Pragmatics and Society

Papers
(The TQCC of Pragmatics and Society is 1. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
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Simple language, sophisticated actions7
A marathon to nowhere7
Review of Scott (2022): Pragmatics Online7
Solidarity and support in Belgian residential linguistic landscapes during the Covid-19 outbreak6
Gendered subtle bias in Danish TV election debates6
Disagreement strategies and institutional face attack in Chinese mainstream media editorial comments on Weibo6
Review of Xie (2022): The Pragmatics of Internet Memes6
Unveiling the sex differences and their diachronic changes of thanking in spoken British English6
Representations of ‘leftover women’ in the Chinese English-medium newspapers5
Metaphor analysis of the COVID-19 public health emergency on Chinese national news media5
Review of Whitehead, Stokoe & Raymond (2025): Categories in Social Interaction5
Dialogic language and meta-language in a conflictual discourse4
The role of well as a response-delaying marker in side story insertions4
Trust me, trust my words4
The metapragmatic act of debating in the media4
Parents’ indirect utterances in an Indonesian family4
Conflict, gender, and amount of talk4
The role of prior and actual situational context in conversational routines produced by Chinese learners of English4
Review of Walton, Macagno & Sartor (2019): Statutory Interpretation. Pragmatics and Argumentation4
“Not everything is on the hostess”4
Kwame Nkrumah’s construction of ‘the African people’ via the Unite or Perish myth4
A contrastive study of Chinese and American online complaints4
Review of Xie, Yus & Haberland (2021): Approaches to Internet Pragmatics: Theory and practice4
The World of Daily Life4
Discursive positioning of doctors and e‑patients in online medical consultations in China4
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On the constitutional relevance of non‑discursive enlanguaged doings to sociomaterial practices3
‘What happened to the un-omitted subjects?’3
Comparing compliments in Face-to-Face vs. online interactions among Iranian speakers of Persian3
Societal pragmatics3
Attacks and remedies in online public opinion reversal events3
Novel veiling and concealing euphemisms in political discourse3
Determiners of social inclusion and exclusion in the dementia context3
On an even playing field of haiku making3
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The interpersonal semantics of rhetoric2
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Examining the use of reflexive metadiscourse in the construction of affiliative communication in group email requests2
Review of Degano, Renna & Santulli (2024): Persuasion in Specialized Discourse2
Initiating reason-for-the-call action in mundane mobile phone conversation2
I am a doctor in your shoes2
Hair or fist2
Covid-19 WhatsApp sticker memes as public signs in Oman2
Metaphorical framing in news2
The discursive construction of femininity in metacommentaries on a rape-joke in Nigeria2
Self-help and masculinity2
Affect in the pragmeme of delivering a health directive2
Review of Calude (2024): The Linguistics of Social Media: An Introduction2
The performance and relational role of toast intervention in Chinese dining contexts2
Face attributes in interviews with Iranian politicians2
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A study on the intertextuality of Russian media2
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When TCM debate meets Covid-19 discourse2
‘Proto-conversation’ as a practice in late-stage dementia care2
Unspoken evaluation of impoliteness2
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Review of Haugh & Reiter (2024): Morality in Discourse2
Situated co-operative creativity2
You have no right!1
Polemic polyphony1
Interveners’ performance of “identity work” in the context of Chinese bystander intervention1
Representation of women in English and Persian proverbs1
“Let’s Just Forget It!”1
Noun forms of address among matatu touts in multilingual Kenya1
Review of Wharton & de Saussure (2023): Pragmatics and Emotion1
Review of Economidou-Kogetsidis, Savić & Halenko (2021): Email Pragmatics and Second Language Learners1
Attitudes to language and bilingualism in residential care for older persons in Ireland1
Saying “sorry” in online language1
Chinese patients’ unsolicited presentation of primary concerns1
Review of Mieroop, Previtali & Dijn (2025): Ageism in Job Interviews: A Multimodal Discourse Analytical Perspective1
Comparing Chinese and British entrepreneurial pitches in reality TV shows1
Blame-avoiding strategies for a digital scandal1
Failed execution in inferential pragmatics1
A corpus-based study of the shifts of evidentiality in the institutional interpreting of Chinese political discourse1
Introduction1
Review of Tanskanen, Lehti, Lexander, Virtanen & Xie (2024): Explorations in Internet Pragmatics: Intentionality, Identity, and Interpersonal Interaction1
Common ground management via evidential markers in Turkish1
Regrounding work in elite discourse1
Both responsiveness and standardization1
Talking about the deceased in the Jish linguaculture1
“Can eat less? Big elder sister”1
Doing things with discourse in the mediated political arena1
Negotiating the value of rule of law through attitudinal positioning1
Finnish and French public signs from commercial premises during the Covid-19 pandemic1
Review of Blitvich (2024): Pragmatics, (Im)politeness, and Intergroup Communication: A Multilayered, Discursive Analysis of Cancel Culture1
“I am not populist”1
Conventions of author self-reference in Chinese academic writing1
Idioms, proverbs and body part expressions onYiedie“wellbeing” in Akan1
Review of Mondada & Peräkylä (2023): New Perspectives on Goffman in Language and Interaction: Body, Participation and the Self1
Review of Sorlin & Virtanen (2024): The Pragmatics of Hypocrisy1
Review of Aoyama, Akashi & I (2020): Ringafuranka to shite no nihongo1
Would you like a bag for that?1
Review of Verschueren (2021): Complicity in Discourse and Practice1
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