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Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen

Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
48
Citations
11607
World Ranking
3096
National Ranking
29

Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 120 publications — 24th percentile

24% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 48 D-Index — 61st percentile

61% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

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

  • An introduction to English prosody

    Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen

  • Interactional Linguistics: Studying Language in Social Interaction

    Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen;Margret Selting

  • Language in Time: The Rhythm and Tempo of Spoken Interaction

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

  • Prosody in conversation : interactional studies

    Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen;Margret Selting

  • Studies in Interactional Linguistics

    Margret Selting;Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen

  • Grammar in Everyday Talk: Building Responsive Actions

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

  • What does grammar tell us about action

    Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen

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

    Gabriele Klewitz;Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen

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

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  • English speech rhythm

    Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen

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

    Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen;Margret Selting

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

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  • A system for transcribing talk-in-interaction : GAT 2

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

  • Requesting in social interaction

    Paul Drew;Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen

  • Cause - Condition - Concession - Contrast: Cognitive and Discourse Perspectives

    Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen;Bernd Kortmann

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

    Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen;Tsuyoshi Ono

  • Introducing Interactional Linguistics

    Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen;Margret Selting

  • The clause as a locus of grammar and interaction

    Sandra A. Thompson;Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen

  • Sound patterns in interaction : cross-linguistic studies from conversation

    Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen;Cecilia E. Ford

  • Requesting – from speech act to recruitment

    Paul Drew;Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen

  • Exploring affiliation in the reception of conversational complaint stories

    Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen

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

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  • Grammar in Everyday Talk

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Sandra A. Thompson
Sandra A. Thompson University of California, Santa Barbara
Peter Auer
Peter Auer University of Freiburg
Barbara A. Fox
Barbara A. Fox University of Colorado Boulder
Christian Meyer
Christian Meyer Greifswald University Hospital
Arnulf Deppermann
Arnulf Deppermann Leibniz Institute for the German Language
Anssi Peräkylä
Anssi Peräkylä University of Helsinki
Paul Drew
Paul Drew University of York
Emanuel A. Schegloff
Emanuel A. Schegloff University of California, Los Angeles
Bernd Kortmann
Bernd Kortmann University of Freiburg

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