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Language Sciences
H-index 7

Language Sciences

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Social Sciences and Humanities 967 11 12 5

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 23
Documents by Best Scientists*: 21
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 0
SCIMAGO H-index: 54
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.587
Impact Factor: 1.1

Top Publications

  • Expressions of stance-to-text: discourse management markers as stance markers

    Elizabeth Closs Traugott

    (2020)
    36 Citations
  • “We”: conceptual semantics, linguistic typology and social cognition

    Cliff Goddard;Anna Wierzbicka

    (2021)
    17 Citations
  • Do Speaker's emotions influence their language production? Studying the influence of disgust and amusement on alignment in interactive reference

    Charlotte Out;Martijn Goudbeek;Emiel Krahmer

    (2020)
    11 Citations
  • Comedic convergence: Humor responses to verbal irony in text messages

    (2023)
    9 Citations
  • Hyphenation as a compounding technique in English

    Kun Sun;R. Harald Baayen

    (2021)
    6 Citations
  • Thought complements in Australian languages

    William B. McGregor

    (2021)
    4 Citations
  • Event structure, force dynamics and verb semantics

    (2023)
    1 Citations
  • “This is perplexing because…”: Examining the impact of gender and geo-academic location on expressions of confusion in research articles

    (2024)
    1 Citations
  • ‘Face’-related expressions in the Minnan Dialect of Chinese

    (2022)
    1 Citations
  • Situated action, double dialogicality and the sociogenesis of categorizing in institutional practices: Diversity in schooling from vicious children to neuropsychiatric diagnoses

    (2024)
    0 Citations

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