OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Politeness Research-Language Behaviour Culture is 0. 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.)

Article	Citations
Linguistic and relational strategies for advice giving in an online commercial context	10
The not so silent Estonians? Perceptions and practice of small talk	9
The complexity of non-seriousness: a case study of a (mock?) mock impolite utterance	9
Refusing invitations and offers in second language Chinese: effect of proficiency at the actional and interactional levels	8
Politeness as normative, evaluative and discriminatory: the case of verbal hygiene discourses on correct honorifics use in South Korea	7
The embodied enactment of politeness metapragmatics	7
Off-record indirectness in Jordanian Arabic	6
Reconfiguring the strategic/non-strategic binary in im/politeness research	5
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Theorizing impoliteness: a Levinasian perspective	4
From speech acts to lay understandings of politeness: multilingual and multicultural perspectives	4
The effect of extralinguistic variables on verb selection in Italian requests	4
Impoliteness among multilingual Facebook users in Congo Brazzaville	4
Conceptualizations and evaluations of (im)politeness in Syrian Arabic	4
Native observers’ evaluations of ritual frame indicating expressions in Chinese	4
Impoliteness, power and ethics	3
Rap Devil versus Rap God: impoliteness in a rap battle	3
Im/politeness research – what it says on the tin? (Not quite)	3
Conduct politeness versus etiquette politeness: a terminological distinction	3
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.	3
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When the Norwegian ‘politeness marker’ vennligst becomes impolite	2
Discernment2 and Discernment1: does historical politeness need another binary?	2
Multimodal mitigation: how facial and body cues index politeness in Catalan requests	2

Chinese perceptions and refutations of face-threatening impoliteness regarding diplomatic press conferences	2
20 years (further) on: whither politeness studies now? Opening up the binaries	2
Sassy Sasha?: The intersectionality of (im)politeness and sociolinguistics	2
Two phenomena behind the terminology of face	1
“I look with deep gratitude and admiration…” – praising and complimenting in papal speeches	1
Freytag, Vera: Exploring Politeness in Business Emails. A Mixed-Methods Analysis	1
Mitigating strategies and politeness in German requests	1
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Keqi (客气) in historical Chinese: evidence from metapragmatic comments	1
Politeness of nonverbal hospitality in Saudi and British female interactions	1
Revisiting the binary view of honorifics in politeness research	1
Aggravated impoliteness in Chinese online negative restaurant reviews	1
Offering food and alcohol in Chinese and English: a contrastive pragmatic perspective	1
“Write oneself into being”– Ha as an interpersonal pragmatic marker on WeChat	0
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(Im)politeness as a tool to categorize interactive discourse markers of Arabic in radio shows	0
Conceptualization of first-order politeness in Russia: an exploratory study	0
(Im)politeness on Facebook during the Covid-19 pandemic	0
Japanese politeness revisited: from the perspective of attentiveness on Twitter	0
A corpus-assisted analysis of indexical signs for (im)politeness in Japanese apology-like behaviour	0
(Im)politeness as object, (im)politeness as perspective	0
Sinkeviciute, Valeria: Conversational humour and (im)politeness: a pragmatic analysis of social interaction	0
“You can f*** get lost already”: (Responding to) impoliteness in the (in-)authentic discourse of comedy and crime TV series and movies	0
Mugford, Gerrard. 2019.Addressing Difficult Situations in Foreign-Language Learning. Confusion, Impoliteness, and Hostility	0
Dangerous politeness? Understandings of politeness in the COVID-19 era and beyond	0
Prosody influence on (im)politeness perception in Chinese-German intercultural communication	0
Ritual frame indicating expressions used in requests in intercultural communication	0
Understanding online advice-giving evaluations through the politeness evaluation model	0
Landone, Elena. 2022. Methodology in Politeness Research. Springer International Publishing. Hardcover ISBN 978-3-031-09160-5. eBook ISBN 978-3-031-09161-2 Price: Hb €99.	0
How the police (over)use explicit apology language to manage aspects of their identity	0
Experiments into the influence of linguistic (in)directness on perceived face-threat in Twitter complaints	0
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Duelling contexts: how action misalignment leads to impoliteness in a courtroom	0
I wanted to honour your journal, and you spat in my face: emotive (im)politeness and face in the English and Russian blind peer review	0
The in-group ritual of self-denigration in Iranian doctoral defense sessions: applied linguists’ attitudes, functions and perceptions in focus	0
Grand strategy of politeness in new social networks: revisiting Leech’s politeness theory among Iranian EFL learners using Telegram	0
“Saying ‘thank you’ or something more than lip service”: a variational analysis of the influence of gender and social status on responses to congratulations on Chinese WeChat	0
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Exploring metapragmatics of politeness lexemes using a computational approach	0
Metadiscourse of impoliteness, language ideology, and identity: offense-taking as social action	0
E-mpoliteness – creative impoliteness as an expression of digital social capital	0
Spencer-Oatey, Helen and Dániel Z. Kádár: Intercultural Politeness: Managing Relations across Cultures	0
Twitter and the Real Academia Española: perspectives on impoliteness	0
Editorial: where we have been and where we are going	0
“People confuse respeto ‘respect’ with terms of address”: an analysis of online metacommunication about politeness and second-person pronoun use in Peninsular Spanish	0
The evolution of research articles on self-denigration: a systematic review across disciplines	0
The Italian Bella Figura – a challenge for politeness theories	0
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The diachrony of honorification in Chinese: stability and change	0
The impact of linguistic choices and (para-)linguistic markers on the perception of Twitter complaints by other customers: an experimental approach	0

How does experience teaching in Japanese EFL classrooms inform English native-speaker educators classroom practices? The negotiation of face in university classrooms	0
Intercultural Im/politeness: perceptions of language choice and translanguaging in the Korean community in Australia	0
Performing positive politeness: political rhetoric in state dinner speeches by US-American presidents	0
Borrowing of address forms for dimensions of social relation in a contact-induced multilingual community	0
“Can I have a cup of tea please?” Politeness markers in the Spoken BNC2014	0
Saying “no” in emails in Mandarin Chinese and Australian English	0
Impoliteness in Twitter diplomacy: offence giving and taking in Middle East diplomatic crises	0
“Shuoshihua, …”: Chinese celebrities’ metapragmatic management of rapport and impression in an interview setting	0
A cognitive-semiotic approach to impoliteness: Effects of conventionality and semiotic system on judgements of impoliteness by Russian and Swedish speakers	0