Pragmatics and Society

Papers
(The median citation count of Pragmatics and Society 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
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The role of object distance and gender in Persian compliment responses22
Simple language, sophisticated actions14
Language change among Kalhuri Kurdish speakers in Iran10
Gendered subtle bias in Danish TV election debates8
Review of Xie (2022): The Pragmatics of Internet Memes8
Review of Scott (2022): Pragmatics Online7
A marathon to nowhere7
Disagreement strategies and institutional face attack in Chinese mainstream media editorial comments on Weibo6
Representations of ‘leftover women’ in the Chinese English-medium newspapers6
Metaphor analysis of the COVID-19 public health emergency on Chinese national news media5
Solidarity and support in Belgian residential linguistic landscapes during the Covid-19 outbreak5
Conflict, gender, and amount of talk5
A contrastive study of Chinese and American online complaints5
Kwame Nkrumah’s construction of ‘the African people’ via the Unite or Perish myth4
Dialogic language and meta-language in a conflictual discourse4
The role of well as a response-delaying marker in side story insertions4
“Not everything is on the hostess”4
Trust me, trust my words4
Discursive positioning of doctors and e‑patients in online medical consultations in China4
Review of Xie, Yus & Haberland (2021): Approaches to Internet Pragmatics: Theory and practice4
The role of prior and actual situational context in conversational routines produced by Chinese learners of English4
The metapragmatic act of debating in the media4
Comparing compliments in Face-to-Face vs. online interactions among Iranian speakers of Persian3
Novel veiling and concealing euphemisms in political discourse3
Attacks and remedies in online public opinion reversal events3
Polymedia life3
Parents’ indirect utterances in an Indonesian family3
On the constitutional relevance of non‑discursive enlanguaged doings to sociomaterial practices3
The World of Daily Life3
Under the shadow of swords: The Rhetoric of Jihad3
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Review of Walton, Macagno & Sartor (2019): Statutory Interpretation. Pragmatics and Argumentation3
Determiners of social inclusion and exclusion in the dementia context3
‘What happened to the un-omitted subjects?’3
On an even playing field of haiku making3
Initiating reason-for-the-call action in mundane mobile phone conversation2
The interpersonal semantics of rhetoric2
Covid-19 WhatsApp sticker memes as public signs in Oman2
Review of Schneider & Ifantidou (2020): Developmental and Clinical Pragmatics2
Metaphorical framing in news2
Face attributes in interviews with Iranian politicians2
From our sisters/to our sisters2
‘Proto-conversation’ as a practice in late-stage dementia care2
Self-help and masculinity2
I am a doctor in your shoes2
Situated co-operative creativity2
A study on the intertextuality of Russian media2
The performance and relational role of toast intervention in Chinese dining contexts2
Societal pragmatics2
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Examining the use of reflexive metadiscourse in the construction of affiliative communication in group email requests2
Polymedia repertoires of networked individuals2
When TCM debate meets Covid-19 discourse2
Challenges of trust in atypical interaction2
Repetition and paraphrase in contexts of concordant and discordant orientations2
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The discursive construction of femininity in metacommentaries on a rape-joke in Nigeria2
Unspoken evaluation of impoliteness2
Transdisciplinary approaches to the discourse of Islamist extremism2
Affect in the pragmeme of delivering a health directive2
“I Am Proud to Be a Traitor”2
“I am not populist”1
Idioms of polymediated practices and the techno-social accomplishment of co-presence in transnational families1
Interveners’ performance of “identity work” in the context of Chinese bystander intervention1
Blame-avoiding strategies for a digital scandal1
Attitudes to language and bilingualism in residential care for older persons in Ireland1
Gratitude communication in academic written acknowledgement1
Review of Wharton & de Saussure (2023): Pragmatics and Emotion1
‘I’m not a tech person’1
Painting the state in the text1
Representation of women in English and Persian proverbs1
Review of Sorlin & Virtanen (2024): The Pragmatics of Hypocrisy1
Review of Kecskes (2019): English as a Lingua Franca: The Pragmatic Perspective1
Review of Verschueren (2021): Complicity in Discourse and Practice1
You have no right!1
“Let’s Just Forget It!”1
Clean room, uncomfortable bed1
Review of Taleghani-Nikazm, Betz & Golato (2020): Mobilizing Others: Grammar and lexis within larger activities1
Polymedia in Interaction1
Regrounding work in elite discourse1
Conventions of author self-reference in Chinese academic writing1
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Common ground management via evidential markers in Turkish1
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Polymedia in interaction1
Chinese patients’ unsolicited presentation of primary concerns1
Polemic polyphony1
Finnish and French public signs from commercial premises during the Covid-19 pandemic1
Performing right-wing political identities on reader comments pages1
Stances and ideologies in Nigerian pro-gay tweets1
Idioms, proverbs and body part expressions onYiedie“wellbeing” in Akan1
Saying “sorry” in online language1
Would you like a bag for that?1
Talking about the deceased in the Jish linguaculture1
Review of Economidou-Kogetsidis, Savić & Halenko (2021): Email Pragmatics and Second Language Learners1
Both responsiveness and standardization1
Introduction1
Interactional multimodal metadiscourse in public health posters during the COVID-19 pandemic0
Commenting behavior as a mirror of parasocial relationships and emotional attachment on YouTube0
Evidential meanings in native and learner Japanese and English0
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Citizens’ polarised discourses on climate change and mobility0
Degrees of negative judgement0
“Jerry was a terrific host!” “You were a brilliant guest!”0
Review of Yus (2022): Smartphone Communication. Interactions in the App Ecosystem0
Review of Ädel & Östman (2023): Risk Discourse and Responsibility0
From image to function0
A multimodal analysis of a Japanese TV commercial0
Criticizing for the public interest and aligning with others0
Variation and society0
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Deictic shifts and re-contextualization in translation0
Historical imprints on Chinese ideological given names0
Polymedia and family multilingualism0
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Identity dynamics in text messaging0
Review of Jucker (2020): Politeness in the History of English – From the Middle Ages to the Present Day0
“Boom! You bought them.”0
Urban environments favorable to radical narratives0
From evaluative authorities to involved narrators0
Review of Gill, Malmivirta & Wårvik (2024): Structures in Discourse: Interaction, adaptability, and pragmatic functions0
Dealing with the dual demands of expertise and democracy0
Patients resist, doctors manage0
Dialogicity in Political Discourse0
Giving advice in HIV counselling in Malaysia0
Taking actions to enhance inclusivity of persons living with dementia0
The interpersonal functions of public signs during the Covid-19 pandemic0
(Neo)liberalizing the state – Privatization of core government competencies0
“Money can buy health”0
The humorous effect of routine formulas in Spanish and English televised monologues0
Activity contamination in a problematic call made to the Korean emergency center0
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Mitigating requesting acts by deaf Jordanian adults0
An epistemic interpretation of responses to advice resistance on Chinese phone-ins of family problem counseling0
Where there is panic, the media are close by0
“I hope this is your last sorrow”0
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Scalar implicature0
Review of Betz, Deppermann, Mondada & Sorjonen (2021): OKAY across Languages: Toward a Comparative Approach to its Use in Talk-in-interaction0
Code accommodation as a measure of inclusion for bilingual people living with dementia of the Alzheimer’s type0
Dialogic meaning-making in political settings0
Semiotic manipulation strategies employed in Iranian printed advertisements0
Negotiating the value of rule of law through attitudinal positioning0
Political language gaffes and the importance of Hearer’s meaning0
Review of Cap (2022): The Discourse of Conflict and Crisis: Poland’s Political Rhetoric in the European Perspective0
Verbal play in dementia care0
Exploring lexical associations in English as a Lingua Franca interactions0
Comparing Chinese and British entrepreneurial pitches in reality TV shows0
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Culture and identity in critical remarks0
Review of Masia (2021): The Manipulative Disguise of Truth: Tricks and threats of implicit communication0
The language of threat0
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Doing newsworthiness in execution news and death penalty ideology0
Correcting the scientific record0
Review of Haugh, Kádár & Terkourafi (2021): The Cambridge Handbook of Sociopragmatics0
Deconstructing imagined identities and imagined communities through humor0
Reciprocity and epistemicity on screen-based interactions0
A study of linguistic manipulations of activating, seeking and creating common ground in intercultural business communication0
A politeness-theoretic approach to mitigated disagreements in online radio medical consultations0
Review of Yus (2023): Pragmatics of Internet Humour0
Contradicting potential climate misinformation during televised debates0
Review of Jucker, Hübscher & Brown (2023): Multimodal Im/politeness. Signed, spoken, written0
Multivaried acceptance of post-editing in China0
The role of assessments in providing evasive answers in news interviews0
Politeness in hotel service encounter interactions in Spain0
Identity gatekeeping in New Work Order organizations0
Actions of known-answer questions in guided tours0
Defining openness in teachers’ ‘open’ questions0
‘Like to comment on that?’0
A sociopragmatic account of religiosity and secularity in fictional narratives0
Learning from initial reviews of multilingual graphics illustrating dementia caregiving0
Parentheses used as pragmatic strategies in Chinese online socialization0
Recontextualizing knowledge in academic video publications0
Withholding advice for rapport management in online medical counselling interactions0
The pragmatics of communication in traditional ritual performance (Japanese kagura)0
“They fabricated lies against us and described us in the harshest of ways”0
When the discourse of strategy meets the discourse of spirituality0
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Withholding consent0
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“Our group was by far the coolest”0
Review of Archer, Grainger & Jagodziński (2020): Politeness in Professional Contexts0
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Negotiating academic conflict in discussion sections of doctoral dissertations0
Getting involved or acting in defence0
Review of Placencia & Eslami (2020): Complimenting Behavior and (Self)Praise across Social Media. New Contexts and New Insights0
Review of Al-Shboul (2023): The Politics of Climate Change Metaphors in the U.S. Discourse: Conceptual Metaphor Theory and Analysis from an Ecolinguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis Perspective0
Pragmatics of Active Social Inclusion0
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The Ethnopragmatics of Jish Arabic-speaking culture0
Doing things with discourse in the mediated political arena0
Sociality in complex, multi-layered, technoscapes0
Negotiating identities0
A semi-supervised algorithm for detecting extremism propaganda diffusion on social media0
A socio-pragmatic analysis of the Turkish discourse markers of ‘şey’, ‘yani’, and ‘işte’ based on educational level of speakers0
Us and them0
Using wǒmen (we) to mean s/he in Chinese parents’ interaction0
Conceptual metaphors in Jordanian newspaper socio-political discourse during the Arab Spring0
Review of Schneider & Eitelmann (2020): Linguistic Inquiries into Donald Trump’s Language. From ‘Fake News’ to ‘Tremendous Success’0
Andreas Musolff. Political Metaphor Analysis: Discourse and Scenarios0
“Why does he appear so ordinary, but he can be so confident”0
“That was a long time ago”0
Politely warning?0
Review of Garcés-Conejos Blitvich (2024): Pragmatics, (Im)politeness, and Intergroup Communication: A Multilayered, Discursive Analysis of Cancel Culture0
On the nature of pragmatic constituents0
Conversation practices that foster or hinder inclusivity during interactions involving persons with dementia0
The Discourse of Terrorism0
Reduction in and out of context0
Obituary0
More than writing on the wall0
Review of House & Kádár (2021): Cross-cultural pragmatics0
Motivation and attitudes of Israeli Druze schoolchildren toward L2 Hebrew compared to Modern Standard Arabic0
Conspiracy theories and passion0
Singling out0
Rhetorical strategies for the construction of a corporate identity0
Pragmatic functions of humor in Berlin’s directive Covid-19 Signs0
Review of Chen (2021): Exploring identity work in Chinese communication0
Virtual dialogues in monologic political discourse0
When invoked voices blame real politicians0
Making up or taunting?0
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Resemblance in comments/posts interaction0
The metapragmatics of mode choice0
Review of Panther (2022): Introduction to Cognitive Pragmatics0
Deontic authority-based resolution of deontic right-based resistance in online medical consultation0
The pragmeme of accommodation in Christian condolence messages in Nigeria0
Review of Hidalgo-Downing & Mujic Kraljevic (2020): Performing Metaphoric Creativity across Modes and Contexts0
Fear appeals in Chinese public signs of COVID-19 prevention in local communities0
One issue, two genres0
Approaches to the discourse of terror0
Compliments and compliment responses in Egyptian and Saudi Arabic0
Review of Robles & Weatherall (2021): How Emotions Are Made in Talk0
Sociality and moral conflicts0
“Trust X, because Y”0
“I never said that”0
Meschonnic, Wittgenstein and translation as form of life0
“A tour guide losing her cool”0
Review of McCready (2019): The Semantics and Pragmatics of Honorification: Register and Social Meaning0
Review of Page, Busse & Nørgaard (2019): Rethinking Language, Text and Context: Interdisciplinary Research in Stylistics in Honour of Michael Toolan0
Disseminating risk communication0
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