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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
Language change among Kalhuri Kurdish speakers in Iran16
Obituary16
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Initiating reason-for-the-call action in mundane mobile phone conversation8
Andreas Musolff. Political Metaphor Analysis: Discourse and Scenarios8
Politeness in hotel service encounter interactions in Spain7
Face attributes in interviews with Iranian politicians7
On the nature of pragmatic constituents5
Review of Verschueren (2021): Complicity in Discourse and Practice5
Chinese patients’ unsolicited presentation of primary concerns5
Conventions of author self-reference in Chinese academic writing4
Critical sociocognitive analysis of hate speech in the 2015 Nigerian presidential election campaigns4
A marathon to nowhere4
Gendered subtle bias in Danish TV election debates4
Review of Giora & Haugh (2017): Doing Pragmatics Interculturally: Cognitive, Philosophical, and Sociopragmatic Perspectives4
Review of Crespo-Fernández (2018): Taboo in discourse: Studies on attenuation and offence in communication4
Review of Scott (2022): Pragmatics Online3
Saying “sorry” in online language3
Making up or taunting?3
The role of object distance and gender in Persian compliment responses3
Review of Betz, Deppermann, Mondada & Sorjonen (2021): OKAY across Languages: Toward a Comparative Approach to its Use in Talk-in-interaction3
Review of Weigand & Kecskes (2018): From pragmatics to dialogue3
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Review of Culpeper, Haugh & Kádár (2017): The Palgrave Handbook of Linguistic (Im)politeness2
Simple language, sophisticated actions2
Learning from initial reviews of multilingual graphics illustrating dementia caregiving2
Review of Yus (2023): Pragmatics of Internet Humour2
Deictic shifts and re-contextualization in translation2
Reduction in and out of context2
Review of Arnold (2018): Climate change and storytelling. Narratives and cultural meaning in environmental communication2
Affect in the pragmeme of delivering a health directive2
The erasure of nature in the discourse of oil production2
Review of Haugh, Kádár & Terkourafi (2021): The Cambridge Handbook of Sociopragmatics2
Review of Ädel & Östman (2023): Risk Discourse and Responsibility2
Idioms of polymediated practices and the techno-social accomplishment of co-presence in transnational families2
Review of Panther (2022): Introduction to Cognitive Pragmatics2
Efficiency in shaping grammars2
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The language of threat2
Drilling for fissures and exploiting common ground in the discourse of oil production2
Analysing the functions of online destination forums through a corpus-assisted discourse-analytic approach2
Disagreement strategies and institutional face attack in Chinese mainstream media editorial comments on Weibo2
The interpersonal functions of public signs during the Covid-19 pandemic2
“They fabricated lies against us and described us in the harshest of ways”2
Dealing with the dual demands of expertise and democracy2
‘Like to comment on that?’2
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Talking about the deceased in the Jish linguaculture2
Defining openness in teachers’ ‘open’ questions1
Challenges of trust in atypical interaction1
Polymedia repertoires of networked individuals1
Transdisciplinary approaches to the discourse of Islamist extremism1
Representations of ‘leftover women’ in the Chinese English-medium newspapers1
Solidarity and support in Belgian residential linguistic landscapes during the Covid-19 outbreak1
Political language gaffes and the importance of Hearer’s meaning1
Representation of women in English and Persian proverbs1
Review of Chen (2021): Exploring identity work in Chinese communication1
Review of Masia (2021): The Manipulative Disguise of Truth: Tricks and threats of implicit communication1
Exploring lexical associations in English as a Lingua Franca interactions1
‘Proto-conversation’ as a practice in late-stage dementia care1
Face-oriented acts of empathy in psychotherapy1
Sancte et sapienter1
Examining the use of reflexive metadiscourse in the construction of affiliative communication in group email requests1
The performance and relational role of toast intervention in Chinese dining contexts1
When TCM debate meets Covid-19 discourse1
Heteroglossia in mother tongue instruction in Sweden and the development of plurilingual literacies1
Dialogicity in Political Discourse1
Sociality in complex, multi-layered, technoscapes1
Patients resist, doctors manage1
Recontextualizing knowledge in academic video publications1
“A tour guide losing her cool”1
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The role of assessments in providing evasive answers in news interviews1
Review of Paternoster & Fitzmaurice (2019): Politeness in Nineteenth-Century Europe1
From our sisters/to our sisters1
The humorous effect of routine formulas in Spanish and English televised monologues1
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Mitigating requesting acts by deaf Jordanian adults1
From evaluative authorities to involved narrators1
A study of linguistic manipulations of activating, seeking and creating common ground in intercultural business communication1
A socio-pragmatic analysis of the Turkish discourse markers of ‘şey’, ‘yani’, and ‘işte’ based on educational level of speakers1
Professor Farzad Sharifian (1964–2020)1
‘I’m not a tech person’1
Gratitude communication in academic written acknowledgement1
Self-help and masculinity1
Conspiracy theories and passion1
Degrees of negative judgement1
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“I Am Proud to Be a Traitor”1
Withholding consent1
Interveners’ performance of “identity work” in the context of Chinese bystander intervention1
Correcting the scientific record1
Polymedia and family multilingualism1
Review of Schneider & Eitelmann (2020): Linguistic Inquiries into Donald Trump’s Language. From ‘Fake News’ to ‘Tremendous Success’1
Autism spectrum disorder and language choice in Ghana0
Clean room, uncomfortable bed0
Semiotic manipulation strategies employed in Iranian printed advertisements0
Review of Jucker (2020): Politeness in the History of English – From the Middle Ages to the Present Day0
Polemic polyphony0
Determiners of social inclusion and exclusion in the dementia context0
Deontic authority-based resolution of deontic right-based resistance in online medical consultation0
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Taking an authorial stance in English and Arabic research article discussions0
Comparing compliments in Face-to-Face vs. online interactions among Iranian speakers of Persian0
A semi-supervised algorithm for detecting extremism propaganda diffusion on social media0
Review of Deppermann & Streeck (2018): Time in embodied interaction: Synchronicity and sequentiality of multimodal resources0
Review of Wharton & de Saussure (2023): Pragmatics and Emotion0
(Neo)liberalizing the state – Privatization of core government competencies0
Why does Lee say what he says the way he says it?0
Blame-avoiding strategies for a digital scandal0
Verbal play in dementia care0
Actions of known-answer questions in guided tours0
The interpersonal semantics of rhetoric0
Review of Schneider & Ifantidou (2020): Developmental and Clinical Pragmatics0
Metaphor analysis of the COVID-19 public health emergency on Chinese national news media0
Introduction0
Attacks and remedies in online public opinion reversal events0
Review of House & Kádár (2021): Cross-cultural pragmatics0
Metaphorical framing in news0
Polymedia in Interaction0
Under the shadow of swords: The Rhetoric of Jihad0
Dialogic language and meta-language in a conflictual discourse0
Contradicting potential climate misinformation during televised debates0
“Let’s Just Forget It!”0
Performing right-wing political identities on reader comments pages0
“That was a long time ago”0
Review of Kecskes (2019): English as a Lingua Franca: The Pragmatic Perspective0
An epistemic interpretation of responses to advice resistance on Chinese phone-ins of family problem counseling0
Review of Yus (2022): Smartphone Communication. Interactions in the App Ecosystem0
“Our group was by far the coolest”0
Dialogic meaning-making in political settings0
Review of Taleghani-Nikazm, Betz & Golato (2020): Mobilizing Others: Grammar and lexis within larger activities0
Variation and society0
Would you like a bag for that?0
Approaches to the discourse of terror0
The metapragmatic act of debating in the media0
Sociality and moral conflicts0
Radio program hosts’ self-identity mobilization in Chinese radio-mediated medical consultations0
Review of Economidou-Kogetsidis, Savić & Halenko (2021): Email Pragmatics and Second Language Learners0
On the constitutional relevance of non‑discursive enlanguaged doings to sociomaterial practices0
Discursive positioning of doctors and e‑patients in online medical consultations in China0
“I hope this is your last sorrow”0
Where there is panic, the media are close by0
Review of Cap (2022): The Discourse of Conflict and Crisis: Poland’s Political Rhetoric in the European Perspective0
The pragmeme of accommodation in Christian condolence messages in Nigeria0
Covid-19 WhatsApp sticker memes as public signs in Oman0
“I never said that”0
Review of Walton, Macagno & Sartor (2019): Statutory Interpretation. Pragmatics and Argumentation0
“Trust X, because Y”0
Conversation practices that foster or hinder inclusivity during interactions involving persons with dementia0
Doing things with discourse in the mediated political arena0
Review of Archer, Grainger & Jagodziński (2020): Politeness in Professional Contexts0
“Why does he appear so ordinary, but he can be so confident”0
Historical imprints on Chinese ideological given names0
Multivaried acceptance of post-editing in China0
Common ground management via evidential markers in Turkish0
“Not everything is on the hostess”0
Disagreement realizations in Arabic0
Review of Page, Busse & Nørgaard (2019): Rethinking Language, Text and Context: Interdisciplinary Research in Stylistics in Honour of Michael Toolan0
Motivation and attitudes of Israeli Druze schoolchildren toward L2 Hebrew compared to Modern Standard Arabic0
Review of Xie, Yus & Haberland (2021): Approaches to Internet Pragmatics: Theory and practice0
A contrastive study of Chinese and American online complaints0
Code accommodation as a measure of inclusion for bilingual people living with dementia of the Alzheimer’s type0
“Jerry was a terrific host!” “You were a brilliant guest!”0
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Review of Huang & Jaszczolt (2018): Expressing the Self: Cultural Diversity and Cognitive Universals0
Politely warning?0
Disseminating risk communication0
The World of Daily Life0
Kwame Nkrumah’s construction of ‘the African people’ via the Unite or Perish myth0
Finnish and French public signs from commercial premises during the Covid-19 pandemic0
Polymedia life0
Review of Sorlin & Virtanen (2024): The Pragmatics of Hypocrisy0
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Review of Berman (2019): Talking like Children: Language and the Production of Age in the Marshall Islands0
Singling out0
The Ethnopragmatics of Jish Arabic-speaking culture0
Pragmatic functions of humor in Berlin’s directive Covid-19 Signs0
Scalar implicature0
Trust me, trust my words0
Pragmatics of Active Social Inclusion0
Parentheses used as pragmatic strategies in Chinese online socialization0
Evidential meanings in native and learner Japanese and English0
Review of Robles & Weatherall (2021): How Emotions Are Made in Talk0
When the discourse of strategy meets the discourse of spirituality0
One issue, two genres0
Urban environments favorable to radical narratives0
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Idioms, proverbs and body part expressions onYiedie“wellbeing” in Akan0
Taking actions to enhance inclusivity of persons living with dementia0
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On the development of the social-linguistic nexus in discourse research0
“Money can buy health”0
Review of Placencia & Eslami (2020): Complimenting Behavior and (Self)Praise across Social Media. New Contexts and New Insights0
A sociopragmatic account of religiosity and secularity in fictional narratives0
Meschonnic, Wittgenstein and translation as form of life0
Review of Hidalgo-Downing & Mujic Kraljevic (2020): Performing Metaphoric Creativity across Modes and Contexts0
The Discourse of Terrorism0
Using wǒmen (we) to mean s/he in Chinese parents’ interaction0
Culture and identity in critical remarks0
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Negotiating the value of rule of law through attitudinal positioning0
Negotiating academic conflict in discussion sections of doctoral dissertations0
Novel veiling and concealing euphemisms in political discourse0
You have no right!0
Interactional multimodal metadiscourse in public health posters during the COVID-19 pandemic0
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Painting the state in the text0
Situated co-operative creativity0
Identity gatekeeping in New Work Order organizations0
Attitudes to language and bilingualism in residential care for older persons in Ireland0
Parents’ indirect utterances in an Indonesian family0
The role of prior and actual situational context in conversational routines produced by Chinese learners of English0
More than writing on the wall0
I am a doctor in your shoes0
On an even playing field of haiku making0
“It’s of no value compared to your value”0
A study on the intertextuality of Russian media0
Towards a discourse-semantic approach to visual narrative analysis0
Changing patterns of apology in spoken British English0
Regrounding work in elite discourse0
Resemblance in comments/posts interaction0
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Virtual dialogues in monologic political discourse0
Negotiating identities0
“I am not populist”0
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Review of McCready (2019): The Semantics and Pragmatics of Honorification: Register and Social Meaning0
The metapragmatics of mode choice0
Rhetorical strategies for the construction of a corporate identity0
Polymedia in interaction0
Swear words for sale0
A politeness-theoretic approach to mitigated disagreements in online radio medical consultations0
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From image to function0
Hedged Turkish complaints and requests in the Problem-Solution text pattern0
Getting involved or acting in defence0
Deconstructing imagined identities and imagined communities through humor0
Criticizing for the public interest and aligning with others0
Insults in political comments on GhanaWeb0
When invoked voices blame real politicians0
Compliments and compliment responses in Egyptian and Saudi Arabic0
Repetition and paraphrase in contexts of concordant and discordant orientations0
“Boom! You bought them.”0
Fear appeals in Chinese public signs of COVID-19 prevention in local communities0
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