OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Politeness Research-Language Behaviour Culture 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
Linguistic and relational strategies for advice giving in an online commercial context	11
The not so silent Estonians? Perceptions and practice of small talk	10
Refusing invitations and offers in second language Chinese: effect of proficiency at the actional and interactional levels	9
The embodied enactment of politeness metapragmatics	9
Off-record indirectness in Jordanian Arabic	8
The complexity of non-seriousness: a case study of a (mock?) mock impolite utterance	8
Reconfiguring the strategic/non-strategic binary in im/politeness research	6
The effect of extralinguistic variables on verb selection in Italian requests	5
Impoliteness among multilingual Facebook users in Congo Brazzaville	5
Native observers’ evaluations of ritual frame indicating expressions in Chinese	5
Frontmatter	5
From speech acts to lay understandings of politeness: multilingual and multicultural perspectives	5
Frontmatter	5
Theorizing impoliteness: a Levinasian perspective	4
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
Frontmatter	4
Conduct politeness versus etiquette politeness: a terminological distinction	3
Im/politeness research – what it says on the tin? (Not quite)	3
Chinese perceptions and refutations of face-threatening impoliteness regarding diplomatic press conferences	3
Impoliteness, power and ethics	3
Sassy Sasha?: The intersectionality of (im)politeness and sociolinguistics	3
Rap Devil versus Rap God: impoliteness in a rap battle	3
20 years (further) on: whither politeness studies now? Opening up the binaries	2
When the Norwegian ‘politeness marker’ vennligst becomes impolite	2

Revisiting the binary view of honorifics in politeness research	2
Multimodal mitigation: how facial and body cues index politeness in Catalan requests	2
Discernment2 and Discernment1: does historical politeness need another binary?	2
Two phenomena behind the terminology of face	1
Aggravated impoliteness in Chinese online negative restaurant reviews	1
Freytag, Vera: Exploring Politeness in Business Emails. A Mixed-Methods Analysis	1
Experiments into the influence of linguistic (in)directness on perceived face-threat in Twitter complaints	1
Frontmatter	1
Keqi (客气) in historical Chinese: evidence from metapragmatic comments	1
Frontmatter	1
Offering food and alcohol in Chinese and English: a contrastive pragmatic perspective	1
Politeness of nonverbal hospitality in Saudi and British female interactions	1
Mitigating strategies and politeness in German requests	1
“I look with deep gratitude and admiration…” – praising and complimenting in papal speeches	1
Duelling contexts: how action misalignment leads to impoliteness in a courtroom	1
A corpus-assisted analysis of indexical signs for (im)politeness in Japanese apology-like behaviour	0
(Im)politeness as object, (im)politeness as perspective	0
Performing positive politeness: political rhetoric in state dinner speeches by US-American presidents	0
(Im)politeness on Facebook during the Covid-19 pandemic	0
“Can I have a cup of tea please?” Politeness markers in the Spoken BNC2014	0
Sinkeviciute, Valeria: Conversational humour and (im)politeness: a pragmatic analysis of social interaction	0
Mugford, Gerrard. 2019.Addressing Difficult Situations in Foreign-Language Learning. Confusion, Impoliteness, and Hostility	0
Impoliteness in Twitter diplomacy: offence giving and taking in Middle East diplomatic crises	0
Japanese politeness revisited: from the perspective of attentiveness on Twitter	0
A cognitive-semiotic approach to impoliteness: Effects of conventionality and semiotic system on judgements of impoliteness by Russian and Swedish speakers	0
Frontmatter	0
(Im)politeness as a tool to categorize interactive discourse markers of Arabic in radio shows	0
Conceptualization of first-order politeness in Russia: an exploratory study	0
The evolution of research articles on self-denigration: a systematic review across disciplines	0
I wanted to honour your journal, and you spat in my face: emotive (im)politeness and face in the English and Russian blind peer review	0
The in-group ritual of self-denigration in Iranian doctoral defense sessions: applied linguists’ attitudes, functions and perceptions in focus	0
Exploring metapragmatics of politeness lexemes using a computational approach	0
“Saying ‘thank you’ or something more than lip service”: a variational analysis of the influence of gender and social status on responses to congratulations on Chinese WeChat	0
“Shuoshihua, …”: Chinese celebrities’ metapragmatic management of rapport and impression in an interview setting	0
Dangerous politeness? Understandings of politeness in the COVID-19 era and beyond	0
Frontmatter	0
Prosody influence on (im)politeness perception in Chinese-German intercultural communication	0
Twitter and the Real Academia Española: perspectives on impoliteness	0
Metadiscourse of impoliteness, language ideology, and identity: offense-taking as social action	0
“You can f*** get lost already”: (Responding to) impoliteness in the (in-)authentic discourse of comedy and crime TV series and movies	0
Editorial: where we have been and where we are going	0
How the police (over)use explicit apology language to manage aspects of their identity	0
Saying “no” in emails in Mandarin Chinese and Australian English	0
“People confuse respeto ‘respect’ with terms of address”: an analysis of online metacommunication about politeness and second-person pronoun use in Peninsular Spanish	0
The impact of linguistic choices and (para-)linguistic markers on the perception of Twitter complaints by other customers: an experimental approach	0
How does experience teaching in Japanese EFL classrooms inform English native-speaker educators classroom practices? The negotiation of face in university classrooms	0
Impolite, uncivil and underage: a case study about the influence of socio-demographic factors on discursive sanctioning	0
Grand strategy of politeness in new social networks: revisiting Leech’s politeness theory among Iranian EFL learners using Telegram	0
Frontmatter	0
Intercultural Im/politeness: perceptions of language choice and translanguaging in the Korean community in Australia	0

Borrowing of address forms for dimensions of social relation in a contact-induced multilingual community	0
E-mpoliteness – creative impoliteness as an expression of digital social capital	0
Spencer-Oatey, Helen and Dániel Z. Kádár: Intercultural Politeness: Managing Relations across Cultures	0
Ritual frame indicating expressions used in requests in intercultural communication	0
Understanding online advice-giving evaluations through the politeness evaluation model	0
“Write oneself into being”– Ha as an interpersonal pragmatic marker on WeChat	0
The Italian Bella Figura – a challenge for politeness theories	0
The diachrony of honorification in Chinese: stability and change	0
Landone, Elena. 2022. Methodology in Politeness Research. Springer International Publishing. Hardcover ISBN 978-3-031-09160-5. eBook ISBN 978-3-031-09161-2 Price: Hb €99.	0