2026 Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

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Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	48	3096	2841	29	29	120	11607

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Overview

Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen is affiliated with the University of Helsinki in Finland. Their research primarily spans the fields of Arts and Humanities, Psychology, and Social Sciences, with a pronounced focus on Language and Linguistics, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Literature and Literary Theory. Their work extensively explores topics related to language, discourse, and communication strategies.

The main topics addressed in their research include:

Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
Discourse Analysis in Language Studies
Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
Linguistic Variation and Morphology
EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
Psychology of Social Influence

The scientist has contributed to several academic journals and publication venues, most frequently in:

Interactional Linguistics
Research on Language and Social Interaction
Language in Society
Open Linguistics

Recent scholarly publications by Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen include:

"Language over time," 2021, Interactional Linguistics
"On "Whistle" Sound Objects in English Everyday Conversation," 2020, Research on Language and Social Interaction (coauthored by Elisabeth Reber)
"The prosody of other-repetition in British and North American English," 2020, Language in Society
"OH + OKAY in informing sequences: On fuzzy boundaries in a particle combination," 2021, Open Linguistics
"Can temporal clauses be insubordinate?" 2022, Interactional Linguistics

Their frequent coauthors include:

Sandra A. Thompson
Elisabeth Reber
Barbara A. Fox
Marja Etelämäki
Marja-Leena Sorjonen

Best Publications

Gesprächsanalytisches Transkriptionssystem 2 (GAT 2)

Margret Selting;Peter Auer;Dagmar Barth-Weingarten;Jörg R. Bergmann

1287
Citations
An introduction to English prosody

Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen

431
Citations
Interactional Linguistics: Studying Language in Social Interaction

Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen;Margret Selting

407
Citations
Language in Time: The Rhythm and Tempo of Spoken Interaction

J. C. P. Auer;Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen;Frank Müller

404
Citations
Prosody in conversation : interactional studies

Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen;Margret Selting

380
Citations
Studies in Interactional Linguistics

Margret Selting;Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen

365
Citations
Grammar in Everyday Talk: Building Responsive Actions

Sandra A. Thompson;Barbara A. Fox;Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen

285
Citations
What does grammar tell us about action

Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen

281
Citations
QUOTE - UNQUOTE? : the role of prosody in the contextualization of reported speech sequences

Gabriele Klewitz;Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen

259
Citations
Sequence organization in interaction: A primer in conversation analysis, vol. 1 (review)

Unknown

256
Citations
English speech rhythm

Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen

231
Citations
Prosody in conversation: Towards an interactional perspective on prosody and a prosodic perspective on interaction

Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen;Margret Selting

226
Citations
Prosody in conversation: The prosody of repetition: on quoting and mimicry

Unknown

212
Citations
A system for transcribing talk-in-interaction : GAT 2

Margret Selting;Peter Auer;Dagmar Barth-Weingarten;Jörg Bergmann

205
Citations
Requesting in social interaction

Paul Drew;Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen

205
Citations
Cause - Condition - Concession - Contrast: Cognitive and Discourse Perspectives

Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen;Bernd Kortmann

188
Citations
'Incrementing' in Conversation. A Comparison of Practices in English, German and Japanese

Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen;Tsuyoshi Ono

179
Citations
Introducing Interactional Linguistics

Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen;Margret Selting

172
Citations
The clause as a locus of grammar and interaction

Sandra A. Thompson;Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen

169
Citations
Sound patterns in interaction : cross-linguistic studies from conversation

Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen;Cecilia E. Ford

151
Citations
Requesting – from speech act to recruitment

Paul Drew;Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen

149
Citations
Exploring affiliation in the reception of conversational complaint stories

Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen

137
Citations
Prosody and sequence organization in English conversation: The case of new beginnings

Unknown

106
Citations
Grammar in Everyday Talk

Sandra A. Thompson;Barbara A. Fox;Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen

99
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Sandra A. Thompson University of California, Santa Barbara

Peter Auer University of Freiburg

Anssi Peräkylä University of Helsinki

Paul Drew University of York

Emanuel A. Schegloff University of California, Los Angeles

External Links

Personal website of Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen

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