Most cited papers in Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
What are the most cited papers in Language, Metaphor, and Cognition?
The most cited paper in Language, Metaphor, and Cognition is "An argument for basic emotions" (Paul Ekman, 1992), with 9,629 citations. Next come "One size fits all? What counts as quality practice in (reflexive) thematic analysis?" (9,387) and "Relevance: Communication and Cognition" (6,071).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 1,423 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An argument for basic emotions Paul Ekman · Cognition & Emotion | May 1992 | 9,629 |
| 2 | One size fits all? What counts as quality practice in (reflexive) thematic analysis? Virginia Braun, Victoria Clarke · Qualitative Research in Psychology | 12 Aug 2020 | 9,387 |
| 3 | Relevance: Communication and Cognition Dan Sperber, Deirdre Wilson | 6 Mar 1986 | 6,071 |
| 4 | Grounded Cognition Lawrence W. Barsalou · Annual Review of Psychology | 17 Aug 2007 | 5,703 |
| 5 | Basic objects in natural categories Eleanor H. Rosch, Carolyn B. Mervis, Wayne D. Gray et al. · Cognitive Psychology | Jul 1976 | 5,578 |
| 6 | Techniques to Identify Themes Gery W. Ryan, H. Russell Bernard · Field Methods | Feb 2003 | 5,495 |
| 7 | The contemporary theory of metaphor George P. Lakoff · Cambridge University Press eBooks | 26 Nov 1993 | 5,349 |
| 8 | Narrative Methods for the Human Sciences Catherine Kohler Riessman | 17 Dec 2007 | 5,255 |
| 9 | The need for cognition. John T. Cacioppo, Richard E. Petty · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1982 | 5,192 |
| 10 | Principles of Critical Discourse Analysis Teun A. van Dijk · Discourse & Society | Apr 1993 | 5,049 |
| 11 | The Role of Consciousness in Second Language Learning1 R. W. SCHMIDT · Applied Linguistics | Jun 1990 | 4,905 |
| 12 | An interactive activation model of context effects in letter perception: I. An account of basic findings. James L. McClelland, David E. Rumelhart · Psychological Review | Sep 1981 | 4,847 |
| 13 | Six views of embodied cognition Margaret Mary Wilson · Psychonomic Bulletin & Review | Dec 2002 | 4,734 |
| 14 | Cognitive representations of semantic categories. Eleanor H. Rosch · Journal of Experimental Psychology General | Sep 1975 | 4,527 |
| 15 | Grounding in communication. Herbert H. Clark, Susan E. Brennan · American Psychological Association eBooks | 1991 | 4,459 |
| 16 | The role of knowledge in discourse comprehension: A construction-integration model. Walter Kintsch · Psychological Review | 1988 | 4,375 |
| 17 | Culture and systems of thought: Holistic versus analytic cognition. Richard E. Nisbett, Kaiping Peng, Incheol Choi et al. · Psychological Review | Apr 2001 | 4,281 |
| 18 | Introduction to WordNet: An On-line Lexical Database * George Armitage Miller, Richard Beckwith, Christiane Fellbaum et al. · International Journal of Lexicography | 1990 | 4,216 |
| 19 | The Biological Foundations of Language Eric H. Lenneberg · Hospital Practice | Dec 1967 | 3,944 |
| 20 | The meaning of ‘meaning’ Hilary Putnam · Cambridge University Press eBooks | 12 Jan 2010 | 3,774 |
| 21 | On Two Metaphors for Learning and the Dangers of Choosing Just One Anna Sfard · Educational Researcher | Mar 1998 | 3,578 |
| 22 | Theory of mind Chris Frith, Uta Frith · Current Biology | Sep 2005 | 3,489 |
| 23 | A Continuum of Impression Formation, from Category-Based to Individuating Processes: Influences of Information and Motivation on Attention and Interpretation Susan T. Fiske, Steven L. Neuberg · Advances in experimental social psychology | 1990 | 3,360 |
| 24 | A theory of focus interpretation Mats Rooth · Natural Language Semantics | Feb 1992 | 3,203 |
| 25 | The Mirror Neuron System Luigi Cattaneo, Giacomo Rizzolatti · Archives of Neurology | May 2009 | 3,135 |
| 26 | Action and embodiment within situated human interaction Charles Goodwin · Journal of Pragmatics | Sep 2000 | 3,047 |
| 27 | A classification of illocutionary acts John Rogers Searle · Language in Society | Apr 1976 | 3,041 |
| 28 | Integration of Visual and Linguistic Information in Spoken Language Comprehension Michael K. Tanenhaus, Michael J. Spivey-Knowlton, Kathleen M. Eberhard et al. · Science | 16 Jun 1995 | 2,977 |
| 29 | Genre as social action Carolyn R. Miller · Quarterly Journal of Speech | May 1984 | 2,878 |
| 30 | Language within our grasp Giacomo Rizzolatti, Michael A. Arbib · Trends in Neurosciences | May 1998 | 2,841 |
| 31 | The English Lexicon Project David A. Balota, Melvin Ju-min Yap, Keith A. Hutchison et al. · Behavior Research Methods | Aug 2007 | 2,836 |
| 32 | Rules and Representations. Terry L. Smith, Noam Chomsky · The Philosophical Review | 1982 | 2,821 |
| 33 | Situation models in language comprehension and memory. Rolf Antonius Zwaan, Gabriel A. Radvansky · Psychological Bulletin | 1998 | 2,794 |
| 34 | Multimodality: A Social Semiotic Approach to Contemporary Communication Charles J. Forceville · Journal of Pragmatics | 4 Aug 2011 | 2,777 |
| 35 | The Brain's concepts: the role of the Sensory-motor system in conceptual knowledge Vittorio Gallese, George P. Lakoff · Cognitive Neuropsychology | 11 Jan 2005 | 2,747 |
| 36 | The role of theories in conceptual coherence. Gregory L. Murphy, Douglas L. Medin · Psychological Review | 1985 | 2,695 |
| 37 | Psychological Aspects of Natural Language Use: Our Words, Our Selves James W. Pennebaker, Matthias R. Mehl, Kate G. Niederhoffer · Annual Review of Psychology | 23 Dec 2002 | 2,647 |
| 38 | Attention, intentions, and the structure of discourse Barbara J. Grosz, Candace L. Sidner | Jul 1986 | 2,613 |
| 39 | The role of transportation in the persuasiveness of public narratives. Melanie C. Green, Timothy C. Brock · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2000 | 2,547 |
| 40 | Cognitive Linguistics: An Introduction Vyvyan Evans, Melanie Green | 8 Feb 2006 | 2,496 |
| 41 | The MRC Psycholinguistic Database Max Coltheart · The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A | Nov 1981 | 2,489 |
| 42 | Constructing inferences during narrative text comprehension. Arthur C. Graesser, Murray Singer, Tom Trabasso · Psychological Review | 1994 | 2,486 |
| 43 | A Natural history of negation Eva Hajičová · Lingua | Nov 1990 | 2,451 |
| 44 | Referring as a collaborative process Herbert H. Clark, Deanna Wilkes-Gibbs · Cognition | Feb 1986 | 2,433 |
| 45 | Grounding language in action Arthur M. Glenberg, Michael P. Kaschak · Psychonomic Bulletin & Review | Sep 2002 | 2,370 |
| 46 | Expression and meaning studies in the theory of speech acts John Rogers Searle | 2005 | 2,269 |
| 47 | CATEGORY SPECIFIC SEMANTIC IMPAIRMENTS Elizabeth K. Warrington, Tim Shallice · Brain | 1984 | 2,251 |
| 48 | Qualitative Content Analysis: Theoretical Background and Procedures Philipp Mayring · Advances in mathematics education | 5 Sep 2014 | 2,231 |
| 49 | The psychology of everyday things Daniel S. Weld · Artificial Intelligence | Nov 1989 | 2,118 |
| 50 | Discourse, Consciousness, and Time: The Flow and Displacement of Conscious Experience in Speaking and Writing Wallace Chafe | 1994 | 2,114 |
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