| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Critical discourse analysis and critical policy studies | Critical Policy Studies | 2013 | 341 |
| 2 | Systems of Goals, Attitudes, and Self-related Beliefs in Second-Language-Learning Motivation | Applied Linguistics | 2011 | 222 |
| 3 | Conventionalised impoliteness formulae | Journal of Pragmatics | 2010 | 195 |
| 4 | “Not Soldiers but Fire-fighters” – Metaphors and Covid-19 | Health Communication | 2021 | 179 |
| 5 | Sketching Muslims: A Corpus Driven Analysis of Representations Around the Word 'Muslim' in the British Press 1998-2009 | Applied Linguistics | 2013 | 175 |
| 6 | Two Languages, Two Minds | Psychological Science | 2015 | 159 |
| 7 | The online use of Violence and Journey metaphors by patients with cancer, as compared with health professionals: a mixed methods study | BMJ Supportive and Palliative Care | 2017 | 159 |
| 8 | Recontextualizing European higher education policies: the cases of Austria and Romania | Critical Discourse Studies | 2010 | 155 |
| 9 | Task complexity and linguistic and discourse features of narrative writing performance | Journal of Second Language Writing | 2011 | 148 |
| 10 | Acceptable bias? Using corpus linguistics methods with critical discourse analysis | Critical Discourse Studies | 2012 | 119 |
| 11 | ‘Metaphoring’ people out of this world: A Critical Discourse Analysis of a chairman’s statement of a UK defence firm | Accounting Forum | 2012 | 108 |
| 12 | ‘New’ Scottish Gaelic speakers in Glasgow: A phonetic study of language revitalisation | Language in Society | 2015 | 103 |
| 13 | Political strategies and language policies: the European Union Lisbon strategy and its implications for the EU’s language and multilingualism policy | Language Policy | 2011 | 98 |
| 14 | Recontextualising fascist ideologies of the past: right-wing discourses on employment and nativism in Austria and the United Kingdom | Critical Discourse Studies | 2009 | 94 |
| 15 | Actor descriptions, action attributions, and argumentation: towards a systematization of CDA analytical categories in the representation of social groups 1 | Critical Discourse Studies | 2010 | 90 |
| 16 | Visual GISting: bringing together corpus linguistics and Geographical Information Systems | Literary and Linguistic Computing | 2011 | 80 |
| 17 | The role of socio-economic factors in motivation to learn English as a foreign language: The case of Chile | System | 2013 | 77 |
| 18 | Case and Alternative Strategies | | 0 | 74 |
| 19 | ‘Why do white people have thin lips?’ Google and the perpetuation of stereotypes via auto-complete search forms | Critical Discourse Studies | 2013 | 73 |
| 20 | An Integrated Approach to Metaphor and Framing in Cognition, Discourse, and Practice, with an Application to Metaphors for Cancer | Applied Linguistics | 0 | 71 |
| 21 | Expressions of gratitude in corpus and DCT data: Vocabulary, formulaic sequences, and pedagogy | System | 2006 | 70 |
| 22 | “The World's Local Bank”: Glocalisation as a Strategy in Corporate Branding Discourse | Social Semiotics | 2007 | 64 |
| 23 | Critique, the discourse–historical approach, and the Frankfurt School | Critical Discourse Studies | 2011 | 64 |
| 24 | ‘This is England, speak English!’: a corpus-assisted critical study of language ideologies in the right-leaning British press | Critical Discourse Studies | 2019 | 60 |
| 25 | The Principle of (Im)politeness Reciprocity | Journal of Pragmatics | 2021 | 56 |
| 26 | Impersonal you and stance-taking in social research interviews | Journal of Pragmatics | 2012 | 54 |
| 27 | The English Dialects App: The creation of a crowdsourced dialect corpus | Ampersand | 2018 | 54 |
| 28 | On the road to somewhere: Brain potentials reflect language effects on motion event perception | Cognition | 2015 | 53 |
| 29 | The interplay of language ideologies and contextual cues in multilingual interactions: Language choice and code-switching in European Union institutions | Language in Society | 2012 | 52 |
| 30 | Contact calls: Twitter as a dialogic social and linguistic practice | Language Sciences | 2013 | 52 |
| 31 | Prestige From the Bottom Up: A Review of Language Planning in Guernsey | Current Issues in Language Planning | 2005 | 49 |
| 32 | Doctoral supervisors’ and supervisees’ responses to co-supervision | Journal of Further and Higher Education | 2017 | 47 |
| 33 | Pragmatic Approaches (Im)politeness | | 2017 | 46 |
| 34 | Hymns, prayers and Bible stories: the role of religious literacy practices in children’s literacy learning | Ethnography and Education | 2018 | 45 |
| 35 | Safe Places in Domestic Spaces: Two-Year-Olds at Play in their Homes | Children's Geographies | 2007 | 44 |
| 36 | What does patient feedback reveal about the NHS? A mixed methods study of comments posted to the NHS Choices online service | BMJ Open | 2017 | 43 |
| 37 | Stance-taking and public discussion in blogs | Critical Discourse Studies | 2010 | 42 |
| 38 | The Whorfian time warp: Representing duration through the language hourglass. | Journal of Experimental Psychology: General | 2017 | 41 |
| 39 | Inclusive practices in teaching students with dyslexia: Second language teachers’ concerns, attitudes and self-efficacy beliefs on a massive open online learning course | Teaching and Teacher Education | 2017 | 41 |
| 40 | The effect of foreign language in fear acquisition | Scientific Reports | 2018 | 41 |
| 41 | Investigating the reading-to-write processes and source use of L2 postgraduate students in real-life academic tasks: An exploratory study | Journal of English for Academic Purposes | 2013 | 40 |
| 42 | Interpersonal evidentiality: The Mandarin V-过 guo construction and other evidential systems beyond the ‘source of information’ | Journal of Pragmatics | 2013 | 39 |
| 43 | A Context‐sensitive Approach to Analysing Talk in Strategy Meetings | British Journal of Management | 2012 | 38 |
| 44 | The Relationship Between Task Difficulty and Second Language Fluency in French: A Mixed Methods Approach | Modern Language Journal | 2015 | 37 |
| 45 | Constructing social meaning in political discourse: Phonetic variation and verb processes in Ed Miliband's speeches | Language in Society | 2016 | 36 |
| 46 | Illocutional concurrences: The case of evaluative speech acts and face-work in spoken Mandarin and American English | Journal of Pragmatics | 2018 | 36 |
| 47 | The Relationship Between Utterance and Perceived Fluency: A Meta‐Analysis of Correlational Studies | Modern Language Journal | 2021 | 36 |
| 48 | The effect of dual task demands and proficiency on second language speech production | Bilingualism | 2012 | 35 |
| 49 | Phonetic variation in Scottish Gaelic laterals | Journal of Phonetics | 2014 | 34 |
| 50 | A mixed-method study of language-learning motivation and intercultural contact of international students | Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development | 2014 | 33 |
