OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Politeness Research-Language Behaviour Culture is 1. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The not so silent Estonians? Perceptions and practice of small talk	16
The embodied enactment of politeness metapragmatics	16
Metapragmatics of attentiveness: a study in interpersonal and cross-cultural pragmatics	12
Linguistic and relational strategies for advice giving in an online commercial context	10
The complexity of non-seriousness: a case study of a (mock?) mock impolite utterance	10
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Off-record indirectness in Jordanian Arabic	8
Reconfiguring the strategic/non-strategic binary in im/politeness research	8
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From speech acts to lay understandings of politeness: multilingual and multicultural perspectives	7
Impoliteness among multilingual Facebook users in Congo Brazzaville	7
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Native observers’ evaluations of ritual frame indicating expressions in Chinese	6
The effect of extralinguistic variables on verb selection in Italian requests	5
A closer look at explanations in refusals: themes, attributions, and contexts	5
Theorizing impoliteness: a Levinasian perspective	5
Impoliteness, power and ethics	4
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Grundtvig, A. 2021. English is context: Practical pragmatics for clear communication. Stuttgart: DELTA Publishing, Ernst Klett Sprachen GmbH, 144 pp., ISBN 978-3-125-01742-9. Price: € 28,50.	4
Conceptualizations and evaluations of (im)politeness in Syrian Arabic	4
Conduct politeness versus etiquette politeness: a terminological distinction	3
When the Norwegian ‘politeness marker’ vennligst becomes impolite	3
Im/politeness research – what it says on the tin? (Not quite)	3
Discernment2 and Discernment1: does historical politeness need another binary?	3

20 years (further) on: whither politeness studies now? Opening up the binaries	3
Chinese perceptions and refutations of face-threatening impoliteness regarding diplomatic press conferences	3
Rap Devil versus Rap God: impoliteness in a rap battle	3
Multimodal mitigation: how facial and body cues index politeness in Catalan requests	3
Politeness of nonverbal hospitality in Saudi and British female interactions	2
The Italian Bella Figura – a challenge for politeness theories	2
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Mitigating strategies and politeness in German requests	2
Offering food and alcohol in Chinese and English: a contrastive pragmatic perspective	2
Revisiting the binary view of honorifics in politeness research	2
“I look with deep gratitude and admiration…” – praising and complimenting in papal speeches	2
Aggravated impoliteness in Chinese online negative restaurant reviews	2
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Two phenomena behind the terminology of face	2
A sociopragmatic study of the strategies and affecting factors of Chinese thanking responses	2
The evolution of research articles on self-denigration: a systematic review across disciplines	1
(Im)politeness as a tool to categorize interactive discourse markers of Arabic in radio shows	1
Comedy out of tragedy: impoliteness as a ritual of entertainment	1
(Im)politeness in the face of digital rejection: an analysis of whether gender affects the response to an impolite refusal of a Facebook friend request	1
Well-wishing practices in Greek and English food blogs	1
“Write oneself into being”– Ha as an interpersonal pragmatic marker on WeChat	1
Understanding online advice-giving evaluations through the politeness evaluation model	1
How the police (over)use explicit apology language to manage aspects of their identity	1
Conceptualization of first-order politeness in Russia: an exploratory study	1
Prosody influence on (im)politeness perception in Chinese-German intercultural communication	1