OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Pragmatics is 42. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Everyday interactions and the domestication of social inequality	292
Refusals in Early Modern English drama texts	148
Social beliefs for the realization of the speech acts of apology and complaint as defined in Ciluba, French, and English	132
Talking about things	122
Orderly affect	121
Constructing Korean and Japanese interculturality in talk	115
FromHóyéétoHajinei	113
Orthopraxy, writing and identity	113
The influence of the addressers’ and the addressees’ gender identities on the addressers’ linguistic politeness behavior	106
‘It seems my enemy is about having malaria’	99
Japanese epistemic sentence-final particle kana	94
Piropos as metaphors for gender roles in Spanish speaking cultures	91
Hearing between the lines	89
Vernacular style writing	84
Ethnomethodology, culture, and implicature	82
‘A hypnotic viewing experience’. promotional features in the language of exhibition press announcements	80
Computer-mediated communication and scholarly discourse	77
Linguistic ideology and praxis in U.S. law school classrooms	76
Letting go of the past in Spanish therapeutic discourse	67
Constraint factors in the formulation of questions in conflictual discourse	64
On the internalization of language and its use	63
Smoothing the rough edges	61
The functions of formulaic speech in the L2 class	59
Politeness of service encounters in Hong Kong	57
Contexts and meanings of Japanese speech styles	56

Communicative strategies and socio-cultural identities in talk shows	55
Obituary – Susan Ervin-Tripp	55
Compliments and compliment responses in Kunming Chinese	53
Identity construction in Chinese heritage language classes	52
The structural format and rhetorical variation of writing Chinese judicial opinions	51
“I have a question for you”	51
Linguistic ideologies And the naturalization of power in warao discourse	51
The interactional context of humor in Nigerian stand-up comedy	49
The pragmatics of play	49
Identity in guanxi space	48
Concepts and context in relevance-theoretic pragmatics	48
Accounts as acts of identity	47
Multimodal language use in Savosavo	47
The semantics of coming and going	46
Deceptive clickbaits in the relevance-theoretic lens	45
The son (érzi) is not really a son	44
A cross-generational and cross-cultural study on demonstration of attentiveness	43
Self-representation by auto-portrait in research interviews	42
“You are not allowed to pull someone’s tail!” a cross-cultural comparison of socio-moral comments in Estonian and Swedish peer interaction	42
Ethnicity and codeswitching	42
The slow shift in orthodoxy	42