OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Politeness Research-Language Behaviour Culture is 4. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
The not so silent Estonians? Perceptions and practice of small talk	15
Linguistic and relational strategies for advice giving in an online commercial context	15
The complexity of non-seriousness: a case study of a (mock?) mock impolite utterance	13
Refusing invitations and offers in second language Chinese: effect of proficiency at the actional and interactional levels	13
Metapragmatics of attentiveness: a study in interpersonal and cross-cultural pragmatics	12
The embodied enactment of politeness metapragmatics	11
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Off-record indirectness in Jordanian Arabic	9
Reconfiguring the strategic/non-strategic binary in im/politeness research	8
From speech acts to lay understandings of politeness: multilingual and multicultural perspectives	7
Impoliteness among multilingual Facebook users in Congo Brazzaville	7
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Native observers’ evaluations of ritual frame indicating expressions in Chinese	6
Theorizing impoliteness: a Levinasian perspective	6
The effect of extralinguistic variables on verb selection in Italian requests	6
Impoliteness, power and ethics	5
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Rap Devil versus Rap God: impoliteness in a rap battle	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.	5
Im/politeness research – what it says on the tin? (Not quite)	5
Conceptualizations and evaluations of (im)politeness in Syrian Arabic	5
Discernment2 and Discernment1: does historical politeness need another binary?	4
Multimodal mitigation: how facial and body cues index politeness in Catalan requests	4
Conduct politeness versus etiquette politeness: a terminological distinction	4

Chinese perceptions and refutations of face-threatening impoliteness regarding diplomatic press conferences	4
20 years (further) on: whither politeness studies now? Opening up the binaries	4