| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Principles of Critical Discourse Analysis | Discourse and Society | 1993 | 2,327 |
| 2 | Rhetorical Structure Theory: Toward a functional theory of text organization | Text & Talk | 1988 | 1,701 |
| 3 | Positioning and Interpretative Repertoires: Conversation Analysis and Post-Structuralism in Dialogue | Discourse and Society | 1998 | 1,402 |
| 4 | Critical Discourse Analysis and the Marketization of Public Discourse: The Universities | Discourse and Society | 1993 | 960 |
| 5 | Whose Text? Whose Context? | Discourse and Society | 1997 | 823 |
| 6 | Small stories as a new perspective in narrative and identity analysis | Text and Talk | 2008 | 760 |
| 7 | Discourse and the Denial of Racism | Discourse and Society | 1992 | 757 |
| 8 | Participation, stance and affect in the organization of activities | Discourse and Society | 2007 | 692 |
| 9 | Discourse and Text: Linguistic and Intertextual Analysis within Discourse Analysis | Discourse and Society | 1992 | 601 |
| 10 | The idiom principle and the open choice principle | Text & Talk | 2000 | 574 |
| 11 | Discourse and manipulation | Discourse and Society | 2006 | 542 |
| 12 | The Discursive Construction of National Identities | Discourse and Society | 1999 | 524 |
| 13 | Styles of stance in English: Lexical and grammatical marking of evidentiality and affect | Text & Talk | 1989 | 455 |
| 14 | “I Am Not a Racist But...”: Mapping White College Students' Racial Ideology in the USA | Discourse and Society | 2000 | 417 |
| 15 | Exploring the Color of Glass: Letters of Recommendation for Female and Male Medical Faculty | Discourse and Society | 2003 | 401 |
| 16 | Racism in the News: A Critical Discourse Analysis of News Reporting in Two Australian Newspapers | Discourse and Society | 2000 | 357 |
| 17 | Language has a heart | Text & Talk | 1989 | 344 |
| 18 | Britain as a container: immigration metaphors in the 2005 election campaign | Discourse and Society | 2006 | 344 |
| 19 | Discourse Semantics and Ideology | Discourse and Society | 1995 | 337 |
| 20 | `Like an Animal I was Treated': Anti-Immigrant Metaphor in US Public Discourse | Discourse and Society | 1999 | 329 |
| 21 | Jockeying for Position: The Construction of Masculine Identities | Discourse and Society | 1997 | 296 |
| 22 | Gender, genre, and writing style in formal written texts | Text & Talk | 2003 | 288 |
| 23 | Just Say No? The Use of Conversation Analysis in Developing a Feminist Perspective on Sexual Refusal | Discourse and Society | 1999 | 287 |
| 24 | Projection in Interaction and Projection in Grammar | Text & Talk | 2005 | 276 |
| 25 | Investigating Narrative Inequality: African Asylum Seekers' Stories in Belgium | Discourse and Society | 2001 | 272 |
| 26 | Being Politically Impolite: Extending Politeness Theory to Adversarial Political Discourse | Discourse and Society | 2001 | 250 |
| 27 | “There was a Problem, and it was Solved!”: Legitimating the Expulsion of `Illegal' Migrants in Spanish Parliamentary Discourse | Discourse and Society | 1997 | 249 |
| 28 | Humour and Hatred: The Racist Jokes of the Ku Klux Klan | Discourse and Society | 2001 | 249 |
| 29 | Why do news values matter? Towards a new methodological framework for analysing news discourse in Critical Discourse Analysis and beyond | Discourse and Society | 2014 | 233 |
| 30 | Beyond modality and hedging: A dialogic view of the language of intersubjective stance | Text & Talk | 2003 | 231 |
| 31 | Strategies of legitimization in political discourse: From words to actions | Discourse and Society | 2011 | 226 |
| 32 | Metaphor in Political Discourse: The Case of the `Common European House' | Discourse and Society | 1993 | 214 |
| 33 | Stance taking in conversation: From subjectivity to intersubjectivity | Text and Talk | 2006 | 211 |
| 34 | Audience diversity, participation and interpretation | Text & Talk | 1986 | 201 |
| 35 | Patterns of metaphor use in reconciliation talk | Discourse and Society | 2007 | 197 |
| 36 | Boosting, hedging and the negotiation of academic knowledge | Text & Talk | 1998 | 195 |
| 37 | The audience as co-author: An introduction | Text & Talk | 1986 | 188 |
| 38 | Genre and Field in Critical Discourse Analysis: A Synopsis | Discourse and Society | 1993 | 183 |
| 39 | Pride and Prejudice: Identity Management in English People's Talk about `this Country' | Discourse and Society | 2000 | 183 |
| 40 | Participation, affect, and trajectory in family directive/response sequences | Text and Talk | 2006 | 180 |
| 41 | Representing Social Action | Discourse and Society | 1995 | 175 |
| 42 | Power and Discourse in Organization Studies: Absence and the Dialectic of Control | Discourse and Society | 1991 | 174 |
| 43 | Reply to Wetherell | Discourse and Society | 1998 | 172 |
| 44 | Discourse across boundaries: On recontextualizations and the blending of voices in Professional discourse | Text & Talk | 1998 | 166 |
| 45 | Family Narrative as Political Activity | Discourse and Society | 1992 | 163 |
| 46 | Against Arbitrariness: The Social Production of the Sign as a Foundational Issue in Critical Discourse Analysis | Discourse and Society | 1993 | 161 |
| 47 | Collectivities in action: Establishing the relevance of conjoined participation in conversation | Text & Talk | 1993 | 161 |
| 48 | Making Gender Relevant: Conversation Analysis and Gender Categories in Interaction | Discourse and Society | 2001 | 159 |
| 49 | Critical discourse analysis and social cognition: evidence from business media discourse | Discourse and Society | 2005 | 158 |
| 50 | The Manufacture of `Public Opinion' by Reporters: Informal Cues for Public Perceptions of Protest Groups | Discourse and Society | 1992 | 156 |
| 51 | Discourse and the Projection of Corporate Culture: The Mission Statement | Discourse and Society | 1995 | 156 |
| 52 | New racism, meritocracy and individualism: constraining affirmative action in education | Discourse and Society | 2005 | 156 |
| 53 | Taking a stance on emotion: affect, sequence, and intersubjectivity in dialogic interaction | Text and Talk | 2012 | 152 |
| 54 | Constructions of racism in the Australian parliamentary debates on asylum seekers | Discourse and Society | 2007 | 141 |
| 55 | The textual organization of research paper abstracts in applied linguistics | Text & Talk | 1996 | 131 |
| 56 | Laughter as a patient's resource: Dealing with delicate aspects of medical interaction | Text & Talk | 2001 | 131 |
| 57 | The need for a social and affordance-driven multimodal critical discourse studies | Discourse and Society | 2016 | 127 |
| 58 | The pragmatics of political apologies | Discourse and Society | 2006 | 126 |
| 59 | Shepherding the child: embodied directive sequences in parent–child interactions | Text and Talk | 2010 | 123 |
| 60 | Institutional discourse | Text & Talk | 1985 | 121 |
| 61 | `Political Correctness': the Politics of Culture and Language | Discourse and Society | 2003 | 121 |
| 62 | Power in Discourse: The Case of Arguments on a British Talk Radio Show | Discourse and Society | 1996 | 120 |
| 63 | Breaking the sequential mold: Answering ‘more than the question’ during comprehensive history taking | Text & Talk | 2001 | 119 |
| 64 | Telling it Like it isn’t: Obscuring Perpetrator Responsibility for Violent Crime | Discourse and Society | 2004 | 118 |
| 65 | ‘The Scientists Think and the Public Feels’: Expert Perceptions of the Discourse of GM Food | Discourse and Society | 2004 | 118 |
| 66 | Time to get wired: Using web-based corpora in critical discourse analysis | Discourse and Society | 2005 | 118 |
| 67 | Introduction. Public transcripts: entextualization and linguistic representation in institutional contexts | Text and Talk | 2009 | 114 |
| 68 | Genocide or a Failure to Gel? Racism, History and Nationalism in Australian Talk | Discourse and Society | 1999 | 113 |
| 69 | Contrastive rhetoric: Japanese and English | Text & Talk | 1983 | 112 |
| 70 | The Management of Heterosexist Talk: Conversational Resources and Prejudiced Claims | Discourse and Society | 2000 | 112 |
| 71 | Staging insults and mobilizing categorizations in a multiethnic peer group | Discourse and Society | 2005 | 111 |
| 72 | Climate of Opinion: Public and Media Discourse on the Global Environment | Discourse and Society | 1994 | 110 |
| 73 | Concurrent verbal reports on text comprehension: A review | Text & Talk | 1988 | 109 |
| 74 | Popularization Discourse and Knowledge about the Genome | Discourse and Society | 2004 | 109 |
| 75 | Legitimation in corporate discourse: Oil corporations after Deepwater Horizon | Discourse and Society | 2012 | 108 |
| 76 | Struggles over legitimacy in the Eurozone crisis: Discursive legitimation strategies and their ideological underpinnings | Discourse and Society | 2014 | 107 |
| 77 | Not Just `Doctors' Orders': Directive-Response Sequences in Patients' Visits to Women and Men Physicians | Discourse and Society | 1990 | 105 |
| 78 | What do they mean? Questions in academic writing | Text & Talk | 2002 | 105 |
| 79 | The financial crisis in the German and English press: Metaphorical structures in the media coverage on Greece, Spain and Italy | Discourse and Society | 2014 | 105 |
| 80 | Functions of repetition in conversation | Text & Talk | 1987 | 104 |
| 81 | The notion of ‘prejudice’: Some rhetorical and ideological aspects | Text & Talk | 1988 | 104 |
| 82 | Critical Discourse Analysis and Conversation Analysis | Discourse and Society | 1999 | 104 |
| 83 | Speaking from Silence: Methods of Silencing and of Resistance | Discourse and Society | 1991 | 103 |
| 84 | Language, Gender and Floor Apportionment in Political Debates | Discourse and Society | 2000 | 102 |
| 85 | Are ‘queers’ really ‘queer’? Language, identity and same-sex desire in a South African online community | Discourse and Society | 2013 | 102 |
| 86 | Small stories transposition and social media: A micro-perspective on the ‘Greek crisis’ | Discourse and Society | 2014 | 102 |
| 87 | ‘They became big in the shadow of the crisis’ | Discourse and Society | 2014 | 102 |
| 88 | Coherence and connectedness in the development of discourse production | Text & Talk | 1982 | 98 |
| 89 | Quantification Rhetoric—cancer on Television | Discourse and Society | 1991 | 97 |
| 90 | Women's Talk in Public Contexts | Discourse and Society | 1992 | 97 |
| 91 | Preempting the future: rhetoric and ideology of the future in political discourse | Discourse and Society | 2005 | 97 |
| 92 | Frame Negotiation in Doctor-Elderly Patient Consultations | Discourse and Society | 1994 | 96 |
| 93 | The Ideological Organization of Representational Processes in the Presentation of us and them | Discourse and Society | 2001 | 96 |
| 94 | Learning to make racism funny in the ‘color-blind’ era: Stand-up comedy students, performance strategies, and the (re)production of racist jokes in public | Discourse and Society | 2013 | 96 |
| 95 | The alchemy of the upwardly mobile: symbolic capital and the stylization of elites in frequent-flyer programmes | Discourse and Society | 2006 | 95 |
| 96 | Language in New Capitalism | Discourse and Society | 2002 | 94 |
| 97 | ‘I’m very careful about that’: narrative and agency of men in prison | Discourse and Society | 2006 | 94 |
| 98 | Grammar and written discourse: Initial vs. final purpose clauses in English | Text & Talk | 1985 | 93 |
| 99 | Epistemological positioning and evidentiality in English news discourse: A text-driven approach | Text and Talk | 2006 | 93 |
| 100 | Crosstalk 2.0: asylum and communicative breakdowns | Text and Talk | 2011 | 93 |
