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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)
ArticleCitations
Editorial Board42
The pragmatics of encouragement: An inquiry into defaults vis-à-vis inferences40
Editorial Board29
Book review26
Editorial Board26
Book review24
Book review24
Performing good diplomatic relations: The case of presidential introductory conversations during credential ceremonies24
Toward a multimodal pragmatics analysis of ambulant vending on a Buenos Aires trainline23
On the evolution of a multifunctional discourse marker: A Discourse Grammar analysis of Korean com23
Book review22
First-person pronouns with and without wa in parenthetical inserts in Japanese telling sequences22
Syntactic constraints on relevance: The case of causal pre-position in Modern Greek21
“I appreciate u not being a total prick …”: Oppositional stancetaking, impoliteness and relational work in adversarial Twitter interactions20
Pragmatic functions of versatile unsa ‘what’ in Cebuano: From interrogative pronoun to placeholder to stance marker20
Like and dislike scales in couples’ argumentative interaction20
Book review20
Negation as involvement: Building intersubjectivity via the Hebrew lo tagid construction19
Beyond stereotypes: Cognitive abilities underlying social meaning18
Epistemic vigilance and persuasion: The construction of trust in online marketing18
Engaging readers across participants: A cross-interactant analysis of metadiscourse in letters of advice during the COVID-19 pandemic17
Book review17
Sequence organization in human–animal interaction. An exploration of two canonical sequences16
Disagreements in casual Taiwanese Mandarin conversations: A gender-based study16
“Can you read my mind?” Conventionalized indirect requests and Theory of Mind abilities16
Everybody swears on Only Murders in the Building: The interpersonal functions of scripted television swearing16
The dentist's first turn-at-talk in Korean dental visits16
Book review16
Speech reports and evidence15
Reasons for trust. The (counter-) argumentative dynamics of image-repair strategies15
Experiencing space: Some uses of Japanese proximal spatial deictic expressions15
The mother of all worries: Formulations of parents' gender in their talk about the transition to the empty nest phase14
Approaching institutional boundaries: Comparative conversation analysis of practices for assisting suicidal callers in emergency and suicide helpline calls14
Prosodic linking in apology sequences in Finnish elementary school mediations14
Semantic incorporation and discourse prominence: Experimental evidence from English pronoun resolution14
Emotional labor in webcare and beyond: A linguistic framework and case study13
In your face? Exploring multimodal response patterns involving facial responses to verbal and gestural stance-taking expressions13
Outside the clause: Functions of the Persian na ‘no’13
Humor production through breaches of a pre-allocated turn-taking organization in television talk shows involving interpreters13
Book review13
Procedural structures: The case of sentence-initial subordinate clauses13
Book review13
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 introduction12
Book review12
Topicalizing peers’ language: Situated linguistic identities at workplaces12
“This apology doesn't seem sincere at all” (Meta)discourses around Will Smith's apology in English and Japanese YouTube comments12
All the more reasons: Mismatches in topoi in dialogue12
Doing swearing across languages – The curious case of subtitling12
Editorial Board12
Diachronic pragmatics: New perspectives on recent developments of spoken English12
Book review12
Welp in talk-in-interaction: Moving on from publicly available disappointments12
The impact of self-access web-based instruction on EFL learners' pragmatic awareness of email requests to faculty11
Can AI simulate or emulate human stance? Using metadiscourse to compare GPT-generated and human-authored academic book reviews11
Book review11
The effect of the use of T or V pronouns in Dutch HR communication11
Argumentation profiles and the manipulation of common ground. The arguments of populist leaders on Twitter11
“How's the wife?”: Pragmatic reasoning in spousal reference11
Using prosody to express evidentiality. The case of the quotative11
Editorial Board11
Disagreement, epistemic stance and contrastive marking in Catalan parliamentary debate10
Digitally saving face: An experimental investigation of cross-cultural differences in the use of emoticons and emoji10
Beyond questions: Non-interrogative uses of ano ‘what’ in Tagalog10
Editorial Board10
Referential choices. A study on quantification and discourse salience in sentence production in Swedish10
Celebrity gossip headlines and reliability in a Common Ground-based framework10
How students get help: Institutional identities as a resource for recruitment10
How the medium shapes the message: Stance in two forms of book reviews10
Assessments and actions: Instances from Arabic broadcast political interviews10
Just thank God for Donald Trump – Dialogue practices of populists and their supporters before and after taking office10
Pragmatics in the service of marketing: The case of COVID-19 semi-commercial public signs9
Editorial Board9
Book review9
Unravelling the complexity of semantic prosody: A theoretical inquiry9
Book review9
Book review9
We need to talk about Hearer's Meaning!9
Editorial Board9
Embedding answers into ongoing story (and other extended) telling in conversational interaction9
The epistemics of social relations in Murrinhpatha, Garrwa and Jaru conversations9
Book review9
Editorial Board9
On the interpretation of response particles méi(yǒu) and bù to negative polar questions in Mandarin Chinese9
Book review9
Book review9
“Egungun be careful, na Express you dey go”: Socialising a newcomer-celebrity and co-constructing relational connection on Twitter Nigeria8
Social meaning in reverse: Expectations of English role noun use based on speaker identity8
“See you soon! ADD OIL AR!”: Code-switching for face-work in edu-social Facebook groups8
Editorial Board8
Opening interspecies encounters – Greetings between humans and nonhuman animals8
Dynamic interplay of social variables in request strategies of workplace e-mails8
Joint planning in conversations with a person with aphasia8
A corpus-based analysis of corporate apologies and public responses on Chinese social media8
Editorial Board8
Ostension and the communicative function of natural language8
Editorial Board8
“#HaveYouNoShame”: Unraveling the pragmatics of impolite political hashtags8
Pragmatic aspects of wh-interrogatives in Marzahn German8
Metaphor and creativity in the act of making her heart flutter: Toward a cognitive-emotive perspective8
Book review8
Beyond negation: “Not” as evaluation and speech-act trigger in Mandarin Chinese negative markers8
Book review8
Problematising expressives: The case of magical affirmations in the pick-up artist paradigm8
Affective text trajectories: Toward a linguistic anthropology of critique8
A contrastive investigation of the performative and descriptive use of surprise frames in judicial opinions of the HKSAR8
How people perceive and talk about miscommunication7
Assessing impoliteness-related language in response to a season's greeting posted by the Spanish and English Prime Ministers on Twitter7
Wait, espera, peraí: Signalling discourse model misalignment in English, Spanish, and Portuguese7
Editorial Board7
Book review7
Accounting for changes in series of vocalisations – Professional vision in a gym-training session7
“I don't mean to humblebrag”—on the reception of humblebrags from a cognitive-pragmatic perspective7
Mitigation revisited. An operative and integrated definition of the pragmatic concept, its strategic values, and its linguistic expression7
Grammar and stance: The use of Korean interrogative suffixes –nya and –ni as alignment markers7
Demonstratives and speaker stance in Thai7
Motion verbs and future constructions: the case of Hebrew omed le-V ‘standing (up) to-V’/‘(be) about to-V’7
Orienting to knowledge as remarkable: The newsmark be'emet (‘in-truth’) in Hebrew conversation7
Premise conditionals are echoic thematic conditionals7
Shared laughter as relational strategy at intercultural conflictual workplace interactions7
Illocutionary context and management allocation of emoji and other graphicons in Mexican parent school WhatsApp communities7
Audience design and pragmatic conceptions of moves and upvotes during advice-giving on Reddit7
Editorial Board7
The role of inference and inferencing in pragmatic models of communication7
When veracity is in the balance: Requests for reconfirmation as preliminary information receipts7
Rationalizing impoliteness: Taking offence and providing vicarious accounts in mother-in-law/daughter-in-law conflict mediation7
Book review6
Questions with address terms in Indonesian conversation: Managing next-speaker selection and action formation6
Editorial Board6
Intonational cues to speaker bias in questions and the role of language exposure6
Sharing travel experiences on TripAdvisor: A genre analysis of negative hotel reviews written in French, Spanish and Italian6
Text, discourse, context: A meta-trilogy for discourse analysis6
Book review6
Communication: Inferring speaker intentions or perceiving the world? Insights from developmental research6
Sociopragmatic variation in Britain: A corpus-based study of politeness6
“It seems to be some kind of an accident”: Perception and team decision-making in time critical situations6
Dogs responding to human utterances in embodied ways6
Embodied and affective negotiation over spatial and epistemic group territories among school-children: (Re)producing moral orders in open learning environments6
Book review6
Multiplicity in grammar: Modes, genres and Speaker's knowledge6
Book review6
Face-saving strategies and the burden of opioid policy enactments: When physicians’ compliance makes patients non-compliant6
The rise and fall of illocutionary negation: Evidence from Veneto6
Epistemic independence and speaker roles: Highlighting the role of second speaker and mitigating the role of first speaker6
Direct words, deep bonds: The tradition of father-son advice in ancient Arabia6
Uso “lie” or hontoo “truth”?: Two lexical response tokens in Japanese informings6
Informings as recruitment in nurses′ intrahospital telephone calls6
Relationships between construction grammar(s) and genre: Evidence from an analysis of Instagram posts6
The use of praise upgrades in compliment sequences in natural conversations between young adults in dating relationships6
Editorial Board6
Book review6
Are you serious? Workplace agenda and aesthetic negotiations with depictions at opera rehearsals6
Book review6
Interrogatives and speaker stance: From information-seeking to interpersonal (dis)affiliation6
Book review6
Low spirits vs. high spirits: How failure and success influence sharing in social media groups6
Book review6
Book review6
Style markers in speech act realization: A corpus-based analysis of the cute style sajiao in Chinese6
Backchannels are not always very short utterances. The case of Italian Multi-Unit Backchannels6
Editorial Board5
From words to multimodalities: Compliment perceptions across lingua cultures5
Narratives of geopolitical representation in the discourse of the Russia–Ukraine war5
Sleep well in Småland, whether you prefer a castle or a hut: Performing persuasion through patterns of you in tourism discourse5
Coding empathy in dialogue5
Face threatening and speaker presuppositions: The case of feminine polite particles in Thai5
Pragmalinguistic and sociopragmatic patterns of requestive acts in English and Italian: Insights from film conversation5
Recognising understandability: How police officers respond to drunk persons’ undecipherable turns5
Book review5
Re-borrowing of swearwords in the English translations of Jo Nesbø’s Harry Hole novels5
“One, two, three!”: Coordinating and projecting simultaneous start and end of joint actions in drills of rescue activities in mass casualty incidents5
On the fringes of metaphor: Using ambiguously figurative vague language to pragmatically negotiate sensitive topics in the English as a Medium of Instruction classroom5
Newspaper headlines, relevance and emotive effects5
“This word no get concrete meaning oo”: Pragmatic markers in Nigerian online communication5
Rephrasing is not arguing, but it is still persuasive: An experimental approach to perlocutionary effects of rephrase5
On unsuccessful utterances in pragmatics5
Historical poem-quoting interaction: An interaction-speech act-ritual integrative study of fù in ancient China5
Italian davvero (‘really’) as a trigger of implicit contents in persuasive discourse5
Book review5
Reciprocity and epistemicity: On the (proto)social and cross-cultural ‘value’ of information transmission5
Defending speaker intention in a model of the hearer's meaning5
Trust-indicating pragmatic markers in selected African englishes5
(Inter)subjectivity and information structure: The pragmatics of left and right peripheries in spoken Mandarin5
Book review5
Putting negotiation on a ‘principal-ed’ footing: A corpus-informed discourse analysis of person deixis in diplomatic debates5
Meaning-making in tactile cross-signing context5
In memoriam: Emanuel A. Schegloff 1937–20245
Making refusals via English as a lingua franca: Chinese English speakers’ strategies and sequences4
The pragmatic functions of ‘respect’ in lawyers' courtroom discourse: A case study of Brexit hearings4
Self-praise in Japanese conversation4
“Don't act like a Sati-Savitri!”: Hinglish and other impoliteness strategies in Indian YouTube comments4
“Ay no I do feel exhausted”: Affiliative practices and interpersonal relationships in indirect complaints in Spanish4
Quasi-instructions: Orienting to the projectable trajectories of imminent bodily movements with instruction-like utterances4
Editorial Board4
Explaining reversible discourse marker sequences: A case study of and and so4
Book review4
Covertly communicated hate speech: A corpus-assisted pragmatic study4
Book review4
The pragmatics of headlines. Central issues and future research avenues4
Personification and relationships in English as a Medium of Instruction business discourse: Crossing paths in metaphorical constructions4
The pragmatics of sharing memes on Twitter4
Egyptian parents’ responses to children's complaints focusing on the influence of sex and age4
On the dual role of expressive speech acts: Relational work on signs announcing closures during the Covid-19 pandemic4
Reenactments during tellings: Using gaze for initiating reenactments, switching roles and representing events4
Proper names as anaphoric expressions in short crime stories: Doing more than referring within and across paragraphs4
Editorial Board4
Wake up New Zealand! Directives, politeness and stance in Twitter #Covid19NZ posts4
Editorial Board4
Pragmatic patterns and discourses on Twitter: Unpacking perspectives in the discussion of the Turów lignite mine4
Caught on page! Micro and macro pragmatics of stage directions parentheticals in Tom Stoppard's Professional Foul4
Inherent linguistic impoliteness: The case of insultive you+np in Dutch, English and Polish4
Japanese onomatopoeia in bodily demonstrations in a traditional dance instruction: A resource for synchronizing body movements4
The forms and functions of ‘naming interrogatives’ in Hebrew word searches4
Questions in argumentative dialogue4
Book review4
The pragmatics of online healthcare communication: Politeness strategies in an anxiety and depression support community4
Book review4
Structure and interpretation of declarative sentences4
Mediating expert knowledge: The use of pragmatic strategies in digital research digests4
Editorial Board4
Editorial Board4
Book review4
There as a discourse-pragmatic marker in Irish English4
Trademark™: A usage-based theory of the trademark sign4
Predicating Truth: An empirically based analysis4
Identical linguistic forms in multiple turn and sequence positions in Asian languages4
Towards interspecies pragmatics: Language use and embodied interaction in human-animal activities, encounters, and narratives4
Impact of social cognitive propensity on the processing of nontransparent sentential meaning4
Types and functions of insubordinate complement clauses with hogy ‘that’ in Hungarian4
Book review4
Corrective demonstrations and embodied resources for modeling speech sounds in aphasia speech-language therapy4
Italian non vedo/non si vede + indirect wh-interrogative clause (‘I don't see why/what/how...’) as a marker of disagreement4
Managers see, analysts hear. Epistemic divide in financial dialogues4
Book review4
Expressive meanings and social applications of ‘do’-support questions in Camuno4
Hashtag swearing: Pragmatic polysemy and polyfunctionality of #FuckPutin as solidary flaming4
The effects of negation on discourse structure4
“Being your son is rather tiring”: Assessments and assessment responses in initial interactions in Mandarin Chinese4
Pragmatic alternatives and social meaning4
Remediation of infelicitous epistemic stance4
Expressing thinking in institutional interaction: Stancetaking in mental health rehabilitation group discussions4
Pursuing and resisting argumentative projects in Q&A sequences during a trial3
Book review3
Book review3
“That's amazing!”: Making self-praise work in Japanese conversation3
Leadership style in transition? Decision-making processes in cabin crew's pre-flight briefings3
When is it legitimate to cancel a potential scalar implicature? The roles of the Question Under Discussion and optimal relevance3
Book review3
Book review3
Book review3
Deciphering the electrophysiological signature of discourse connectives3
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