Functions of Language

Papers
(The median citation count of Functions of Language is 0. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)
ArticleCitations
Review of Ngo, Hood, Martin, Painter, Smith & Zappavigna (2022): Modelling paralanguage using systemic functional semiotics: Theory and application7
Changes to the editorial team5
Noun incorporation in English4
The semantic continuum from disposition to causative meaning4
The Functions of Evidentiality3
Emerging inferentials in English?3
Continuative and contrastive discourse relations across discourse domains2
Exchange Structure: Refinements to the model through a study of multiparty discourse of 4 to 5 year-old children2
Today’s innovations, tomorrow’s conventions2
Review of Kim, Martin, Shin & Choi (2023): Korean grammar: A systemic functional approach2
Review of Martin, Quiroz & Wang (2023): Systemic functional grammar: A text-based description of English, Spanish and Chinese2
On the discourse marker yěshì ‘also’ in Chinese constructions of blame2
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Effects of verb and construction frequency in sentence comprehension2
Contrast marking variation in Romance and Germanic languages1
Diachronic changes of least delicate appraisal in parliamentary and congressional language1
Review of Forceville (2020): Visual and multimodal communication: Applying the relevance principle1
Review of Caple, Huan & Bednarek (2020): Multimodal news analysis across cultures1
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Review of Yus (2023): Pragmatics of internet humour1
On the L1-acquisition of the pragmatics of discourse like1
Adjustment, mismatches and accommodation of procedural and conceptual meaning1
Review of He (2025): Weibo news package: a systemic functional perspective on the text-reader relationship1
From constructional innovation to linguistic change1
Discourse markers in the making1
A critical redesign of the attitude spectrum1
On the discourse pragmatics of German wh-headlines1
Review of Heine, Kaltenböck, Kuteva & Long (2021): The rise of discourse markers0
Modeling the discourse pragmatics of interrogatives0
Preaching in uncertain terms0
The function of extra negation0
Self-denigration in academic discourse0
Semi-embedded clauses in Aisi0
Redefining attitude for studying explicit and indirect evaluations of human behaviour0
Review of Matthiessen (2023): System in Systemic Functional Linguistics0
Review of Yang (2022): Non-finiteness: A process-relation perspective0
Review of Dove (2022): Abstract concepts and the embodied mind: Rethinking grounded cognition0
Some as an indefinite article in Present Day English0
Review of Gussenhoven & Chen (2020): The Oxford handbook of language prosody0
Functional transition from hear to nonvisual sensory and hearsay evidential categories0
Review of Huang (2022): Toward multimodal pragmatics: A Study of illocutionary force in Chinese situated discourse0
Cardinal direction judgment based on the integration of spatial reference frames in different languages0
Continuative and contrastive discourse relations across discourse domains0
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Review of Maagerø, Mulvad & Tønnessen (2022): Women in social semiotics and SFL: Making a difference0
Potential grammaticalization of epistemic phrases0
Definite-like meaning of bare classifiers in Nung0
The functions of evidentiality0
Review of Ellis, Roever, Shintani & Zhu (2024): Measuring second language pragmatic competence: A psycholinguistic perspective0
Review of Bednarek (2023): Language and characterisation in television series: A corpus-informed approach to the construction of social identity in the media0
The discourse functions of simple copulas in Dzongkha0
Do ‘say’ verbs really grammaticalize into complementizers through clause combination?0
Review of Kiaer (2023): Multimodal communication in young multilingual children: Learning beyond words0
The genre specifics of Englishwh-exclamatives0
Seeing and knowing0
Editorial announcement0
Review of Kiaer & Lo (2025): Fandom language learning: A digital transformation of language education in the AI age0
Explicitness and implicitness of discourse relations in a multilingual discourse bank0
Review of Verschueren (2022): Complicity in discourse and practice0
Review of Martin, Maton & Doran (2020): Accessing academic discourse: Systemic Functional Linguistics and Legitimation Code Theory0
Review of Sarda & Lena (2023): Existential constructions across languages: Forms, meanings and functions0
Review of Wang & Ma (2025): Introducing Chinese discourse: Methods of analysis empowered by Systemic Functional Linguistics0
Today’s Innovations, Tomorrow’s Conventions0
Review of Shimojo (2024): Salience of information in Japanese: Discourse and the syntax-pragmatics interface0
Review of Ladegaard (2024): Migrant workers’ narratives of return: Alienation and identity transformations0
Alternatives to QUD0
Eyes do not lie but words do0
Review of Steen (2023): Slowing metaphor down: Elaborating Deliberate Metaphor Theory0
Everything-cleft constructions in spoken British English0
Discourse-pragmatic perspectives on interrogatives0
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On the co-optation of according to as an evidential in English0
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Four types of English evidential -ly adverbs0
Doing things with grammar0
‘What we found is’0
I’m all virtual-peopled out0
Review of Wu, Huang & Polley (2024): Cognitive Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition of Chinese: Theories and applications0
Continuity in discourse relations0
How sentence type influences the interpretation of Spanish future constructions0
The linguistic realization of continuative discourse relations in English discourse0
A contrastive perspective on French and Italian wh-in situ questions0
Review of Traugott (2022): Discourse structuring markers in English: A historical constructionalist perspective on pragmatics0
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