OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The not so silent Estonians? Perceptions and practice of small talk	18
The embodied enactment of politeness metapragmatics	16
Linguistic and relational strategies for advice giving in an online commercial context	15
Metapragmatics of attentiveness: a study in interpersonal and cross-cultural pragmatics	14
The complexity of non-seriousness: a case study of a (mock?) mock impolite utterance	11
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Reconfiguring the strategic/non-strategic binary in im/politeness research	9
Off-record indirectness in Jordanian Arabic	8
From speech acts to lay understandings of politeness: multilingual and multicultural perspectives	8
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Impoliteness among multilingual Facebook users in Congo Brazzaville	8
The effect of extralinguistic variables on verb selection in Italian requests	7
Native observers’ evaluations of ritual frame indicating expressions in Chinese	7
A closer look at explanations in refusals: themes, attributions, and contexts	6
Conceptualizations and evaluations of (im)politeness in Syrian Arabic	5
Theorizing impoliteness: a Levinasian perspective	5
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
Im/politeness research – what it says on the tin? (Not quite)	4
Impoliteness, power and ethics	4
Conduct politeness versus etiquette politeness: a terminological distinction	4
Rap Devil versus Rap God: impoliteness in a rap battle	4
Chinese perceptions and refutations of face-threatening impoliteness regarding diplomatic press conferences	4
Multimodal mitigation: how facial and body cues index politeness in Catalan requests	3

When the Norwegian ‘politeness marker’ vennligst becomes impolite	3
Mitigating strategies and politeness in German requests	3
Politeness of nonverbal hospitality in Saudi and British female interactions	3
Revisiting the binary view of honorifics in politeness research	3
Two phenomena behind the terminology of face	3
“I look with deep gratitude and admiration…” – praising and complimenting in papal speeches	3
Aggravated impoliteness in Chinese online negative restaurant reviews	3
Discernment2 and Discernment1: does historical politeness need another binary?	3
20 years (further) on: whither politeness studies now? Opening up the binaries	3
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A sociopragmatic study of the strategies and affecting factors of Chinese thanking responses	3
Offering food and alcohol in Chinese and English: a contrastive pragmatic perspective	3
Conceptualization of first-order politeness in Russia: an exploratory study	2
(Im)politeness as a tool to categorize interactive discourse markers of Arabic in radio shows	2
The Italian Bella Figura – a challenge for politeness theories	2
Well-wishing practices in Greek and English food blogs	2
The evolution of research articles on self-denigration: a systematic review across disciplines	2
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How the police (over)use explicit apology language to manage aspects of their identity	2