Journal of Pragmatics

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of Pragmatics is 4. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Editorial Board47
Book review29
Pragmatic functions of versatile unsa ‘what’ in Cebuano: From interrogative pronoun to placeholder to stance marker27
Toward a multimodal pragmatics analysis of ambulant vending on a Buenos Aires trainline25
Like and dislike scales in couples’ argumentative interaction25
Editorial Board24
Book review24
Book review23
Book review23
Editorial Board22
Book review22
Beyond stereotypes: Cognitive abilities underlying social meaning21
Responding to new information with negative discourse particles nein/nee/nö in German talk-in-interaction20
Sequence organization in human–animal interaction. An exploration of two canonical sequences20
On the evolution of a multifunctional discourse marker: A Discourse Grammar analysis of Korean com20
Negation as involvement: Building intersubjectivity via the Hebrew lo tagid construction19
Performing good diplomatic relations: The case of presidential introductory conversations during credential ceremonies19
“Can you read my mind?” Conventionalized indirect requests and Theory of Mind abilities19
Disagreements in casual Taiwanese Mandarin conversations: A gender-based study18
“Not right now”: Children's resistance during online grooming interactions18
Epistemic vigilance and persuasion: The construction of trust in online marketing17
The pragmatics of encouragement: An inquiry into defaults vis-à-vis inferences16
Everybody swears on Only Murders in the Building: The interpersonal functions of scripted television swearing16
Outside the clause: Functions of the Persian na ‘no’15
Approaching institutional boundaries: Comparative conversation analysis of practices for assisting suicidal callers in emergency and suicide helpline calls15
The mother of all worries: Formulations of parents' gender in their talk about the transition to the empty nest phase15
Humor production through breaches of a pre-allocated turn-taking organization in television talk shows involving interpreters15
Experiencing space: Some uses of Japanese proximal spatial deictic expressions15
Procedural structures: The case of sentence-initial subordinate clauses15
Reasons for trust. The (counter-) argumentative dynamics of image-repair strategies15
Speech reports and evidence13
Prosodic linking in apology sequences in Finnish elementary school mediations13
Book review13
All the more reasons: Mismatches in topoi in dialogue13
In your face? Exploring multimodal response patterns involving facial responses to verbal and gestural stance-taking expressions13
Book review13
Book review13
Interpreting verbal irony in Mandarin Chinese: The role of prosody and proficiency among L2 learners of Chinese13
Welp in talk-in-interaction: Moving on from publicly available disappointments12
Emotional labor in webcare and beyond: A linguistic framework and case study12
The impact of self-access web-based instruction on EFL learners' pragmatic awareness of email requests to faculty12
“How's the wife?”: Pragmatic reasoning in spousal reference12
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
Book review12
Book review12
Can AI simulate or emulate human stance? Using metadiscourse to compare GPT-generated and human-authored academic book reviews12
Using prosody to express evidentiality. The case of the quotative12
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
Diachronic pragmatics: New perspectives on recent developments of spoken English11
The effect of the use of T or V pronouns in Dutch HR communication11
Doing swearing across languages – The curious case of subtitling11
Editorial Board11
Demonstratives as utterance-final particles in Vietnamese conversation11
Argumentation profiles and the manipulation of common ground. The arguments of populist leaders on Twitter11
Book review10
Book review10
Book review10
Book review10
Book review10
Editorial Board10
Embedding answers into ongoing story (and other extended) telling in conversational interaction10
Referential choices. A study on quantification and discourse salience in sentence production in Swedish10
Editorial Board10
Celebrity gossip headlines and reliability in a Common Ground-based framework10
How students get help: Institutional identities as a resource for recruitment10
Unravelling the complexity of semantic prosody: A theoretical inquiry10
How the medium shapes the message: Stance in two forms of book reviews9
The epistemics of social relations in Murrinhpatha, Garrwa and Jaru conversations9
We need to talk about Hearer's Meaning!9
Book review9
Editorial Board9
Problematising expressives: The case of magical affirmations in the pick-up artist paradigm9
Pragmatic aspects of wh-interrogatives in Marzahn German9
Assessments and actions: Instances from Arabic broadcast political interviews9
Disagreement, epistemic stance and contrastive marking in Catalan parliamentary debate9
Pragmatics in the service of marketing: The case of COVID-19 semi-commercial public signs9
A contrastive investigation of the performative and descriptive use of surprise frames in judicial opinions of the HKSAR9
Editorial Board9
Editorial Board9
Restricting impoliteness: (Re)asserting morality in third-party mediation of Chinese interpersonal conflict9
Beyond questions: Non-interrogative uses of ano ‘what’ in Tagalog9
Book review9
Beyond negation: “Not” as evaluation and speech-act trigger in Mandarin Chinese negative markers9
Opening interspecies encounters – Greetings between humans and nonhuman animals9
“#HaveYouNoShame”: Unraveling the pragmatics of impolite political hashtags9
On the interpretation of response particles méi(yǒu) and bù to negative polar questions in Mandarin Chinese8
Ostension and the communicative function of natural language8
Demonstratives and speaker stance in Thai8
Editorial Board8
Dynamic interplay of social variables in request strategies of workplace e-mails8
Editorial Board8
A corpus-based analysis of corporate apologies and public responses on Chinese social media8
Editorial Board8
Audience design and pragmatic conceptions of moves and upvotes during advice-giving on Reddit8
Metaphor and creativity in the act of making her heart flutter: Toward a cognitive-emotive perspective8
Social meaning in reverse: Expectations of English role noun use based on speaker identity8
How people perceive and talk about miscommunication8
Book review8
“I don't mean to humblebrag”—on the reception of humblebrags from a cognitive-pragmatic perspective8
Joint planning in conversations with a person with aphasia8
Book review7
Assessing impoliteness-related language in response to a season's greeting posted by the Spanish and English Prime Ministers on Twitter7
Rationalizing impoliteness: Taking offence and providing vicarious accounts in mother-in-law/daughter-in-law conflict mediation7
Premise conditionals are echoic thematic conditionals7
Book review7
Editorial Board7
Editorial Board7
Shared laughter as relational strategy at intercultural conflictual workplace interactions7
Motion verbs and future constructions: the case of Hebrew omed le-V ‘standing (up) to-V’/‘(be) about to-V’7
Text, discourse, context: A meta-trilogy for discourse analysis7
The rise and fall of illocutionary negation: Evidence from Veneto7
Low spirits vs. high spirits: How failure and success influence sharing in social media groups7
Wait, espera, peraí: Signalling discourse model misalignment in English, Spanish, and Portuguese7
Illocutionary context and management allocation of emoji and other graphicons in Mexican parent school WhatsApp communities7
Face-saving strategies and the burden of opioid policy enactments: When physicians’ compliance makes patients non-compliant7
Book review7
Accounting for changes in series of vocalisations – Professional vision in a gym-training session7
Book review6
Book review6
Rephrasing is not arguing, but it is still persuasive: An experimental approach to perlocutionary effects of rephrase6
Book review6
Direct words, deep bonds: The tradition of father-son advice in ancient Arabia6
Sharing travel experiences on TripAdvisor: A genre analysis of negative hotel reviews written in French, Spanish and Italian6
Interrogatives and speaker stance: From information-seeking to interpersonal (dis)affiliation6
The role of inference and inferencing in pragmatic models of communication6
Speech prosody and pragmatic scalar inferences: Divergent cognitive strategies in adults with high and low levels of autistic traits6
Style markers in speech act realization: A corpus-based analysis of the cute style sajiao in Chinese6
Book review6
Book review6
Communication: Inferring speaker intentions or perceiving the world? Insights from developmental research6
Editorial Board6
Orienting to knowledge as remarkable: The newsmark be'emet (‘in-truth’) in Hebrew conversation6
Relevance beyond the implicated proposition6
Questions with address terms in Indonesian conversation: Managing next-speaker selection and action formation6
Book review6
Embodied and affective negotiation over spatial and epistemic group territories among school-children: (Re)producing moral orders in open learning environments6
Book review6
Intonational cues to speaker bias in questions and the role of language exposure6
“It seems to be some kind of an accident”: Perception and team decision-making in time critical situations6
Editorial Board6
Are you serious? Workplace agenda and aesthetic negotiations with depictions at opera rehearsals6
When veracity is in the balance: Requests for reconfirmation as preliminary information receipts6
The three “waves” of compliment and compliment response research6
Uso “lie” or hontoo “truth”?: Two lexical response tokens in Japanese informings6
Newspaper headlines, relevance and emotive effects5
On unsuccessful utterances in pragmatics5
The forms and functions of ‘naming interrogatives’ in Hebrew word searches5
Book review5
“Being your son is rather tiring”: Assessments and assessment responses in initial interactions in Mandarin Chinese5
“This word no get concrete meaning oo”: Pragmatic markers in Nigerian online communication5
From words to multimodalities: Compliment perceptions across lingua cultures5
Book review5
The use of praise upgrades in compliment sequences in natural conversations between young adults in dating relationships5
Backchannels are not always very short utterances. The case of Italian Multi-Unit Backchannels5
Sociopragmatic variation in Britain: A corpus-based study of politeness5
(Inter)subjectivity and information structure: The pragmatics of left and right peripheries in spoken Mandarin5
Face threatening and speaker presuppositions: The case of feminine polite particles in Thai5
“Ay no I do feel exhausted”: Affiliative practices and interpersonal relationships in indirect complaints in Spanish5
Managers see, analysts hear. Epistemic divide in financial dialogues5
Sleep well in Småland, whether you prefer a castle or a hut: Performing persuasion through patterns of you in tourism discourse5
Defending speaker intention in a model of the hearer's meaning5
In memoriam: Emanuel A. Schegloff 1937–20245
“One, two, three!”: Coordinating and projecting simultaneous start and end of joint actions in drills of rescue activities in mass casualty incidents5
Multiplicity in grammar: Modes, genres and Speaker's knowledge5
Turn-taking, interruption and (Im)Politeness: Evidence from Saudi Arabic interactions5
Dogs responding to human utterances in embodied ways5
On the fringes of metaphor: Using ambiguously figurative vague language to pragmatically negotiate sensitive topics in the English as a Medium of Instruction classroom5
Gender variability in the prosodic production of compliments in Italian: A pilot study5
Trust-indicating pragmatic markers in selected African englishes5
Editorial Board5
Putting negotiation on a ‘principal-ed’ footing: A corpus-informed discourse analysis of person deixis in diplomatic debates5
Reciprocity and epistemicity: On the (proto)social and cross-cultural ‘value’ of information transmission5
Narratives of geopolitical representation in the discourse of the Russia–Ukraine war5
Editorial Board5
Correction in embodied interaction: How teachers and children reflexively manage a preschool mobile formation in traffic5
Refutation in presidential debate: Metadiscourse and co-occurring gestures5
Coding empathy in dialogue5
Remediation of infelicitous epistemic stance4
Pragmatic patterns and discourses on Twitter: Unpacking perspectives in the discussion of the Turów lignite mine4
Book review4
Book review4
Re-borrowing of swearwords in the English translations of Jo Nesbø’s Harry Hole novels4
Gender representation in French Eurolect: An open dialogue between supranational and national legal varieties4
Egyptian parents’ responses to children's complaints focusing on the influence of sex and age4
Explaining reversible discourse marker sequences: A case study of and and so4
Editorial Board4
Historical poem-quoting interaction: An interaction-speech act-ritual integrative study of fù in ancient China4
Covertly communicated hate speech: A corpus-assisted pragmatic study4
Caught on page! Micro and macro pragmatics of stage directions parentheticals in Tom Stoppard's Professional Foul4
Self-praise in Japanese conversation4
There as a discourse-pragmatic marker in Irish English4
Mediating expert knowledge: The use of pragmatic strategies in digital research digests4
Proper names as anaphoric expressions in short crime stories: Doing more than referring within and across paragraphs4
Types and functions of insubordinate complement clauses with hogy ‘that’ in Hungarian4
Questions in argumentative dialogue4
Recognising understandability: How police officers respond to drunk persons’ undecipherable turns4
Italian davvero (‘really’) as a trigger of implicit contents in persuasive discourse4
Meaning-making in tactile cross-signing context4
Book review4
‘Did you just basically steal everything?’ – A study of discourse -pragmatic variation and change4
Identical linguistic forms in multiple turn and sequence positions in Asian languages4
The pragmatics of headlines. Central issues and future research avenues4
Book review4
Corrective demonstrations and embodied resources for modeling speech sounds in aphasia speech-language therapy4
Opinion shaping in the context of the “Me Too” movement. An investigation of presuppositions triggered by additive focus adverbs in traditional and social media4
Expressive meanings and social applications of ‘do’-support questions in Camuno4
The pragmatics of online healthcare communication: Politeness strategies in an anxiety and depression support community4
Italian non vedo/non si vede + indirect wh-interrogative clause (‘I don't see why/what/how...’) as a marker of disagreement4
Editorial Board4
Japanese onomatopoeia in bodily demonstrations in a traditional dance instruction: A resource for synchronizing body movements4
Hashtag swearing: Pragmatic polysemy and polyfunctionality of #FuckPutin as solidary flaming4
Editorial Board4
Wake up New Zealand! Directives, politeness and stance in Twitter #Covid19NZ posts4
Making refusals via English as a lingua franca: Chinese English speakers’ strategies and sequences4
Book review4
Personification and relationships in English as a Medium of Instruction business discourse: Crossing paths in metaphorical constructions4
The pragmatics of sharing memes on Twitter4
Gender/power relationships in fictional conflict talk at the workplace: Analyzing television dramatic dialogue in The Newsroom4
Pragmalinguistic and sociopragmatic patterns of requestive acts in English and Italian: Insights from film conversation4
Editorial Board4
“Don't act like a Sati-Savitri!”: Hinglish and other impoliteness strategies in Indian YouTube comments4
Inherent linguistic impoliteness: The case of insultive you+np in Dutch, English and Polish4
Book review4
Book review4
Impact of social cognitive propensity on the processing of nontransparent sentential meaning4
Towards interspecies pragmatics: Language use and embodied interaction in human-animal activities, encounters, and narratives4
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