Language Sciences

Papers
(The median citation count of Language Sciences 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Frege's triangle and Austin's square: the meaning and use of no-predicates in English65
“Language art is to console those who are broken by life”: A discursive analysis of legitimation in Chinese comforting17
Further semantic change of the derogatory sociomorpheme tái in Chinese gender-related Internet neologisms15
Inference and indexicality, or how to solve Bakhtin's problem with heteroglossia15
Nominal classification in Mabia languages of West Africa14
Complement-taking predicates, parentheticals and grammaticalization11
Challenging ‘definite article’ as a comparative concept: The case of Mopan Maya10
Editorial Board9
A drawback for substitutional arguments9
Sound-meaning mapping: Verbal imitation of Super Mario music by Yorùbá gamers9
Sequential Time construal is primary in temporal uses of Mandarin Chinese qian ‘front’ and hou ‘back’8
On the place and role of ‘discourse’ in the Functional Discourse Grammar model. The interface between language system and language use8
Editorial Board7
Print exposure leads to individual differences in the Turkish aorist7
States of idiosyncratic idealized cognitive models in acts of pragmatic meaning6
The practice of metaphor in conversation: an ecological integrational approach6
Construing chemistry knowledge through English systematic names of organic compounds: a Systemic Functional Linguistics perspective6
A quantitative study on zero copula in Japanese6
Disagreement by Chinese speakers of English: evidence of pragmatic transfer6
Voice, rhythm, and genre in children's early writing6
Editorial Board6
Grammaticalization of prosodic configurations? The case of evidential interrogative in Spanish6
Responses to CAT at 50: Reflections on accommodation from a sociolinguist6
Editorial Board6
Dialogical cognition6
The Hamar cattle model: the semantics of appearance in a pastoral linguaculture6
From size measurement to simultaneity: the case of Russian po mere ‘by measure’5
Forms and functions of self-repetition in Mandarin child-directed speech5
A dynamic approach to understanding motivation in an interpreting course5
Proximal and distal terms in Persian interactions: an integrative approach5
Diachronic changes of number use in written American English from 1923 to 20085
Editorial Board5
Event structure, force dynamics and verb semantics4
Linguistic synesthesia and embodiment: A study based on Mandarin modality exclusivity norms4
Examining textism convergence in mediated interactions4
Deixis and dementia: Insights from phenomenological philosophy4
Editorial Board4
Remarks on Pāṇini's grammar4
The reflexive roots of reference4
Prosody in recognizing dialogue-specific functions of speech acts. Evidence from Polish4
Tracking identity in minority language policy: a reflexive approach to hybrid concepts in the language sciences4
Cognitive factive verbs across languages4
An Interview with Per Linell4
Editorial Board4
The negotiation of epistemic and deontic rights in child-adult interactions in colloquial Jakartan Indonesian3
Editorial Board3
A little less conversation – On the completeness of discourse-initial action-guiding subsententials3
Beyond definiteness: exploring epistemic and relational accounts of e-marked formulations in Persian interactions3
When translation meets dissemination: Translations of the Chinese diplomatic term Mìngyùn Gòngtóngtǐ in English news reports3
Modesty differs between historical and modern Chinese: A computational analysis of modesty metalinguistics3
Communication accommodation theory: Past accomplishments, current trends, and future prospects2
Expectation through imitation: towards a unified protocol for roleplay in developmental sociolinguistics2
I am criticizing you when I say “I am not criticizing you”: a prosodic-pragmatic exploration of the Chinese metapragmatic negation bùshì wǒ shuō nǐ2
Conversation analysis, dialogism, and the case for a minimal communicative unit2
Principles of variation in the use of diacritics (taškīl) in Arabic books2
‘Face’-related expressions in the Minnan Dialect of Chinese2
A multifunctional analysis of off-record indirectness in Chinese interactions2
The construction of “Wangmian Si-le Fuqin” in Mandarin Chinese: A Cardiff Grammar approach2
Reconceptualizing the critical period hypothesis for second language acquisition: An appraisal of Lenneberg's work on the epigenesis of language2
From complementizing to modifying status: On the grammaticalization of the complement-taking-predicate-clauses chances are and odds are2
Linguistic relativity from an enactive perspective: the entanglement of language and cognition2
Communication frequency, identity accommodation, and attitudes toward people with disabilities in the United States: Disability salience and intergroup anxiety2
More to gesture than meets the (analyst's) eye? Querying the problem of online gestural loss from applied linguistics and psychotherapy perspectives2
Editorial Board2
A defense of a weak linguistic relativist thesis2
Languaging territorial assemblage: regional integration through language policy practices in southern China1
Reconceptualising the notion of cross-linguistic transfer in multilingual spaces: A Global South perspective from South Africa1
English as an index of neoliberal globalization: The linguistic landscape of Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan1
Editorial Board1
Lost and found language: From fuzzy logic to yūgen1
Generative linguistics: ‘Galilean style’1
Productivity of Assamese derivational suffixes1
English motion and progressive constructions, and the typological drift from bounded to unbounded discourse construal1
Theorizing temporality in multimodal communication: linearity and non-linearity in bullet comments1
Ambient identity construction via massive anonymous danmu comments1
A multidimensional alignment sustainability model for language development: Evidence from L1 and L2 semio-semantic and semio-pragmatic markers1
Participatory sense-making and knowing-in-connection in VR1
Discursive practices of the performative theory of solidarity discourse1
A study of visual path expressions in Mandarin Chinese from the perspective of motion event typology1
Naming multiplicity: Taíno ecolinguistics and naming conventions, and implications for language reclamation and decolonizing environmental relationalities1
Middle-aged children's perceptions of receiving accommodation from their parent and instrumental caregiving intentions1
Editorial Board1
Time-to-smile, time-to-speak, time-to-resolve: timescales for shaping engagement in language1
Voices in reading literature1
“This is perplexing because…”: Examining the impact of gender and geo-academic location on expressions of confusion in research articles1
Language awareness: On the semiotics of talk and text1
Students’ perception of an instructor: The effects of instructor accommodation to student swearing1
Bibliography as a language communication tool1
Introduction to the Festschrift for Per Linell: Dialogism as a General Epistemology for the Language Sciences1
Linguistic appropriation and/or dispossession: Two sides of the Marxist coin1
Revisiting complement and parenthetical constructions: theory and description1
Third-way linguistics: generative and usage-based theories are both right1
Ostensible invitations in Chinese – A pragmatic perspective1
The situatedness of aesthetic emotions: a review of the literature and a proposal for its study in variationist linguistics1
Does embodied simulation contain schematic motional imagery when it comes to action concepts?1
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