OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Intercultural Pragmatics is 2. 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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

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The interpretative non-prototypicality of puns as a factor in the emergence of humor and in phatic communication	19
A cross-linguistic comparison of the propositional content of laughter in American English and Central Thai	19
Humor in intercultural interaction: A source for misunderstanding or a common ground builder? A multimodal analysis	14
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	8
On commitment to untruthful implicatures	8
Metapragmatic conventions and integrative context: Introducing Sībawayhian pragmatics	8
Beyond semantics and pragmatics	7
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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
Daniel N. Silva and Jacob L. Mey: The Pragmatics of Adaptability	5
Exploiting language affordances in Chinese-mediated intercultural communication	5
A socio-cognitive reinterpretation of Grice’s theory of conversation	5
Data collection methods applied in studies in the journalIntercultural Pragmatics(2004–2020): a scientometric survey and mixed corpus study	5
Thematic issue in pragmatics and philosophy (TIPP)	5
Borrowed Swahili discourse-pragmatic features in Kenyan and Tanzanian Englishes	5
Song Sooho: Second language acquisition as a mode-switching process: An empirical analysis of Korean learners of English	4
Istvan Kecskes, Distinguished Professor of the State University of New York, affectionate friend and mentor	4
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The case of question-based exclamatives: From pragmatic rhetorical function to semantic meaning	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
Deployment of the formulaic utterance “how about^∼” in task-based second language classroom discussions	4

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Clause-level coordination and discourse continuity in Tohono O’odham	4
From lack of understanding to heightened engagement: A multimodal study of Hebrew ′ATA LO MEVIN ‘You don’t understand’	4
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
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Do you kiss when you text? Cross-cultural differences in the use of the kissing emojis in three WhatsApp corpora	3
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
From pragmatics to dialogue	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
The semantics and pragmatics of impure direct/mixed quotation	2
Facing differences in conceptualizing “Face” in everyday interacting	2
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“Irony is easy to understand ”: The role of emoji in irony detection	2