Most cited papers in Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism
What are the most cited papers in Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism?
The most cited paper in Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism is "Mandarin Chinese: A Functional Reference Grammar" (Stephen A. Wadley, Charles N. Li, Sandra Annear Thompson, 1987), with 2,921 citations. Next come "Some principles of linguistic methodology" (1,230) and "Linguistic form and relevance" (907).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 168 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mandarin Chinese: A Functional Reference Grammar Stephen A. Wadley, Charles N. Li, Sandra Annear Thompson · Journal of the American Oriental Society | Jul 1987 | 2,921 |
| 2 | Some principles of linguistic methodology William Labov · Language in Society | Apr 1972 | 1,230 |
| 3 | Linguistic form and relevance Deirdre Wilson, Dan Sperber · Lingua | Jun 1993 | 907 |
| 4 | SemEval-2019 Task 5: Multilingual Detection of Hate Speech Against Immigrants and Women in Twitter Valerio Basile, Cristina Bosco, Elisabetta Fersini et al. | 2019 | 873 |
| 5 | Impoliteness revisited: with special reference to dynamic and prosodic aspects Jonathan Culpeper, Derek Bousfield, Anne Wichmann · Journal of Pragmatics | 25 Mar 2003 | 763 |
| 6 | A smuggling approach to the passive in english Chris Collins · Syntax | Aug 2005 | 712 |
| 7 | SemEval-2019 Task 6: Identifying and Categorizing Offensive Language in Social Media (OffensEval) Marcos Zampieri, Shervin Malmasi, Preslav Nakov et al. | 2019 | 696 |
| 8 | Forbidden Words: Taboo and the Censoring of Language Keith Allan, Kathryn Burridge | 2006 | 687 |
| 9 | Language and the Making of Place: A Narrative-Descriptive Approach Yi‐Fu Tuan · Annals of the Association of American Geographers | Dec 1991 | 650 |
| 10 | Detecting Offensive Language in Social Media to Protect Adolescent Online Safety Ying Chen, Yilu Zhou, Sencun Zhu et al. | Sep 2012 | 647 |
| 11 | Perceptual and Phonetic Experiments on American English Dialect Identification Thomas C. Purnell, William J. Idsardi, John Baugh · Journal of Language and Social Psychology | Mar 1999 | 617 |
| 12 | Sociolinguistics and Corpus Linguistics Paul Morgan Baker | 28 Feb 2010 | 602 |
| 13 | Are You a Racist or Am I Seeing Things? Annotator Influence on Hate Speech Detection on Twitter Zeerak Waseem | 2016 | 585 |
| 14 | Theories of identity and the analysis of face Helen Spencer‐Oatey · Journal of Pragmatics | 3 Feb 2007 | 547 |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | Taboo words and reprimands elicit greater autonomic reactivity in a first language than in a second language Catherine L. Harris, Ayşe Ayçiçeği, Jean Berko Gleason · Applied Psycholinguistics | 14 Nov 2003 | 503 |
| 17 | Politeness theory and Shakespeare's four major tragedies Roger Brown, Albert Gilman · Language in Society | Jun 1989 | 492 |
| 18 | The Utility and Ubiquity of Taboo Words Timothy B. Jay · Perspectives on Psychological Science | Mar 2009 | 487 |
| 19 | Accent, standard language ideology, and discriminatory pretext in the courts Rosina L. Lippi-Green · Language in Society | Apr 1994 | 461 |
| 20 | ENZYMATIC CYCLING Oliver H. Lowry, Janet V. Passonneau · Elsevier eBooks | 1972 | 454 |
| 21 | Language and Affect Niko Besnier · Annual Review of Anthropology | Oct 1990 | 452 |
| 22 | Multimodal markers of irony and sarcasm Salvatore Attardo, Jodi Eisterhold, Jennifer B. Hay et al. · Humor - International Journal of Humor Research | 13 Jan 2003 | 447 |
| 23 | Humour and Hatred: The Racist Jokes of the Ku Klux Klan Michael S. Billig · Discourse & Society | May 2001 | 433 |
| 24 | “Not Soldiers but Fire-fighters” – Metaphors and Covid-19 Elena Semino · Health Communication | 10 Nov 2020 | 416 |
| 25 | Jocular mockery, (dis)affiliation, and face Michael Haugh · Journal of Pragmatics | 9 Feb 2010 | 409 |
| 26 | SemEval-2020 Task 12: Multilingual Offensive Language Identification in Social Media (OffensEval 2020) Marcos Zampieri, Preslav Nakov, Sara Rosenthal et al. | 2020 | 391 |
| 27 | The nonverbal expression of pride: Evidence for cross-cultural recognition. Jessica L. Tracy, Richard W. Robins · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2008 | 388 |
| 28 | Face and politeness: new (insights) for old (concepts) Francesca Bargiela‐Chiappini · Journal of Pragmatics | 17 Jan 2003 | 388 |
| 29 | Directives: Entitlement and contingency in action Alexandra Craven, Jonathan Potter · Discourse Studies | Aug 2010 | 386 |
| 30 | Partial and multiple Wh-movement Dana McDaniel · Natural Language & Linguistic Theory | Nov 1989 | 351 |
| 31 | Conventionalised impoliteness formulae Jonathan Culpeper · Journal of Pragmatics | 30 Jun 2010 | 326 |
| 32 | The gradual emergence of phonological form in a new language Wendy Sandler, Mark Aronoff, Irit Meir et al. · Natural Language & Linguistic Theory | 22 Apr 2011 | 319 |
| 33 | Mock impoliteness, jocular mockery and jocular abuse in Australian and British English Michael Haugh, Derek Bousfield · Journal of Pragmatics | 12 Mar 2012 | 316 |
| 34 | Directions in abusive language training data, a systematic review: Garbage in, garbage out Bertie Vidgen, Leon Derczynski · PLoS ONE | 28 Dec 2020 | 315 |
| 35 | The Sociolinguistic Distribution of and Attitudes Toward Focuser like and Quotative like Jennifer Dailey-O’Cain · Journal of Sociolinguistics | Feb 2000 | 315 |
| 36 | Hate speech detection: A solved problem? The challenging case of long tail on Twitter Ziqi Zhang, Lei Luo · Semantic Web | 9 Nov 2018 | 308 |
| 37 | Varieties of rudeness Manfred Kienpointner · Functions of Language | 1997 | 307 |
| 38 | Abusive Language Detection on Arabic Social Media Hamdy Mubarak, Kareem Mohamed Darwish, Walid Magdy | 2017 | 305 |
| 39 | Surprise but not coherence: Sensitivity to verbal humor in right-hemisphere patients*1 Hiram Brownell · Brain and Language | 1983 | 297 |
| 40 | The semantics of interjection Anna Wierzbicka · Journal of Pragmatics | Sep 1992 | 294 |
| 41 | Detecting Hate Speech in Social Media Shervin Malmasi, Marcos Zampieri | 10 Nov 2017 | 293 |
| 42 | Guugu Yimidhirr brother-in-law language John Beard Haviland · Language in Society | Aug 1979 | 287 |
| 43 | Ethnographic Studies of Positioning and Subjectivity: An Introduction Dorothy Holland, Kevin M. Leander · Ethos | Jun 2004 | 286 |
| 44 | Figurative Language in Anger Expressions in Tunisian Arabic: An Extended View of Embodiment Zouhair Maalej · Metaphor and Symbol | 2004 | 279 |
| 45 | A Dataset of Hindi-English Code-Mixed Social Media Text for Hate Speech Detection Aditya Bohra, Deepanshu Vijay, Vinay Kumar Singh et al. | 2018 | 273 |
| 46 | Introduction Robert M. W. Dixon, Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald · Cambridge University Press eBooks | 10 Feb 2000 | 273 |
| 47 | Detecting offensive tweets via topical feature discovery over a large scale twitter corpus Guang Xiang, Bin Fan, Ling Wang et al. | 29 Oct 2012 | 271 |
| 48 | Tsotsitaal, global culture and local style: identity and recontextualisation in twenty‐first century South African townships Ellen Hurst · Social Dynamics | 3 Aug 2009 | 271 |
| 49 | Non‐standard spellings in media texts: The case of German fanzines Jannis Androutsopoulos · Journal of Sociolinguistics | Nov 2000 | 269 |
| 50 | Corpus Linguistics: Investigating Language Structure and Use Kristen Precht, Douglas Biber, Susan Conrad et al. · TESOL Quarterly | 1998 | 268 |
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