
Increments in cross-linguistic perspective14
Some current transcription systems for spoken discourse: A critical analysis13
The interplay between professional identities and age, gender and ethnicity introduction13
Eye closures in spoken Hebrew13
Translocal style communities13
A matter of politeness? A contrastive study of phatic talk in teenage conversation13
Calling in13
Utterance-final conjunctive particles and implicature in Japanese conversation13
Skype appearances, multiple greetings and ‘coucou’13
Complement clauses as turn continuations12
“Doing deference”12
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Spontaneous and non-spontaneous turn-taking12
Pragmatic markers12
¡A mi no me manda nadie!12
The story of ö12
Sequential organization of post-predicate elements in Korean conversation12
“Go up to miss thingy”. “He’s probably like a whatsit or something”.12
Situated politeness12
What’s in a name? Names, national identity, assimilation, and the new racist discourse of Marine Le Pen12
Malinowski’s last word on the anthropological approach to language12
Sequential and interpersonal aspects of English and Greek answering machine messages12
When personal names are mentioned in conversations12
Taboo effects at the syntactic level12
An appraisal of pragmatic elicitation techniques for the social psychological study of talk12
A contrastive study of apologies performed by Greek native speakers and English learners of Greek as a foreign language12
Multiple repair solutions in response to open class repair initiators (OCRIs) in next turn12
Code choice in intercultural conversation12
“You gotta be a man or a girl”12
Medial deictic demonstratives in Arabic12
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