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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)
ArticleCitations
Pragmatic markers281
Learning to think for speaking141
Notes on the role of metapragmatic awareness in language use123
Practices in the construction of turns121
Language ideology119
An alternative model and ideology of communication for an alternative to politeness theory113
Transcription design principles for spoken discourse research112
Language crossing and the problematisation of ethnicity and socialisation110
On the interplay of syntax and prosody in the constitution of turn-constructional units and turns in conversation103
Affectivity in conversational storytelling91
Ideologies of legitimate mockery90
Quote – unquote? the role of prosody in the contextualization of reported speech sequences90
Critical discourse analysis and its critics84
Intercultural or not? beyond celebration of cultural differences in miscommunication analysis84
‘Incrementing’ in conversation. A comparison of practices in English, German and Japanese83
The role of language in European nationalist ideologies78
The uses and utility of ideology75
The social-pragmatic theory of word learning72
Culturally patterned speaking practices - the analysis of communicative genres69
Situated politeness66
The pre-front field in spoken german and its relevance as a grammaticalization position63
Recording human interaction in natural settings61
Translocal style communities57
Intonation and clause combining in discourse57
A multilevel approach in the study of talk-in-interaction55
Comic performance and the articulation of hybrid identity54
Politeness ideology in Spanish colloquial conversation53
Oral genres of humor52
Hegemony, social class and stylisation51
News production theory and practice50
A contrastive study of conventional indirectness in Spanish50
EXMARaLDA – creating, analysing and sharing spoken language corpora for pragmatic research50
Language, identity, performance49
Forever FOB49
Leadership and managing conflict in meetings47
Constructing a proposal as a thought46
On the nature of “laughables”46
Meaning potentials and the interaction between lexis and contexts46
Analysis of appropriateness in a speech act of request in L2 English44
How to read Austin43
“We can laugh at ourselves”42
Indirectness and interpretation in African American women’s discourse42
Identity construction in Chinese heritage language classes42
Intergroup rudeness and the metapragmatics of its negotiation in online discussion fora41
An appraisal of pragmatic elicitation techniques for the social psychological study of talk40
Pretextuality and pretextual gaps39
Compliments and compliment responses in Kunming Chinese39
On the systematic deployment of okay and mmhmm in academic advising sessions39
From subordination to coordination? verb-second position in German causal and concessive constructions39
Misunderstandings and explicit/implicit communication38
Latina girls’ peer play interactions in a bilingual Spanish-English U.S. preschool38
Ethnomethodology, culture, and implicature37
“ ‘Schwedis’ he can’t even say Swedish” - subverting and reproducing institutionalized norms for language use in multilingual peer groups35
Imperatives in requests35
Speaking like Asian immigrants35
Notes on a “confession”34
Styles and stereotypes34
Primer for the field investigation of spatial description and conception33
Do insults always insult?Genuine impolitenessversusnon-genuine impolitenessin colloquial Spanish32
Tropic aggression in the Clinton-Dole presidential debate32
Perspective and production32
Press releases as a hybrid genre31
Causal markers in Japanese and English conversations: A cross-linguistic study of interactional grammar31
The effect of study abroad on the pragmatic development of the internal modification of refusals30
Ideologies of honorific language29
Political language and textual vagueness29
Universalistic and culture-specific perspectives on variation in the acquisition of pragmatic competence in a second language28
Introducing relational work in Facebook and discussion boards28
“Today there is no respect”28
Cancellative discourse markers27
Doing (Bi)lingualism: Language alternation as performative construction of online identities27
The discourse function of questions27
The interactional context of humor in Nigerian stand-up comedy27
Multiplicity and contention among ideologies27
The communicative role of silence in Akan27
Reel to real26
Indirectness, inexplicitness and vagueness made clearer26
Attention, accessibility, and the addressee26
Minimal and non-minimal answers to yes-no questions25
Serious games25
Why are increments such elusive objects? An afterthought24
On the place of linguistic resources in the organization of talk-in-interaction24
Misrecognition unmasked? ‘Polynomic’ language, expert statuses and orthographic practices in Corsican schools24
Evidentiality and morality in a Korean heritage language school23
Deictic categories as mitigating devices23
Address strategies in a British academic setting23
Enticing a challengeable in arguments22
Rater variation in the assessment of speech acts22
Stereotypes and the discursive accomplishment of intergroup differentiation22
Requesting strategies in the cross-cultural business meeting22
The implications of studying politeness in Spanish-speaking contexts22
Detecting contrast patterns in newspaper articles by combining discourse analysis and text mining21
“Mr Paul, please inform me accordingly”21
The construction of emotional involvement in everyday German narratives – interactive uses of ‘dense constructions’21
Not so impersonal21
Echo answers in native/non-native interaction21
Politeness in compliment responses21
Tang’s Dilemma and other problems21
Request strategies in Indonesian21
The slow shift in orthodoxy21
“Doing deference”20
“Peter is a dumb nut”20
Language and politeness in early eighteenth century Britain20
Hyperstandardisation in Flanders20
Politeness of service encounters in Hong Kong20
Discourse markers at frame shifts in Israeli Hebrew talk-in-interaction19
When is oral narrative poetry? generative form and its pragmatic conditions19
Leniency and testiness in intercultural communication19
Constructing membership in the in-group19
Some current transcription systems for spoken discourse: A critical analysis19
Social/interactional functions of code switching among Dominican Americans19
Enregistering the voices of discursive figures of authority in Antonero children’s socio-dramatic play18
Topical and sequential backlinking in a French radio phone-in program18
The practice of retort18
Skype appearances, multiple greetings and ‘coucou’18
Compromising progressivity18
Arizona tewa ktva speech as a manifestation of linguistic ideology18
The story of ö18
A discourse analysis of the Japanese particle sa18
Caution and consensus in American business meetings18
Affect in Japanese women’s letter writing18
Anger, gender, language shift and the politics of revelation in a Papua New Guinean village18
Disagreements in television discussions18
Promises, threats, and the foundations of speech act theory18
Justification18
Ideology and facts on African American English18
Linguistic ideologies And the naturalization of power in warao discourse17
Inter-mind phenomena in child narrative discourse17
Ore and omae17
Order and disorder in the classroom17
Frames for politeness17
Syrian service encounters17
How to do good things with words17
Reconsidering the development of the discourse completion test in interlanguage pragmatics17
Constructing Korean and Japanese interculturality in talk17
Weapons of mass destruction17
Politeness and ideology16
Pragmatic development in the instructed context16
The intuitive basis of implicature16
(Im)politeness in Spanish-speaking socio-cultural contexts16
The organisation of knowledge in British university tutorial discourse16
The co-construction of whiteness in an MC battle16
Navigating the complex social ecology of screen-based activity in video-mediated interaction16
Introduction youth language at the intersection15
Face support – Chinese particles as mitigators15
Japanese and American meetings and what goes on before them15
Metalinguistic negation and pragmatic ambiguity15
Metalinguistic activity, humor and social competence in classroom discourse15
Interaction in the oral proficiency interview15
Space and morality in Tokelau15
Language, identity, and urban youth subculture15
The pragmatics of play15
A matter of politeness? A contrastive study of phatic talk in teenage conversation14
Explicit and implicit ways of enhancing common ground in conversations14
Politeness and other types of facework14
Radio time sharing and the negotiation of linguistic pluralism in Zambia14
Hearing between the lines14
Resistance against being formulated as cultural other14
Submission strategies as an expression of the ideology of politeness14
The inferential construction13
Constructing academic hierarchies13
Language, identity and relationality in Asian Pacific America13
Personal perspective in TV news interviews13
A contrastive study of apologies performed by Greek native speakers and English learners of Greek as a foreign language13
Address practices in academic interactions in a pluricentric language13
The semantics of coming and going13
What’s next?13
Asian American stereotypes as circulating resource13
A cross-linguistic study on the linguistic expressions of Cantonese and English requests13
Discourse in a religious mode13
Greek and German telephone closings13
The “real” Haitian creole13
Teacher talk reflecting pragmatic awareness13
Therapy interactions13
Retrospective turn continuations in Mandarin Chinese conversation12
Reflecting respect12
Hillary Clinton’s laughter in media interviews12
Shouts, shrieks, and shots12
Evaluation of (im)politeness12
Complement clauses as turn continuations12
A cross-generational and cross-cultural study on demonstration of attentiveness12
“If he speaks Italian it’s better”: Metapragmatics in court12
“can you tell me how to get there?”12
Historicity in metapragmatics – a study on ‘discernment’ in Italian metadiscourse12
Generic patterns and socio-cultural resources in acknowledgements accompanying Arabic Ph.D. dissertations12
German-Chinese interactions differences in contextualization conventions and resulting miscommunication12
Negotiating identities through pronouns of address in an immigrant community12
Generic uses of the second person singular – how speakers deal with referential ambiguity and misunderstandings12
Utterance-final conjunctive particles and implicature in Japanese conversation12
Attitudes of English speakers towards thanking in Spanish12
Fearful, forceful agents of the law12
The shift from lexical to subjective readings of Spanish prometer ‘to promise’ and amenazar ‘to threaten’. a corpus-based account12
Editing and genre conflict12
Exercising politeness12
Register, genre and referential ambiguity of personal pronouns12
‘you have to be adaptable, obviously’12
Spontaneous and non-spontaneous turn-taking12
Multimodal language use in Savosavo12
Increments in cross-linguistic perspective12
On assigning pragmatic functions in English11
Lands i came to sing11
Modularity and pragmatics11
Length of residence and intensity of interaction11
Introduction11
Displays of concession in university faculty meetings11
Introduction11
Actors and discourses in the construction of hegemony11
‘Pre-enactment’ in team-teacher planning talk11
Perspectives on intercultural communication11
An analysis of The thing is that S sentences11
Orthopraxy, writing and identity10
Vocatives10
Dynamism and assertiveness in the public voice10
What do(es) you mean? the pragmatics of generic second person pronouns in modern spoken Danish10
Going beyond address forms10
Framing, stance, and affect in Korean metalinguistic discourse10
Asking to ask10
Abeg na! we write so our comments can be posted!”10
Requests and politeness in Vietnamese as a native language10
Has he apologized or not?10
Speech play and language ideologies in Navajo terminology development10
Politeness on Facebook10
Sentence-initialAndandButin academic writing10
On interaction and grammar10
“Moral irony”10
“No flips in the pool”10
Register and the redemption of relevance theory10
Blurring the boundaries between domestic and digital spheres10
Socializing Heteroglossia among Miskitu children on the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua10
An exploratory study of the interlanguage pragmatic comprehension of young learners of English10
Complementary stylistic resonance in Japanese play framing10
On the referential ambiguity of personal pronouns and its pragmatic consequences10
On the ideology of Indonesian language development10
“Tu es dans la lune”9
Orientations toward interpersonal arguing in Chile9
Piropos as metaphors for gender roles in Spanish speaking cultures9
The natural logic of language and cognition9
Code choice in intercultural conversation9
Bonding across Chinese social media9
Evaluation of politeness9
The functions of formulaic speech in the L2 class9
The tabloid talkshow as a quasi-conversational type of face-to-face interaction9
Collaboration and contestation in a dispute about space in an Indo-Guyanese village9
New technologies and language shifting in Vanuatu9
Political cross-discourse9
Are transcripts reproducible?9
Computer-mediated communication and scholarly discourse9
Ideologies of politeness9
Teaching oral requests9
Co-constructing identities in speeches9
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