Language Sciences

Papers
(The TQCC of Language Sciences is 3. 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
Inference and indexicality, or how to solve Bakhtin's problem with heteroglossia15
Further semantic change of the derogatory sociomorpheme tái in Chinese gender-related Internet neologisms15
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
A drawback for substitutional arguments9
Sound-meaning mapping: Verbal imitation of Super Mario music by Yorùbá gamers9
Editorial Board9
On the place and role of ‘discourse’ in the Functional Discourse Grammar model. The interface between language system and language use8
Sequential Time construal is primary in temporal uses of Mandarin Chinese qian ‘front’ and hou ‘back’8
Editorial Board7
Print exposure leads to individual differences in the Turkish aorist7
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
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
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
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
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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
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
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
The negotiation of epistemic and deontic rights in child-adult interactions in colloquial Jakartan Indonesian3
Editorial Board3
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