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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
Sequence organization in human–animal interaction. An exploration of two canonical sequences60
Moderate versus extreme interpretations of political slogans29
What the meta-illocutionary lexicon can tell us about speech act taxonomies27
Beyond sentence grammar: Persian directives in interaction27
Performing good diplomatic relations: The case of presidential introductory conversations during credential ceremonies26
Pragmatic reframing from distress to playfulness: !Xun caregiver responses to infant crying25
Non-propositional effects in verbal communication: The case of metaphor22
Syntactic constraints on relevance: The case of causal pre-position in Modern Greek22
How to identify an argument type? On the hermeneutics of persuasive discourse21
Leadership style in transition? Decision-making processes in cabin crew's pre-flight briefings20
Editorial Board20
The climate of climate change: Impoliteness as a hallmark of homophily in YouTube comment threads on Greta Thunberg's environmental activism20
Book review20
Growing up laughing: Laughables and pragmatic functions between 12 and 36 months19
Book review19
Accounting for changes in series of vocalisations – Professional vision in a gym-training session18
Book review17
Can the reference of a use of “That” change? Assessing non-standard approaches to the semantics of demonstratives17
Negation as involvement: Building intersubjectivity via the Hebrew lo tagid construction16
Persuasive presuppositions16
The interpretation of plural mass nouns in Greek16
Book review16
Prosodic modulation as a mark to express pragmatic values: The case of mitigation in Spanish16
Book review15
Political Language in Contrast: An Introduction15
The dentist's first turn-at-talk in Korean dental visits15
Book review15
Book review15
Book review15
Intertextuality and comembership by university police call-takers in relaying information from laypeople in emergency calls to 91115
If and only if people were logical! The effect of pragmatic enrichment on reasoning with abstract and realistic materials14
Editorial Board14
Text, discourse, context: A meta-trilogy for discourse analysis14
Book review14
Picture this! The effects of positivity bias, situation saliency, and verbal politeness in valence framing research14
Editorial Board14
Book review13
Book review13
Interaction Ritual and (Im)Politeness13
Onomatopoeia: A relevance-based eye-tracking study of digital manga13
Editorial Board13
Epistemic independence and speaker roles: Highlighting the role of second speaker and mitigating the role of first speaker13
Toward a pragmatics of relating in conversational interaction13
Book review12
The rise and fall of illocutionary negation: Evidence from Veneto12
Jacob L. Mey III (1926–2023)12
Pragmatic overlap and consecutive change: The case of Hebrew (inter)subjective markers yeʃ/en matsav/sikuy12
Book review11
Book review11
Book review11
Editorial Board11
Book review11
The pragmatics of rebroadcasting content on Twitter: How is retweeting relevant?10
Book review10
First-person pronouns with and without wa in parenthetical inserts in Japanese telling sequences10
Fast and slow thinking as secret agents behind speakers’ (un)conscious pragmatic decisions and judgements10
Book review10
Book review10
Book review10
Book review10
Book review10
Epistemic and non-epistemic modals: The key to interpreting the spirit of counter-terrorism United Nations Security Council resolutions10
Face-saving strategies and the burden of opioid policy enactments: When physicians’ compliance makes patients non-compliant10
Book review10
Questions with address terms in Indonesian conversation: Managing next-speaker selection and action formation10
Book review10
Book review10
Book review10
Diagnosis resistance in Chinese medical encounters and its implications on medical authority9
Story recipiency in a language café: Integration work at the micro-level of interaction9
Multimodally constructed dialogue in political campaign commercials9
Editorial Board9
Challenging askability through particles: uei-prefaced responses in Catalan9
Editorial Board9
“Bravo!”: Co-constructing praise in French family life9
Book review9
‘Child's time’: Kinship carers' use of time reference to construct parental identities9
Editorial Board9
Summarising in medical emergencies: The role of the discourse marker so9
Meaning non-verbally: The neglected corners of the bi-dimensional continuum communication in people with aphasia9
The spontaneous co-creation of comedy: Humour in improvised theatrical fiction9
Article in Translation: Chinese compliment responses in triadic contexts9
Child-initiated informings and conversational participation in a bilingual preschool9
Motion verbs and future constructions: the case of Hebrew omed le-V ‘standing (up) to-V’/‘(be) about to-V’9
Sharing travel experiences on TripAdvisor: A genre analysis of negative hotel reviews written in French, Spanish and Italian8
Backflagging revisited: A case study on bueno in English-Spanish bilingual speech8
Final tteyuu as a mockery stance marker: Multifunctionality and ongoing semantic change in Japanese social media8
Book review8
Book review8
Book review8
Editorial Board8
Pursuing and resisting argumentative projects in Q&A sequences during a trial8
Expressing evidence8
Practical (un)cancellability8
Headlines as illocutionary subacts: The genre-specificity of headlines8
Corpus-pragmatic perspectives on the contemporary weakening of fuck: The case of teenage British English conversation8
Premise conditionals are echoic thematic conditionals8
Editorial Board8
Everybody swears on Only Murders in the Building: The interpersonal functions of scripted television swearing8
Editorial Board8
Book review8
Phygital highlighting: Achieving joint visual attention when physically co-editing a digital text7
Asking more than one question in one turn in oral examinations and its impact on examination quality7
The marking of weak stance in Cebuano: The case of the versatile demonstrative kanάng7
Varieties of specification: Redefining over- and under-specification7
The procedural meaning of Spanish adverb apenas7
Sharing is caring: An ethnographic approach to Spanish WhatsApp groups7
Discourse context cannot make ‘or’ inclusive (only experimental task can)7
On the evolution of a multifunctional discourse marker: A Discourse Grammar analysis of Korean com7
Pragmatic competence without a language model: Other-Initiated Repair in Balinese homesign7
Cross-linguistic differences in demonstrative systems: Comparing spatial and non-spatial influences on demonstrative use in Ticuna and Dutch7
Multimodal action formats for managing preference: chais pas ‘dunno’ plus gaze conduct in dispreferred responses to questions7
“By then you'd say ‘why hadn't I hung on a little bit longer?’”: Ventriloquizing as indirectness in Chinese medical interaction7
Saving one's face from unintended humour: Impression management in follow-up sports interviews7
Phrasal alternation and Kerinci demonstrative (i)neh: Implications for spatial and socio-interactional deixis7
“Can you read my mind?” Conventionalized indirect requests and Theory of Mind abilities7
Directives in the construction site: Grammatical design and work phases in second language interactions with crane operators7
Book review7
The English politeness marker please in Chinese7
Jocular self-deprecation in Japanese initial interactions7
And now, co-occurrence and functionality of discourse markers on the Oregon Coast7
“That's amazing!”: Making self-praise work in Japanese conversation7
Like and dislike scales in couples’ argumentative interaction7
Moments of sharing, language style and resources for solidarity on social media: A comparative analysis7
Pragmatic functions of versatile unsa ‘what’ in Cebuano: From interrogative pronoun to placeholder to stance marker7
(When) Can I say Du to You? The metapragmatics of forms of address on German-Speaking Twitter7
Book review6
Is low-arousal laughter a reliable cue for irony? Individual differences in integrating speech and laughter meanings6
What is “Versailles Literature”?: Humblebrags on Chinese social networking sites6
Editorial: Swearing and interpersonal pragmatics6
Disagreements in casual Taiwanese Mandarin conversations: A gender-based study6
The pragmatic differences between grammatical and lexical evidentiality: A corpus-based study of Tibetan and English6
The development of non-literal uses of language: Sense conventions and pragmatic competence6
Japanese first-person singular pronouns revisited: A semantic and cultural interpretation6
Socio-pragmatic variation in request refusals in Cameroon French6
“Sorry it took me a long time to reply”: Sorry as a discourse-pragmatic feature in African Englishes6
Interrogatives and speaker stance: From information-seeking to interpersonal (dis)affiliation6
Engaging readers across participants: A cross-interactant analysis of metadiscourse in letters of advice during the COVID-19 pandemic6
Toward a multimodal pragmatics analysis of ambulant vending on a Buenos Aires trainline6
Using discourse markers to negotiate epistemic stance: A view from situated language use6
Fanzheng ‘anyway’ as a discourse pragmatic particle in Mandarin conversation: Prosody, locus, and interactional function6
Book review6
Interpersonal relationships in translation: Address terms in the English and Polish translations of Henning Mankell's The Dogs of Riga6
“I appreciate u not being a total prick …”: Oppositional stancetaking, impoliteness and relational work in adversarial Twitter interactions6
Social interaction in high stakes crisis communication6
Gatekeeping and linguistic capital: A case study of the Cambridge university undergraduate admissions interview6
Epistemic vigilance and persuasion: The construction of trust in online marketing6
Lexical meaning contextualization and semantic changes: The case of the Mandarin Chinese discourse marker dangran6
The pragmatics of encouragement: An inquiry into defaults vis-à-vis inferences5
To orient and to engage: Metaphorical hashtags in Weibo posts of Chinese banks5
Relationships between construction grammar(s) and genre: Evidence from an analysis of Instagram posts5
Beyond ostension: Introducing the expressive principle of relevance5
Managing expert/novice identity with actions in conversation: Identity construction & negotiation5
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: Analysis of dubbed and subtitled insults into European Spanish5
Are you serious? Workplace agenda and aesthetic negotiations with depictions at opera rehearsals5
Confessions of lockdown breaches. Problematising morality during the Covid-19 pandemic5
From interrogative to disaffiliative stance marker: An analysis of mwusun ‘what’ in Korean conversation5
Metapragmatic awareness development in Chinese Children: A conversational competence perspective5
The role of inference and inferencing in pragmatic models of communication5
The interpretive mediation of social worlds: Intention markers in news headlines5
Book review5
Presupposition, attention and cognitive load5
Discourse markers and turn-planning at the pragmatics–prosody interface: The case of allora in spoken Italian5
Book review5
Ghosts and the haunting of the American dream: The pragmatics of stance and suspense in making the improbable sound possible5
Book review5
The expressions ‘(M)minzu-zhuyi’ and ‘Nationalism’: A contrastive pragmatic analysis5
Face and (im)politeness in aviation English: The pragmatics of radiotelephony communications5
Experiencing space: Some uses of Japanese proximal spatial deictic expressions5
Book review5
Second Language knowledge of pragmatic meanings: What do learners of Korean know about the Korean pronouns ce and na?5
Low spirits vs. high spirits: How failure and success influence sharing in social media groups5
Book review5
Interpreters, rapport, and the role of familiarity5
Post-truth assertion and assertoric competence5
Book review5
Requesting an account for the unaccountable: The primordial nature of [NP+wa?]-format turns used by young Japanese children5
Interactional use of compliments in mental health rehabilitation5
Emotional labor in webcare and beyond: A linguistic framework and case study5
Editorial Board5
Communication: Inferring speaker intentions or perceiving the world? Insights from developmental research5
Disrupted vs. sustained humor in colloquial conversations in peninsular Spanish5
Expressing belief with evidentials: A case study with Cuzco Quechua on the dispensability of illocutionary explanation5
Corrigendum to “Speech act recognition in Spanish speakers” [J. Prag. 141 (2019) 44–56]5
Book review5
Translating in times of crisis: A study about the emotional effects of the COVID19 pandemic on the translation of evaluative language5
Proverbs in Akan highlife lyrics: A case study of Alex Konadu's lyrics4
Intonational cues to speaker bias in questions and the role of language exposure4
Book review4
Book review4
Adjusting entitlement degrees in inappropriate requests: TCU-final particle bei (呗) in Mandarin Chinese conversation4
All-cleft constructions in the London–Lund Corpora of spoken English: Empirical and methodological perspectives4
Swearing, discourse and function in conversational British English4
The granularity of seeing in interaction4
Development of the Korean proximal demonstrative into an affective stance marker4
Explaining the distribution of implicit means of misrepresentation: A case study on Italian immigration discourse4
Book review4
Reference tracking strategies of deaf adult signers in Turkish Sign Language4
An interactional perspective on grammaticalization of turn-initial linguistic forms in turn-final position: The case of Chinese turn-continuations4
Using information of relationship closeness in the comprehension of Chinese ironic criticism: Evidence from behavioral experiments4
The pragmatics of metapragmatics in death trials4
On the communicative affordances of instrumental action: Offering meal service to others, whilst serving oneself4
Book review4
Book review4
Ethnomethodology of written discourse: An analytical model for treating written discourse as ongoing social action4
“It seems to be some kind of an accident”: Perception and team decision-making in time critical situations4
Concession strategies in online newspaper comments4
Book review4
Book review4
Editorial Board4
Book review4
Book review4
Book review4
Co-constructing and other-extending collaborative reported speech in Italian4
Book review4
Polyfunctional particles in spoken Russian: The case of čto li4
Book review4
Book review4
The use of praise upgrades in compliment sequences in natural conversations between young adults in dating relationships4
Book review4
On epistemic modality and discourse strategy: Evidence from Galician adverbs4
Hendiadys in naturally occurring interactions: A cross-linguistic study of double verb constructions4
Book review4
Organizing talk with contrasts: Nixon and Colson discuss watergate4
Book review4
Teacher responses to toddler crying in the New Zealand outdoor environment4
Metaphorical space in academic talk4
Book review4
Book review4
Embodied and affective negotiation over spatial and epistemic group territories among school-children: (Re)producing moral orders in open learning environments4
Prosodic linking in apology sequences in Finnish elementary school mediations4
Information structure in Korean: What's new and what's old?4
The mother of all worries: Formulations of parents' gender in their talk about the transition to the empty nest phase4
Book review4
What makes inferences reliable? The unpredictable relationship between pragmatic inference and truth4
Dialogic patterns of the oppressor-oppressed dynamic in climate change denial4
Creating placeholders on the fly: A metarepresentational approach4
Speech reports and evidence4
Informings as recruitment in nurses′ intrahospital telephone calls4
Editorial Board3
Resonance and engagement through (dis-)agreement: Evidence of persistent constructional priming from Mandarin naturalistic interaction3
Local grammar approaches to speech acts in Chinese: A case study of exemplification3
The syntax of talking heads3
“Deceptive” clickbait headlines: Relevance, intentions, and lies3
When a third person pronoun means ‘you’: An analysis of Korean tangsin and speaker stance3
“The language is very formal and appropriate”: L2 learners’ in/appropriateness evaluations and metapragmatic judgments in student-faculty emails3
Distance contrast of demonstrative-based discourse markers and speaker's stance in Korean3
The impact of hyperbole on perception of victim testimony3
Offers in Saudi EFL talks: A focus on the learners’ pragmatic competence in interactions3
The pragmatic dimensions of swearing in films: Searching for coherence in dubbing strategies3
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