Journal of Pragmatics

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Pragmatics 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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)
ArticleCitations
Everybody swears on Only Murders in the Building: The interpersonal functions of scripted television swearing40
Editorial Board39
The pragmatics of encouragement: An inquiry into defaults vis-à-vis inferences34
Editorial Board30
Book review26
Editorial Board25
Book review24
On the evolution of a multifunctional discourse marker: A Discourse Grammar analysis of Korean com24
Book review23
Pragmatic reframing from distress to playfulness: !Xun caregiver responses to infant crying22
“I appreciate u not being a total prick …”: Oppositional stancetaking, impoliteness and relational work in adversarial Twitter interactions22
Performing good diplomatic relations: The case of presidential introductory conversations during credential ceremonies22
Sequence organization in human–animal interaction. An exploration of two canonical sequences22
First-person pronouns with and without wa in parenthetical inserts in Japanese telling sequences20
Book review20
The dentist's first turn-at-talk in Korean dental visits20
Engaging readers across participants: A cross-interactant analysis of metadiscourse in letters of advice during the COVID-19 pandemic20
“Can you read my mind?” Conventionalized indirect requests and Theory of Mind abilities20
Toward a pragmatics of relating in conversational interaction19
Like and dislike scales in couples’ argumentative interaction19
Book review19
Syntactic constraints on relevance: The case of causal pre-position in Modern Greek19
Beyond stereotypes: Cognitive abilities underlying social meaning17
Toward a multimodal pragmatics analysis of ambulant vending on a Buenos Aires trainline17
Book review17
Epistemic vigilance and persuasion: The construction of trust in online marketing16
Pragmatic functions of versatile unsa ‘what’ in Cebuano: From interrogative pronoun to placeholder to stance marker16
Negation as involvement: Building intersubjectivity via the Hebrew lo tagid construction16
The interpretation of plural mass nouns in Greek16
Interaction Ritual and (Im)Politeness16
Reasons for trust. The (counter-) argumentative dynamics of image-repair strategies15
Speech reports and evidence15
Disagreements in casual Taiwanese Mandarin conversations: A gender-based study15
Asking more than one question in one turn in oral examinations and its impact on examination quality15
Book review15
Experiencing space: Some uses of Japanese proximal spatial deictic expressions15
Emotional labor in webcare and beyond: A linguistic framework and case study14
Prosodic linking in apology sequences in Finnish elementary school mediations14
Desperately seeking intentions: Genuine and jocular insults on social media14
All the more reasons: Mismatches in topoi in dialogue14
Humor production through breaches of a pre-allocated turn-taking organization in television talk shows involving interpreters14
The mother of all worries: Formulations of parents' gender in their talk about the transition to the empty nest phase14
In your face? Exploring multimodal response patterns involving facial responses to verbal and gestural stance-taking expressions13
Book review13
Book review13
Approaching institutional boundaries: Comparative conversation analysis of practices for assisting suicidal callers in emergency and suicide helpline calls13
An interactional perspective on grammaticalization of turn-initial linguistic forms in turn-final position: The case of Chinese turn-continuations13
Book review13
Procedural structures: The case of sentence-initial subordinate clauses13
Outside the clause: Functions of the Persian na ‘no’13
Semantic incorporation and discourse prominence: Experimental evidence from English pronoun resolution13
Editorial Board12
Doing swearing across languages – The curious case of subtitling12
Book review12
Welp in talk-in-interaction: Moving on from publicly available disappointments12
Using prosody to express evidentiality. The case of the quotative12
Topicalizing peers’ language: Situated linguistic identities at workplaces12
The wanderlust of German words and their pragmatic adaptation in English12
The effect of the use of T or V pronouns in Dutch HR communication11
Revisiting grammatical particles from an interactional perspective: The case of the so-called ‘subject’ and ‘topic’ particles as pragmatic markers in Japanese and Korean: An introduction11
“This apology doesn't seem sincere at all” (Meta)discourses around Will Smith's apology in English and Japanese YouTube comments11
Argumentation profiles and the manipulation of common ground. The arguments of populist leaders on Twitter11
Diachronic pragmatics: New perspectives on recent developments of spoken English11
Editorial Board11
The impact of self-access web-based instruction on EFL learners' pragmatic awareness of email requests to faculty11
“How's the wife?”: Pragmatic reasoning in spousal reference11
Editorial Board11
Presupposing indefinite descriptions☆11
Editorial Board10
Pragmatics in the service of marketing: The case of COVID-19 semi-commercial public signs10
Celebrity gossip headlines and reliability in a Common Ground-based framework10
Book review10
Unravelling the complexity of semantic prosody: A theoretical inquiry10
Editorial Board10
Referential choices. A study on quantification and discourse salience in sentence production in Swedish10
Just thank God for Donald Trump – Dialogue practices of populists and their supporters before and after taking office10
Book review10
Disagreement, epistemic stance and contrastive marking in Catalan parliamentary debate10
Assessments and actions: Instances from Arabic broadcast political interviews10
Embedding answers into ongoing story (and other extended) telling in conversational interaction10
Book review10
Editorial Board9
Book review9
The epistemics of social relations in Murrinhpatha, Garrwa and Jaru conversations9
Book review9
Digitally saving face: An experimental investigation of cross-cultural differences in the use of emoticons and emoji9
Editorial Board9
Pragmatic aspects of wh-interrogatives in Marzahn German9
Book review9
Book review9
On the interpretation of response particles méi(yǒu) and bù to negative polar questions in Mandarin Chinese9
Editorial Board9
“#HaveYouNoShame”: Unraveling the pragmatics of impolite political hashtags9
How the medium shapes the message: Stance in two forms of book reviews9
Beyond questions: Non-interrogative uses of ano ‘what’ in Tagalog9
Book review9
We need to talk about Hearer's Meaning!9
Affective text trajectories: Toward a linguistic anthropology of critique8
Social meaning in reverse: Expectations of English role noun use based on speaker identity8
“Itsyourownfault”: Space omission in a Russian women's support group8
Modelability across time as a signature of identity construction on YouTube8
“See you soon! ADD OIL AR!”: Code-switching for face-work in edu-social Facebook groups8
Editorial Board8
A contrastive investigation of the performative and descriptive use of surprise frames in judicial opinions of the HKSAR8
Ostension and the communicative function of natural language8
Beyond negation: “Not” as evaluation and speech-act trigger in Mandarin Chinese negative markers8
Logical Form – Not logical enough for logic, not linguistic enough for linguistics8
Metaphor and creativity in the act of making her heart flutter: Toward a cognitive-emotive perspective8
Joint planning in conversations with a person with aphasia8
A corpus-based analysis of corporate apologies and public responses on Chinese social media8
“Egungun be careful, na Express you dey go”: Socialising a newcomer-celebrity and co-constructing relational connection on Twitter Nigeria8
Book review8
Opening interspecies encounters – Greetings between humans and nonhuman animals8
How people perceive and talk about miscommunication7
Audience design and pragmatic conceptions of moves and upvotes during advice-giving on Reddit7
Formulating WH-questions in Korean adult-child conversation: ‘Subject’, ‘topic’, and ‘zero’ particle as interactional resources7
Editorial Board7
Impoliteness and hate speech: Compare and contrast7
“I don't mean to humblebrag”—on the reception of humblebrags from a cognitive-pragmatic perspective7
Creating space for interpreting within extended turns at talk7
Shared laughter as relational strategy at intercultural conflictual workplace interactions7
Rationalizing impoliteness: Taking offence and providing vicarious accounts in mother-in-law/daughter-in-law conflict mediation7
Editorial Board7
Dynamic interplay of social variables in request strategies of workplace e-mails7
Demonstratives and speaker stance in Thai7
Problematising expressives: The case of magical affirmations in the pick-up artist paradigm7
Motion verbs and future constructions: the case of Hebrew omed le-V ‘standing (up) to-V’/‘(be) about to-V’7
The role of inference and inferencing in pragmatic models of communication7
Mitigation revisited. An operative and integrated definition of the pragmatic concept, its strategic values, and its linguistic expression7
Illocutionary context and management allocation of emoji and other graphicons in Mexican parent school WhatsApp communities7
Grammar and stance: The use of Korean interrogative suffixes –nya and –ni as alignment markers7
Book review7
Editorial Board7
Assessing impoliteness-related language in response to a season's greeting posted by the Spanish and English Prime Ministers on Twitter7
Editorial Board7
Uso “lie” or hontoo “truth”?: Two lexical response tokens in Japanese informings6
Backchannels are not always very short utterances. The case of Italian Multi-Unit Backchannels6
Low spirits vs. high spirits: How failure and success influence sharing in social media groups6
Book review6
Book review6
Book review6
Interrogatives and speaker stance: From information-seeking to interpersonal (dis)affiliation6
Book review6
Questions with address terms in Indonesian conversation: Managing next-speaker selection and action formation6
Book review6
Epistemic independence and speaker roles: Highlighting the role of second speaker and mitigating the role of first speaker6
Orienting to knowledge as remarkable: The newsmark be'emet (‘in-truth’) in Hebrew conversation6
Communication: Inferring speaker intentions or perceiving the world? Insights from developmental research6
Dogs responding to human utterances in embodied ways6
The role of intonation in Construction Grammar: On prosodic constructions6
Embodied and affective negotiation over spatial and epistemic group territories among school-children: (Re)producing moral orders in open learning environments6
Are you serious? Workplace agenda and aesthetic negotiations with depictions at opera rehearsals6
Rephrasing is not arguing, but it is still persuasive: An experimental approach to perlocutionary effects of rephrase6
Book review6
Book review6
Accounting for changes in series of vocalisations – Professional vision in a gym-training session6
The use of praise upgrades in compliment sequences in natural conversations between young adults in dating relationships6
Text, discourse, context: A meta-trilogy for discourse analysis6
Face-saving strategies and the burden of opioid policy enactments: When physicians’ compliance makes patients non-compliant6
Premise conditionals are echoic thematic conditionals6
Confessions of lockdown breaches. Problematising morality during the Covid-19 pandemic6
Sociopragmatic variation in Britain: A corpus-based study of politeness6
Multiplicity in grammar: Modes, genres and Speaker's knowledge6
Newspaper headlines, relevance and emotive effects6
Relationships between construction grammar(s) and genre: Evidence from an analysis of Instagram posts6
Intonational cues to speaker bias in questions and the role of language exposure6
Book review6
Sharing travel experiences on TripAdvisor: A genre analysis of negative hotel reviews written in French, Spanish and Italian6
Direct words, deep bonds: The tradition of father-son advice in ancient Arabia6
When veracity is in the balance: Requests for reconfirmation as preliminary information receipts6
The rise and fall of illocutionary negation: Evidence from Veneto6
Book review6
Book review6
Editorial Board6
Informings as recruitment in nurses′ intrahospital telephone calls6
On the fringes of metaphor: Using ambiguously figurative vague language to pragmatically negotiate sensitive topics in the English as a Medium of Instruction classroom5
Defending speaker intention in a model of the hearer's meaning5
From words to multimodalities: Compliment perceptions across lingua cultures5
Trust-indicating pragmatic markers in selected African englishes5
Face threatening and speaker presuppositions: The case of feminine polite particles in Thai5
Hashtag swearing: Pragmatic polysemy and polyfunctionality of #FuckPutin as solidary flaming5
Re-borrowing of swearwords in the English translations of Jo Nesbø’s Harry Hole novels5
Book review5
Young Greek Cypriot and Norwegian EFL learners: Pragmalinguistic development in request production5
“One, two, three!”: Coordinating and projecting simultaneous start and end of joint actions in drills of rescue activities in mass casualty incidents5
Book review5
Reciprocity and epistemicity: On the (proto)social and cross-cultural ‘value’ of information transmission5
(Inter)subjectivity and information structure: The pragmatics of left and right peripheries in spoken Mandarin5
On unsuccessful utterances in pragmatics5
Meaning-making in tactile cross-signing context5
In memoriam: Emanuel A. Schegloff 1937–20245
Book review5
The pragmatics of headlines. Central issues and future research avenues5
Sleep well in Småland, whether you prefer a castle or a hut: Performing persuasion through patterns of you in tourism discourse5
Narratives of geopolitical representation in the discourse of the Russia–Ukraine war5
“It seems to be some kind of an accident”: Perception and team decision-making in time critical situations5
Coding empathy in dialogue5
On the metapragmatics of ‘conspiracy theory’: Scepticism and epistemological debates in online conspiracy comments5
“This word no get concrete meaning oo”: Pragmatic markers in Nigerian online communication5
Recognising understandability: How police officers respond to drunk persons’ undecipherable turns5
Shaping the perceptual field in interaction: The use and non-use of ga in the speech of very young Japanese children5
Editorial Board5
On the dual role of expressive speech acts: Relational work on signs announcing closures during the Covid-19 pandemic4
“Don't act like a Sati-Savitri!”: Hinglish and other impoliteness strategies in Indian YouTube comments4
Pragmalinguistic and sociopragmatic patterns of requestive acts in English and Italian: Insights from film conversation4
Book review4
Italian davvero (‘really’) as a trigger of implicit contents in persuasive discourse4
Making refusals via English as a lingua franca: Chinese English speakers’ strategies and sequences4
Book review4
The effects of negation on discourse structure4
Editorial Board4
Trademark™: A usage-based theory of the trademark sign4
Questions in argumentative dialogue4
Covertly communicated hate speech: A corpus-assisted pragmatic study4
Expressing thinking in institutional interaction: Stancetaking in mental health rehabilitation group discussions4
The forms and functions of ‘naming interrogatives’ in Hebrew word searches4
Expressive meanings and social applications of ‘do’-support questions in Camuno4
Wake up New Zealand! Directives, politeness and stance in Twitter #Covid19NZ posts4
Caught on page! Micro and macro pragmatics of stage directions parentheticals in Tom Stoppard's Professional Foul4
Pragmatic patterns and discourses on Twitter: Unpacking perspectives in the discussion of the Turów lignite mine4
Book review4
Towards interspecies pragmatics: Language use and embodied interaction in human-animal activities, encounters, and narratives4
Italian non vedo/non si vede + indirect wh-interrogative clause (‘I don't see why/what/how...’) as a marker of disagreement4
There as a discourse-pragmatic marker in Irish English4
Inherent linguistic impoliteness: The case of insultive you+np in Dutch, English and Polish4
Structure and interpretation of declarative sentences4
Egyptian parents’ responses to children's complaints focusing on the influence of sex and age4
Editorial Board4
Proper names as anaphoric expressions in short crime stories: Doing more than referring within and across paragraphs4
Identical linguistic forms in multiple turn and sequence positions in Asian languages4
“Ay no I do feel exhausted”: Affiliative practices and interpersonal relationships in indirect complaints in Spanish4
Explaining reversible discourse marker sequences: A case study of and and so4
The pragmatics of sharing memes on Twitter4
Book review4
Book review4
Remediation of infelicitous epistemic stance4
Book review4
Impact of social cognitive propensity on the processing of nontransparent sentential meaning4
The role of explicit and implicit contrast in differentiating two uses of the Mandarin adversative marker ke(shi)4
Corrective demonstrations and embodied resources for modeling speech sounds in aphasia speech-language therapy4
Book review4
Development of interactional practices for initiating and extending small talk in service encounters4
Editorial Board4
Special issue: (Im)politeness, humour, and the role of intentions: Essays presented to Michael Haugh4
Japanese onomatopoeia in bodily demonstrations in a traditional dance instruction: A resource for synchronizing body movements4
Editorial Board4
Predicating Truth: An empirically based analysis4
Introducing the Special Issue on Revisiting problems on pragmatic mitigation: New methodological insights4
Self-praise in Japanese conversation4
Quasi-instructions: Orienting to the projectable trajectories of imminent bodily movements with instruction-like utterances4
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