Most cited papers in Discourse Analysis in Language Studies
What are the most cited papers in Discourse Analysis in Language Studies?
The most cited paper in Discourse Analysis in Language Studies is "Critical Discourse Analysis: The Critical Study of Language" (Norman L. Fairclough, 1995), with 6,769 citations. Next come "Principles of Critical Discourse Analysis" (5,049) and "Action and embodiment within situated human interaction" (3,047).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 801 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Critical Discourse Analysis: The Critical Study of Language Norman L. Fairclough | 1995 | 6,769 |
| 2 | Principles of Critical Discourse Analysis Teun A. van Dijk · Discourse & Society | Apr 1993 | 5,049 |
| 3 | Action and embodiment within situated human interaction Charles Goodwin · Journal of Pragmatics | Sep 2000 | 3,047 |
| 4 | A classification of illocutionary acts John Rogers Searle · Language in Society | Apr 1976 | 3,041 |
| 5 | Genre as social action Carolyn R. Miller · Quarterly Journal of Speech | May 1984 | 2,878 |
| 6 | Multimodality: A Social Semiotic Approach to Contemporary Communication Charles J. Forceville · Journal of Pragmatics | 4 Aug 2011 | 2,777 |
| 7 | Student writing in higher education: An academic literacies approach Mary R. Lea, Brian VVE Street · Studies in Higher Education | 1998 | 2,601 |
| 8 | Academic Tribes and Territories: Intellectual Enquiry and the Cultures of Disciplines. Alan E. Bayer, Tony Becher, Milton Keynes · The Journal of Higher Education | Mar 1991 | 2,598 |
| 9 | CORRECTIVE FEEDBACK AND LEARNER UPTAKE Roy Lyster, Leila Ranta · Studies in Second Language Acquisition | Mar 1997 | 2,260 |
| 10 | Relations in Public. Microstudies of the Public Order Michael Dellwing · J.B. Metzler eBooks | 2022 | 2,140 |
| 11 | Conceptualizing Willingness to Communicate in a L2: A Situational Model of L2 Confidence and Affiliation Peter D. MacIntyre, RICHARD CLÉMENT, Zoltán Dörnyei et al. · Modern Language Journal | Dec 1998 | 2,058 |
| 12 | Variation and the indexical field 1 Penelope Eckert · Journal of Sociolinguistics | 24 Aug 2008 | 2,028 |
| 13 | Stance and engagement: a model of interaction in academic discourse Ken Hyland · Discourse Studies | 2 Mar 2005 | 2,004 |
| 14 | Framing analysis: An approach to news discourse Zhongdang Pan, Gerald M. Kosicki · Political Communication | 1993 | 1,998 |
| 15 | Disciplinary Discourses: Social Interactions in Academic Writing Jiandong Sun, Ken Hyland · TESOL Quarterly | 2001 | 1,986 |
| 16 | A useful methodological synergy? Combining critical discourse analysis and corpus linguistics to examine discourses of refugees and asylum seekers in the UK press Paul Morgan Baker, Costas Gabrielatos, Majid KhosraviNik et al. · Discourse & Society | May 2008 | 1,931 |
| 17 | Motivation and Motivating in the Foreign Language Classroom Zoltán Dörnyei · Modern Language Journal | Sep 1994 | 1,848 |
| 18 | Critical Discourse Analysis and the Marketization of Public Discourse: The Universities Norman L. Fairclough · Discourse & Society | Apr 1993 | 1,817 |
| 19 | Teaching and learning vocabulary Paul Nation · System | May 1994 | 1,741 |
| 20 | The Interview: From Neutral Stance to Political Involvement. Andrea Fontana, James H. Frey | 2005 | 1,727 |
| 21 | Towards an anatomy of impoliteness Jonathan Culpeper · Journal of Pragmatics | Mar 1996 | 1,717 |
| 22 | More Than Cool Reason: A Field Guide to Poetic Metaphor Thomas Leddy, George P. Lakoff, Mark A. Turner · Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism | 1990 | 1,704 |
| 23 | Sequence Organization in Interaction: A Primer in Conversation Analysis Emanuel A. Schegloff | 15 Jan 2007 | 1,680 |
| 24 | Research Genres: Explorations and Applications John M. Swales | Nov 2004 | 1,677 |
| 25 | Rethinking validity and reliability in content analysis W. James Potter, Deborah Levine‐Donnerstein · Journal of Applied Communication Research | Aug 1999 | 1,673 |
| 26 | The Routledge Handbook of Multimodal Analysis Charles J. Forceville · Journal of Pragmatics | 14 Apr 2010 | 1,660 |
| 27 | Varieties of Discourse: On the Study of Organizations through Discourse Analysis Mats G Alvesson, Dan Kärreman · Human Relations | Sep 2000 | 1,656 |
| 28 | Turn organization: one intersection of grammar and interaction Emanuel A. Schegloff · Cambridge University Press eBooks | 12 Dec 1996 | 1,612 |
| 29 | Contributing to Discourse Herbert H. Clark, Edward F. Schaefer · Cognitive Science | Apr 1989 | 1,570 |
| 30 | Handbook of Discourse Analysis Norbert Dittmar, Irene Forsthoffer · Journal of Pragmatics | 16 Jun 2006 | 1,566 |
| 31 | Discourse: A Critical Introduction. Jan Blommaert · Linguistische Berichte (LB) | Apr 2008 | 1,535 |
| 32 | Sociolinguistic Patterns Sooho Song · Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks | 31 Aug 2017 | 1,458 |
| 33 | Stance, Alignment, and Affiliation During Storytelling: When Nodding Is a Token of Affiliation Tanya Stivers · Research on Language and Social Interaction | 29 Feb 2008 | 1,402 |
| 34 | SELF-EFFICACY BELIEFS, MOTIVATION, AND ACHIEVEMENT IN WRITING: A REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE Frank Pajares · Reading & Writing Quarterly | Apr 2003 | 1,334 |
| 35 | Motivation: Reopening the Research Agenda Graham V. Crookes, Richard Schmidt · Language Learning | Dec 1991 | 1,326 |
| 36 | ELAN: a Professional Framework for Multimodality Research Peter Wittenburg, Hennie Brugman, Albert Russel et al. | May 2006 | 1,315 |
| 37 | Discourse and manipulation Teun A. van Dijk · Discourse & Society | May 2006 | 1,314 |
| 38 | A Transdisciplinary Framework for SLA in a Multilingual World The Douglas Fir Group · Modern Language Journal | 2016 | 1,308 |
| 39 | What are discourse markers? Bruce Fraser · Journal of Pragmatics | Jul 1999 | 1,294 |
| 40 | Discourse and Text: Linguistic and Intertextual Analysis within Discourse Analysis Norman L. Fairclough · Discourse & Society | Apr 1992 | 1,292 |
| 41 | Whose Text? Whose Context? Emanuel A. Schegloff · Discourse & Society | Apr 1997 | 1,266 |
| 42 | Representativeness in Corpus Design Douglas Biber · Literary and Linguistic Computing | Oct 1993 | 1,261 |
| 43 | Discourse and Institutions Nelson Phillips, Thomas B. Lawrence, Cynthia Hardy · Academy of Management Review | Oct 2004 | 1,255 |
| 44 | Ideology and discourse analysis Teun A. van Dijk · Journal of Political Ideologies | Jun 2006 | 1,248 |
| 45 | Metadiscourse: Exploring Interaction in Writing Brian Paltridge · Journal of Pragmatics | 7 Sep 2006 | 1,240 |
| 46 | Willingness to Communicate in a Second Language: The Japanese EFL Context Tomoko Yashima · Modern Language Journal | 2002 | 1,219 |
| 47 | Genres of Organizational Communication: A Structurational Approach to Studying Communication and Media JoAnne Yates, Wanda J. Orlikowski · Academy of Management Review | Apr 1992 | 1,219 |
| 48 | Legitimation in discourse and communication Theo van Leeuwen · Discourse & Communication | Feb 2007 | 1,209 |
| 49 | Research on Negotiation: What Does It Reveal About Second‐Language Learning Conditions, Processes, and Outcomes? Teresa Pica · Language Learning | Sep 1994 | 1,194 |
| 50 | Barriers to Integrating Quantitative and Qualitative Research Alan E. Bryman · Journal of Mixed Methods Research | 2007 | 1,186 |
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