Most cited papers in linguistics and terminology studies
What are the most cited papers in linguistics and terminology studies?
The most cited paper in linguistics and terminology studies is "The Berkeley FrameNet Project" (Collin F. Baker, Charles J. Fillmore, John B. Lowe, 1998), with 2,572 citations. Next come "Qualitative Content Analysis: Theoretical Background and Procedures" (2,231) and "Force Dynamics in Language and Cognition" (2,020).
Showing 50 of 99 papers. Every paper with more than 303 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Berkeley FrameNet Project Collin F. Baker, Charles J. Fillmore, John B. Lowe | 1998 | 2,572 |
| 2 | Qualitative Content Analysis: Theoretical Background and Procedures Philipp Mayring · Advances in mathematics education | 5 Sep 2014 | 2,231 |
| 3 | Force Dynamics in Language and Cognition Léonard Talmy · Cognitive Science | 1988 | 2,020 |
| 4 | Automatic sense disambiguation using machine readable dictionaries Michael Lesk | 1986 | 1,785 |
| 5 | How Language Structures Space Léonard Talmy | 1983 | 1,601 |
| 6 | Syntax and semantics of questions Lauri Karttunen · Linguistics and Philosophy | 1977 | 1,061 |
| 7 | Relations in biomedical ontologies Barry Smith, Werner M Ceusters, Bert R. E. Klagges et al. · Genome biology | 28 Apr 2005 | 1,045 |
| 8 | Comparative concepts and descriptive categories in crosslinguistic studies Martín Haspelmath · Language | Sep 2010 | 1,043 |
| 9 | A Taxonomy of Part‐Whole Relations Morton Emanuel Winston, Roger J. S. Chaffin, Douglas J. Herrmann · Cognitive Science | Oct 1987 | 874 |
| 10 | Towards a Theory of Metonymy Günter Radden, Zoltán Kövecses · Human cognitive processing | 15 Sep 1999 | 867 |
| 11 | An Academic Formulas List: New Methods in Phraseology Research Rita Simpson‐Vlach, Nick C. Ellis · Applied Linguistics | 12 Jan 2010 | 865 |
| 12 | Technical terminology: some linguistic properties and an algorithm for identification in text John S. Justeson, Slava M. Katz · Natural Language Engineering | Mar 1995 | 819 |
| 13 | Referring and accessibility Mira Ariel · Journal of Linguistics | Mar 1988 | 796 |
| 14 | The many ways to search for a frog: Linguistic typology and the expression of motion events Dan I. Slobin | 13 Feb 2004 | 775 |
| 15 | Contrastive Rhetoric: Cross-Cultural Aspects of Second-Language Writing Barbara A Lafford, Ulla Connor · Modern Language Journal | 1997 | 735 |
| 16 | The Pivotal Status of the Translator’s Habitus Daniel Simeoni · Target International Journal of Translation Studies | 1998 | 711 |
| 17 | Handbook of Semantic Word Norms Benton J. Underwood, Michael P. Toglia, William F. Battig · The American Journal of Psychology | Sep 1979 | 675 |
| 18 | How representational gestures help speaking Sotaro Kita · Cambridge University Press eBooks | 3 Aug 2000 | 637 |
| 19 | From conceptual roles to structural relations: Bridging the syntactic cleft. Kathryn Bock, Helga Loebell, Randal Morey · Psychological Review | 1992 | 633 |
| 20 | Effects of limited English proficiency and physician language on health care comprehension Elisabeth Wilson, Alice Hm Chen, Kevin Grumbach et al. · Journal of General Internal Medicine | 19 Aug 2005 | 631 |
| 21 | Rhetorical structure of biochemistry research articles Budsaba Kanoksilapatham · English for Specific Purposes | 2005 | 602 |
| 22 | On the psycholinguistics of sarcasm. Raymond W. Gibbs · Journal of Experimental Psychology General | Mar 1986 | 600 |
| 23 | Inflectional Morphology: A Theory of Paradigm Structure Gregory Stump · UKnowledge (University of Kentucky) | 2001 | 599 |
| 24 | The psycholinguistics of metaphor Sam Glucksberg · Trends in Cognitive Sciences | Feb 2003 | 591 |
| 25 | On verbal irony Deirdre Wilson, Dan Sperber · Lingua | Jun 1992 | 575 |
| 26 | A new look at literal meaning in understanding what is said and implicated Raymond W. Gibbs · Journal of Pragmatics | Apr 2002 | 552 |
| 27 | Subjectivity as an evidential dimension in epistemic modal expressions Jan Nuyts · Journal of Pragmatics | Mar 2001 | 549 |
| 28 | Transfers of Meaning Geoffrey Nunberg · Journal of Semantics | 1995 | 536 |
| 29 | Contextual Valence Shifters Livia Polanyi, Annie Zaenen · The information retrieval series | 17 Jan 2006 | 526 |
| 30 | Advances in psycholinguistics Giovanni B. Flores d’Arcais, Willem J. M. Levelt | 1970 | 525 |
| 31 | Negation in Language: Pragmatics, Function, Ontology Talmy Givón | 20 Dec 1978 | 521 |
| 32 | Corpora in Translation Studies Mona Baker · Target International Journal of Translation Studies | 1995 | 510 |
| 33 | Social Influences on the Choice of a Linguistic Variant John L. Fischer · WORD | Apr 1958 | 500 |
| 34 | Corpus Linguistics at Work Elena Tognini-Bonelli · Computational Linguistics | Dec 2002 | 498 |
| 35 | Category labels and social reality: Do we view social categories as natural kinds? Myron Rothbart, Marjorie Taylor | 1992 | 494 |
| 36 | The role of agreement in clitic-doubled constructions Margarita Su�er · Natural Language & Linguistic Theory | Aug 1988 | 482 |
| 37 | Epistemic Modality, Language, and Conceptualization: A cognitive-pragmatic perspective Jan Nuyts | 2001 | 482 |
| 38 | A comparison of sign language and spoken language Ursula Bellugi, Susan D. Fischer · Cognition | 1972 | 468 |
| 39 | Explorations in applied linguistics Norman F. Davies · System | May 1980 | 454 |
| 40 | High-temperature superconductivity in iron pnictides and chalcogenides Qimiao Si, Rong Yu, Elihu Abrahams · Nature Reviews Materials | 11 Mar 2016 | 440 |
| 41 | On the Semantics and Pragmatics of Linguistic Feedback Jens Allwood, Joakim Nivre, Elisabeth Ahlsén · Journal of Semantics | 1992 | 437 |
| 42 | Force dynamics in language and cognition L Talmy · Cognitive Science | Mar 1988 | 435 |
| 43 | Translation Quality Assessment: Past and Present Juliane House · Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks | 2014 | 434 |
| 44 | Idioms: A View from Cognitive Semantics Zoltán Kövecses, P. SZABCO · Applied Linguistics | Sep 1996 | 429 |
| 45 | Metaphor, Relevance and the 'Emergent Property' Issue Deirdre Wilson, Robyn Carston · Mind & Language | 26 May 2006 | 428 |
| 46 | On the priority of salient meanings: Studies of literal and figurative language Rachel Giora · Journal of Pragmatics | Jul 1999 | 418 |
| 47 | On the pretense theory of irony. Herbert H. Clark, Richard J. Gerrig · PubMed | Mar 1984 | 416 |
| 48 | Towards New Ways of Terminology Description: The sociocognitive approach Rita Temmerman | 15 Jun 2000 | 414 |
| 49 | Does language guide event perception? Evidence from eye movements Anna Papafragou, Justin C. Hulbert, John C. Trueswell · Cognition | 21 Apr 2008 | 411 |
| 50 | On beyond Zebra: The relation of linguistic and visual information Ray S. Jackendoff · Cognition | Jul 1987 | 410 |
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