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47
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3290
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Jonathan Culpeper 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 Jonathan Culpeper sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 175 publications — 54th percentile

54% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Jonathan Culpeper 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 Jonathan Culpeper sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 47 D-Index — 59th percentile

59% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Jonathan Culpeper is affiliated with Lancaster University in the United Kingdom. Their research focuses primarily on the intersections of language, discourse, and communication strategies, with notable emphasis on aspects such as swearing, euphemism, multilingualism, and the analysis of hate speech and cyberbullying.

Their work spans several fields of study, including Arts and Humanities and Social Sciences. More specifically, Culpeper's research covers subfields such as Language and Linguistics, Communication, Literature and Literary Theory, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Artificial Intelligence.

Jonathan Culpeper has contributed extensively to multiple topics, including:

  • Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
  • Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism
  • Discourse Analysis in Language Studies
  • Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
  • Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection
  • Linguistic Variation and Morphology
  • Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity

The scientist has published frequently in a range of academic journals. Key venues where their research appears include:

  • Journal of Pragmatics
  • Language and Literature International Journal of Stylistics
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Historical Pragmatics
  • Discourse & Society

Notable recent papers authored by Jonathan Culpeper include:

  • The Principle of (Im)politeness Reciprocity (2021), published in Journal of Pragmatics
  • Impoliteness and hate speech: Compare and contrast (2021), published in Journal of Pragmatics
  • The metalinguistics of offence in (British) English (2020), published in Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict

In addition to their solo work, Culpeper frequently collaborates with other researchers. Their notable coauthors include Vittorio Tantucci, Adrian Leemann, Carina Steiner, Péter Jeszenszky, and Elena Semino.

Best Publications

  • Towards an anatomy of impoliteness.

    Jonathan Culpeper

  • Impoliteness: Using Language to Cause Offence

    Jonathan Culpeper

  • Impoliteness and Entertainment in the Television Quiz Show: The Weakest Link

    Jonathan Culpeper

  • Impoliteness revisited: with special reference to dynamic and prosodic aspects.

    Jonathan Culpeper;Derek Bousfield;Anne Wichmann

  • Language and Characterisation: People in Plays and Other Texts

    Jonathan Culpeper

  • Cognitive stylistics:language and cognition in text analysis.

    Elena Semino;Jonathan Culpeper

  • Early Modern English Dialogues: Spoken Interaction as Writing

    Jonathan Culpeper;Merja Kytö

  • Reflections on impoliteness, relational work and power.

    Jonathan Culpeper

  • Conventionalised impoliteness formulae

    Jonathan Culpeper

  • Keyness: words, parts-of-speech and semantic categories in the character-talk of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"

    Jonathan Culpeper

  • Pragmatics and the English Language

    Jonathan Culpeper;Michael Haugh

  • Politeness and impoliteness

    Jonathan Culpeper

  • The Palgrave Handbook of Linguistic (Im)politeness

    Jonathan Culpeper;Michael Haugh;Dániel Z. Kádár

  • Data in historical pragmatics: Spoken interaction (re)cast as writing

    Jonathan Culpeper;Merja Kytö

  • History of English

    Jonathan Culpeper

  • Exploring the Language of Drama: From Text to Context

    Jonathan Culpeper;Michael H. Short;Peter Verdonk

  • Cross-cultural variation in the perception of impoliteness:a study of impoliteness events reported by students in England, China, Finland, Germany and Turkey.

    Jonathan Culpeper;Leyla Marti;Meilian Mei;Minna Nevala

  • The Principle of (Im)politeness Reciprocity

    Jonathan Culpeper;Vittorio Tantucci

  • Computers, language and characterisation : an analysis of six characters in Romeo and Juliet.

    Jonathan Culpeper

  • 'It's not what you said, it's how you said it!': Prosody and impoliteness

    Jonathan Culpeper

  • Data in historical pragmatics: spoken interaction (re)cast as writing. J. Hist. Pragmatics, 1(2), 2000, 175-99.

    Jonathan Culpeper;M. Kyto

Frequent Co-Authors

Dániel Z. Kádár
Dániel Z. Kádár Eötvös Loránd University
Michael Haugh
Michael Haugh University of Queensland
Naoko Taguchi
Naoko Taguchi Northern Arizona University
Elena Semino
Elena Semino Lancaster University
Alison Mackey
Alison Mackey Georgetown University
Ruth Wodak
Ruth Wodak Lancaster University
Paul Kerswill
Paul Kerswill University of York
Mike Thelwall
Mike Thelwall University of Sheffield
Paul Rayson
Paul Rayson Lancaster University
Geoffrey Leech
Geoffrey Leech Lancaster University

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