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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
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Language change among Kalhuri Kurdish speakers in Iran25
The role of object distance and gender in Persian compliment responses15
Gendered subtle bias in Danish TV election debates10
Review of Xie (2022): The Pragmatics of Internet Memes10
Simple language, sophisticated actions8
A marathon to nowhere7
Representations of ‘leftover women’ in the Chinese English-medium newspapers6
Review of Scott (2022): Pragmatics Online6
The role of well as a response-delaying marker in side story insertions5
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
The World of Daily Life4
Conflict, gender, and amount of talk4
Discursive positioning of doctors and e‑patients in online medical consultations in China4
Review of Walton, Macagno & Sartor (2019): Statutory Interpretation. Pragmatics and Argumentation4
The metapragmatic act of debating in the media4
A contrastive study of Chinese and American online complaints4
Dialogic language and meta-language in a conflictual discourse4
Kwame Nkrumah’s construction of ‘the African people’ via the Unite or Perish myth4
Trust me, trust my words4
Metaphor analysis of the COVID-19 public health emergency on Chinese national news media4
The role of prior and actual situational context in conversational routines produced by Chinese learners of English4
Review of Xie, Yus & Haberland (2021): Approaches to Internet Pragmatics: Theory and practice4
“Not everything is on the hostess”4
Societal pragmatics3
Comparing compliments in Face-to-Face vs. online interactions among Iranian speakers of Persian3
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Initiating reason-for-the-call action in mundane mobile phone conversation3
Unspoken evaluation of impoliteness3
Transdisciplinary approaches to the discourse of Islamist extremism3
On the constitutional relevance of non‑discursive enlanguaged doings to sociomaterial practices3
Parents’ indirect utterances in an Indonesian family3
Under the shadow of swords: The Rhetoric of Jihad3
‘What happened to the un-omitted subjects?’3
Face attributes in interviews with Iranian politicians3
On an even playing field of haiku making3
Determiners of social inclusion and exclusion in the dementia context3
Novel veiling and concealing euphemisms in political discourse3
Attacks and remedies in online public opinion reversal events3
Polymedia life3
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Metaphorical framing in news2
Polymedia repertoires of networked individuals2
Examining the use of reflexive metadiscourse in the construction of affiliative communication in group email requests2
From our sisters/to our sisters2
The performance and relational role of toast intervention in Chinese dining contexts2
I am a doctor in your shoes2
Repetition and paraphrase in contexts of concordant and discordant orientations2
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‘Proto-conversation’ as a practice in late-stage dementia care2
When TCM debate meets Covid-19 discourse2
The discursive construction of femininity in metacommentaries on a rape-joke in Nigeria2
Covid-19 WhatsApp sticker memes as public signs in Oman2
Situated co-operative creativity2
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The interpersonal semantics of rhetoric2
Challenges of trust in atypical interaction2
Affect in the pragmeme of delivering a health directive2
“I Am Proud to Be a Traitor”2
Self-help and masculinity2
Review of Schneider & Ifantidou (2020): Developmental and Clinical Pragmatics2
A study on the intertextuality of Russian media2
You have no right!1
Interveners’ performance of “identity work” in the context of Chinese bystander intervention1
Stances and ideologies in Nigerian pro-gay tweets1
‘I’m not a tech person’1
Would you like a bag for that?1
Review of Mondada & Peräkylä (2023): New Perspectives on Goffman in Language and Interaction: Body, Participation and the Self1
Introduction1
Both responsiveness and standardization1
Common ground management via evidential markers in Turkish1
Review of Sorlin & Virtanen (2024): The Pragmatics of Hypocrisy1
Regrounding work in elite discourse1
Review of Verschueren (2021): Complicity in Discourse and Practice1
Polemic polyphony1
“Let’s Just Forget It!”1
Polymedia in Interaction1
Talking about the deceased in the Jish linguaculture1
Attitudes to language and bilingualism in residential care for older persons in Ireland1
Clean room, uncomfortable bed1
Review of Wharton & de Saussure (2023): Pragmatics and Emotion1
Polymedia in interaction1
Noun forms of address among matatu touts in multilingual Kenya1
Idioms, proverbs and body part expressions onYiedie“wellbeing” in Akan1
Chinese patients’ unsolicited presentation of primary concerns1
Saying “sorry” in online language1
Finnish and French public signs from commercial premises during the Covid-19 pandemic1
Blame-avoiding strategies for a digital scandal1
Representation of women in English and Persian proverbs1
“I am not populist”1
Conventions of author self-reference in Chinese academic writing1
Performing right-wing political identities on reader comments pages1
Review of Taleghani-Nikazm, Betz & Golato (2020): Mobilizing Others: Grammar and lexis within larger activities1
Review of Economidou-Kogetsidis, Savić & Halenko (2021): Email Pragmatics and Second Language Learners1
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Idioms of polymediated practices and the techno-social accomplishment of co-presence in transnational families1
Defining openness in teachers’ ‘open’ questions0
Review of Yus (2022): Smartphone Communication. Interactions in the App Ecosystem0
Evidential meanings in native and learner Japanese and English0
Review of Garcés-Conejos Blitvich (2024): Pragmatics, (Im)politeness, and Intergroup Communication: A Multilayered, Discursive Analysis of Cancel Culture0
“They fabricated lies against us and described us in the harshest of ways”0
The use of transformative and extended responses in conducting sales work in product demonstration workshops0
A multimodal analysis of a Japanese TV commercial0
Doing newsworthiness in execution news and death penalty ideology0
Review of Yus (2023): Pragmatics of Internet Humour0
Scalar implicature0
Negotiating academic conflict in discussion sections of doctoral dissertations0
Historical imprints on Chinese ideological given names0
Polymedia and family multilingualism0
The Ethnopragmatics of Jish Arabic-speaking culture0
Address forms and self-reference practices in Kenya0
Actions of known-answer questions in guided tours0
Dialogic meaning-making in political settings0
Review of Robles & Weatherall (2021): How Emotions Are Made in Talk0
“Why does he appear so ordinary, but he can be so confident”0
Citizens’ polarised discourses on climate change and mobility0
Assigning ‘sacred’ meaning to songs0
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
A sociopragmatic account of religiosity and secularity in fictional narratives0
Fear appeals in Chinese public signs of COVID-19 prevention in local communities0
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Negotiating the value of rule of law through attitudinal positioning0
The pragmatics of communication in traditional ritual performance (Japanese kagura)0
Using wǒmen (we) to mean s/he in Chinese parents’ interaction0
Making up or taunting?0
Interactional multimodal metadiscourse in public health posters during the COVID-19 pandemic0
Mitigating requesting acts by deaf Jordanian adults0
Activity contamination in a problematic call made to the Korean emergency center0
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One issue, two genres0
Review of Schneider & Eitelmann (2020): Linguistic Inquiries into Donald Trump’s Language. From ‘Fake News’ to ‘Tremendous Success’0
Dialogicity in Political Discourse0
Identity gatekeeping in New Work Order organizations0
Getting involved or acting in defence0
Where there is panic, the media are close by0
Review of Masia (2021): The Manipulative Disguise of Truth: Tricks and threats of implicit communication0
Political language gaffes and the importance of Hearer’s meaning0
Virtual dialogues in monologic political discourse0
Review of Cap (2022): The Discourse of Conflict and Crisis: Poland’s Political Rhetoric in the European Perspective0
A socio-pragmatic analysis of the Turkish discourse markers of ‘şey’, ‘yani’, and ‘işte’ based on educational level of speakers0
Review of Chen (2021): Exploring identity work in Chinese communication0
On the nature of pragmatic constituents0
Commenting behavior as a mirror of parasocial relationships and emotional attachment on YouTube0
“Jerry was a terrific host!” “You were a brilliant guest!”0
Andreas Musolff. Political Metaphor Analysis: Discourse and Scenarios0
From evaluative authorities to involved narrators0
“A tour guide losing her cool”0
Conceptual metaphors in Jordanian newspaper socio-political discourse during the Arab Spring0
Review of Ädel & Östman (2023): Risk Discourse and Responsibility0
Review of Panther (2022): Introduction to Cognitive Pragmatics0
Deconstructing imagined identities and imagined communities through humor0
Reciprocity and epistemicity on screen-based interactions0
Patients resist, doctors manage0
Obituary0
Verbal play in dementia care0
Review of Jucker, Hübscher & Brown (2023): Multimodal Im/politeness. Signed, spoken, written0
Pragmatic functions of humor in Berlin’s directive Covid-19 Signs0
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The interpersonal functions of public signs during the Covid-19 pandemic0
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Semiotic manipulation strategies employed in Iranian printed advertisements0
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From image to function0
The Discourse of Terrorism0
When the discourse of strategy meets the discourse of spirituality0
Contradicting potential climate misinformation during televised debates0
Meschonnic, Wittgenstein and translation as form of life0
The metapragmatics of mode choice0
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A semi-supervised algorithm for detecting extremism propaganda diffusion on social media0
Doing things with discourse in the mediated political arena0
A study of linguistic manipulations of activating, seeking and creating common ground in intercultural business communication0
Resemblance in comments/posts interaction0
Variation and society0
The evolution of protectionism metaphors in English-language media0
Review of Archer, Grainger & Jagodziński (2020): Politeness in Professional Contexts0
Recontextualizing knowledge in academic video publications0
Review of Betz, Deppermann, Mondada & Sorjonen (2021): OKAY across Languages: Toward a Comparative Approach to its Use in Talk-in-interaction0
Rhetorical strategies for the construction of a corporate identity0
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Dealing with the dual demands of expertise and democracy0
Degrees of negative judgement0
Singling out0
Pragmatics of Active Social Inclusion0
Identity dynamics in text messaging0
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Sociality in complex, multi-layered, technoscapes0
Review of Gill, Malmivirta & Wårvik (2024): Structures in Discourse: Interaction, adaptability, and pragmatic functions0
Negotiating identities0
Review of Haugh, Kádár & Terkourafi (2021): The Cambridge Handbook of Sociopragmatics0
Conspiracy theories and passion0
Withholding advice for rapport management in online medical counselling interactions0
Criticizing for the public interest and aligning with others0
Exploring lexical associations in English as a Lingua Franca interactions0
Sociality and moral conflicts0
Politely warning?0
Correcting the scientific record0
“That was a long time ago”0
Politeness in hotel service encounter interactions in Spain0
Review of Placencia & Eslami (2020): Complimenting Behavior and (Self)Praise across Social Media. New Contexts and New Insights0
“Our group was by far the coolest”0
Conversation practices that foster or hinder inclusivity during interactions involving persons with dementia0
When invoked voices blame real politicians0
Disseminating risk communication0
An epistemic interpretation of responses to advice resistance on Chinese phone-ins of family problem counseling0
Urban environments favorable to radical narratives0
“Trust X, because Y”0
The pragmeme of accommodation in Christian condolence messages in Nigeria0
Review of House & Kádár (2021): Cross-cultural pragmatics0
Parentheses used as pragmatic strategies in Chinese online socialization0
More than writing on the wall0
“I hope this is your last sorrow”0
Taking actions to enhance inclusivity of persons living with dementia0
“I never said that”0
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Comparing Chinese and British entrepreneurial pitches in reality TV shows0
The humorous effect of routine formulas in Spanish and English televised monologues0
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Learning from initial reviews of multilingual graphics illustrating dementia caregiving0
Us and them0
Review of Hidalgo-Downing & Mujic Kraljevic (2020): Performing Metaphoric Creativity across Modes and Contexts0
Deontic authority-based resolution of deontic right-based resistance in online medical consultation0
A politeness-theoretic approach to mitigated disagreements in online radio medical consultations0
“Money can buy health”0
Approaches to the discourse of terror0
The role of assessments in providing evasive answers in news interviews0
Review of Jucker (2020): Politeness in the History of English – From the Middle Ages to the Present Day0
Code accommodation as a measure of inclusion for bilingual people living with dementia of the Alzheimer’s type0
Multivaried acceptance of post-editing in China0
Reduction in and out of context0
Giving advice in HIV counselling in Malaysia0
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Review of McCready (2019): The Semantics and Pragmatics of Honorification: Register and Social Meaning0
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Deictic shifts and re-contextualization in translation0
‘Like to comment on that?’0
Culture and identity in critical remarks0
The language of threat0
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