Most cited papers in Linguistics and Discourse Analysis
What are the most cited papers in Linguistics and Discourse Analysis?
The most cited paper in Linguistics and Discourse Analysis is "A theory of focus interpretation" (Mats Rooth, 1992), with 3,203 citations. Next come "Referring as a collaborative process" (2,433) and "Stance and engagement: a model of interaction in academic discourse" (2,004).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 317 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A theory of focus interpretation Mats Rooth · Natural Language Semantics | Feb 1992 | 3,203 |
| 2 | Referring as a collaborative process Herbert H. Clark, Deanna Wilkes-Gibbs · Cognition | Feb 1986 | 2,433 |
| 3 | Stance and engagement: a model of interaction in academic discourse Ken Hyland · Discourse Studies | 2 Mar 2005 | 2,004 |
| 4 | Metaphoric structuring: understanding time through spatial metaphors Lera Boroditsky · Cognition | Apr 2000 | 1,853 |
| 5 | Metapragmatic discourse and metapragmatic function Michael C. Silverstein · Cambridge University Press eBooks | 4 Mar 1993 | 1,347 |
| 6 | Vagueness and grammar: the semantics of relative and absolute gradable adjectives Christopher B. Kennedy · Linguistics and Philosophy | 19 Mar 2007 | 1,321 |
| 7 | Scale Structure, Degree Modification, and the Semantics of Gradable Predicates Christopher B. Kennedy, Louise McNally · Language | Jun 2005 | 1,257 |
| 8 | Ideology and discourse analysis Teun A. van Dijk · Journal of Political Ideologies | Jun 2006 | 1,248 |
| 9 | when talk isn't cheap: language and political economy Judith T. Irvine · American Ethnologist | May 1989 | 1,247 |
| 10 | Presupposition Projection as Anaphora Resolution Rob A. van der Sandt · Journal of Semantics | 1992 | 1,167 |
| 11 | Activity types and language Stephen C. Levinson · Linguistics | 1979 | 1,111 |
| 12 | Empty categories, case, and configurationality Eloise Jelinek · Natural Language & Linguistic Theory | Jun 1984 | 1,069 |
| 13 | Lexique 2 : A new French lexical database Boris New, Christophe Pallier, Marc Brysbaert et al. · Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers | Aug 2004 | 997 |
| 14 | Syntax and Semantics of Questions Lauri Karttunen · Questions | 1977 | 975 |
| 15 | Extending collostructional analysis Stefan Τh. Gries, Anatol Stefanowitsch · International Journal of Corpus Linguistics | 29 Apr 2004 | 960 |
| 16 | Context Dependence, Disagreement, and Predicates of Personal Taste* Peter Lasersohn · Linguistics and Philosophy | Dec 2005 | 931 |
| 17 | The Grammatical Ingredients of Counterfactuality Sabine Iatridou · Linguistic Inquiry | Apr 2000 | 811 |
| 18 | Une base de données lexicales du français contemporain sur internet : LEXIQUE™//A lexical database for contemporary french : LEXIQUE™ Boris New, C. Pallier, Ludovic Ferrand et al. · L’Année psychologique | 2001 | 806 |
| 19 | Alceste une méthodologie d'analyse des données textuelles et une application: Aurelia De Gerard De Nerval Max Reinert · Bulletin of Sociological Methodology/Bulletin de Méthodologie Sociologique | Mar 1990 | 731 |
| 20 | THE SEMANTICS OF DEGREE Maxwell J. Cresswell · Elsevier eBooks | 1976 | 723 |
| 21 | Constitutive rhetoric: The case of the peuple québécois Maurice Rene Charland · Quarterly Journal of Speech | May 1987 | 693 |
| 22 | Preliminaries to Preliminaries: “Can I Ask You a Question?” Emanuel A. Schegloff · Sociological Inquiry | Jul 1980 | 688 |
| 23 | Broaden Your Views: Implicatures of Domain Widening and the “Logicality” of Language Gennaro Chierchia · Linguistic Inquiry | Oct 2006 | 682 |
| 24 | Challenging stereotypes about academic writing: Complexity, elaboration, explicitness Douglas Biber, Bethany Gray · Journal of English for Academic Purposes | 28 Jan 2010 | 668 |
| 25 | Aspect Shift and Coercion Henriëtte de Swart · Natural Language & Linguistic Theory | May 1998 | 663 |
| 26 | Further Notes on Logic and Conversation H. P. Grice · Cambridge University Press eBooks | 5 May 2008 | 662 |
| 27 | Exclamative clauses: At the syntax-semantics interface Raffaella Zanuttini, Paul Pörtner · Language | Mar 2003 | 649 |
| 28 | Parts and boundaries Ray S. Jackendoff · Cognition | Dec 1991 | 649 |
| 29 | Individual differences in integrating information between and within sentences. Meredyth Daneman, Patricia A. Carpenter · Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition | Oct 1983 | 647 |
| 30 | Lexical Case, Inherent Case, and Argument Structure Ellen Woolford · Linguistic Inquiry | 2006 | 640 |
| 31 | Inventing the University David Bartholomae · Palgrave Macmillan US eBooks | 2005 | 616 |
| 32 | Irony as relevant inappropriateness Salvatore Attardo · Journal of Pragmatics | May 2000 | 615 |
| 33 | La métrique de Kobayashi et la représentation des domaines sur la boule László Lempert · Bulletin de la Société mathématique de France | 1981 | 597 |
| 34 | On the organization of laughter in talk about troubles Gail Jefferson · Cambridge University Press eBooks | 4 Apr 1985 | 582 |
| 35 | Cotation clinique de l'opposition et de la contre-opposition du pouce Adalbert I. Kapandji · Annales de Chirurgie de la Main | 1986 | 578 |
| 36 | The Pragmatics of What is Said François Récanati · Mind & Language | Dec 1989 | 576 |
| 37 | On verbal irony Deirdre Wilson, Dan Sperber · Lingua | Jun 1992 | 575 |
| 38 | How to be sarcastic: The echoic reminder theory of verbal irony. Roger J. Kreuz, Sam Glucksberg · Journal of Experimental Psychology General | Dec 1989 | 560 |
| 39 | Reevaluating the IRF sequence: A proposal for the articulation of theories of activity and discourse for the analysis of teaching and learning in the classroom Gordon A. Wells · Linguistics and Education | 1993 | 559 |
| 40 | From subjectification to intersubjectification Elizabeth Closs Traugott · Cambridge University Press eBooks | 16 Jan 2003 | 556 |
| 41 | A new look at literal meaning in understanding what is said and implicated Raymond W. Gibbs · Journal of Pragmatics | Apr 2002 | 552 |
| 42 | Subjectivity as an evidential dimension in epistemic modal expressions Jan Nuyts · Journal of Pragmatics | Mar 2001 | 549 |
| 43 | Travels in hypermodality Jay L. Lemke · Visual Communication | Oct 2002 | 546 |
| 44 | The multiple semantics hypothesis: Multiple confusions? Alfonso Caramazza, Argye Elizabeth Hillis, Brenda C. Rapp et al. · Cognitive Neuropsychology | May 1990 | 545 |
| 45 | A corpus-driven approach to formulaic language in English Douglas Biber · International Journal of Corpus Linguistics | 20 Aug 2009 | 544 |
| 46 | Canonical typology, suppletion, and possible words Greville G. Corbett · Language | Mar 2007 | 530 |
| 47 | Semi-productive Polysemy and Sense Extension Ann Copestake, Ted Briscoe · Journal of Semantics | 1995 | 520 |
| 48 | The fundamental topoi of relational communication Judee K. Burgoon, Jerold L. Hale · Communication Monographs | Sep 1984 | 506 |
| 49 | Primitives of Binding Eric Reuland · Linguistic Inquiry | Jul 2001 | 505 |
| 50 | Figures of speech: Figurative expressions and the management of topic transition in conversation Paul Drew, Elizabeth Holt · Language in Society | Dec 1998 | 505 |
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