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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Review of Ngo, Hood, Martin, Painter, Smith & Zappavigna (2022): Modelling paralanguage using systemic functional semiotics: Theory and application10
Noun incorporation in English7
The Functions of Evidentiality3
Changes to the editorial team3
Emerging inferentials in English?3
The semantic continuum from disposition to causative meaning3
Review of Kim, Martin, Shin & Choi (2023): Korean grammar: A systemic functional approach2
Exchange Structure: Refinements to the model through a study of multiparty discourse of 4 to 5 year-old children2
On the discourse marker yěshì ‘also’ in Chinese constructions of blame2
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Continuative and contrastive discourse relations across discourse domains2
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A computational approach to mapping replacement processes in language change2
Review of Martin, Quiroz & Wang (2023): Systemic functional grammar: A text-based description of English, Spanish and Chinese2
From constructional innovation to linguistic change1
Contrast marking variation in Romance and Germanic languages1
Discourse markers in the making1
Today’s innovations, tomorrow’s conventions1
Review of He (2025): Weibo news package: A systemic functional perspective on the text-reader relationship1
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Effects of verb and construction frequency in sentence comprehension1
Everything-cleft constructions in spoken British English0
Review of Sparks (2025): Second language anxiety: Affective or linguistic variable?0
Review of Kiaer (2023): Multimodal communication in young multilingual children: Learning beyond words0
Review of Mannaioli (2025): Vagueness as an implicitating persuasive strategy0
Seeing and knowing0
The function of extra negation0
Editorial announcement0
Review of Wu, Huang & Polley (2024): Cognitive Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition of Chinese: Theories and applications0
Some as an indefinite article in Present Day English0
Review of Matthiessen (2023): System in Systemic Functional Linguistics0
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Review of Ellis, Roever, Shintani & Zhu (2024): Measuring second language pragmatic competence: A psycholinguistic perspective0
Review of Ladegaard (2024): Migrant workers’ narratives of return: Alienation and identity transformations0
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Potential grammaticalization of epistemic phrases0
Cardinal direction judgment based on the integration of spatial reference frames in different languages0
Preaching in uncertain terms0
On the L1-acquisition of the pragmatics of discourse like0
Review of Martin, Maton & Doran (2020): Accessing academic discourse: Systemic Functional Linguistics and Legitimation Code Theory0
Do ‘say’ verbs really grammaticalize into complementizers through clause combination?0
Self-denigration in academic discourse0
Functional transition from hear to nonvisual sensory and hearsay evidential categories0
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Review of Sarda & Lena (2023): Existential constructions across languages: Forms, meanings and functions0
Review of Kiaer & Lo (2025): Fandom language learning: A digital transformation of language education in the AI age0
Four types of English evidential -ly adverbs0
Review of Davidse, Njende & O’Grady (2023): Specificational and presentational there-clefts: Redefining the field of clefts0
Explicitness and implicitness of discourse relations in a multilingual discourse bank0
Review of Huang (2022): Toward multimodal pragmatics: A Study of illocutionary force in Chinese situated discourse0
The linguistic realization of continuative discourse relations in English discourse0
Eyes do not lie but words do0
The link between syntax, semantics, discourse, and lexicon in counteridenticals0
Review of Shimojo (2024): Salience of information in Japanese: Discourse and the syntax-pragmatics interface0
Review of Maagerø, Mulvad & Tønnessen (2022): Women in social semiotics and SFL: Making a difference0
Review of Wang & Ma (2025): Introducing Chinese discourse: Methods of analysis empowered by Systemic Functional Linguistics0
The functions of evidentiality0
The discourse functions of simple copulas in Dzongkha0
Adjustment, mismatches and accommodation of procedural and conceptual meaning0
Review of Yus (2023): Pragmatics of internet humour0
‘What we found is’0
The genre specifics of Englishwh-exclamatives0
Semi-embedded clauses in Aisi0
Review of Dove (2022): Abstract concepts and the embodied mind: Rethinking grounded cognition0
On the co-optation of according to as an evidential in English0
The many things that thing can become0
Review of Yang (2022): Non-finiteness: A process-relation perspective0
Review of Verschueren (2022): Complicity in discourse and practice0
Doing things with grammar0
I’m all virtual-peopled out0
Review of Bednarek (2023): Language and characterisation in television series: A corpus-informed approach to the construction of social identity in the media0
Definite-like meaning of bare classifiers in Nung0
Today’s Innovations, Tomorrow’s Conventions0
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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
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A critical redesign of the attitude spectrum0
Continuative and contrastive discourse relations across discourse domains0
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