Most cited papers in Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity
What are the most cited papers in Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity?
The most cited paper in Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity is "The Psychology of Attitudes" (Dipankar Chakravarti, Alice H. Eagly, Shelly Chaiken, 1997), with 7,186 citations. Next come "Are Emily and Greg More Employable Than Lakisha and Jamal? A Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination" (4,548) and "Universals in language usage: Politeness phenomena" (2,216).
Showing 50 of 99 papers. Every paper with more than 227 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Psychology of Attitudes Dipankar Chakravarti, Alice H. Eagly, Shelly Chaiken · Journal of Marketing Research | May 1997 | 7,186 |
| 2 | Are Emily and Greg More Employable Than Lakisha and Jamal? A Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination Marianne Bertrand, Sendhil Mullainathan · American Economic Review | Sep 2004 | 4,548 |
| 3 | Universals in language usage: Politeness phenomena Penelope Brown, Stephen C. Levinson · Max Planck Digital Library | 1978 | 2,216 |
| 4 | The Phonology of English as an International Language Judy B. Gilbert, John M. Levis, Jennifer A. Jenkins · TESOL Quarterly | 2001 | 1,797 |
| 5 | Reading: A psycholinguistic guessing game Kenneth S. Goodman · Journal of the Reading Specialist | May 1967 | 1,770 |
| 6 | How Language Structures Space Léonard Talmy | 1983 | 1,601 |
| 7 | Sex, covert prestige and linguistic change in the urban British English of Norwich Peter W. TRUDGILL · Language in Society | Oct 1972 | 1,507 |
| 8 | Contact hypothesis in ethnic relations. Yehuda Amir · Psychological Bulletin | 1969 | 1,465 |
| 9 | Language contact, creolization, and genetic linguistics Terrence Kaufman · Lingua | Nov 1990 | 1,458 |
| 10 | Second Language Acquisition: An Introductory Course Susan M. Gass, Larry Selinker | Nov 1993 | 1,339 |
| 11 | From etymology to pragmatics metaphorical and cultural aspects of semantic structure Eve E. Sweetser | 1994 | 1,322 |
| 12 | Language ideologies and the consequences of standardization James Milroy · Journal of Sociolinguistics | Nov 2001 | 1,229 |
| 13 | English as a Global Language Jeffrey Barlow · Channel View Publications eBooks | 7 Jun 2016 | 1,052 |
| 14 | Language and Superdiversity Jan Blommaert, Ben Rampton | 22 Dec 2015 | 886 |
| 15 | Reading in a Foreign Language Andrew D. Cohen, J. Charles Alderson, Alexander Urquhart · TESOL Quarterly | Dec 1986 | 840 |
| 16 | The Use of Collocations by Advanced Learners of English and Some Implications for Teaching Nadja Nesselhauf · Applied Linguistics | Jun 2003 | 744 |
| 17 | Handbook of international and intercultural communication Jolene Koester · International Journal of Intercultural Relations | 1991 | 730 |
| 18 | Postcolonial English: Varieties around the World Edgar W. Schneider | 2007 | 690 |
| 19 | Loanwords in the World's Languages: A Comparative Handbook Martín Haspelmath, Uri Tadmor | 15 Dec 2009 | 675 |
| 20 | Variationist Sociolinguistics. Change, Observation, Interpretation Julia Davydova · Journal of Pragmatics | 22 May 2012 | 661 |
| 21 | Why Do Skilled Immigrants Struggle in the Labor Market? A Field Experiment with Thirteen Thousand Resumes Philip Oreopoulos · American Economic Journal Economic Policy | 25 Oct 2011 | 648 |
| 22 | Where does the sociolinguistic variable stop? Beatriz R. Lavandera · Language in Society | Aug 1978 | 620 |
| 23 | The European linguistic area: Standard Average European Martín Haspelmath | 7 Jan 2001 | 605 |
| 24 | English for specific purposes Pauline Robinson · System | 1987 | 601 |
| 25 | On multiple questions and multiple WH fronting Catherine Rudin · Natural Language & Linguistic Theory | Nov 1988 | 593 |
| 26 | Linguistic Landscape and Minority Languages Jasone Cenoz, Durk Gorter · International Journal of Multilingualism | 15 Apr 2006 | 589 |
| 27 | From Corpus to Classroom: Language Use and Language Teaching Anne O’Keeffe, MICHAEL G. McCARTHY, Ronald Carter | 3 May 2007 | 569 |
| 28 | Handbook of Psycholinguistics M. Louise Kelly · Language and Speech | 1996 | 545 |
| 29 | Linguistic Variation as Social Practice: The Linguistic Construction of Identity in Belten High Kathryn A. Woolard · American Anthropologist | Sep 2001 | 541 |
| 30 | Language use in intergroup contexts: The linguistic intergroup bias. Anne Maass, Daniela Salvi, Luciano Arcuri et al. · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1989 | 538 |
| 31 | Advances in psycholinguistics Giovanni B. Flores d’Arcais, Willem J. M. Levelt | 1970 | 525 |
| 32 | The Emotional Force of Swearwords and Taboo Words in the Speech of Multilinguals Jean‐Marc Dewaele · Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development | Jun 2004 | 510 |
| 33 | Social Influences on the Choice of a Linguistic Variant John L. Fischer · WORD | Apr 1958 | 500 |
| 34 | Genre identification and communicative purpose: a problem and a possible solution Inger Askehave · Applied Linguistics | Jun 2001 | 489 |
| 35 | Language Change: Progress or Decay? Jean Aitchison · Language | 1994 | 487 |
| 36 | The categories and types of present-day English word-formation; a synchronic-diachronic approach Sandra Annear Thompson · Lingua | 1971 | 483 |
| 37 | Dialect stylization in radio talk Nikolas Coupland · Language in Society | Jul 2001 | 480 |
| 38 | Key terms in language and culture Ben Rampton | 2001 | 479 |
| 39 | Language management in multinational companies Alan J. Feely, Anne-Wil K. Harzing · Cross Cultural Management An International Journal | Jun 2003 | 470 |
| 40 | Whether We Agree or Not: A Comparative Syntax of English and Japanese S.-Y. Kuroda · Studies in natural language and linguistic theory | 1992 | 449 |
| 41 | The World System of Englishes Christian Mair · English World-Wide A Journal of Varieties of English | 11 Oct 2013 | 447 |
| 42 | Expanding horizons in the study of World Englishes with the 1.9 billion word Global Web-based English Corpus (GloWbE) Mark Davies, Robert Fuchs · English World-Wide A Journal of Varieties of English | 10 Feb 2015 | 418 |
| 43 | The Syntax of American Sign Language: Functional Categories and Hierarchical Structure Karen D. Emmorey · Trends in Cognitive Sciences | Sep 2000 | 416 |
| 44 | the domain of emotion words on Ifaluk Catherine A. Lutz · American Ethnologist | Feb 1982 | 414 |
| 45 | Sociolinguistic authenticities Nikolas Coupland · Journal of Sociolinguistics | Aug 2003 | 410 |
| 46 | Authority in language investigating standard English James Milroy, Lesley Milroy | 1998 | 405 |
| 47 | The Cambridge Encyclopedia of The English Language Agnieszka A. Mrowiec · Journal of Pragmatics | 19 Apr 2004 | 401 |
| 48 | "Agile" and "Uptight" Genres Marianne Hundt, Christian Mair · International Journal of Corpus Linguistics | 31 Dec 1999 | 382 |
| 49 | Whether We Agree or Not S.-Y. Kuroda · Lingvisticae Investigationes | 1988 | 378 |
| 50 | Borrowability and the notion of basic vocabulary Uri Tadmor, Martín Haspelmath, Bradley Taylor · Diachronica | 11 Oct 2010 | 374 |
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