OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Intercultural Pragmatics is 0. 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.)

Article	Citations
A cross-linguistic comparison of the propositional content of laughter in American English and Central Thai	19
The interpretative non-prototypicality of puns as a factor in the emergence of humor and in phatic communication	19
Humor in intercultural interaction: A source for misunderstanding or a common ground builder? A multimodal analysis	13
On the unification of which-interrogatives and alternative-interrogatives	12
Grace Zhang and Vahid Parvaresh: Elastic Language in Persuasion and Comforting: A Cross-Cultural Perspective	9
On commitment to untruthful implicatures	8
Metapragmatic conventions and integrative context: Introducing Sībawayhian pragmatics	8
Beyond semantics and pragmatics	8
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The frame system as an interlingual representation for parallel texts	6
Daniel N. Silva and Jacob L. Mey: The Pragmatics of Adaptability	6
Exploiting language affordances in Chinese-mediated intercultural communication	6
A socio-cognitive reinterpretation of Grice’s theory of conversation	5
Borrowed Swahili discourse-pragmatic features in Kenyan and Tanzanian Englishes	5
Thematic issue in pragmatics and philosophy (TIPP)	5
Data collection methods applied in studies in the journalIntercultural Pragmatics(2004–2020): a scientometric survey and mixed corpus study	5
Istvan Kecskes, Distinguished Professor of the State University of New York, affectionate friend and mentor	5
Daniel N. Silva and Jacob L. Mey: The Pragmatics of Adaptability	5
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A contextualist treatment of negative existentials	4
Corrigendum to: Ishihara, Noriko and Andrew D. Cohen. 2021. Teaching and learning pragmatics: Where language and culture meet (2nd edn.). New York & London: Routledge, xii+354 pp. ISBN 978-1-003-1	4
From lack of understanding to heightened engagement: A multimodal study of Hebrew ′ATA LO MEVIN ‘You don’t understand’	4
The case of question-based exclamatives: From pragmatic rhetorical function to semantic meaning	4
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Clause-level coordination and discourse continuity in Tohono O’odham	4
Cognitive propositions and semantic expressions	4
Song Sooho: Second language acquisition as a mode-switching process: An empirical analysis of Korean learners of English	4
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Billy Clark: Pragmatics: The basics	3
“Sorry for your consideration”: The (in)adequacy of English speech act labels in describing ‘apologies’ and ‘thanks’ in Japanese	3
Do you kiss when you text? Cross-cultural differences in the use of the kissing emojis in three WhatsApp corpora	3
Deployment of the formulaic utterance “how about^∼” in task-based second language classroom discussions	3
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Negotiating epistemic asymmetries during crisis management exercises: Pre-emptive and corrective practices	2
Helen Spencer-Oatey and Dániel Z. Kádár: Intercultural Politeness: Managing Relations Across Cultures	2
Illocutionary-act-type sensitivity and discursive sequence: An examination of quotation	2
Interculturality and decision making: Pursuing jointness in online teams	2
Exploring (un)translatability in pragmatics: Chinese and English forms of address in subtitles	2
A cross-cultural analysis of the gestural pattern of surprise and surprise-disapproval questions	2
Populist discourse and active metaphors in the 2016 US presidential elections	2
Facing differences in conceptualizing “Face” in everyday interacting	2
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From pragmatics to dialogue	2
The semantics and pragmatics of impure direct/mixed quotation	2
Metaphorical creativity contributing to multimodal impoliteness in political cartoons	1
Interactional competence and performances of compliments and consolations by learners of Japanese	1
Actuality, indexicality, and knowledge	1
On the verge of extinction: the semantics, pragmatics, and etymology of eight endangered similes in Jish Arabic	1
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“You’re such an idiot, but I’m only joking”: The perception of mock impoliteness by British and Italian men and women	1
Towards a dynamic functional proposition for dynamic discourse meaning	1
Speech act theory of quotation: Quotation indirect quotation and Japanese quasi-quotation	1
Naoko Taguchi: The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Pragmatics	1
A functional theory of proper names: Insights from quasi-proper names	1
“Irony is easy to understand ”: The role of emoji in irony detection	1
What is lost when a language dies?	1
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A cross-cultural perspective on the comprehension of novel and conventional idiomatic expressions	0
Marina Sbisà: Essays on Speech Acts and Other Topics in Pragmatics	0
Sigrid Norris: Multimodal theory and methodology: For the analysis of (inter)action and identity	0
Resemblance by meaning and culture between Singapore English and Singapore Mandarin	0
The status of conventional metaphorical meaning in the L2 lexicon	0
Negotiating religious identity categories in non-professional interviews using English as a lingua franca	0
Impoliteness in polylogal intercultural communication among Asian EFL learners	0
Edda Weigand and Istvan Kecskés: From Pragmatics to Dialogue	0
Ishihara, Noriko and Andrew D. Cohen:Teaching and learning pragmatics: where language and culture meet(2^ndedn.)	0
Proper names as speech acts	0
Rational belief and Dialetheism	0
Xie, Chaoqun: The Pragmatics of Internet Memes	0
The total speech act: Infelicities and cultural variations. The contribution of women anthropologists	0
The development of presupposition: Pre-schoolers’ understanding ofregretandtoo	0
Christoph Rühlemann: Corpus Linguistics for Pragmatics: A guide for research	0
Bullshit, trust, and evidence	0
Implicit strategies aimed at persuading the audience in public debates	0

The distance between illocution and perlocution: A tale of different pragmemes to call for social distancing in two cities	0
Lebanese conversational style and cultural values	0
Ning Yu: The Moral Metaphor System: A Conceptual Metaphor Approach	0
Interlocutors’ judgment of Lx conventional expressions: An exploratory study	0
Some reflections on Sharifian’s approach to cultural linguistics	0
The distinction between semantics and pragmatics: The point of view of semiotics	0
Moorean utterances and the illocutionary dynamics of assertion	0
When children acquire irony: The role of epistemic vigilance	0
Why truth is necessarily pragmatic	0
Local grammars and intercultural speech act studies: A study of apologies in four English varieties	0
Xinren Chen: Exploring Identity Work in Chinese Communication	0
Julia Muschalik: Threatening in English: A mixed method approach	0
Pragmatic impairment and COVID-19	0
Juliane House and Dániel Z. Kádár: Cross-cultural Pragmatics	0
Ira Noveck: Experimental Pragmatics: The Making of a Cognitive Science	0
Resonance and recombinant creativity: Why they are important for research in Cognitive Linguistics and Pragmatics	0
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Topicality, accessibility, and causality in anaphora resolution: An eye-tracking study of null and overt pronouns in Italian	0
Kate Scott: Pragmatics online	0
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The cultural evolution of speech act norms	0
Interpersonal strategies in international business emails: The intercultural pragmatics perspective	0
Exploring emoji usage in intercultural CMC: Insights from Colombian and Argentinian learners of German	0
Numeral terms and the predictive potential of Bayesian updating	0
Autistic children and control children use similar strategies when answering false belief questions	0
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Presuppositions cross-linguistically: A comparison of soft and hard triggers in Chinese and German	0
Wang, Binhua and Jeremy Munday: Advances in discourse analysis of translation and interpreting: Linking linguistic approaches with socio-cultural interpretation	0
Problems for a uniform analysis of ancora in Italian	0
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Dynamism of context: A case of joke interpretation	0
In Memorium	0
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Karin Aijmer and Diana Lewis: Contrastive Analysis of Discourse-pragmatic Aspects of Linguistic Genre	0
Language and dialogue in philosophy and science	0
Cynthia Lee: Researching and Teaching Second Language Speech Acts in the Chinese Context	0
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Németh T., Enikő: Implicit Subject and Direct Object Arguments in Hungarian Language use: Grammar and Pragmatics Interacting	0
A new look at language choice and accommodation in U.S. Spanish-English bilingual service encounters	0
Doing leadership in style: Pragmatic markers in New Zealand workplace interaction	0
The foundational role of sound quality for understanding demonstratives	0
The concepts of explicature, impliciture and the Coserian invariant/variant distinction in Spanish legal utterances	0
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“We’re running out of fuel!”: When does miscommunication go unrepaired?	0
“The message is clear”: An L1 business perspective on non-target-like formulaic expressions in L2 German	0
Self-translations in multilingual workplace interaction	0
A contextual theory of fictional names	0
Thora Tenbrink: Cognitive discourse analysis: an introduction	0
Examining interlanguage pragmatics from a relevance-theoretic perspective: Challenges in L2 production	0
Ironic speakers, vigilant hearers	0
Towards an extended notion of Common Ground in aphasiology	0
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“I would like to complain”: A study of the moves and strategies employed by Spanish EFL learners in formal complaint e-mails	0
The discursive construction of accountability for communicative action to citizens: A contrastive analysis across Israeli and British media discourse	0
Lying vs. misleading: The adverbial account	0
Andreas H. Jucker, Iris Hübscher, and Lucien Brown: Multimodal Im/politeness: Signed, spoken, written	0
Kate Scott: Referring Expressions, Pragmatics, and Style: Reference and Beyond	0
Marzieh Sadeghpour & Farzad Sharifian: Cultural linguistics and world Englishes	0
Bruno G. Bara February 28, 1949 to November 7, 2023: A eulogy to a brilliant mind	0
When cancellation becomes unreasonable	0
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The Sino–US trade war in political cartoons: A synthesis of semiotic, cognitive, and cultural perspectives	0
Relevance theory and the study of linguistic interfaces in second language acquisition	0
Getting attention in different languages: A usage-based approach to parenthetical look in Chinese, Dutch, English, and Italian	0
Bruno G. Bara February 28, 1949 to November 7, 2023: A eulogy to a brilliant mind	0
Boilerplate and contractual language: Pseudo-contract or blanket assent?	0
Cultural concept, movement, and way of life:jeitinhoin words and gestures	0