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Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Politeness Research-Language Behaviour Culture is 2. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
The not so silent Estonians? Perceptions and practice of small talk	17
The embodied enactment of politeness metapragmatics	16
Linguistic and relational strategies for advice giving in an online commercial context	14
Metapragmatics of attentiveness: a study in interpersonal and cross-cultural pragmatics	12
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The complexity of non-seriousness: a case study of a (mock?) mock impolite utterance	10
Reconfiguring the strategic/non-strategic binary in im/politeness research	9
Impoliteness among multilingual Facebook users in Congo Brazzaville	8
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Off-record indirectness in Jordanian Arabic	8
Native observers’ evaluations of ritual frame indicating expressions in Chinese	7
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The effect of extralinguistic variables on verb selection in Italian requests	7
From speech acts to lay understandings of politeness: multilingual and multicultural perspectives	7
A closer look at explanations in refusals: themes, attributions, and contexts	6
Theorizing impoliteness: a Levinasian perspective	5
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Conceptualizations and evaluations of (im)politeness in Syrian Arabic	4
Im/politeness research – what it says on the tin? (Not quite)	4
Grundtvig, A. 2021. English is context: Practical pragmatics for clear communication. Stuttgart: DELTA Publishing, Ernst Klett Sprachen GmbH, 144 pp., ISBN 978-3-125-01742-9. Price: € 28,50.	4
Rap Devil versus Rap God: impoliteness in a rap battle	4
Impoliteness, power and ethics	4
Chinese perceptions and refutations of face-threatening impoliteness regarding diplomatic press conferences	4
“I look with deep gratitude and admiration…” – praising and complimenting in papal speeches	3

Revisiting the binary view of honorifics in politeness research	3
Multimodal mitigation: how facial and body cues index politeness in Catalan requests	3
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20 years (further) on: whither politeness studies now? Opening up the binaries	3
Discernment2 and Discernment1: does historical politeness need another binary?	3
Two phenomena behind the terminology of face	3
When the Norwegian ‘politeness marker’ vennligst becomes impolite	3
Conduct politeness versus etiquette politeness: a terminological distinction	3
Offering food and alcohol in Chinese and English: a contrastive pragmatic perspective	2
Well-wishing practices in Greek and English food blogs	2
Mitigating strategies and politeness in German requests	2
Conceptualization of first-order politeness in Russia: an exploratory study	2
How the police (over)use explicit apology language to manage aspects of their identity	2
Aggravated impoliteness in Chinese online negative restaurant reviews	2
Politeness of nonverbal hospitality in Saudi and British female interactions	2
The Italian Bella Figura – a challenge for politeness theories	2
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A sociopragmatic study of the strategies and affecting factors of Chinese thanking responses	2