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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Editorial Board35
Book review32
Book review32
Everybody swears on Only Murders in the Building: The interpersonal functions of scripted television swearing27
Editorial Board25
Book review25
Book review24
Book review23
Editorial Board22
On the evolution of a multifunctional discourse marker: A Discourse Grammar analysis of Korean com21
The pragmatics of encouragement: An inquiry into defaults vis-à-vis inferences21
Epistemic vigilance and persuasion: The construction of trust in online marketing20
Wanyi as a strategic risk marker in Chinese conditionals: An information game-theoretic analysis20
Beyond stereotypes: Cognitive abilities underlying social meaning20
Toward a multimodal pragmatics analysis of ambulant vending on a Buenos Aires trainline19
Responding to new information with negative discourse particles nein/nee/nö in German talk-in-interaction17
Like and dislike scales in couples’ argumentative interaction17
Spanish todavía: A force dynamics analysis17
Performing good diplomatic relations: The case of presidential introductory conversations during credential ceremonies17
“Not right now”: Children's resistance during online grooming interactions17
Sequence organization in human–animal interaction. An exploration of two canonical sequences16
Reasons for trust. The (counter-) argumentative dynamics of image-repair strategies16
Experiencing space: Some uses of Japanese proximal spatial deictic expressions16
Procedural structures: The case of sentence-initial subordinate clauses15
The mother of all worries: Formulations of parents' gender in their talk about the transition to the empty nest phase15
Speech reports and evidence15
Appraising impoliteness on X: A case study of Isabel Díaz Ayuso15
Outside the clause: Functions of the Persian na ‘no’15
All the more reasons: Mismatches in topoi in dialogue14
Prosodic linking in apology sequences in Finnish elementary school mediations14
Humor production through breaches of a pre-allocated turn-taking organization in television talk shows involving interpreters14
Book review14
Book review14
Book review13
Diachronic pragmatics: New perspectives on recent developments of spoken English13
Interpreting verbal irony in Mandarin Chinese: The role of prosody and proficiency among L2 learners of Chinese13
Topicalizing peers’ language: Situated linguistic identities at workplaces13
Book review13
Book review13
Welp in talk-in-interaction: Moving on from publicly available disappointments13
A recipient-centered perception model for speech act analysis: Insights from compliments on screen12
“This apology doesn't seem sincere at all” (Meta)discourses around Will Smith's apology in English and Japanese YouTube comments12
Doing swearing across languages – The curious case of subtitling12
The impact of self-access web-based instruction on EFL learners' pragmatic awareness of email requests to faculty12
Can AI simulate or emulate human stance? Using metadiscourse to compare GPT-generated and human-authored academic book reviews12
A relevance-based framework for hearer roles in multiparty interactions12
Demonstratives as utterance-final particles in Vietnamese conversation11
How students get help: Institutional identities as a resource for recruitment11
Embedding answers into ongoing story (and other extended) telling in conversational interaction11
The effect of the use of T or V pronouns in Dutch HR communication11
Book review11
The intercultural style of refusing by German-English bilinguals11
Using prosody to express evidentiality. The case of the quotative11
Editorial Board11
Book review10
Pragmatics in the service of marketing: The case of COVID-19 semi-commercial public signs10
Restricting impoliteness: (Re)asserting morality in third-party mediation of Chinese interpersonal conflict10
Pragmatic aspects of wh-interrogatives in Marzahn German10
Book review10
Celebrity gossip headlines and reliability in a Common Ground-based framework10
We need to talk about Hearer's Meaning!10
Unravelling the complexity of semantic prosody: A theoretical inquiry10
Book review10
Disagreement, epistemic stance and contrastive marking in Catalan parliamentary debate10
Book review10
A corpus-based analysis of corporate apologies and public responses on Chinese social media9
Editorial Board9
On the interpretation of response particles méi(yǒu) and bù to negative polar questions in Mandarin Chinese9
Opening interspecies encounters – Greetings between humans and nonhuman animals9
Editorial Board9
Newsmarks from a crosslinguistic perspective: Introduction9
Editorial Board9
Appraising impoliteness on X: A case study of Isabel Díaz Ayuso9
A contrastive investigation of the performative and descriptive use of surprise frames in judicial opinions of the HKSAR9
Editorial Board9
“#HaveYouNoShame”: Unraveling the pragmatics of impolite political hashtags9
Problematising expressives: The case of magical affirmations in the pick-up artist paradigm9
Dynamic interplay of social variables in request strategies of workplace e-mails9
Social meaning in reverse: Expectations of English role noun use based on speaker identity9
Book review9
Questions with address terms in Indonesian conversation: Managing next-speaker selection and action formation8
Illocutionary context and management allocation of emoji and other graphicons in Mexican parent school WhatsApp communities8
Book review8
Wait, espera, peraí: Signalling discourse model misalignment in English, Spanish, and Portuguese8
Accounting for changes in series of vocalisations – Professional vision in a gym-training session8
Gendered proximization: A corpus-based analysis of mediators' divergent strategies toward male and female disputants8
Text, discourse, context: A meta-trilogy for discourse analysis8
Audience design and pragmatic conceptions of moves and upvotes during advice-giving on Reddit8
Book review8
Motion verbs and future constructions: the case of Hebrew omed le-V ‘standing (up) to-V’/‘(be) about to-V’8
Rationalizing impoliteness: Taking offence and providing vicarious accounts in mother-in-law/daughter-in-law conflict mediation8
Assessing impoliteness-related language in response to a season's greeting posted by the Spanish and English Prime Ministers on Twitter8
How people perceive and talk about miscommunication8
Sharing travel experiences on TripAdvisor: A genre analysis of negative hotel reviews written in French, Spanish and Italian8
“I don't mean to humblebrag”—on the reception of humblebrags from a cognitive-pragmatic perspective8
The rise and fall of illocutionary negation: Evidence from Veneto8
The use of prosody and facial expressions in irony comprehension by Mandarin-speaking preschoolers8
Demonstratives and speaker stance in Thai8
Relevance beyond the implicated proposition7
Book review7
The role of inference and inferencing in pragmatic models of communication7
Face-saving strategies and the burden of opioid policy enactments: When physicians’ compliance makes patients non-compliant7
Interrogatives and speaker stance: From information-seeking to interpersonal (dis)affiliation7
Orienting to knowledge as remarkable: The newsmark be'emet (‘in-truth’) in Hebrew conversation7
When veracity is in the balance: Requests for reconfirmation as preliminary information receipts7
Editorial Board7
Premise conditionals are echoic thematic conditionals7
Low spirits vs. high spirits: How failure and success influence sharing in social media groups7
Book review6
Book review6
Multiplicity in grammar: Modes, genres and Speaker's knowledge6
Direct words, deep bonds: The tradition of father-son advice in ancient Arabia6
Intonational cues to speaker bias in questions and the role of language exposure6
Style markers in speech act realization: A corpus-based analysis of the cute style sajiao in Chinese6
Editorial Board6
Backchannels are not always very short utterances. The case of Italian Multi-Unit Backchannels6
Book review6
Book review6
Editorial Board6
Uso “lie” or hontoo “truth”?: Two lexical response tokens in Japanese informings6
Book review6
Refutation in presidential debate: Metadiscourse and co-occurring gestures6
Speech prosody and pragmatic scalar inferences: Divergent cognitive strategies in adults with high and low levels of autistic traits6
Are you serious? Workplace agenda and aesthetic negotiations with depictions at opera rehearsals6
Book review6
“It seems to be some kind of an accident”: Perception and team decision-making in time critical situations6
Newspaper headlines, relevance and emotive effects6
Rephrasing is not arguing, but it is still persuasive: An experimental approach to perlocutionary effects of rephrase6
Editorial Board6
Turn-taking, interruption and (Im)Politeness: Evidence from Saudi Arabic interactions6
Correction in embodied interaction: How teachers and children reflexively manage a preschool mobile formation in traffic6
Book review5
It's funny because …: From clause-combining pattern to projector construction in French talk-in-interaction5
Defending speaker intention in a model of the hearer's meaning5
Pragmalinguistic and sociopragmatic patterns of requestive acts in English and Italian: Insights from film conversation5
Narratives of geopolitical representation in the discourse of the Russia–Ukraine war5
Meaning-making in tactile cross-signing context5
(Inter)subjectivity and information structure: The pragmatics of left and right peripheries in spoken Mandarin5
Editorial Board5
Dogs responding to human utterances in embodied ways5
The use of praise upgrades in compliment sequences in natural conversations between young adults in dating relationships5
Editorial Board5
Book review5
Wake up New Zealand! Directives, politeness and stance in Twitter #Covid19NZ posts5
Italian davvero (‘really’) as a trigger of implicit contents in persuasive discourse5
Book review5
“This word no get concrete meaning oo”: Pragmatic markers in Nigerian online communication5
Mediating expert knowledge: The use of pragmatic strategies in digital research digests5
Sleep well in Småland, whether you prefer a castle or a hut: Performing persuasion through patterns of you in tourism discourse5
“One, two, three!”: Coordinating and projecting simultaneous start and end of joint actions in drills of rescue activities in mass casualty incidents5
Hashtag swearing: Pragmatic polysemy and polyfunctionality of #FuckPutin as solidary flaming5
Gender variability in the prosodic production of compliments in Italian: A pilot study5
The pragmatics of online healthcare communication: Politeness strategies in an anxiety and depression support community5
On unsuccessful utterances in pragmatics5
Sociopragmatic variation in Britain: A corpus-based study of politeness5
The three “waves” of compliment and compliment response research5
In memoriam: Emanuel A. Schegloff 1937–20245
Managers see, analysts hear. Epistemic divide in financial dialogues5
Corrective demonstrations and embodied resources for modeling speech sounds in aphasia speech-language therapy5
Editorial Board5
The pragmatics of headlines. Central issues and future research avenues5
Anticipating offense and managing risks: Understanding the disclaimer wúyì màofàn...dànshì... [‘no offense, but ...’] in Chinese social media5
“Being your son is rather tiring”: Assessments and assessment responses in initial interactions in Mandarin Chinese5
Reciprocity and epistemicity: On the (proto)social and cross-cultural ‘value’ of information transmission5
On the fringes of metaphor: Using ambiguously figurative vague language to pragmatically negotiate sensitive topics in the English as a Medium of Instruction classroom5
Inherent linguistic impoliteness: The case of insultive you+np in Dutch, English and Polish5
Communication: Inferring speaker intentions or perceiving the world? Insights from developmental research5
“Ay no I do feel exhausted”: Affiliative practices and interpersonal relationships in indirect complaints in Spanish5
Face threatening and speaker presuppositions: The case of feminine polite particles in Thai5
Mental health advice on TikTok5
From words to multimodalities: Compliment perceptions across lingua cultures5
Trust-indicating pragmatic markers in selected African englishes5
The forms and functions of ‘naming interrogatives’ in Hebrew word searches5
Editorial Board5
Re-borrowing of swearwords in the English translations of Jo Nesbø’s Harry Hole novels5
Gender representation in French Eurolect: An open dialogue between supranational and national legal varieties4
Compliments in telephone and chat counselling4
Expressive meanings and social applications of ‘do’-support questions in Camuno4
Structure and interpretation of declarative sentences4
Remediation of infelicitous epistemic stance4
‘Did you just basically steal everything?’ – A study of discourse -pragmatic variation and change4
Establishing mutual orientation on the shared screen in video-mediated interactions: Current speaker's acknowledgments of the screen controller's on-screen actions4
The pragmatics of sharing memes on Twitter4
Editorial Board4
Japanese onomatopoeia in bodily demonstrations in a traditional dance instruction: A resource for synchronizing body movements4
Editorial Board4
The procedural meaning of Spanish adverb apenas4
In/directness in requests and refusals in EFL by multilinguals with L1 Hebrew or Arabic: A linguistic and textual perspective4
Italian non vedo/non si vede + indirect wh-interrogative clause (‘I don't see why/what/how...’) as a marker of disagreement4
The effects of negation on discourse structure4
Types and functions of insubordinate complement clauses with hogy ‘that’ in Hungarian4
Tweeting war and peace: Linguistic analysis of pro- and anti-war messages on Russian Twitter4
Assertive content questions in Yurakaré conversations: Using indisputable facts to justify disputable claims, actions, and stances4
Book review4
Editorial Board4
Editorial Board4
Personification and relationships in English as a Medium of Instruction business discourse: Crossing paths in metaphorical constructions4
Historical poem-quoting interaction: An interaction-speech act-ritual integrative study of fù in ancient China4
Putting negotiation on a ‘principal-ed’ footing: A corpus-informed discourse analysis of person deixis in diplomatic debates4
Making refusals via English as a lingua franca: Chinese English speakers’ strategies and sequences4
Challenging racism in public spaces: Practices for interventions into disputes4
When is it legitimate to cancel a potential scalar implicature? The roles of the Question Under Discussion and optimal relevance4
Trademark™: A usage-based theory of the trademark sign4
Identical linguistic forms in multiple turn and sequence positions in Asian languages4
Impact of social cognitive propensity on the processing of nontransparent sentential meaning4
Editorial Board4
There as a discourse-pragmatic marker in Irish English4
Book review4
Editorial Board4
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
Egyptian parents’ responses to children's complaints focusing on the influence of sex and age4
Self-praise in Japanese conversation4
Editorial Board4
Book review4
Editorial Board4
Book review4
Development of interactional practices for initiating and extending small talk in service encounters4
Book review4
Pragmatic alternatives and social meaning4
Covertly communicated hate speech: A corpus-assisted pragmatic study4
Towards first-order pragmatics: How lay people talk about speech (inter)actions4
Leadership style in transition? Decision-making processes in cabin crew's pre-flight briefings3
Okay as a marker for coordinating transitions in joint actions: Effects of participant role and age in Swiss German and Swiss French interviews3
Perceptual and acoustic analysis of prosody in Mandarin Chinese refusals3
Editorial Board3
Suggestions in digital discourse: The case of MOOC reviews3
A linguistic-pragmatic analysis of cat-induced deixis in cat-human interactions3
Book review3
Editorial Board3
Meaning is change3
Editorial Board3
Also on humblebragging: An evaluation of self-image in Versailles literature3
Pragmatic markers and verba dicendi: An investigation of Mauritian Creole3
Reference tracking strategies of deaf adult signers in Turkish Sign Language3
“You need to have a feel for it”: The role of pronouns and particles within practices of positioning in norm conflict situations3
Editorial Board3
Editorial Board3
Moving civilians to the front of patrol cars: Built space, embodiment, and social control during police encounters3
On epistemic modality and discourse strategy: Evidence from Galician adverbs3
Book review3
Book review3
When grammaticality is intentionally violated: Inanimate honorification as a politeness strategy3
“Wha, what is this?”: Interactive elements in the representation of thoughts in Japanese manga (comics)3
A cross-cultural study of the dynamic multimodal metadiscourse used by American and Chinese NEV corporates on X3
Emotion and self-branding in YouTube travel vlogs: A corpus-based analysis3
Corrigendum to “Appraising impoliteness on X: A case study of Isabel Díaz Ayuso” [J Pragmat 254 (2026) 1–15]3
Book review3
Ethnomethodology of written discourse: An analytical model for treating written discourse as ongoing social action3
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