Lingua

Papers
(The TQCC of Lingua 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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)
ArticleCitations
‘Using all English is not always meaningful’: Stakeholders’ perspectives on the use of and attitudes towards translanguaging at a Chinese university84
Funny but aversive: A large-scale survey of the emotional response to Covid-19 humor in the Italian population during the lockdown47
Altered speech act indication: A contrastive pragmatic study of English and Chinese Thank and Greet expressions33
The power of swearing: What we know and what we don’t20
Metadiscourse across languages and genres: An overview18
Simplification in translated Chinese: An entropy-based approach17
Proposing a revised functional classification of pragmatic gestures17
Sources for courses: Metadiscourse and the role of citation in student writing16
Stance expressions in academic writing: A corpus-based comparison of Chinese students’ MA dissertations and PhD theses16
Surprise markers in applied linguistics research articles: A diachronic perspective15
Framing metaphor use over time: ‘Free Economy’ metaphors in Hong Kong political discourse (1997–2017)15
‘The goal of this analysis …’: Changing patterns of metadiscursive nouns in disciplinary writing15
Processing implicatures in English as a Lingua Franca communication13
Conceptual attaching in perception and practice-based behavior13
Second language learner intuitions of idiom properties: What do they tell us about L2 idiom knowledge and acquisition?13
Automated lexical and time series modelling for critical discourse research: A case study of Hong Kong protest editorials12
Agency and responsibility: A linguistic analysis of culpable acts in retraction notices12
Motion events again: Delimiting constructional patterns11
Emergent neologism: A study of an emerging meaning with competing forms based on the first six months of COVID-1911
Narrative pantomime: A protolanguage for persuasive communication10
Dialects or languages: A corpus-based quantitative approach to lexical variation in common signs in Chinese Sign Language (CSL)10
Can explicit instruction of formulaic sequences enhance L2 oral fluency?10
Emancipating Chinese (im)politeness research: Looking back and looking forward10
Learning Arabic in Scandinavia: Motivation, metacognition, and autonomy10
Interaction, speech acts and ritual: An integrative model9
Constructional idioms of ‘insanity’ in English and Spanish: A corpus-based study9
When the owner of information is unsure: Epistemic uncertainty influences evidentiality processing in Turkish9
What surprises, interests and confuses researchers? A frame-based analysis of knowledge emotion markers in research articles9
Syntactic complexity of interpreted, L2 and L1 speech: A constrained language perspective8
The emergence of referential shift devices in three young sign languages8
There may be differences: Analysing the use of hedges in English and Spanish research articles8
Parataxis or hypotaxis? Choices of taxis in Chinese–English translation7
Linguistic insecurity and discrimination among Italian school students7
Afrikaans discourse-pragmatic features in South African English7
Laryngeal vocalizations: Grunts as a gateway to language?7
Syntactic and typological properties of translational language: A comparative description of dependency treebank of academic abstracts7
How did language evolve in the lineage of higher primates?7
Development of voice onset time in monolingual and bilingual French-speaking children6
Home and away – Implications of short-term sojourning of young Australian bilinguals6
Cognitive control in older Minnan-Mandarin and Hakka-Mandarin bidialectal adults: Advantages in Stroop-type tasks6
Placeholders in Yoron Ryukyuan: A view from Functional Discourse Grammar5
Culture-specific conceptualisations relating to corruption in China English5
Lexical use and social class: A study on lexical richness, word length, and word class in spoken English5
Hypothetical questions in everyday Italian conversations.5
Effects of proficiency and gender on learners’ use of the pragmatic marker 吧ba5
Copulas ser and estar production in child and adult heritage speakers of Spanish5
Cross-linguistic collocational networks in the L1 Turkish–L2 English mental lexicon5
Exploring the ‘languaging habitus’ of a diasporic community: Colombians in New Zealand5
Syntactic simplification in interpreted English: Dependency distance and direction measures5
Nostalgic diaspora or diasporic nostalgia? Discursive and identity constructions of Greeks in Qatar5
Emotion at the end of life: Semantic annotation and key domains in a pilot study audiovisual corpus5
(Non-)propositional irony in Japanese – Impoliteness behind honorifics5
Shell nouns as grammatical metaphor in knowledge construal: Variation across science and engineering discourse5
Towards a new typology of meteorological events: A study based on synchronic and diachronic data5
The role of interactional and cognitive mechanisms in the evolution of (proto)language(s)5
Metadiscourse in academic writing: A systematic review5
Cross-linguistic transfer in Turkish–English bilinguals’ descriptions of motion events5
Pseudo-cleft-like structures in Hebrew and French conversation: The syntax-lexicon-body interface5
Semantic scope in Q-float constructions: An experimental investigation4
A memetic cultural practice: The use of generalized kinship terms in a research seminar attended by Chinese graduate students4
How Gbe is Guianese French Creole?4
Conceptual metonymy and emotive-affective meaning at the interface: Examples from online medical consultations4
Socioenvironmental affordances of an English-medium instruction international university specializing in English as a lingua franca communication: An exploratory study of L2 student voices4
Assessing structural language skills of autistic adults: Focus on sentence repetition4
Inequalities in status: How do they show in discourse and what can be done about them?4
Animacy and agentivity of Subject Themes in English-German translation4
Investigating diachronic change in dependency distance of Modern English: A genre-specific perspective4
Emotional intelligence, working memory, and emotional vocabulary in L1 and L2: Interactions and dissociations4
Acoustic salience in the evaluations of intelligibility and foreign accentedness of nonnative vowel production4
Typological characteristics of interlanguage: Across native language types and L2 proficiency levels4
Pitch syntax as part of an ancient protolanguage4
Dynamic modelling of context: Field, Tenor and Mode revisited4
Spatiality and temporality: The fundamental difference between Chinese and English4
Translatorial voice through modal stance: A corpus-based study of modality shifts in Chinese-to-English translation of research article abstracts4
Neological intuition in French: A study of formal novelty and lexical regularity as predictors4
What you “mean” is not what I “mean”: Categorization of verbs by Germans and Koreans using the semantic differential4
Emergence and evolution of language in multi-agent systems4
Are there core and peripheral syntactic structures? Experimental evidence from Dutch native speakers with varying literacy levels4
‘De-ethnicization’ in New Englishes: Perception and recognition of ethnicity in Namibian English4
Comparison-and-contrast in research articles of applied linguistics: A frame-based analysis4
A multidimensional analysis of the Spanish reportative epistemic evidential dizque4
Gradient optionality in L2 acquisition at the syntax-discourse interface: Evidence from inversion in advanced and near-native English3
Language, race or place? Influential factors in determining young “Coloured” individuals’ attitudes towards Afrikaans accents in English3
Transitivity-ergativity perspectives on causation in legal texts: A contrastive study of Arabic and English website terms of service3
A corpus-based study of adjectivizations in English3
Morphological processing and individual frequency effects in L1 and L2 Spanish3
The compositionality of English phrasal verbs in terms of imageability3
Classifiers in non-European languages and semantic impairments in western neurological patients have a common cognitive structure3
Frequency matters in second language acquisition too! Frequency effects in the production of preterit morphology with state verbs in Spanish second language learners and heritage speakers3
Overlap not gap: Understanding the relationship between animal communication and language with Prototype Theory3
Modelability of WAR metaphors across time in cross-national COVID-19 news translation: An insight into ideology manipulation3
Northern Middle English spelling evidence in the Durham Account Rolls3
Contextually categorised adjective as predicate in Mandarin3
Exploring the effect of interpreting training: Eye-tracking English-Chinese sight interpreting3
Variation and change of middle-class /r/ in Standard Scottish English3
The development of Latin alphabet identity markers: A comparison among three Romance graphemes3
Corpus similarity measures remain robust across diverse languages3
Variation in verbal negation in Jordanian Arabic: A corpus-based analysis3
Exploring motion event construal: How much attention do speakers of different languages and cultures pay to context?3
Linguistic characteristics of online academic forum posts across subregisters, L1 backgrounds, and grades3
Pushing SFL out of its comfort zone: The role of SPCA structure in English and Spanish3
The difference intersubjective grammar makes in protactile DeafBlind communities3
Predictive processing of grammatical gender: Using gender cues to facilitate processing in Spanish3
Anaphora resolution and age effects in Greek-Spanish bilingualism: Evidence from first-generation immigrants, heritage speakers, and L2 speakers3
Comparatives in Korean: A grammaticalization perspective3
Retrieval practice enhances learning and memory retention of French words in Chinese-English bilinguals3
It's as far as the arm can raise: Pointing height marks target distance among the San Juan Quiahije Chatino2
Intonation and exchange: A dynamic and metafunctional view2
An intercultural analysis of metadiscourse in international mathematical contest papers: From research to EAP practice2
An extensive analysis of blending in Contemporary Italian2
Pseudo-clefts: An interactional analysis across languages2
Hortatives, imperatives, and the directive speech-act continuum: A usage-based approach to the Korean -ca hortative construction2
Retracing the phonesthemic {gr-/prehension}, {sm-/oral phenomena} and {sn-/nasality} relations in English to Proto-Indo-European and beyond within a semiogenetic perspective2
Visualizing prosodic structure: Manual gestures as highlighters of prosodic heads and edges in English academic discourses2
Does dialect matter in the expression of motion? Ways of encoding manner and path in Babao and standard Mandarin2
Intersubjectivity and (non-)shared modes of interaction in Australian tactile signing2
Particle stacking in Singlish – New data from the National Speech Corpus2
A comparative study of the phrase frames used in the essays of native and nonnative English students2
Linguistic encounters in real world prescriptivism: Acknowledging its place and role2
Intersubjective understanding in finger braille interpreter-mediated interaction: Two case studies of other-initiated repair2
Gratitude for compliance: A developmental study on the speech act of thanking2
Possessive pronouns, Condition C and Anti-Cataphora Effects2
The effectiveness of metaphors in Chinese video advertisements for depression: An experimental study2
Repair-by-deletion/insertion and the distribution of the copula in African American English2
To combine is to divide: Evidence of the noun-verb distinction at the morphemic level in compound nouns2
Introduction: Reimagining language and belonging in the diaspora2
Perception of foreign segments in loanword phonology2
Expressions of interest in research articles: Geo-academic location and time as influencing factors2
The origin and development of the question particle me1 in Cantonese2
The vowel system of Eastern Andalusian Spanish speakers with articulation disorders2
Listening to accents: Comprehensibility, accentedness and intelligibility of native and non-native English speech2
On the predicative use of Chinese gradable adjectives2
The functions and evolution of xob ‘well’ in Persian: A thetical analysis2
Knowledge of idiomatic expressions in the native language: Do emigrants lose their touch?2
Engaging social media users with attitudinal messages during health crisis communication2
Fulfillment types in Realization events: Definition, distinctions, and diagnostics2
Compound words are decomposed regardless of semantic transparency and grammatical class: An fMRI study in Persian2
Is Hanja represented in the Korean mental lexicon?: Encoding cross-script semantic cohorts in the representation of Sino-Korean2
Compliment patterns in English: L1 and L2 production in the virtual exchange environment2
Gender dissimilarity between subject and object facilitates online-comprehension of agent–patient–relations in German: An eye-tracking study with 6- to 10-year-old monolingual children2
Fitting in: Stylizing and (re)negotiating Congolese youth identity and multilingualism in Cape Town2
How are neural machine-translated Chinese-to-English short stories constructed and cohered? An exploratory study based on theme-rheme structure2
Image schemas as prototypes in the diachronic evolution of kámnō and eutheiázō in Greek: A behavioural-profile analysis2
Figuratively used product names: From ergonyms to eponyms and paragons2
No Gods and precious few heroes: SFL and evolutionary linguistics2
Multidimensionality of tone in Pahari2
Exploring color metaphor with Behavioral Profiles: A usage-based analysis on the metaphorical meanings of the Chinese color term bái “white”2
The Chinese character you (有): A functional approach2
Understanding spelling conflicts in Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, and Serbian: Insights from speakers’ attitudes and beliefs2
Metaphors and trauma: An image schematic analysis of symptom-specific metaphors2
Paragon and antonomasia: Similar but/and different?2
The role of semantics and orthography in modulating conscious access to Chinese words2
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