OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Pragmatics is 43. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Social beliefs for the realization of the speech acts of apology and complaint as defined in Ciluba, French, and English	298
Talking about things	148
Orderly affect	137
The influence of the addressers’ and the addressees’ gender identities on the addressers’ linguistic politeness behavior	128
Japanese epistemic sentence-final particle kana	121
‘It seems my enemy is about having malaria’	119
Vernacular style writing	115
Orthopraxy, writing and identity	112
Refusals in Early Modern English drama texts	106
Hearing between the lines	105
Everyday interactions and the domestication of social inequality	98
FromHóyéétoHajinei	96
Piropos as metaphors for gender roles in Spanish speaking cultures	95
Ethnomethodology, culture, and implicature	86
Constructing Korean and Japanese interculturality in talk	84
Establishing emergent common ground	81
Linguistic ideology and praxis in U.S. law school classrooms	79
Smoothing the rough edges	73
The functions of formulaic speech in the L2 class	67
Politeness of service encounters in Hong Kong	65
Contexts and meanings of Japanese speech styles	64
Obituary – Susan Ervin-Tripp	62
On the internalization of language and its use	61
The interactional context of humor in Nigerian stand-up comedy	59
The structural format and rhetorical variation of writing Chinese judicial opinions	56

The pragmatics of play	55
Linguistic ideologies And the naturalization of power in warao discourse	55
“Thank you for your participation”	54
Identity in guanxi space	54
Communicative strategies and socio-cultural identities in talk shows	53
Computer-mediated communication and scholarly discourse	52
Concepts and context in relevance-theoretic pragmatics	52
“I have a question for you”	52
Letting go of the past in Spanish therapeutic discourse	50
Constraint factors in the formulation of questions in conflictual discourse	49
‘A hypnotic viewing experience’. promotional features in the language of exhibition press announcements	49
Identity construction in Chinese heritage language classes	49
The slow shift in orthodoxy	48
Compliments and compliment responses in Kunming Chinese	48
Deceptive clickbaits in the relevance-theoretic lens	46
Multimodal language use in Savosavo	45
Self-representation by auto-portrait in research interviews	43
Semantic and pragmatic properties of post-truth discourse	43
A cross-generational and cross-cultural study on demonstration of attentiveness	43
The historical present in Spanish and semantic/pragmatic structure	43