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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Verbalisation and the One-New-Idea Constraint10
Review of Ngo, Hood, Martin, Painter, Smith & Zappavigna (2022): Modelling paralanguage using systemic functional semiotics: Theory and application7
The Functions of Evidentiality3
Noun incorporation in English3
Changes to the editorial team3
The semantic continuum from disposition to causative meaning3
Review of Kim, Martin, Shin & Choi (2023): Korean grammar: A systemic functional approach2
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Emerging inferentials in English?2
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
The one–new–idea constraint, functor–argument metaphors, and holistic speech processing2
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A computational approach to mapping replacement processes in language change2
Review of He (2025): Weibo news package: A systemic functional perspective on the text-reader relationship1
Discourse markers in the making1
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On the discourse marker yěshì ‘also’ in Chinese constructions of blame1
Contrast marking variation in Romance and Germanic languages1
Review of Yus (2023): Pragmatics of internet humour1
Today’s innovations, tomorrow’s conventions1
Effects of verb and construction frequency in sentence comprehension1
From constructional innovation to linguistic change1
Dependent-marked anticausatives in Old Norse-Icelandic1
Review of Martin, Quiroz & Wang (2023): Systemic functional grammar: A text-based description of English, Spanish and Chinese1
Editorial announcement0
Review of Dove (2022): Abstract concepts and the embodied mind: Rethinking grounded cognition0
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A cross-linguistic computational study on one new idea per clause0
Some as an indefinite article in Present Day English0
Review of Verschueren (2022): Complicity in discourse and practice0
Review of Matthiessen (2023): System in Systemic Functional Linguistics0
Joint attention, interaction-management, and other factors0
Constructing humour through the use of English in Chinese stand-up comedy0
The link between syntax, semantics, discourse, and lexicon in counteridenticals0
The linguistic realization of continuative discourse relations in English discourse0
Review of Ladegaard (2024): Migrant workers’ narratives of return: Alienation and identity transformations0
The discourse functions of simple copulas in Dzongkha0
Potential grammaticalization of epistemic phrases0
Review of Wang & Ma (2025): Introducing Chinese discourse: Methods of analysis empowered by Systemic Functional Linguistics0
Preaching in uncertain terms0
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On the L1-acquisition of the pragmatics of discourse like0
Eyes do not lie but words do0
‘What we found is’0
I’m all virtual-peopled out0
Review of Fusari (2026): A corpus linguistic approach to analyzing “empathy”0
Review of Sparks (2025): Second language anxiety: Affective or linguistic variable?0
The ‘idea’ in the one-new-idea constraint0
Review of Yang (2022): Non-finiteness: A process-relation perspective0
Review of Mannaioli (2025): Vagueness as an implicitating persuasive strategy0
The function of extra negation0
Seeing and knowing0
Review of Wu, Huang & Polley (2024): Cognitive Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition of Chinese: Theories and applications0
Everything-cleft constructions in spoken British English0
Review of Huang (2022): Toward multimodal pragmatics: A Study of illocutionary force in Chinese situated discourse0
Self-denigration in academic discourse0
Continuative and contrastive discourse relations across discourse domains0
Semi-embedded clauses in Aisi0
Review of Maagerø, Mulvad & Tønnessen (2022): Women in social semiotics and SFL: Making a difference0
Cardinal direction judgment based on the integration of spatial reference frames in different languages0
The functions of evidentiality0
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Adjustment, mismatches and accommodation of procedural and conceptual meaning0
How much is too much?0
The Mandarin rising-intoned Éi (诶) particle in third position0
Review of Martin, Maton & Doran (2020): Accessing academic discourse: Systemic Functional Linguistics and Legitimation Code Theory0
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Explicitness and implicitness of discourse relations in a multilingual discourse bank0
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Do ‘say’ verbs really grammaticalize into complementizers through clause combination?0
Four types of English evidential -ly adverbs0
Review of Kiaer & Lo (2025): Fandom language learning: A digital transformation of language education in the AI age0
The many things that thing can become0
Review of Kiaer (2023): Multimodal communication in young multilingual children: Learning beyond words0
Review of Davidse, Njende & O’Grady (2023): Specificational and presentational there-clefts: Redefining the field of clefts0
Functional transition from hear to nonvisual sensory and hearsay evidential categories0
Review of Bednarek (2023): Language and characterisation in television series: A corpus-informed approach to the construction of social identity in the media0
On the co-optation of according to as an evidential in English0
Today’s Innovations, Tomorrow’s Conventions0
Negative conditionals in English0
Review of Traugott (2022): Discourse structuring markers in English: A historical constructionalist perspective on pragmatics0
Continuity in discourse relations0
Review of Steen (2023): Slowing metaphor down: Elaborating Deliberate Metaphor Theory0
Review of Shimojo (2024): Salience of information in Japanese: Discourse and the syntax-pragmatics interface0
A critical redesign of the attitude spectrum0
Definite-like meaning of bare classifiers in Nung0
Review of Sarda & Lena (2023): Existential constructions across languages: Forms, meanings and functions0
Review of Ellis, Roever, Shintani & Zhu (2024): Measuring second language pragmatic competence: A psycholinguistic perspective0
Doing things with grammar0
The genre specifics of Englishwh-exclamatives0
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