Pragmatics

Papers
(The median citation count of Pragmatics is 5. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
The influence of the addressers’ and the addressees’ gender identities on the addressers’ linguistic politeness behavior274
Orderly affect147
Social beliefs for the realization of the speech acts of apology and complaint as defined in Ciluba, French, and English127
Constructing Korean and Japanese interculturality in talk122
Piropos as metaphors for gender roles in Spanish speaking cultures110
Everyday interactions and the domestication of social inequality108
Vernacular style writing105
‘It seems my enemy is about having malaria’103
Orthopraxy, writing and identity99
Refusals in Early Modern English drama texts93
Establishing emergent common ground92
FromHóyéétoHajinei86
Japanese epistemic sentence-final particle kana82
Hearing between the lines82
Talking about things79
Ethnomethodology, culture, and implicature79
The functions of formulaic speech in the L2 class76
Obituary – Susan Ervin-Tripp71
Letting go of the past in Spanish therapeutic discourse65
Constraint factors in the formulation of questions in conflictual discourse62
Concepts and context in relevance-theoretic pragmatics61
Identity in guanxi space59
On the internalization of language and its use55
Smoothing the rough edges54
“Thank you for your participation”54
Contexts and meanings of Japanese speech styles54
“I have a question for you”53
Linguistic ideology and praxis in U.S. law school classrooms51
The structural format and rhetorical variation of writing Chinese judicial opinions50
Politeness of service encounters in Hong Kong50
Linguistic ideologies And the naturalization of power in warao discourse49
The pragmatics of play49
‘A hypnotic viewing experience’. promotional features in the language of exhibition press announcements48
Identity construction in Chinese heritage language classes47
Communicative strategies and socio-cultural identities in talk shows47
The interactional context of humor in Nigerian stand-up comedy46
Compliments and compliment responses in Kunming Chinese46
Self-representation by auto-portrait in research interviews45
Computer-mediated communication and scholarly discourse45
Multimodal language use in Savosavo44
The historical present in Spanish and semantic/pragmatic structure43
Cohesion strategies and genre in expository prose: An analysis of the writing of children of ethnolinguistic cultural groups43
The slow shift in orthodoxy43
Address practices in academic interactions in a pluricentric language43
Semantic and pragmatic properties of post-truth discourse40
“You are not allowed to pull someone’s tail!” a cross-cultural comparison of socio-moral comments in Estonian and Swedish peer interaction39
Nationalism and gender in the representation of non-Japanese characters’ speech in contemporary Japanese novels39
Ethnicity and codeswitching37
Deceptive clickbaits in the relevance-theoretic lens36
Accounts as acts of identity36
The semantics of coming and going36
A cross-generational and cross-cultural study on demonstration of attentiveness35
Ideologies of honorific language35
Pragmatics of discourse modality34
Press releases as a hybrid genre34
The son (érzi) is not really a son34
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Construction of institutional identities by male individuals in subordinate positions in the Japanese workplace33
Definite reference and discourse prominence in Longxi Qiang32
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Concepts and Context in Relevance-Theoretic Pragmatics32
Memory for dialogue in different modes of interaction31
Communicated and non-communicated acts in relevance theory28
NPs in Japanese conversation28
In between spectacle and political correctness27
Generic uses of the second person singular – how speakers deal with referential ambiguity and misunderstandings27
A touch of class27
An investigation of the formation and pragmatic strategies of “xx-zi27
Increments in Navajo conversation27
Indexing traditional and modern professional values26
Evaluation of (im)politeness26
Non-literal uses of proper names in XYZ constructions26
On assigning pragmatic functions in English26
Teacher talk reflecting pragmatic awareness25
Latina girls’ peer play interactions in a bilingual Spanish-English U.S. preschool25
The intuitive basis of implicature25
Incorporation of information and complementizers in Japanese25
Whose side are we on?25
Teaching oral requests24
The co-construction of whiteness in an MC battle23
Negotiating stories23
Critical discourse analysis and its critics23
Viewpoint shifting in Korean and Bulgarian22
Interactional and categorial analyses of identity construction in the talk of female-to-male (FtM) transgender individuals in Japan22
Constructing self–other distinction in dialogic contexts22
The effects of English-medium instruction on the use of textual and interpersonal pragmatic markers21
A contrastive study of hedging in English and Chinese academic spoken discourse21
Personal perspective in TV news interviews21
Metaphor-based zeugmas in web-based promotional tourism discourse21
Using a category to accomplish resistance in the context of an emergency call21
Formulaic speech in the L2 classroom21
Selected works on Asian Pacific American language practices20
The pragmatics of advice-giving in the media discourse20
Language ideologies in Barbados20
Sigain interaction20
Language, identity, performance20
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Speech levels20
Dynamism and assertiveness in the public voice20
Perspective and politeness in Finnish Requests19
Interaction and conversational constrictions in the relationships between suppliers of services and immigrant users19
Tang’s Dilemma and other problems19
Perceptions of (Im)politeness in Venezuelan Spanish19
Categorization in talk19
Imperatives and commitments in Romanian academic meeting interactions19
Analysis of politeness strategies in Japanese and Korean conversations between males18
Editing and genre conflict18
The use of invitations to bid in classroom interaction18
When husbands die18
Simplifying Sanskrit18
The pausative pattern of speakers with and without high-functioning autism spectrum disorder from long silences18
On the manifestness of assumptions18
Modal particles in ironic utterances18
Intergroup rudeness and the metapragmatics of its negotiation in online discussion fora18
Introduction18
Natural conversations in males and females: Conversational styles, content recall and quality of interaction18
Move combinations in the conclusion section of applied linguistics research articles18
Hong Kong Cantonese TV talk shows18
Is formality relevant? Japanese tokenshai,eeandun18
On developing a systematic methodology for analyzing categories in talk-in-interaction: Sequential categorization analysis17
Managing relationships through repetition17
Brazilian Portuguese wh-clefts in a multilevel analytic perspective17
Ideologies of language at Hippo Family Club17
Syrian service encounters17
Inter-mind phenomena in child narrative discourse17
“Peter is a dumb nut”17
Compromising progressivity17
Notes on word order variation in Korean17
The discursive construction of gender, ethnicity and the workplace in second generation immigrants’ narratives the case of moroccan women in belgium17
Management discourse in university administrative documents in Sweden17
Constructing Japanese men’s multidimensional identities16
Introduction16
The uses and utility of ideology16
Commentary16
On the interplay of syntax and prosody in the constitution of turn-constructional units and turns in conversation15
Lewis Carroll15
Perspectives on intercultural communication15
Translating phatic expressions15
Perspective in the discourse of war15
Reconsidering the development of the discourse completion test in interlanguage pragmatics15
Lebanese political advertising and the dialogic emergence of signs15
Discourse of (il)literacy15
Support and evidence for considering local contingencies in studying and transcribing silence in conversation15
Fabricated ignorance15
Analysis of appropriateness in a speech act of request in L2 English14
The use of interlocking multi-unit turns in topic shifts14
Writing right14
Eye closures in spoken Hebrew14
Deliberate dispute and the construction of oppositional stance14
Argumentation and inhibition: Sexism in the discourse of Spanish executives14
Meaning potentials and the interaction between lexis and contexts14
A matter of politeness? A contrastive study of phatic talk in teenage conversation14
Analysis of a first therapy interview14
Towards a distinction between non-euphemistic and euphemism-based politically correct expressions14
The interplay between professional identities and age, gender and ethnicity introduction14
Toward a pragmatic account and taxonomy of valuative speech acts14
“can you tell me how to get there?”14
Debate with zhuangzi14
Su(m)imasen and gomen nasai14
Increments in cross-linguistic perspective14
How to be authentic on Instagram14
On interaction and grammar14
Theoretical ideals and their violation13
Locutions in medical discourse in Southwestern Nigeria13
Utterance-final conjunctive particles and implicature in Japanese conversation13
Concealment in consultative encounters in Nigerian hospitals13
On the referential ambiguity of personal pronouns and its pragmatic consequences13
Skype appearances, multiple greetings and ‘coucou’13
Gender and professional identity in three institutional settings in Brazil13
Are transcripts reproducible?13
Fearful, forceful agents of the law13
Sequential and interpersonal aspects of English and Greek answering machine messages12
“You gotta be a man or a girl”12
An appraisal of pragmatic elicitation techniques for the social psychological study of talk12
Sequential organization of post-predicate elements in Korean conversation12
What’s in a name? Names, national identity, assimilation, and the new racist discourse of Marine Le Pen12
Calling in12
Medial deictic demonstratives in Arabic12
“Go up to miss thingy”. “He’s probably like a whatsit or something”.12
Spontaneous and non-spontaneous turn-taking12
Malinowski’s last word on the anthropological approach to language12
Pragmatic markers12
Situated politeness12
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Some current transcription systems for spoken discourse: A critical analysis12
¡A mi no me manda nadie!12
Code choice in intercultural conversation12
“Doing deference”12
Complement clauses as turn continuations12
A contrastive study of apologies performed by Greek native speakers and English learners of Greek as a foreign language12
Multiple repair solutions in response to open class repair initiators (OCRIs) in next turn12
Translocal style communities12
‘So many “virologists” in this thread!’12
Taboo effects at the syntactic level11
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On the Spanish inferential construction ser que11
Perceiving the organisation through a coding scheme11
“I want a real apology”11
The ‘interrogative gaze’11
The “real” Haitian creole11
The story of ö11
Nigerian stand-up comediennes performing femininity11
The acquisition of Warlpiri kin terms11
Interjections in literary readings and artistic performance11
Analyzing equivalences in discourse11
Flattery in historical China11
Politeness and other types of facework11
Forever FOB11
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Writer’s argumentative attitude10
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What’s next?10
The use and perception of question tags in Trinidadian English10
The strategic value of pronominal choice10
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Commentary: Frames and contexts10
The inferential gap condition10
Manipulation as an ideological tool in the political genre of Parliamentary discourses10
Reported threats10
Loan words can cause intercultural miscommunication10
‘Where have you been hiding this voice?’10
Notes on the role of metapragmatic awareness in language use10
Linguistic tools of empowerment and alienation in the Chinese official press10
Discursive hegemony in the Kennedy Smith rape trial10
The Skype paradox10
Anger, gender, language shift and the politics of revelation in a Papua New Guinean village10
Offers by Greek FL learners10
Enregistering the voices of discursive figures of authority in Antonero children’s socio-dramatic play10
Business communication plans and strategies10
Ad hoc concepts and the relevance heuristics10
Negotiating alignment in newspaper editorials9
“Plaza ‘góó and before he can respond…”9
The trouble withtongzhi9
Paralanguage and ad hoc concepts9
Implications of translational shifts in interpreter-mediated texts9
German-Chinese interactions differences in contextualization conventions and resulting miscommunication9
Plastic letters9
Constructing ethnic identity through discourse9
The effect of study abroad on the pragmatic development of the internal modification of refusals9
Discourse as communicative action9
Critique of puerile reason9
Dramatic monologues9
Polar answers9
Enticing a challengeable in arguments9
Managing criticisms in US-based and Taiwan-based reality talent contests9
Tailoring language to social hierarchies9
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To pursue the discussion without concluding9
Taking the higher ground between West and Middle East9
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