Pragmatics

Papers
(The TQCC of Pragmatics is 12. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)
ArticleCitations
The influence of the addressers’ and the addressees’ gender identities on the addressers’ linguistic politeness behavior271
Orderly affect147
Social beliefs for the realization of the speech acts of apology and complaint as defined in Ciluba, French, and English126
Talking about things120
Ethnomethodology, culture, and implicature110
Japanese epistemic sentence-final particle kana108
Constructing Korean and Japanese interculturality in talk105
Piropos as metaphors for gender roles in Spanish speaking cultures103
Everyday interactions and the domestication of social inequality99
‘It seems my enemy is about having malaria’93
Orthopraxy, writing and identity92
Refusals in Early Modern English drama texts86
Establishing emergent common ground82
Vernacular style writing82
Hearing between the lines79
FromHóyéétoHajinei79
The functions of formulaic speech in the L2 class76
Obituary – Susan Ervin-Tripp71
Letting go of the past in Spanish therapeutic discourse64
Constraint factors in the formulation of questions in conflictual discourse62
Concepts and context in relevance-theoretic pragmatics61
Communicative strategies and socio-cultural identities in talk shows59
On the internalization of language and its use54
Linguistic ideologies And the naturalization of power in warao discourse54
“Thank you for your participation”54
Identity in guanxi space54
‘A hypnotic viewing experience’. promotional features in the language of exhibition press announcements53
Smoothing the rough edges51
“I have a question for you”50
Contexts and meanings of Japanese speech styles50
The interactional context of humor in Nigerian stand-up comedy49
Politeness of service encounters in Hong Kong49
Linguistic ideology and praxis in U.S. law school classrooms49
The structural format and rhetorical variation of writing Chinese judicial opinions47
The pragmatics of play47
Identity construction in Chinese heritage language classes46
Computer-mediated communication and scholarly discourse46
Compliments and compliment responses in Kunming Chinese45
Self-representation by auto-portrait in research interviews44
Address practices in academic interactions in a pluricentric language43
The historical present in Spanish and semantic/pragmatic structure43
Ideologies of honorific language43
Cohesion strategies and genre in expository prose: An analysis of the writing of children of ethnolinguistic cultural groups43
Semantic and pragmatic properties of post-truth discourse43
Nationalism and gender in the representation of non-Japanese characters’ speech in contemporary Japanese novels40
“You are not allowed to pull someone’s tail!” a cross-cultural comparison of socio-moral comments in Estonian and Swedish peer interaction39
Ethnicity and codeswitching39
The semantics of coming and going37
The son (érzi) is not really a son37
Multimodal language use in Savosavo36
A cross-generational and cross-cultural study on demonstration of attentiveness36
Accounts as acts of identity35
The slow shift in orthodoxy34
Press releases as a hybrid genre34
Pragmatics of discourse modality34
Deceptive clickbaits in the relevance-theoretic lens34
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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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Memory for dialogue in different modes of interaction31
Concepts and Context in Relevance-Theoretic Pragmatics31
NPs in Japanese conversation28
Communicated and non-communicated acts in relevance theory28
Increments in Navajo conversation27
In between spectacle and political correctness27
Latina girls’ peer play interactions in a bilingual Spanish-English U.S. preschool27
A touch of class27
An investigation of the formation and pragmatic strategies of “xx-zi27
On assigning pragmatic functions in English26
Teacher talk reflecting pragmatic awareness26
Incorporation of information and complementizers in Japanese26
Evaluation of (im)politeness26
Indexing traditional and modern professional values25
Non-literal uses of proper names in XYZ constructions25
The co-construction of whiteness in an MC battle25
Teaching oral requests25
Whose side are we on?25
Generic uses of the second person singular – how speakers deal with referential ambiguity and misunderstandings24
Critical discourse analysis and its critics23
The intuitive basis of implicature23
Dynamism and assertiveness in the public voice22
Viewpoint shifting in Korean and Bulgarian22
Negotiating stories22
A contrastive study of hedging in English and Chinese academic spoken discourse21
The effects of English-medium instruction on the use of textual and interpersonal pragmatic markers21
Metaphor-based zeugmas in web-based promotional tourism discourse21
Using a category to accomplish resistance in the context of an emergency call21
Constructing self–other distinction in dialogic contexts21
Interactional and categorial analyses of identity construction in the talk of female-to-male (FtM) transgender individuals in Japan21
Personal perspective in TV news interviews21
The pragmatics of advice-giving in the media discourse20
Sigain interaction20
Language ideologies in Barbados20
Language, identity, performance20
Formulaic speech in the L2 classroom20
Selected works on Asian Pacific American language practices20
Speech levels20
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Is formality relevant? Japanese tokenshai,eeandun19
On the manifestness of assumptions19
Imperatives and commitments in Romanian academic meeting interactions19
The use of invitations to bid in classroom interaction19
Interaction and conversational constrictions in the relationships between suppliers of services and immigrant users19
Modal particles in ironic utterances19
Move combinations in the conclusion section of applied linguistics research articles19
Tang’s Dilemma and other problems18
Intergroup rudeness and the metapragmatics of its negotiation in online discussion fora18
Simplifying Sanskrit18
Hong Kong Cantonese TV talk shows18
Categorization in talk18
When husbands die18
Perspective and politeness in Finnish Requests18
Introduction18
Perceptions of (Im)politeness in Venezuelan Spanish18
Editing and genre conflict18
Managing relationships through repetition18
Analysis of politeness strategies in Japanese and Korean conversations between males18
“Peter is a dumb nut”17
The discursive construction of gender, ethnicity and the workplace in second generation immigrants’ narratives the case of moroccan women in belgium17
Syrian service encounters17
The pausative pattern of speakers with and without high-functioning autism spectrum disorder from long silences17
Brazilian Portuguese wh-clefts in a multilevel analytic perspective17
Inter-mind phenomena in child narrative discourse17
Compromising progressivity17
On developing a systematic methodology for analyzing categories in talk-in-interaction: Sequential categorization analysis17
Ideologies of language at Hippo Family Club17
Notes on word order variation in Korean17
Natural conversations in males and females: Conversational styles, content recall and quality of interaction17
Introduction16
Management discourse in university administrative documents in Sweden16
Commentary16
Constructing Japanese men’s multidimensional identities16
The uses and utility of ideology16
Discourse of (il)literacy15
On the interplay of syntax and prosody in the constitution of turn-constructional units and turns in conversation15
Perspectives on intercultural communication15
Support and evidence for considering local contingencies in studying and transcribing silence in conversation15
Translating phatic expressions15
Fabricated ignorance15
Lewis Carroll15
Debate with zhuangzi15
Lebanese political advertising and the dialogic emergence of signs15
Perspective in the discourse of war15
Reconsidering the development of the discourse completion test in interlanguage pragmatics15
Analysis of appropriateness in a speech act of request in L2 English14
A matter of politeness? A contrastive study of phatic talk in teenage conversation14
Analysis of a first therapy interview14
How to be authentic on Instagram14
Fearful, forceful agents of the law14
Meaning potentials and the interaction between lexis and contexts14
Su(m)imasen and gomen nasai14
Towards a distinction between non-euphemistic and euphemism-based politically correct expressions14
Deliberate dispute and the construction of oppositional stance14
Argumentation and inhibition: Sexism in the discourse of Spanish executives14
“can you tell me how to get there?”14
The use of interlocking multi-unit turns in topic shifts14
Writing right14
Eye closures in spoken Hebrew14
The interplay between professional identities and age, gender and ethnicity introduction14
Toward a pragmatic account and taxonomy of valuative speech acts14
On interaction and grammar13
Gender and professional identity in three institutional settings in Brazil13
Are transcripts reproducible?13
Skype appearances, multiple greetings and ‘coucou’13
Increments in cross-linguistic perspective13
Concealment in consultative encounters in Nigerian hospitals13
Locutions in medical discourse in Southwestern Nigeria13
Utterance-final conjunctive particles and implicature in Japanese conversation13
Theoretical ideals and their violation13
On the referential ambiguity of personal pronouns and its pragmatic consequences13
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
‘So many “virologists” in this thread!’12
“Doing deference”12
Spontaneous and non-spontaneous turn-taking12
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
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Malinowski’s last word on the anthropological approach to language12
Some current transcription systems for spoken discourse: A critical analysis12
Medial deictic demonstratives in Arabic12
“You gotta be a man or a girl”12
Situated politeness12
Calling in12
Complement clauses as turn continuations12
Pragmatic markers12
Code choice in intercultural conversation12
“Go up to miss thingy”. “He’s probably like a whatsit or something”.12
Translocal style communities12
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