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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Everyday interactions and the domestication of social inequality292
Refusals in Early Modern English drama texts148
Social beliefs for the realization of the speech acts of apology and complaint as defined in Ciluba, French, and English132
Talking about things122
Orderly affect121
Constructing Korean and Japanese interculturality in talk115
Orthopraxy, writing and identity113
FromHóyéétoHajinei113
The influence of the addressers’ and the addressees’ gender identities on the addressers’ linguistic politeness behavior106
‘It seems my enemy is about having malaria’99
Japanese epistemic sentence-final particle kana94
Piropos as metaphors for gender roles in Spanish speaking cultures91
Hearing between the lines89
Vernacular style writing84
Ethnomethodology, culture, and implicature82
‘A hypnotic viewing experience’. promotional features in the language of exhibition press announcements80
Computer-mediated communication and scholarly discourse77
Linguistic ideology and praxis in U.S. law school classrooms76
Letting go of the past in Spanish therapeutic discourse67
Constraint factors in the formulation of questions in conflictual discourse64
On the internalization of language and its use63
Smoothing the rough edges61
The functions of formulaic speech in the L2 class59
Politeness of service encounters in Hong Kong57
Contexts and meanings of Japanese speech styles56
Communicative strategies and socio-cultural identities in talk shows55
Obituary – Susan Ervin-Tripp55
Compliments and compliment responses in Kunming Chinese53
Identity construction in Chinese heritage language classes52
“I have a question for you”51
Linguistic ideologies And the naturalization of power in warao discourse51
The structural format and rhetorical variation of writing Chinese judicial opinions51
The pragmatics of play49
The interactional context of humor in Nigerian stand-up comedy49
Concepts and context in relevance-theoretic pragmatics48
Identity in guanxi space48
Accounts as acts of identity47
Multimodal language use in Savosavo47
The semantics of coming and going46
Deceptive clickbaits in the relevance-theoretic lens45
The son (érzi) is not really a son44
A cross-generational and cross-cultural study on demonstration of attentiveness43
“You are not allowed to pull someone’s tail!” a cross-cultural comparison of socio-moral comments in Estonian and Swedish peer interaction42
Ethnicity and codeswitching42
The slow shift in orthodoxy42
Self-representation by auto-portrait in research interviews42
Ideologies of honorific language41
The historical present in Spanish and semantic/pragmatic structure39
Address practices in academic interactions in a pluricentric language39
Nationalism and gender in the representation of non-Japanese characters’ speech in contemporary Japanese novels39
Cohesion strategies and genre in expository prose: An analysis of the writing of children of ethnolinguistic cultural groups38
Semantic and pragmatic properties of post-truth discourse38
Press releases as a hybrid genre37
Increments in Navajo conversation37
Construction of institutional identities by male individuals in subordinate positions in the Japanese workplace36
A touch of class35
Incorporation of information and complementizers in Japanese35
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NPs in Japanese conversation34
In between spectacle and political correctness34
Whose side are we on?33
Pragmatics of discourse modality32
Communicated and non-communicated acts in relevance theory31
Teaching oral requests31
Memory for dialogue in different modes of interaction31
The co-construction of whiteness in an MC battle30
The intuitive basis of implicature29
Concepts and Context in Relevance-Theoretic Pragmatics28
Non-literal uses of proper names in XYZ constructions28
Evaluation of (im)politeness28
Definite reference and discourse prominence in Longxi Qiang28
Generic uses of the second person singular – how speakers deal with referential ambiguity and misunderstandings27
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Teacher talk reflecting pragmatic awareness27
On assigning pragmatic functions in English26
An investigation of the formation and pragmatic strategies of “xx-zi26
Critical discourse analysis and its critics26
Latina girls’ peer play interactions in a bilingual Spanish-English U.S. preschool26
Metapragmatics in indirect reports25
Negotiating stories25
Personal perspective in TV news interviews24
Using a category to accomplish resistance in the context of an emergency call24
Language, identity, performance24
Viewpoint shifting in Korean and Bulgarian24
Formulaic speech in the L2 classroom24
The pragmatics of advice-giving in the media discourse24
The effects of English-medium instruction on the use of textual and interpersonal pragmatic markers23
Dynamism and assertiveness in the public voice23
Interactional and categorial analyses of identity construction in the talk of female-to-male (FtM) transgender individuals in Japan23
Interaction and conversational constrictions in the relationships between suppliers of services and immigrant users22
Sigain interaction22
Selected works on Asian Pacific American language practices22
Perceptions of (Im)politeness in Venezuelan Spanish22
Hong Kong Cantonese TV talk shows21
Speech levels21
Perspective and politeness in Finnish Requests21
Editing and genre conflict21
On the manifestness of assumptions21
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Imperatives and commitments in Romanian academic meeting interactions21
Categorization in talk21
The use of invitations to bid in classroom interaction21
When husbands die21
Move combinations in the conclusion section of applied linguistics research articles20
Language ideologies in Barbados20
Tang’s Dilemma and other problems20
Intergroup rudeness and the metapragmatics of its negotiation in online discussion fora20
Is formality relevant? Japanese tokenshai,eeandun20
Modal particles in ironic utterances20
Natural conversations in males and females: Conversational styles, content recall and quality of interaction19
Brazilian Portuguese wh-clefts in a multilevel analytic perspective19
Inter-mind phenomena in child narrative discourse19
Management discourse in university administrative documents in Sweden19
Compromising progressivity19
The discursive construction of gender, ethnicity and the workplace in second generation immigrants’ narratives the case of moroccan women in belgium19
Introduction19
Ideologies of language at Hippo Family Club18
Polar answers and epistemic stance in Greek conversation18
Notes on word order variation in Korean18
“Peter is a dumb nut”18
“can you tell me how to get there?”18
Managing relationships through repetition18
Analysis of politeness strategies in Japanese and Korean conversations between males18
The pausative pattern of speakers with and without high-functioning autism spectrum disorder from long silences18
Simplifying Sanskrit18
Perspective in the discourse of war18
The uses and utility of ideology18
Syrian service encounters18
Commentary18
Navigating the complex social ecology of screen-based activity in video-mediated interaction18
On developing a systematic methodology for analyzing categories in talk-in-interaction: Sequential categorization analysis18
Lewis Carroll17
Discourse of (il)literacy17
Introduction17
Translating phatic expressions17
Support and evidence for considering local contingencies in studying and transcribing silence in conversation17
Fabricated ignorance17
Discoursal representation of masculine parenting in Arabic and English websites17
Debate with zhuangzi17
Constructing Japanese men’s multidimensional identities17
Analysis of appropriateness in a speech act of request in L2 English16
On the interplay of syntax and prosody in the constitution of turn-constructional units and turns in conversation16
Reconsidering the development of the discourse completion test in interlanguage pragmatics16
Lebanese political advertising and the dialogic emergence of signs16
Meaning potentials and the interaction between lexis and contexts16
Perspectives on intercultural communication16
On the referential ambiguity of personal pronouns and its pragmatic consequences15
Utterance-final conjunctive particles and implicature in Japanese conversation15
Skype appearances, multiple greetings and ‘coucou’15
Theoretical ideals and their violation15
The interplay between professional identities and age, gender and ethnicity introduction15
On interaction and grammar15
Locutions in medical discourse in Southwestern Nigeria15
Concealment in consultative encounters in Nigerian hospitals15
Eye closures in spoken Hebrew15
A matter of politeness? A contrastive study of phatic talk in teenage conversation14
Analysis of a first therapy interview14
‘So many “virologists” in this thread!’14
Writing right14
Increments in cross-linguistic perspective14
Deliberate dispute and the construction of oppositional stance14
The use of interlocking multi-unit turns in topic shifts14
Gender and professional identity in three institutional settings in Brazil14
Toward a pragmatic account and taxonomy of valuative speech acts14
Fearful, forceful agents of the law13
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Translocal style communities13
An appraisal of pragmatic elicitation techniques for the social psychological study of talk13
Calling in13
Spontaneous and non-spontaneous turn-taking13
Are transcripts reproducible?13
How to be authentic on Instagram13
Multiple repair solutions in response to open class repair initiators (OCRIs) in next turn13
What’s in a name? Names, national identity, assimilation, and the new racist discourse of Marine Le Pen13
Argumentation and inhibition: Sexism in the discourse of Spanish executives13
A contrastive study of apologies performed by Greek native speakers and English learners of Greek as a foreign language13
Towards a distinction between non-euphemistic and euphemism-based politically correct expressions13
Su(m)imasen and gomen nasai13
“Go up to miss thingy”. “He’s probably like a whatsit or something”.13
“Doing deference”13
Some current transcription systems for spoken discourse: A critical analysis13
Sequential organization of post-predicate elements in Korean conversation13
“You gotta be a man or a girl”13
Malinowski’s last word on the anthropological approach to language13
Complement clauses as turn continuations13
Situated politeness12
Politeness and other types of facework12
Nigerian stand-up comediennes performing femininity12
Sequential and interpersonal aspects of English and Greek answering machine messages12
The ‘interrogative gaze’12
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Analyzing equivalences in discourse12
¡A mi no me manda nadie!12
Forever FOB12
Interjections in literary readings and artistic performance12
The “real” Haitian creole12
Perceiving the organisation through a coding scheme12
On the Spanish inferential construction ser que12
Pragmatic markers12
Medial deictic demonstratives in Arabic12
Code choice in intercultural conversation12
The acquisition of Warlpiri kin terms12
The story of ö12
Taboo effects at the syntactic level12
‘Where have you been hiding this voice?’11
The strategic value of pronominal choice11
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What’s next?11
Enregistering the voices of discursive figures of authority in Antonero children’s socio-dramatic play11
Reported threats11
“I want a real apology”11
Notes on the role of metapragmatic awareness in language use11
Offers by Greek FL learners11
Taking the higher ground between West and Middle East10
Loan words can cause intercultural miscommunication10
Constructing ethnic identity through discourse10
Dramatic monologues10
Ad hoc concepts and the relevance heuristics10
Linguistic tools of empowerment and alienation in the Chinese official press10
Negotiating alignment in newspaper editorials10
Anger, gender, language shift and the politics of revelation in a Papua New Guinean village10
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Business communication plans and strategies10
German-Chinese interactions differences in contextualization conventions and resulting miscommunication10
The trouble with tongzhi10
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The use and perception of question tags in Trinidadian English10
The effect of study abroad on the pragmatic development of the internal modification of refusals10
Commentary: Frames and contexts10
Paralanguage and ad hoc concepts10
“Plaza ‘góó and before he can respond…”10
Enticing a challengeable in arguments9
Global issues and local findings from Greek contexts9
Compliments and responses during Chinese New Year celebrations in Singapore9
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Polar answers9
The inferential gap condition9
Managing criticisms in US-based and Taiwan-based reality talent contests9
The concept of complimenting in light of the Moore language in Burkina Faso9
Children's strategies when reporting appropriate and inappropriate speech events9
Implications of translational shifts in interpreter-mediated texts9
The Skype paradox9
Discursive hegemony in the Kennedy Smith rape trial9
Plastic letters9
Discourse as communicative action9
Critique of puerile reason9
Subjective and intersubjective uses of Japanese verbs of cognition in conversation9
To pursue the discussion without concluding9
Manipulation as an ideological tool in the political genre of Parliamentary discourses9
Writer’s argumentative attitude9
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