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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)
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 kana120
Establishing emergent common ground119
‘It seems my enemy is about having malaria’115
Vernacular style writing111
Orthopraxy, writing and identity106
Refusals in Early Modern English drama texts106
Hearing between the lines98
Everyday interactions and the domestication of social inequality96
FromHóyéétoHajinei95
Piropos as metaphors for gender roles in Spanish speaking cultures86
Ethnomethodology, culture, and implicature84
Constructing Korean and Japanese interculturality in talk81
Linguistic ideology and praxis in U.S. law school classrooms79
Smoothing the rough edges74
The functions of formulaic speech in the L2 class67
Politeness of service encounters in Hong Kong66
Contexts and meanings of Japanese speech styles63
Obituary – Susan Ervin-Tripp62
On the internalization of language and its use61
The interactional context of humor in Nigerian stand-up comedy59
Compliments and compliment responses in Kunming Chinese56
The structural format and rhetorical variation of writing Chinese judicial opinions56
The pragmatics of play55
“Thank you for your participation”55
Identity construction in Chinese heritage language classes54
Linguistic ideologies And the naturalization of power in warao discourse53
Computer-mediated communication and scholarly discourse52
Communicative strategies and socio-cultural identities in talk shows52
Identity in guanxi space52
“I have a question for you”51
‘A hypnotic viewing experience’. promotional features in the language of exhibition press announcements49
Concepts and context in relevance-theoretic pragmatics49
Letting go of the past in Spanish therapeutic discourse49
Constraint factors in the formulation of questions in conflictual discourse48
The semantics of coming and going48
The son (érzi) is not really a son47
Address practices in academic interactions in a pluricentric language45
The slow shift in orthodoxy43
Multimodal language use in Savosavo43
A cross-generational and cross-cultural study on demonstration of attentiveness43
Deceptive clickbaits in the relevance-theoretic lens43
Nationalism and gender in the representation of non-Japanese characters’ speech in contemporary Japanese novels43
The historical present in Spanish and semantic/pragmatic structure42
Self-representation by auto-portrait in research interviews42
Accounts as acts of identity42
Semantic and pragmatic properties of post-truth discourse40
Cohesion strategies and genre in expository prose: An analysis of the writing of children of ethnolinguistic cultural groups39
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
Incorporation of information and complementizers in Japanese36
Pragmatics of discourse modality34
Teaching oral requests34
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Definite reference and discourse prominence in Longxi Qiang33
Memory for dialogue in different modes of interaction33
Concepts and Context in Relevance-Theoretic Pragmatics32
Latina girls’ peer play interactions in a bilingual Spanish-English U.S. preschool31
Critical discourse analysis and its critics30
The co-construction of whiteness in an MC battle30
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Communicated and non-communicated acts in relevance theory28
The intuitive basis of implicature28
NPs in Japanese conversation28
Generic uses of the second person singular – how speakers deal with referential ambiguity and misunderstandings28
On assigning pragmatic functions in English28
Whose side are we on?28
An investigation of the formation and pragmatic strategies of “xx-zi27
In between spectacle and political correctness27
A touch of class27
Indexing traditional and modern professional values26
Evaluation of (im)politeness26
Increments in Navajo conversation26
Non-literal uses of proper names in XYZ constructions26
Negotiating stories25
Teacher talk reflecting pragmatic awareness25
Using a category to accomplish resistance in the context of an emergency call25
Viewpoint shifting in Korean and Bulgarian25
Personal perspective in TV news interviews24
Formulaic speech in the L2 classroom24
Language, identity, performance23
Metaphor-based zeugmas in web-based promotional tourism discourse23
Dynamism and assertiveness in the public voice23
The effects of English-medium instruction on the use of textual and interpersonal pragmatic markers22
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
The pragmatics of advice-giving in the media discourse22
Categorization in talk22
A contrastive study of hedging in English and Chinese academic spoken discourse22
Constructing self–other distinction in dialogic contexts22
Sigain interaction22
Speech levels21
Language ideologies in Barbados21
Perceptions of (Im)politeness in Venezuelan Spanish21
When husbands die21
On the manifestness of assumptions21
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Is formality relevant? Japanese tokenshai,eeandun21
The use of invitations to bid in classroom interaction20
Perspective and politeness in Finnish Requests20
Move combinations in the conclusion section of applied linguistics research articles20
Imperatives and commitments in Romanian academic meeting interactions20
Modal particles in ironic utterances20
Hong Kong Cantonese TV talk shows19
Introduction19
Interaction and conversational constrictions in the relationships between suppliers of services and immigrant users19
Managing relationships through repetition19
Tang’s Dilemma and other problems19
Intergroup rudeness and the metapragmatics of its negotiation in online discussion fora19
Analysis of politeness strategies in Japanese and Korean conversations between males19
Editing and genre conflict19
Syrian service encounters18
Compromising progressivity18
Management discourse in university administrative documents in Sweden18
“Peter is a dumb nut”18
Inter-mind phenomena in child narrative discourse18
Notes on word order variation in Korean18
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
On developing a systematic methodology for analyzing categories in talk-in-interaction: Sequential categorization analysis18
Simplifying Sanskrit18
Brazilian Portuguese wh-clefts in a multilevel analytic perspective17
Constructing Japanese men’s multidimensional identities17
Discourse of (il)literacy17
Discoursal representation of masculine parenting in Arabic and English websites17
Introduction17
The uses and utility of ideology17
Translating phatic expressions17
Lewis Carroll17
Perspective in the discourse of war17
Natural conversations in males and females: Conversational styles, content recall and quality of interaction17
Commentary17
Support and evidence for considering local contingencies in studying and transcribing silence in conversation17
Fabricated ignorance17
Reconsidering the development of the discourse completion test in interlanguage pragmatics16
“can you tell me how to get there?”16
Meaning potentials and the interaction between lexis and contexts16
On the interplay of syntax and prosody in the constitution of turn-constructional units and turns in conversation16
Debate with zhuangzi16
Analysis of appropriateness in a speech act of request in L2 English16
Lebanese political advertising and the dialogic emergence of signs16
Perspectives on intercultural communication16
The use of interlocking multi-unit turns in topic shifts15
Writing right15
‘So many “virologists” in this thread!’15
Analysis of a first therapy interview15
Skype appearances, multiple greetings and ‘coucou’15
A matter of politeness? A contrastive study of phatic talk in teenage conversation15
Su(m)imasen and gomen nasai15
Eye closures in spoken Hebrew15
Theoretical ideals and their violation15
Fearful, forceful agents of the law15
Toward a pragmatic account and taxonomy of valuative speech acts15
Towards a distinction between non-euphemistic and euphemism-based politically correct expressions15
Locutions in medical discourse in Southwestern Nigeria14
Deliberate dispute and the construction of oppositional stance14
Gender and professional identity in three institutional settings in Brazil14
The interplay between professional identities and age, gender and ethnicity introduction14
How to be authentic on Instagram14
Concealment in consultative encounters in Nigerian hospitals14
On the referential ambiguity of personal pronouns and its pragmatic consequences14
Increments in cross-linguistic perspective14
Argumentation and inhibition: Sexism in the discourse of Spanish executives14
Are transcripts reproducible?14
Utterance-final conjunctive particles and implicature in Japanese conversation14
On interaction and grammar14
“Doing deference”13
A contrastive study of apologies performed by Greek native speakers and English learners of Greek as a foreign language13
“You gotta be a man or a girl”13
An appraisal of pragmatic elicitation techniques for the social psychological study of talk13
What’s in a name? Names, national identity, assimilation, and the new racist discourse of Marine Le Pen13
Spontaneous and non-spontaneous turn-taking13
Pragmatic markers13
Calling in13
Malinowski’s last word on the anthropological approach to language13
Multiple repair solutions in response to open class repair initiators (OCRIs) in next turn13
Sequential organization of post-predicate elements in Korean conversation13
Complement clauses as turn continuations13
Situated politeness13
“Go up to miss thingy”. “He’s probably like a whatsit or something”.13
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Code choice in intercultural conversation13
Some current transcription systems for spoken discourse: A critical analysis13
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