Pragmatics and Society

Papers
(The median citation count of Pragmatics and Society 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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)
ArticleCitations
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The role of object distance and gender in Persian compliment responses21
Simple language, sophisticated actions10
Language change among Kalhuri Kurdish speakers in Iran9
Gendered subtle bias in Danish TV election debates8
Review of Xie (2022): The Pragmatics of Internet Memes8
Review of Scott (2022): Pragmatics Online7
A marathon to nowhere7
Solidarity and support in Belgian residential linguistic landscapes during the Covid-19 outbreak6
Representations of ‘leftover women’ in the Chinese English-medium newspapers6
Disagreement strategies and institutional face attack in Chinese mainstream media editorial comments on Weibo6
Metaphor analysis of the COVID-19 public health emergency on Chinese national news media5
A contrastive study of Chinese and American online complaints5
The role of prior and actual situational context in conversational routines produced by Chinese learners of English5
Conflict, gender, and amount of talk5
Dialogic language and meta-language in a conflictual discourse5
Review of Walton, Macagno & Sartor (2019): Statutory Interpretation. Pragmatics and Argumentation4
Discursive positioning of doctors and e‑patients in online medical consultations in China4
Trust me, trust my words4
“Not everything is on the hostess”4
Review of Xie, Yus & Haberland (2021): Approaches to Internet Pragmatics: Theory and practice4
Kwame Nkrumah’s construction of ‘the African people’ via the Unite or Perish myth4
The metapragmatic act of debating in the media4
Hedged Turkish complaints and requests in the Problem-Solution text pattern3
Attacks and remedies in online public opinion reversal events3
The World of Daily Life3
Parents’ indirect utterances in an Indonesian family3
Taking an authorial stance in English and Arabic research article discussions3
Under the shadow of swords: The Rhetoric of Jihad3
Comparing compliments in Face-to-Face vs. online interactions among Iranian speakers of Persian3
On the constitutional relevance of non‑discursive enlanguaged doings to sociomaterial practices3
‘What happened to the un-omitted subjects?’3
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Novel veiling and concealing euphemisms in political discourse3
Determiners of social inclusion and exclusion in the dementia context3
“I Am Proud to Be a Traitor”2
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Polymedia life2
When TCM debate meets Covid-19 discourse2
Initiating reason-for-the-call action in mundane mobile phone conversation2
Covid-19 WhatsApp sticker memes as public signs in Oman2
Situated co-operative creativity2
Challenges of trust in atypical interaction2
Polymedia repertoires of networked individuals2
From our sisters/to our sisters2
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On an even playing field of haiku making2
Face attributes in interviews with Iranian politicians2
‘Proto-conversation’ as a practice in late-stage dementia care2
Metaphorical framing in news2
I am a doctor in your shoes2
Sancte et sapienter2
The performance and relational role of toast intervention in Chinese dining contexts2
Self-help and masculinity2
Transdisciplinary approaches to the discourse of Islamist extremism2
Unspoken evaluation of impoliteness2
Societal pragmatics2
Examining the use of reflexive metadiscourse in the construction of affiliative communication in group email requests2
Affect in the pragmeme of delivering a health directive2
Review of Schneider & Ifantidou (2020): Developmental and Clinical Pragmatics2
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Disagreement realizations in Arabic2
Painting the state in the text1
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Repetition and paraphrase in contexts of concordant and discordant orientations1
Both responsiveness and standardization1
Idioms of polymediated practices and the techno-social accomplishment of co-presence in transnational families1
Stances and ideologies in Nigerian pro-gay tweets1
Finnish and French public signs from commercial premises during the Covid-19 pandemic1
Polymedia in Interaction1
“I am not populist”1
Representation of women in English and Persian proverbs1
Would you like a bag for that?1
Saying “sorry” in online language1
Idioms, proverbs and body part expressions onYiedie“wellbeing” in Akan1
Chinese patients’ unsolicited presentation of primary concerns1
Review of Sorlin & Virtanen (2024): The Pragmatics of Hypocrisy1
Review of Kecskes (2019): English as a Lingua Franca: The Pragmatic Perspective1
Performing right-wing political identities on reader comments pages1
Attitudes to language and bilingualism in residential care for older persons in Ireland1
Introduction1
Interveners’ performance of “identity work” in the context of Chinese bystander intervention1
Blame-avoiding strategies for a digital scandal1
Polemic polyphony1
Review of Wharton & de Saussure (2023): Pragmatics and Emotion1
Talking about the deceased in the Jish linguaculture1
Review of Taleghani-Nikazm, Betz & Golato (2020): Mobilizing Others: Grammar and lexis within larger activities1
Conventions of author self-reference in Chinese academic writing1
Common ground management via evidential markers in Turkish1
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A study on the intertextuality of Russian media1
The interpersonal semantics of rhetoric1
Review of Verschueren (2021): Complicity in Discourse and Practice1
You have no right!1
“Let’s Just Forget It!”1
Clean room, uncomfortable bed1
Review of Economidou-Kogetsidis, Savić & Halenko (2021): Email Pragmatics and Second Language Learners1
Gratitude communication in academic written acknowledgement1
Regrounding work in elite discourse1
‘I’m not a tech person’1
Polymedia in interaction1
Changing patterns of apology in spoken British English1
Where there is panic, the media are close by0
Review of Chen (2021): Exploring identity work in Chinese communication0
Review of Weigand & Kecskes (2018): From pragmatics to dialogue0
A study of linguistic manipulations of activating, seeking and creating common ground in intercultural business communication0
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From evaluative authorities to involved narrators0
“A tour guide losing her cool”0
Resemblance in comments/posts interaction0
Making up or taunting?0
Multivaried acceptance of post-editing in China0
Contradicting potential climate misinformation during televised debates0
Sociality in complex, multi-layered, technoscapes0
Rhetorical strategies for the construction of a corporate identity0
Review of Panther (2022): Introduction to Cognitive Pragmatics0
The pragmeme of accommodation in Christian condolence messages in Nigeria0
Review of Cap (2022): The Discourse of Conflict and Crisis: Poland’s Political Rhetoric in the European Perspective0
Dealing with the dual demands of expertise and democracy0
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Negotiating academic conflict in discussion sections of doctoral dissertations0
Culture and identity in critical remarks0
“Trust X, because Y”0
Citizens’ polarised discourses on climate change and mobility0
Radio program hosts’ self-identity mobilization in Chinese radio-mediated medical consultations0
Doing newsworthiness in execution news and death penalty ideology0
Review of Page, Busse & Nørgaard (2019): Rethinking Language, Text and Context: Interdisciplinary Research in Stylistics in Honour of Michael Toolan0
Review of Ädel & Östman (2023): Risk Discourse and Responsibility0
Review of Al-Shboul (2023): The Politics of Climate Change Metaphors in the U.S. Discourse: Conceptual Metaphor Theory and Analysis from an Ecolinguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis Perspective0
“Why does he appear so ordinary, but he can be so confident”0
The metapragmatics of mode choice0
“Money can buy health”0
Review of Yus (2023): Pragmatics of Internet Humour0
Negotiating the value of rule of law through attitudinal positioning0
A multimodal analysis of a Japanese TV commercial0
Pragmatic functions of humor in Berlin’s directive Covid-19 Signs0
Correcting the scientific record0
Disseminating risk communication0
Us and them0
A sociopragmatic account of religiosity and secularity in fictional narratives0
Urban environments favorable to radical narratives0
A politeness-theoretic approach to mitigated disagreements in online radio medical consultations0
Deictic shifts and re-contextualization in translation0
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Review of Jucker (2020): Politeness in the History of English – From the Middle Ages to the Present Day0
The pragmatics of communication in traditional ritual performance (Japanese kagura)0
Fear appeals in Chinese public signs of COVID-19 prevention in local communities0
The role of assessments in providing evasive answers in news interviews0
Review of Gill, Malmivirta & Wårvik (2024): Structures in Discourse: Interaction, adaptability, and pragmatic functions0
Mitigating requesting acts by deaf Jordanian adults0
When the discourse of strategy meets the discourse of spirituality0
Dialogicity in Political Discourse0
Virtual dialogues in monologic political discourse0
Review of Archer, Grainger & Jagodziński (2020): Politeness in Professional Contexts0
Getting involved or acting in defence0
Using wǒmen (we) to mean s/he in Chinese parents’ interaction0
Review of Yus (2022): Smartphone Communication. Interactions in the App Ecosystem0
Giving advice in HIV counselling in Malaysia0
Sociality and moral conflicts0
The interpersonal functions of public signs during the Covid-19 pandemic0
Activity contamination in a problematic call made to the Korean emergency center0
Review of Betz, Deppermann, Mondada & Sorjonen (2021): OKAY across Languages: Toward a Comparative Approach to its Use in Talk-in-interaction0
Commenting behavior as a mirror of parasocial relationships and emotional attachment on YouTube0
Pragmatics of Active Social Inclusion0
An epistemic interpretation of responses to advice resistance on Chinese phone-ins of family problem counseling0
“Our group was by far the coolest”0
Negotiating identities0
Verbal play in dementia care0
A socio-pragmatic analysis of the Turkish discourse markers of ‘şey’, ‘yani’, and ‘işte’ based on educational level of speakers0
Review of Robles & Weatherall (2021): How Emotions Are Made in Talk0
Review of Schneider & Eitelmann (2020): Linguistic Inquiries into Donald Trump’s Language. From ‘Fake News’ to ‘Tremendous Success’0
Conceptual metaphors in Jordanian newspaper socio-political discourse during the Arab Spring0
Dialogic meaning-making in political settings0
The language of threat0
Review of Jucker, Hübscher & Brown (2023): Multimodal Im/politeness. Signed, spoken, written0
“That was a long time ago”0
A semi-supervised algorithm for detecting extremism propaganda diffusion on social media0
Review of Haugh, Kádár & Terkourafi (2021): The Cambridge Handbook of Sociopragmatics0
Meschonnic, Wittgenstein and translation as form of life0
Historical imprints on Chinese ideological given names0
The Discourse of Terrorism0
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Review of Blitvich (2024): Pragmatics, (Im)politeness, and Intergroup Communication: A Multilayered, Discursive Analysis of Cancel Culture0
Interactional multimodal metadiscourse in public health posters during the COVID-19 pandemic0
Review of House & Kádár (2021): Cross-cultural pragmatics0
Semiotic manipulation strategies employed in Iranian printed advertisements0
Politely warning?0
The Ethnopragmatics of Jish Arabic-speaking culture0
From image to function0
When invoked voices blame real politicians0
Actions of known-answer questions in guided tours0
Face-oriented acts of empathy in psychotherapy0
‘Like to comment on that?’0
Motivation and attitudes of Israeli Druze schoolchildren toward L2 Hebrew compared to Modern Standard Arabic0
Conspiracy theories and passion0
Identity gatekeeping in New Work Order organizations0
The humorous effect of routine formulas in Spanish and English televised monologues0
Deontic authority-based resolution of deontic right-based resistance in online medical consultation0
Recontextualizing knowledge in academic video publications0
Review of Deppermann & Streeck (2018): Time in embodied interaction: Synchronicity and sequentiality of multimodal resources0
Review of Hidalgo-Downing & Mujic Kraljevic (2020): Performing Metaphoric Creativity across Modes and Contexts0
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Review of Masia (2021): The Manipulative Disguise of Truth: Tricks and threats of implicit communication0
Degrees of negative judgement0
Approaches to the discourse of terror0
Learning from initial reviews of multilingual graphics illustrating dementia caregiving0
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Deconstructing imagined identities and imagined communities through humor0
Political language gaffes and the importance of Hearer’s meaning0
Code accommodation as a measure of inclusion for bilingual people living with dementia of the Alzheimer’s type0
“They fabricated lies against us and described us in the harshest of ways”0
One issue, two genres0
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Review of McCready (2019): The Semantics and Pragmatics of Honorification: Register and Social Meaning0
Compliments and compliment responses in Egyptian and Saudi Arabic0
“I never said that”0
“I hope this is your last sorrow”0
Evidential meanings in native and learner Japanese and English0
Review of Placencia & Eslami (2020): Complimenting Behavior and (Self)Praise across Social Media. New Contexts and New Insights0
Polymedia and family multilingualism0
On the nature of pragmatic constituents0
Withholding advice for rapport management in online medical counselling interactions0
“Jerry was a terrific host!” “You were a brilliant guest!”0
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Andreas Musolff. Political Metaphor Analysis: Discourse and Scenarios0
Conversation practices that foster or hinder inclusivity during interactions involving persons with dementia0
Criticizing for the public interest and aligning with others0
Scalar implicature0
Politeness in hotel service encounter interactions in Spain0
Doing things with discourse in the mediated political arena0
Reciprocity and epistemicity on screen-based interactions0
Exploring lexical associations in English as a Lingua Franca interactions0
Reduction in and out of context0
Obituary0
Comparing Chinese and British entrepreneurial pitches in reality TV shows0
“Boom! You bought them.”0
Parentheses used as pragmatic strategies in Chinese online socialization0
Variation and society0
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Taking actions to enhance inclusivity of persons living with dementia0
(Neo)liberalizing the state – Privatization of core government competencies0
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More than writing on the wall0
Patients resist, doctors manage0
Defining openness in teachers’ ‘open’ questions0
Singling out0
Withholding consent0
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