| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Language style as audience design | Language in Society | 1984 | 1,880 |
| 2 | A classification of illocutionary acts | Language in Society | 1976 | 1,608 |
| 3 | Language and woman's place | Language in Society | 1973 | 1,229 |
| 4 | Variation and the indexical field1 | Journal of Sociolinguistics | 2008 | 1,217 |
| 5 | Epistemics in Action: Action Formation and Territories of Knowledge | Research on Language and Social Interaction | 2012 | 1,060 |
| 6 | What no bedtime story means: Narrative skills at home and school | Language in Society | 1982 | 984 |
| 7 | Stance, Alignment, and Affiliation During Storytelling: When Nodding Is a Token of Affiliation | Research on Language and Social Interaction | 2008 | 881 |
| 8 | Sex, covert prestige and linguistic change in the urban British English of Norwich | Language in Society | 1972 | 865 |
| 9 | “Sharing time”: Children's narrative styles and differential access to literacy | Language in Society | 1981 | 739 |
| 10 | Overlapping talk and the organization of turn-taking for conversation | Language in Society | 2000 | 736 |
| 11 | On the syntax of sentences-in-progress | Language in Society | 1991 | 720 |
| 12 | Unsettling race and language: Toward a raciolinguistic perspective | Language in Society | 2017 | 718 |
| 13 | Some principles of linguistic methodology | Language in Society | 1972 | 661 |
| 14 | Globalization, the new economy, and the commodification of language and identity | Journal of Sociolinguistics | 2003 | 649 |
| 15 | Language ideologies and the consequences of standardization | Journal of Sociolinguistics | 2001 | 646 |
| 16 | Mobilizing Response | Research on Language and Social Interaction | 2010 | 605 |
| 17 | The Epistemic Engine: Sequence Organization and Territories of Knowledge | Research on Language and Social Interaction | 2012 | 594 |
| 18 | The organization of turns at formal talk in the classroom | Language in Society | 1978 | 573 |
| 19 | Constructing Social Identity: A Language Socialization Perspective | Research on Language and Social Interaction | 1993 | 550 |
| 20 | Reflections on Quantification in the Study of Conversation | Research on Language and Social Interaction | 1993 | 547 |
| 21 | Is Sybil there? the structure of some American English directives | Language in Society | 1976 | 534 |
| 22 | Narrative as self-portrait: Sociolinguistic constructions of identity | Language in Society | 1996 | 530 |
| 23 | The things we do with words: Ilongot speech acts and speech act theory in philosophy | Language in Society | 1982 | 526 |
| 24 | Contingency and Action: A Comparison of Two Forms of Requesting | Research on Language and Social Interaction | 2008 | 522 |
| 25 | The epistemics of social relations: Owning grandchildren | Language in Society | 2006 | 521 |
| 26 | Constituting and maintaining activities across sequences:And-prefacing as a feature of question design | Language in Society | 1994 | 519 |
| 27 | Who's got the floor? | Language in Society | 1981 | 486 |
| 28 | Sociolinguistic nostalgia and the authentication of identity | Journal of Sociolinguistics | 2003 | 466 |
| 29 | Multiple Temporalities of Language and Body in Interaction: Challenges for Transcribing Multimodality | Research on Language and Social Interaction | 2018 | 466 |
| 30 | Complaints About Transgressions and Misconduct | Research on Language and Social Interaction | 1998 | 464 |
| 31 | Oh-prefaced responses to inquiry | Language in Society | 1998 | 462 |
| 32 | English as a lingua franca: A threat to multilingualism? | Journal of Sociolinguistics | 2003 | 460 |
| 33 | “Why be normal?”: Language and identity practices in a community of nerd girls | Language in Society | 1999 | 443 |
| 34 | Challenges of multimodality: Language and the body in social interaction | Journal of Sociolinguistics | 2016 | 439 |
| 35 | Neoliberalism as language policy | Language in Society | 2013 | 425 |
| 36 | Contact, the feature pool and the speech community: The emergence of Multicultural London English | Journal of Sociolinguistics | 2011 | 419 |
| 37 | Selecting next speaker: The context-sensitive operation of a context-free organization | Language in Society | 2003 | 411 |
| 38 | Deontic Authority in Interaction: The Right to Announce, Propose, and Decide | Research on Language and Social Interaction | 2012 | 410 |
| 39 | Accommodating the elderly: Invoking and extending a theory | Language in Society | 1988 | 406 |
| 40 | SWOT ANALYSIS: A THEORETICAL REVIEW | Journal of International Social Research | 2017 | 406 |
| 41 | Reporting on Talk: The Use of Direct Reported Speech in Conversation | Research on Language and Social Interaction | 1996 | 404 |
| 42 | Creating a New Town koine: Children and language change in Milton Keynes | Language in Society | 2000 | 401 |
| 43 | Where does the sociolinguistic variable stop? | Language in Society | 1978 | 399 |
| 44 | Figures of speech: Figurative expressions and the management of topic transition in conversation | Language in Society | 1998 | 370 |
| 45 | Politeness theory and Shakespeare's four major tragedies | Language in Society | 1989 | 369 |
| 46 | Objectivity and commitment in linguistic science: The case of the Black English trial in Ann Arbor | Language in Society | 1982 | 363 |
| 47 | Replies and responses | Language in Society | 1976 | 361 |
| 48 | Social network and social class: Toward an integrated sociolinguistic model | Language in Society | 1992 | 361 |
| 49 | Towards a theory of interpersonal accommodation through language: some Canadian data | Language in Society | 1973 | 356 |
| 50 | Historical and theoretical perspectives in language policy and planning | Journal of Sociolinguistics | 2000 | 356 |
| 51 | Error correction as an interactional resource | Language in Society | 1974 | 351 |
| 52 | A preference for progressivity in interaction | Language in Society | 2006 | 351 |
| 53 | Dialect stylization in radio talk | Language in Society | 2001 | 349 |
| 54 | Theorizing identity in language and sexuality research | Language in Society | 2004 | 346 |
| 55 | Co-Constructing Meaning in Conversations With an Aphasie Man | Research on Language and Social Interaction | 1995 | 345 |
| 56 | Extreme Case Formulations: Softeners, Investment, and Doing Nonliteral | Research on Language and Social Interaction | 2000 | 344 |
| 57 | The construction of units in conversational talk | Language in Society | 2000 | 335 |
| 58 | A turn-taking system for British news interviews | Language in Society | 1988 | 327 |
| 59 | Do Gestures Communicate? A Review | Research on Language and Social Interaction | 1994 | 326 |
| 60 | Linguistic change and diffusion: description and explanation in sociolinguistic dialect geography | Language in Society | 1974 | 323 |
| 61 | The interpreter as institutional gatekeeper: The social‐linguistic role of interpreters in Spanish‐English medical discourse | Journal of Sociolinguistics | 2000 | 317 |
| 62 | Designedly Incomplete Utterances: A Pedagogical Practice for Eliciting Knowledge Displays in Error Correction Sequences | Research on Language and Social Interaction | 2002 | 316 |
| 63 | Styling the worker: Gender and the commodification of language in the globalized service economy | Journal of Sociolinguistics | 2000 | 309 |
| 64 | Co-Construction: An Introduction | Research on Language and Social Interaction | 1995 | 305 |
| 65 | Sociolinguistic authenticities | Journal of Sociolinguistics | 2003 | 305 |
| 66 | Global Englishes, Rip Slyme, and performativity | Journal of Sociolinguistics | 2003 | 305 |
| 67 | Koines and koineization | Language in Society | 1985 | 304 |
| 68 | Peasant men can't get wives: language change and sex roles in a bilingual community | Language in Society | 1978 | 301 |
| 69 | Jewish argument as sociability | Language in Society | 1984 | 301 |
| 70 | Be like et al. beyond America: The quotative system in British and Canadian youth | Journal of Sociolinguistics | 1999 | 301 |
| 71 | The organization of repair in classroom talk | Language in Society | 1990 | 297 |
| 72 | The Community of Practice: Theories and methodologies in language and gender research | Language in Society | 1999 | 297 |
| 73 | Phonation type as a stylistic variable: The use of falsetto in constructing a persona1 | Journal of Sociolinguistics | 2007 | 297 |
| 74 | Talking to children in Western Samoa | Language in Society | 1982 | 292 |
| 75 | Introduction: Sociolinguistics and computer-mediated communication | Journal of Sociolinguistics | 2006 | 291 |
| 76 | Beginning to Respond:Well-Prefaced Responses toWh-Questions | Research on Language and Social Interaction | 2009 | 291 |
| 77 | Transformative answers: One way to resist a question’s constraints | Language in Society | 2010 | 291 |
| 78 | Disagreement and concession in disputes: On the context sensitivity of preference structures | Language in Society | 1993 | 287 |
| 79 | Language rights: Moving the debate forward | Journal of Sociolinguistics | 2005 | 282 |
| 80 | On the structure of speaker–auditor interaction during speaking turns | Language in Society | 1974 | 278 |
| 81 | Adolescent social structure and the spread of linguistic change | Language in Society | 1988 | 274 |
| 82 | The universality of conversational postulates | Language in Society | 1976 | 269 |
| 83 | Identity constructions in multilingual advertising | Language in Society | 2001 | 268 |
| 84 | Gender identity and lexical variation in social media | Journal of Sociolinguistics | 2014 | 267 |
| 85 | Gender and genre variation in weblogs | Journal of Sociolinguistics | 2006 | 265 |
| 86 | Reporting and Reacting: Concurrent Responses to Reported Speech | Research on Language and Social Interaction | 2000 | 260 |
| 87 | Passing for a native speaker: Identity and success in second language learning | Journal of Sociolinguistics | 2002 | 259 |
| 88 | Prompting Action: The Stand-Alone "So" in Ordinary Conversation | Research on Language and Social Interaction | 2004 | 259 |
| 89 | The Eyes of the Beholder: Understanding the Turn-Taking System in Quasi-Synchronous Computer-Mediated Communication | Research on Language and Social Interaction | 1999 | 258 |
| 90 | Modified Repeats: One Method for Asserting Primary Rights From Second Position | Research on Language and Social Interaction | 2005 | 252 |
| 91 | Recruitment: Offers, Requests, and the Organization of Assistance in Interaction | Research on Language and Social Interaction | 2016 | 252 |
| 92 | Caveat Speaker: Preliminary Notes on Recipient Topic-Shift Implicature | Research on Language and Social Interaction | 1993 | 251 |
| 93 | Variation in discourse—“and stuff like that” | Language in Society | 1980 | 250 |
| 94 | Accent, standard language ideology, and discriminatory pretext in the courts | Language in Society | 1994 | 248 |
| 95 | The News Delivery Sequence: Bad News and Good News in Conversational Interaction | Research on Language and Social Interaction | 1997 | 248 |
| 96 | On questions following questions in service encounters | Language in Society | 1976 | 247 |
| 97 | Functions of you know in women's and men's speech | Language in Society | 1986 | 246 |
| 98 | How children start arguments | Language in Society | 1985 | 243 |
| 99 | The relevance of repair for classroom correction | Language in Society | 2004 | 242 |
| 100 | You da man: Narrating the racial other in the production of white masculinity | Journal of Sociolinguistics | 1999 | 239 |
