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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
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The role of object distance and gender in Persian compliment responses19
Review of Scott (2022): Pragmatics Online10
Simple language, sophisticated actions8
Language change among Kalhuri Kurdish speakers in Iran8
Gendered subtle bias in Danish TV election debates7
A marathon to nowhere7
Review of Xie (2022): The Pragmatics of Internet Memes6
Solidarity and support in Belgian residential linguistic landscapes during the Covid-19 outbreak5
Disagreement strategies and institutional face attack in Chinese mainstream media editorial comments on Weibo5
Representations of ‘leftover women’ in the Chinese English-medium newspapers5
Conflict, gender, and amount of talk4
A contrastive study of Chinese and American online complaints4
The metapragmatic act of debating in the media4
The role of prior and actual situational context in conversational routines produced by Chinese learners of English4
Trust me, trust my words4
Dialogic language and meta-language in a conflictual discourse4
Metaphor analysis of the COVID-19 public health emergency on Chinese national news media4
“Not everything is on the hostess”4
Review of Walton, Macagno & Sartor (2019): Statutory Interpretation. Pragmatics and Argumentation4
Comparing compliments in Face-to-Face vs. online interactions among Iranian speakers of Persian3
Novel veiling and concealing euphemisms in political discourse3
The World of Daily Life3
Review of Xie, Yus & Haberland (2021): Approaches to Internet Pragmatics: Theory and practice3
Parents’ indirect utterances in an Indonesian family3
Kwame Nkrumah’s construction of ‘the African people’ via the Unite or Perish myth3
Determiners of social inclusion and exclusion in the dementia context3
Discursive positioning of doctors and e‑patients in online medical consultations in China3
Polymedia life2
On an even playing field of haiku making2
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Drilling for fissures and exploiting common ground in the discourse of oil production2
Initiating reason-for-the-call action in mundane mobile phone conversation2
Disagreement realizations in Arabic2
Self-help and masculinity2
“I Am Proud to Be a Traitor”2
Affect in the pragmeme of delivering a health directive2
Under the shadow of swords: The Rhetoric of Jihad2
On the constitutional relevance of non‑discursive enlanguaged doings to sociomaterial practices2
Hedged Turkish complaints and requests in the Problem-Solution text pattern2
‘What happened to the un-omitted subjects?’2
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Challenges of trust in atypical interaction2
When TCM debate meets Covid-19 discourse2
From our sisters/to our sisters2
Review of Paternoster & Fitzmaurice (2019): Politeness in Nineteenth-Century Europe2
Face attributes in interviews with Iranian politicians2
Attacks and remedies in online public opinion reversal events2
Taking an authorial stance in English and Arabic research article discussions2
“It’s of no value compared to your value”2
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Examining the use of reflexive metadiscourse in the construction of affiliative communication in group email requests2
Polymedia repertoires of networked individuals2
‘Proto-conversation’ as a practice in late-stage dementia care2
Transdisciplinary approaches to the discourse of Islamist extremism2
Polymedia in interaction1
Regrounding work in elite discourse1
Towards a discourse-semantic approach to visual narrative analysis1
Covid-19 WhatsApp sticker memes as public signs in Oman1
A study on the intertextuality of Russian media1
Both responsiveness and standardization1
Review of Verschueren (2021): Complicity in Discourse and Practice1
“Let’s Just Forget It!”1
‘I’m not a tech person’1
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Efficiency in shaping grammars1
Review of Kecskes (2019): English as a Lingua Franca: The Pragmatic Perspective1
Introduction1
Review of Economidou-Kogetsidis, Savić & Halenko (2021): Email Pragmatics and Second Language Learners1
Performing right-wing political identities on reader comments pages1
The interpersonal semantics of rhetoric1
Metaphorical framing in news1
Conventions of author self-reference in Chinese academic writing1
Review of Schneider & Ifantidou (2020): Developmental and Clinical Pragmatics1
Sancte et sapienter1
I am a doctor in your shoes1
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Would you like a bag for that?1
Changing patterns of apology in spoken British English1
Representation of women in English and Persian proverbs1
Idioms of polymediated practices and the techno-social accomplishment of co-presence in transnational families1
Chinese patients’ unsolicited presentation of primary concerns1
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Idioms, proverbs and body part expressions onYiedie“wellbeing” in Akan1
Review of Sorlin & Virtanen (2024): The Pragmatics of Hypocrisy1
“I am not populist”1
Repetition and paraphrase in contexts of concordant and discordant orientations1
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Situated co-operative creativity1
The performance and relational role of toast intervention in Chinese dining contexts1
Review of Taleghani-Nikazm, Betz & Golato (2020): Mobilizing Others: Grammar and lexis within larger activities1
Autism spectrum disorder and language choice in Ghana1
Talking about the deceased in the Jish linguaculture1
Gratitude communication in academic written acknowledgement1
Saying “sorry” in online language1
Painting the state in the text1
Attitudes to language and bilingualism in residential care for older persons in Ireland1
Common ground management via evidential markers in Turkish1
Review of Wharton & de Saussure (2023): Pragmatics and Emotion1
Citizens’ polarised discourses on climate change and mobility0
Interveners’ performance of “identity work” in the context of Chinese bystander intervention0
Where there is panic, the media are close by0
Dialogicity in Political Discourse0
Variation and society0
Identity gatekeeping in New Work Order organizations0
Resemblance in comments/posts interaction0
Reduction in and out of context0
Rhetorical strategies for the construction of a corporate identity0
Virtual dialogues in monologic political discourse0
Politely warning?0
“They fabricated lies against us and described us in the harshest of ways”0
Withholding advice for rapport management in online medical counselling interactions0
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Defining openness in teachers’ ‘open’ questions0
Negotiating identities0
Analysing the functions of online destination forums through a corpus-assisted discourse-analytic approach0
Review of Crespo-Fernández (2018): Taboo in discourse: Studies on attenuation and offence in communication0
“Jerry was a terrific host!” “You were a brilliant guest!”0
Sociality in complex, multi-layered, technoscapes0
Review of Blitvich (2024): Pragmatics, (Im)politeness, and Intergroup Communication: A Multilayered, Discursive Analysis of Cancel Culture0
An epistemic interpretation of responses to advice resistance on Chinese phone-ins of family problem counseling0
Reciprocity and epistemicity on screen-based interactions0
Review of Yus (2022): Smartphone Communication. Interactions in the App Ecosystem0
Approaches to the discourse of terror0
On the nature of pragmatic constituents0
Politeness in hotel service encounter interactions in Spain0
Dealing with the dual demands of expertise and democracy0
Review of House & Kádár (2021): Cross-cultural pragmatics0
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
Conceptual metaphors in Jordanian newspaper socio-political discourse during the Arab Spring0
Review of Weigand & Kecskes (2018): From pragmatics to dialogue0
Review of Page, Busse & Nørgaard (2019): Rethinking Language, Text and Context: Interdisciplinary Research in Stylistics in Honour of Michael Toolan0
The Discourse of Terrorism0
Stances and ideologies in Nigerian pro-gay tweets0
Review of Haugh, Kádár & Terkourafi (2021): The Cambridge Handbook of Sociopragmatics0
Deictic shifts and re-contextualization in translation0
Disseminating risk communication0
“Money can buy health”0
Taking actions to enhance inclusivity of persons living with dementia0
Us and them0
Exploring lexical associations in English as a Lingua Franca interactions0
Motivation and attitudes of Israeli Druze schoolchildren toward L2 Hebrew compared to Modern Standard Arabic0
Dialogic meaning-making in political settings0
Mitigating requesting acts by deaf Jordanian adults0
Doing things with discourse in the mediated political arena0
Fear appeals in Chinese public signs of COVID-19 prevention in local communities0
Polymedia and family multilingualism0
Polymedia in Interaction0
Semiotic manipulation strategies employed in Iranian printed advertisements0
Learning from initial reviews of multilingual graphics illustrating dementia caregiving0
Culture and identity in critical remarks0
Finnish and French public signs from commercial premises during the Covid-19 pandemic0
Radio program hosts’ self-identity mobilization in Chinese radio-mediated medical consultations0
From evaluative authorities to involved narrators0
Pragmatics of Active Social Inclusion0
The pragmeme of accommodation in Christian condolence messages in Nigeria0
Correcting the scientific record0
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Using wǒmen (we) to mean s/he in Chinese parents’ interaction0
The role of assessments in providing evasive answers in news interviews0
Review of McCready (2019): The Semantics and Pragmatics of Honorification: Register and Social Meaning0
Pragmatic functions of humor in Berlin’s directive Covid-19 Signs0
Review of Chen (2021): Exploring identity work in Chinese communication0
“Boom! You bought them.”0
Political language gaffes and the importance of Hearer’s meaning0
Review of Yus (2023): Pragmatics of Internet Humour0
Scalar implicature0
Degrees of negative judgement0
The interpersonal functions of public signs during the Covid-19 pandemic0
Doing newsworthiness in execution news and death penalty ideology0
Negotiating academic conflict in discussion sections of doctoral dissertations0
Review of Ädel & Östman (2023): Risk Discourse and Responsibility0
Compliments and compliment responses in Egyptian and Saudi Arabic0
Conversation practices that foster or hinder inclusivity during interactions involving persons with dementia0
A semi-supervised algorithm for detecting extremism propaganda diffusion on social media0
Review of Cap (2022): The Discourse of Conflict and Crisis: Poland’s Political Rhetoric in the European Perspective0
‘Like to comment on that?’0
Obituary0
“Trust X, because Y”0
Historical imprints on Chinese ideological given names0
From image to function0
The language of threat0
One issue, two genres0
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Review of Jucker, Hübscher & Brown (2023): Multimodal Im/politeness. Signed, spoken, written0
Interactional multimodal metadiscourse in public health posters during the COVID-19 pandemic0
Parentheses used as pragmatic strategies in Chinese online socialization0
Review of Schneider & Eitelmann (2020): Linguistic Inquiries into Donald Trump’s Language. From ‘Fake News’ to ‘Tremendous Success’0
“I never said that”0
Deconstructing imagined identities and imagined communities through humor0
Withholding consent0
Review of Robles & Weatherall (2021): How Emotions Are Made in Talk0
Deontic authority-based resolution of deontic right-based resistance in online medical consultation0
Multivaried acceptance of post-editing in China0
A study of linguistic manipulations of activating, seeking and creating common ground in intercultural business communication0
Polemic polyphony0
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Review of Jucker (2020): Politeness in the History of English – From the Middle Ages to the Present Day0
When invoked voices blame real politicians0
Blame-avoiding strategies for a digital scandal0
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Review of Archer, Grainger & Jagodziński (2020): Politeness in Professional Contexts0
You have no right!0
When the discourse of strategy meets the discourse of spirituality0
Review of Masia (2021): The Manipulative Disguise of Truth: Tricks and threats of implicit communication0
Code accommodation as a measure of inclusion for bilingual people living with dementia of the Alzheimer’s type0
“I hope this is your last sorrow”0
A politeness-theoretic approach to mitigated disagreements in online radio medical consultations0
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Singling out0
Actions of known-answer questions in guided tours0
Recontextualizing knowledge in academic video publications0
Sociality and moral conflicts0
A socio-pragmatic analysis of the Turkish discourse markers of ‘şey’, ‘yani’, and ‘işte’ based on educational level of speakers0
Review of Giora & Haugh (2017): Doing Pragmatics Interculturally: Cognitive, Philosophical, and Sociopragmatic Perspectives0
Evidential meanings in native and learner Japanese and English0
“A tour guide losing her cool”0
Urban environments favorable to radical narratives0
Review of Placencia & Eslami (2020): Complimenting Behavior and (Self)Praise across Social Media. New Contexts and New Insights0
Face-oriented acts of empathy in psychotherapy0
Conspiracy theories and passion0
“That was a long time ago”0
Commenting behavior as a mirror of parasocial relationships and emotional attachment on YouTube0
Andreas Musolff. Political Metaphor Analysis: Discourse and Scenarios0
On the development of the social-linguistic nexus in discourse research0
“Why does he appear so ordinary, but he can be so confident”0
Review of Deppermann & Streeck (2018): Time in embodied interaction: Synchronicity and sequentiality of multimodal resources0
Criticizing for the public interest and aligning with others0
Review of Betz, Deppermann, Mondada & Sorjonen (2021): OKAY across Languages: Toward a Comparative Approach to its Use in Talk-in-interaction0
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A sociopragmatic account of religiosity and secularity in fictional narratives0
Meschonnic, Wittgenstein and translation as form of life0
The metapragmatics of mode choice0
“Our group was by far the coolest”0
The Ethnopragmatics of Jish Arabic-speaking culture0
Contradicting potential climate misinformation during televised debates0
Review of Hidalgo-Downing & Mujic Kraljevic (2020): Performing Metaphoric Creativity across Modes and Contexts0
Comparing Chinese and British entrepreneurial pitches in reality TV shows0
(Neo)liberalizing the state – Privatization of core government competencies0
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More than writing on the wall0
The humorous effect of routine formulas in Spanish and English televised monologues0
Negotiating the value of rule of law through attitudinal positioning0
Activity contamination in a problematic call made to the Korean emergency center0
Patients resist, doctors manage0
Clean room, uncomfortable bed0
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Making up or taunting?0
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