Pragmatics: Mapping Evidence on Enhancing Children’s Use of Linguistic and Non-Linguistic Capacities for Interactive Communication
Abstract
:1. Introduction
1.1. The Rise of Pragmatics
1.2. The Scope of Pragmatics
1.3. Scientific Contributions for Pragmatics
1.4. Purpose of the Present Study
2. Methods
2.1. Research Methods
2.2. Measures
2.3. Data-Collection and Sample
2.4. Data Analysis
3. Results
3.1. Overview of Pragmatics Studies from Scopus, Web of Science, and Lens
3.2. Production of Pragmatics Research by Country and University
3.3. Production of Pragmatics Research by Journal and Publisher
3.4. Production of Pragmatics by Research Area, Keywords and Cooccurrence
3.5. Production of Pragmatics by Authors
3.6. Impact of Research on Pragmatics
3.7. Impact of Research on Pragmatics by Clusters, Citation Counts, Citation Bursts, Centrality, and Sigma
3.7.1. Clusters
3.7.2. Citation Counts
3.7.3. Bursts
3.7.4. Centrality
3.7.5. Sigma
4. Discussion
4.1. Theoretical Implications
4.2. Practical Implications
4.3. Limitations and Future Directions
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Source Journal | Host Country | Publisher | Span | Volumes | Web Address | Scope of the Journal |
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Journal of Pragmatics | Netherlands | Elsevier | 1977–2020 | 191 | https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-pragmatics | Innovative pragmatic studies from all perspectives. |
Intercultural Pragmatics | Germany | De Gruyter Mouton | 2004–2020 | 18 | https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-pragmatics | General theoretic issues, multiple languages and cultures, or various varieties of a language. |
Pragmatics and Cognition | Netherlands | John Benjamins Publishing Company | 1993–2014, 2016–2019 | 27 | https://benjamins.com/catalog/pc | Linguistics, semiotics, cognitive science, neuroscience, artificial intelligence, philosophy, ethology and cognitive anthropology. |
Pragmatics | Belgium | International Pragmatics Association | 1986–2020 | 31 | https://benjamins.com/catalog/prag | Linguistics, anthropology, sociology, psychology or computation. |
Journal of Historical Pragmatics | Netherlands | John Benjamins Publishing Company | 2000–2019 | 22 | https://benjamins.com/catalog/jhp | Socio-historical and pragmatic aspects of historical texts within the context of socio-cultural communication as well as diachronic pragmatics. |
Pragmatics and Society | Netherlands | John Benjamins Publishing Company | 2010–2020 | 12 | https://benjamins.com/catalog/ps | Language use and social normativity, such as in education, political discourse as well as discriminatory language use. |
Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy and Psychology | Switzerland | Springer International Publishing AG | 2013–2014, 2016–2020 | 12 | https://www.springer.com/series/11797 | Theoretical pragmatics and pragmatics. |
International Review of Pragmatics | Netherlands | Brill Academic Publishers | 2014–2020 | 13 | https://brill.com/view/journals/irp/irp-overview.xml | Different topics in pragmatics |
Lodz Papers in Pragmatics | Germany | Versita (Central European Science Publishers) | 2015–2018, 2020 | 16 | https://www.degruyter.com/journal/key/lpp/html | Human communication, both in everyday interactions and in the media, whether verbal or written, institutional or interpersonal. |
Current Research in the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface | Netherlands | Brill Academic Publishers | 2007–2016, 2018 | https://brill.com/view/serial/CRISPI?lang=en | Different topics in semantics and pragmatics | |
Pragmatics and Beyond New Series | Netherlands | John Benjamins Publishing Company | 2018–2020 | https://benjamins.com/catalog/pbns | Different topics in pragmatics, linguistic and sociocultural contexts and different theoretical and methodological perspectives. | |
Studies in Pragmatics | Netherlands | Brill Academic Publishers | 2009–2010, 2012, 2014–2017 | https://brill.com/view/serial/SIP | Theoretical, analytical, and applied pragmatic studies. | |
East Asian Pragmatics | United Kingdom | Equinox Publishing Ltd. | 2018–2020 | 6 | https://journal.equinoxpub.com/EAP | East Asian language use contributing to pragmatics. |
Wednesday, 9 March 2022 Scopus TITLE-ABS-KEY ({pragmatics}) AND (LIMIT-TO (DOCTYPE, “ar”)) AND (LIMIT-TO (LANGUAGE, “English”)) 6554 document results from 1939 to 2022 |
WOS TS=(“pragmatics”) and Web of Science Core Collection (Database) and English (Languages) and Articles or Early Access (Document Types) 6597 results from Web of Science Core Collection from 1966 to February 2022 WOS (To get most cited authors and references in CiteSpace) “pragmatics” (Topic) and Articles (Document Types) and English (Languages) and 2022 or 2021 or 2020 or 2019 or 2018 (Publication Years) 2222 results from Web of Science Core Collection from 2018 to February 2022 |
Lens source.title:pragmatics Filters: Publication Type Scholarly Works (11,230) from 1966 to 2022 |
No. | Source Title | Citation | Citations by Database | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Scopus | WOS | Lens | |||
1 | A grammar of institutions | [59] | 694 | X | X |
2 | A pedagogy of multiliteracies: Designing social futures | [60] | 2892 | 2114 | X |
3 | Action and embodiment within situated human interaction | [61] | X | X | 1927 |
4 | Context, Activity and Participation | [62] | X | X | 574 |
5 | Development of the Children’s Communication Checklist (CCC): A method for assessing qualitative aspects of communicative impairment in children | [63] | X | 390 | Χ |
6 | From communication to language-a psychological perspective | [64] | 594 | X | X |
7 | Information Structure in Discourse: Towards an Integrated Formal Theory of Pragmatics | [65] | X | X | 719 |
8 | Moment analysis and translanguaging space: discursive construction of identities by multilingual Chinese youth in Britain | [66] | X | X | 765 |
9 | Neurophenomenology: A methodological remedy for the hard problem | [67] | 821 | X | X |
10 | Ontology mapping: The state of the art | [68] | 861 | X | X |
11 | Perspectives on politeness | [69] | X | X | 699 |
12 | Pinning down the concept of interface in bilingualism | [70] | X | 379 | X |
13 | Politeness phenomena in modern Chinese | [71] | X | X | 715 |
14 | Pragmatics of measuring recognition memory-applications to dementia and amnesia | [72] | 2437 | 2437 | X |
15 | Pragmatics, modularity and mind-reading | [73] | X | 484 | X |
16 | Qualitative content analysis in nursing research: Concepts, procedures and measures to achieve trustworthiness | [74] | 9320 | 8781 | X |
17 | Reexamination of the universality of face: Politeness phenomena in Japanese | [75] | X | X | 653 |
18 | Small wins: Redefining the scale of social problems | [76] | 624 | X | X |
19 | Successfully completing case study research: combining rigour, relevance and pragmatism | [77] | X | 371 | X |
20 | The discursive accomplishment of normality: On ?€?lingua franca?€? English and conversation analysis | [78] | X | X | 768 |
21 | The pragmatics of model-driven development | [79] | 841 | 555 | X |
22 | Towards an anatomy of impoliteness | [80] | X | X | 859 |
23 | What are discourse markers | [81] | X | Χ | 745 |
24 | When children are more logical than adults: experimental investigations of scalar implicature | [82] | X | 388 | X |
25 | Wisdom: A metaheuristic (pragmatic) to orchestrate mind and virtue toward excellence | [83] | 715 | 571 | X |
Cluster ID | Size | Silhouette | Label (LSI) | Label (LLR) | Label (MI) | Average Year |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
0 | 154 | 0.827 | pragmatic competence | speech act (741.32, 1.0 × 104) | syntax-discourse interface (3.68) | 1997 |
1 | 133 | 0.748 | case study | relevance-theoretic approach (542.65, 1.0 × 104) | syntax-discourse interface (2.87) | 1994 |
Scopus | ||||||
0 | 418 | 0.663 | natural language processing | autism spectrum disorder (5841.56, 1.0 × 104) | character equivalence (6.1) | 2004 |
1 | 297 | 0.472 | autism spectrum disorder | pragmatic disorder (1561.88, 1.0 × 104) | character equivalence (0.87) | 1991 |
2 | 212 | 0.785 | autism spectrum disorder | pragmatic language (3311.06, 1.0 × 104) | character equivalence (1.47) | 2001 |
WoS | Scopus | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Citation | Reference | Cluster ID | Citation | Reference | Cluster ID |
231 | Grice [84] | 3 | 25 | Bambini [90] | 0 |
154 | Brown [86] | 0 | 19 | Der Van [91] | 1 |
115 | Grice [6] | 1 | 19 | Haugh [92] | 4 |
100 | Leech [19] | 0 | 18 | Macagno [93] | 93 |
100 | Levinson [94] | 1 | 16 | Taguchi [95] | 14 |
100 | Sperber [8] | 1 | 15 | Bosco [96] | 3 |
96 | Austin [85] | 0 | 13 | Adams [97] | 5 |
92 | Levinson [5] | 2 | 12 | Kasher [98] | 10 |
81 | Deirdre [8] | 1 | 12 | Capone [99] | 93 |
56 | Bates [100] | 2 | 11 | Kadar [101] | 4 |
WoS | Scopus | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Burst | Reference | Cluster ID | Burst | Reference | Cluster ID |
4.52 | Brown [86] | 0 | 6.33 | Haugh [92] | 4 |
3.77 | Goffman [102] | 0 | 5.71 | Taguchi [95] | 14 |
3.72 | Austin [85] | 1 | 4.63 | Capone [99] | 93 |
3.45 | Silverstein [103] | 1 | 4.24 | Verschueren [104] | 89 |
3.44 | Harnish [105] | 1 | 3.96 | Der Van [91] | 1 |
3.18 | Kecskes [106] | 0 | 3.91 | Kadar [101] | 4 |
3.18 | Wilson [107] | 1 | 3.62 | Kasher [98] | 10 |
3.18 | Mills [108] | 0 | 3.06 | Goodman [109] | 11 |
3.11 | Grice [6] | 1 | 2.91 | Bott [110] | 13 |
2.92 | Bishop [87] | 3 | 2.87 | Nerlich [111] | 77 |
WoS | Scopus | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Centrality | Reference | Cluster ID | Centrality | Reference | Cluster ID |
314 | Grice [84] | 3 | 14 | Bambini [90] | 0 |
242 | Brown [86] | 0 | 12 | Der Van [91] | 1 |
224 | Levinson [5] | 2 | 10 | Zurif [112] | 2 |
221 | Grice [6] | 1 | 9 | Bosco [96] | 3 |
221 | Levinson [94] | 1 | 8 | Arcara [89] | 0 |
219 | Sperber [8] | 1 | 8 | MacWhinney [113] | 2 |
196 | Deirdre [8] | 1 | 7 | Katsos [114] | 1 |
175 | Austin [85] | 0 | 7 | O’Neil-Pirozzi [115] | 6 |
170 | Leech [19] | 0 | 7 | Ness [115] | 6 |
148 | Horn [116] | 1 | 7 | Byom [115] | 6 |
WoS | Scopus | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sigma | Reference | Cluster ID | Sigma | Reference | Cluster ID |
0 | Grice [84] | 3 | 0 | Bambini [90] | 0 |
0 | Brown [86] | 0 | 0 | Der Van [91] | 1 |
0 | Levinson [5] | 2 | 0 | Zurif [112] | 2 |
0 | Grice [6] | 1 | 0 | Bosco [96] | 3 |
0 | Levinson [94] | 1 | 0 | Arcara [89] | 0 |
0 | Sperber [8] | 1 | 0 | MacWhinney [113] | 2 |
0 | Deirdre [8] | 1 | 0 | Katsos [114] | 1 |
0 | Austin [85] | 0 | 0 | O’Neil-Pirozzi [115] | 6 |
0 | Leech [19] | 0 | 0 | Ness [115] | 6 |
0 | Horn [116] | 1 | 0 | Byom [115] | 6 |
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Alduais, A.; Al-Qaderi, I.; Alfadda, N.; Alfadda, H. Pragmatics: Mapping Evidence on Enhancing Children’s Use of Linguistic and Non-Linguistic Capacities for Interactive Communication. Children 2022, 9, 1318. https://doi.org/10.3390/children9091318
Alduais A, Al-Qaderi I, Alfadda N, Alfadda H. Pragmatics: Mapping Evidence on Enhancing Children’s Use of Linguistic and Non-Linguistic Capacities for Interactive Communication. Children. 2022; 9(9):1318. https://doi.org/10.3390/children9091318
Chicago/Turabian StyleAlduais, Ahmed, Issa Al-Qaderi, Najla Alfadda, and Hind Alfadda. 2022. "Pragmatics: Mapping Evidence on Enhancing Children’s Use of Linguistic and Non-Linguistic Capacities for Interactive Communication" Children 9, no. 9: 1318. https://doi.org/10.3390/children9091318
APA StyleAlduais, A., Al-Qaderi, I., Alfadda, N., & Alfadda, H. (2022). Pragmatics: Mapping Evidence on Enhancing Children’s Use of Linguistic and Non-Linguistic Capacities for Interactive Communication. Children, 9(9), 1318. https://doi.org/10.3390/children9091318