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 2021-03-01 to 2025-03-01.)
ArticleCitations
Linguistic tools of empowerment and alienation in the Chinese official press288
Framing and manipulation of person deixis in Hosni Mubarak’s last three speeches142
Taking the higher ground between West and Middle East128
Indexical ‘mismatch’; or, adaptability at work122
Syrian service encounters120
Plastic letters115
Managing criticisms in US-based and Taiwan-based reality talent contests113
Standardizing opinion112
Principles we talk by102
Refusals in Early Modern English drama texts91
On where stereotypes come from so that kids can recruit them91
Making ‘yes’ stronger by saying ‘no’89
Global subjects87
Commentary: Frames and contexts84
Class and parenting in accounts of child protection82
The shift from lexical to subjective readings of Spanish prometer ‘to promise’ and amenazar ‘to threaten’. a corpus-based account77
Effects of Spanish pragmatic and lexical constraints in the interpretation of L2 English anaphora76
Orderly affect73
Mutual understanding mechanism in verbal exchanges between carers and multiply-disabled young people69
Social beliefs for the realization of the speech acts of apology and complaint as defined in Ciluba, French, and English66
Business communication plans and strategies63
“Plaza ‘góó and before he can respond…”61
Talking about things57
Polar answers and epistemic stance in Greek conversation57
Face as an interactional construct in the context of connectedness and separateness56
The discourse of news management55
Singing and codeswitching in sequence closings55
Impoliteness in institutional and non-institutional contexts53
Interrogative allo-repetitions in Mexican Spanish52
The use of boosters and evidentials in British campaign debates on the Brexit referendum51
The trouble with tongzhi51
On the polite use of vamos in Peninsular Spanish50
The influence of the addressers’ and the addressees’ gender identities on the addressers’ linguistic politeness behavior49
Interculturality serving multiple interactional goals in African American and Korean service encounters49
Material and embodied resources in the accomplishment of closings in technology-mediated business meetings47
Manipulation as an ideological tool in the political genre of Parliamentary discourses47
Abeg na! we write so our comments can be posted!”46
The natural logic of language and cognition46
An empirical investigation of pause notation45
Inter-mind phenomena in child narrative discourse43
The rhetoric of the extraordinary moment42
Piropos as metaphors for gender roles in Spanish speaking cultures42
Interaction in the oral proficiency interview42
The discursive construction of gender, ethnicity and the workplace in second generation immigrants’ narratives the case of moroccan women in belgium42
The pausative pattern of speakers with and without high-functioning autism spectrum disorder from long silences41
Ideologies of language at Hippo Family Club41
Navigating the complex social ecology of screen-based activity in video-mediated interaction40
Modularity and pragmatics40
Negotiating alignment in newspaper editorials39
Polar answers39
“Peter is a dumb nut”37
Frames for politeness37
Register, genre and referential ambiguity of personal pronouns37
‘It seems my enemy is about having malaria’36
The tabloid talkshow as a quasi-conversational type of face-to-face interaction35
Discursive hegemony in the Kennedy Smith rape trial35
Vernacular style writing34
Ideologies of politeness33
Managing relationships through repetition32
Children’s formal division of labor in requests32
The Skype paradox32
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The inferential gap condition31
Constructing Korean and Japanese interculturality in talk31
“No flips in the pool”31
Orthopraxy, writing and identity29
FromHóyéétoHajinei29
Natural conversations in males and females: Conversational styles, content recall and quality of interaction28
How broadcasters enhance rapport with viewers in live streaming commerce28
Metapragmatics in a courtroom genre27
If I testify about others, my testimony is valid27
Everyday interactions and the domestication of social inequality27
Brazilian Portuguese wh-clefts in a multilevel analytic perspective27
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Constructing ethnic identity through discourse26
The role of language in European nationalist ideologies26
Analysis of politeness strategies in Japanese and Korean conversations between males26
Japanese and American meetings and what goes on before them26
Paralanguage and ad hoc concepts25
The uses and utility of ideology25
Attention, accessibility, and the addressee24
Beyond the deferential view of the Chinese V pronoun nin24
“Let’s … together”24
Ethnomethodology, culture, and implicature24
‘That is very important, isn’t it?’24
Japanese epistemic sentence-final particle kana23
Rapport management in Thai and Japanese social talk during group discussions23
“Communication is a two-way street”23
A child of necessity22
“Today there is no respect”22
On developing a systematic methodology for analyzing categories in talk-in-interaction: Sequential categorization analysis22
Hearing between the lines22
Affect in Japanese women’s letter writing21
Politeness in compliment responses21
Dissenting emails in academia21
Introduction21
The effect of study abroad on the pragmatic development of the internal modification of refusals21
An analysis ofThe thing is that Ssentences21
Dramatic monologues21
Explicit and implicit ways of enhancing common ground in conversations21
Compromising progressivity20
Management discourse in university administrative documents in Sweden20
How face is perceived in Chinese and Japanese20
Notes on word order variation in Korean20
The process of children’s ability to ask questions from an interactive perspective20
Diglossia20
Ad hoc concepts and the relevance heuristics20
Simplifying Sanskrit19
Enticing a challengeable in arguments19
German-Chinese interactions differences in contextualization conventions and resulting miscommunication19
The social-pragmatic theory of word learning19
Writer’s argumentative attitude19
Discourse, authority and mediation in an ethnographic encounter in Eastern Mexico18
Dichotomy in the structures of honorifics of Japanese18
Institutional talk in referral meetings18
Critique of puerile reason18
Perspective in the discourse of war18
Reanalysis of contrastive -wa in Japanese18
“can you tell me how to get there?”18
The making of history18
Global issues and local findings from Greek contexts18
In Memory of Josie Bernicot (1955-2015)18
Sol, sombra, y media luz18
Introduction reframing framing18
To pursue the discussion without concluding18
Communicative strategies and socio-cultural identities in talk shows18
School administrators’ discursive positioning in talk about deviant high school students18
Reconstructing the participants’ treatments of ‘interculturality’18
The concept of complimenting in light of the Moore language in Burkina Faso17
Invoking divine blessing17
Subjective and intersubjective uses of Japanese verbs of cognition in conversation17
Commentary17
Obituary – Susan Ervin-Tripp17
Reconsidering the development of the discourse completion test in interlanguage pragmatics17
Embodied interaction with face masks and social distancing17
Computer-mediated communication and scholarly discourse17
Discourse as communicative action17
On the ideology of Indonesian language development17
Children's strategies when reporting appropriate and inappropriate speech events17
Implications of translational shifts in interpreter-mediated texts16
Introduction16
The interactional context of humor in Nigerian stand-up comedy16
Apology responses and gender differences in spoken British English16
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Commentary16
On the meanings and functions of grammatical choice15
Translating phatic expressions15
Power and socialization in sibling interaction15
Ideology and facts on African American English15
Discoursal representation of masculine parenting in Arabic and English websites15
Constructing academic hierarchies15
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‘A hypnotic viewing experience’. promotional features in the language of exhibition press announcements14
Asking to ask14
Graphemic representation of text-messaging14
A pragmatic perspective on contact-induced language change14
Turn-taking in Japanese television interviews14
Tradition, modernity, and Chinese masculinity14
Transforming the label of ‘whore’14
Lewis Carroll14
Debate with zhuangzi14
Youthful concerns14
When is oral narrative poetry? generative form and its pragmatic conditions14
An indecent call from a man14
“Are you saying …?”13
Referring to arbitrary entities with placeholders13
The communicative role of silence in Akan13
Smoothing the rough edges13
Epistemic calibration13
Language and politeness in early eighteenth century Britain13
Meaning potentials and the interaction between lexis and contexts13
Linguistic ideologies And the naturalization of power in warao discourse13
Order and disorder in the classroom13
Contexts and meanings of Japanese speech styles13
Serious games13
Identity construction in Chinese heritage language classes13
The functions of formulaic speech in the L2 class13
Oral genres of humor13
Constructing Japanese men’s multidimensional identities13
Prescriptively or descriptively speaking?13
On the internalization of language and its use13
Lexical choices of gender identity in Greek genres13
Politeness of service encounters in Hong Kong13
Pragmatic use of ancient greek pronouns in two communicative frameworks12
Dialogicality and dialogue12
Constraint factors in the formulation of questions in conflictual discourse12
Showing structure12
Constructing membership in the in-group12
Framing in interactive academic talk12
(Im)politeness in Spanish-speaking socio-cultural contexts12
Vicissitudes of laughter12
Fabricated ignorance12
Letting go of the past in Spanish therapeutic discourse12
Perspectives on intercultural communication12
To be or not to be your son’s father/mother12
Linguistic ideology and praxis in U.S. law school classrooms12
Interpersonal video communication as a site of human sociality12
Interaction-based studies of language12
Retrospective turn continuations in Mandarin Chinese conversation12
Beyond Bakhtin or the dialogic imagination in academia12
The structural format and rhetorical variation of writing Chinese judicial opinions12
Discourse of (il)literacy12
Accomplishing multiethnic identity in mundane talk11
The pre-front field in spoken german and its relevance as a grammaticalization position11
A corpus-based study on contrast and concessivity of the connective ‑cimanin Korean11
Speech therapy for elderly people11
Dual function of (inter)subjectivity in the use of well as a discourse marker11
Introduction11
“It’s like, ‘I’ve never met a lesbian before!’”11
Language socialization of affect in Mandarin parent–child conversation11
Compliments and compliment responses in Kunming Chinese11
Pragmatic development in the instructed context11
Quotation headlines in the printed British quality press10
“I have a question for you”10
How to read Austin10
Evidentiality and morality in a Korean heritage language school10
Creative metaphors and non-propositional effects10
Indirectness, inexplicitness and vagueness made clearer10
Speaking like Asian immigrants10
Indirectness and interpretation in African American women’s discourse10
Lebanese political advertising and the dialogic emergence of signs10
Styles and stereotypes10
“Moral irony”10
Analysis of appropriateness in a speech act of request in L2 English10
Political language and textual vagueness10
Ordering burgers, reordering relations10
Compliments and responses during Chinese New Year celebrations in Singapore10
On the nature of “laughables”10
Crazy literature10
Support and evidence for considering local contingencies in studying and transcribing silence in conversation10
Language crossing and the problematisation of ethnicity and socialisation9
The pragmatics of play9
The acquisition of locative inversion at the syntax-pragmatics interface by Chinese learners of English9
Spatializing kinship9
A relevance theoretic analysis of Not that sentences9
A genre-pragmatic analysis of Arabic academic book reviews (ArBRs)9
Caution and consensus in American business meetings9
Metarepresentational phenomena in Japanese and English9
Doing (Bi)lingualism: Language alternation as performative construction of online identities9
Why are increments such elusive objects? An afterthought9
Intelligence as a sensitive topic in clinical interviews prompted by learning difficulties9
Introduction9
Concepts and context in relevance-theoretic pragmatics9
Leadership and managing conflict in meetings9
Constructing a proposal as a thought9
Requesting strategies in the cross-cultural business meeting9
Submission strategies as an expression of the ideology of politeness9
Obituary9
On the interplay of syntax and prosody in the constitution of turn-constructional units and turns in conversation9
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