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Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Sébastien Vandenitte
University of Namur
2
Lauretta S. P. Cheng
University of Toronto
3
Nicola Nasi
University of Bologna
4
Penelope Howe
University of Antananarivo
5
Zion Mengesha
Stanford University
6
Yingtong Liu
Shanghai Electric (China)
7
Yueh Hsin Kuo
National Chengchi University
8
Wesley Y. Leonard
University of California, Riverside
9
Leora Bar‐el
University of Montana
10
Eleanor Jorgensen
The University of Melbourne

Rising Stars Papers

1
On the directionality from temporal to conditional
Folia Linguistica|2025
26 cit.
2
Children’s invoking of school rules in directive sequences with adults at home and school: mobilizing the teacher and school artefacts as authoritative sources
Text and Talk|2024
17 cit.
3
Spatial and material resources in peer recruitment sequences: the co-operative and stepwise work behind young children’s mutual engagement in the preschool
Children s Geographies|2026
2 cit.
4
A Relationally Accountable Sociolinguistics Is an Ethical Sociolinguistics
Journal of Sociolinguistics|2026
1 cit.
5
Ideology, Awareness, and Sociophonetic Perception in Asian American and Canadian Speech
Deep Blue (University of Michigan)|2024
0 cit.
6
Co-creating with teachers during participatory action research: Teachers’ perceptions, researchers’ dilemmas, and some possible strategies to enhance communication in the field
Action Research|2024
0 cit.
7
Supporting Career Progression in Publishing Through Systematic Analysis of Job Descriptions: A Cross‐Industry Initiative
Learned Publishing|2025
0 cit.
8
Language creativity and heteroglossia in the peer group: Children’s performative wordplay as humorous practice
Discourse Studies|2025
0 cit.
9
On the distinction between ambiguity and vagueness in grammatical change
Journal of Historical Linguistics|2026
0 cit.
10
No unidirectionality: Textual <i>yào</i> in Mandarin as contentful and procedural
The Canadian Journal of Linguistics / La revue canadienne de linguistique|2026
0 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Amy Snyder Ohta
University of Washington
2
Sender Dovchin
Curtin University
3
Sharese King
University of Chicago
4
Dilip Kumar Bhowmik
Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College
5
Jie Zhang
Zhongnan University of Economics and Law
6
Jia Li
Ministry of Education
7
Anna Kuder
Józef Piłsudski University of Physical Education in Warsaw
8
Feng Jiang
University of Hong Kong
9
Derya Demirçay
Avans University of Applied Sciences
10
Alysson Lepeut
University of Namur

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
AI generates covertly racist decisions about people based on their dialect
Nature|2024
171 cit.
2
“Why Should I Not Speak My Own Language (Chinese) in Public in America?”: Linguistic Racism, Symbolic Violence, and Resistance
TESOL Quarterly|2022
71 cit.
3
Translingual English discrimination: loss of academic sense of belonging, the hiring order of things, and students from the Global South
Applied Linguistics Review|2022
67 cit.
4
Unequal English accents, covert accentism and EAL migrants in Australia
International Journal of the Sociology of Language|2022
65 cit.
5
Peripheral multilingual scholars confronting epistemic exclusion in global academic knowledge production: a positive case study
Multilingua|2022
59 cit.
6
Does ChatGPT Argue Like Students? Bundles in Argumentative Essays
Applied Linguistics|2024
58 cit.
7
Reflection and reform of applied linguistics from the Global South: power and inequality in English users from the Global South
Applied Linguistics Review|2022
57 cit.
8
SkCoder: A Sketch-based Approach for Automatic Code Generation
Unknown Journal|2023
51 cit.
9
Metadiscourse choices in EAP: An intra-journal study of JEAP
Journal of English for Academic Purposes|2022
46 cit.
10
Titles in research articles: Changes across time and discipline
Learned Publishing|2022
40 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Gail Jefferson
University of Manchester
2
Victoria Clarke
University of the West of England
3
Michael Tomasello
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
4
Susan Goldin‐Meadow
University of Chicago
5
Stephen C. Levinson
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
6
Kira Hall
University of Colorado System
7
Richard Y. Bourhis
Université du Québec à Montréal
8
Johannes Wagner
University of Southern Denmark
9
Sandra A. Thompson
University of California, Santa Barbara
10
John Heritage
University of California, Los Angeles

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
Using thematic analysis in psychology
Qualitative Research in Psychology|2006
183.3k cit.
2
Reflecting on reflexive thematic analysis
Qualitative Research in Sport Exercise and Health|2019
17.3k cit.
3
A simplest systematics for the organization of turn-taking for conversation
Language|1974
11k cit.
4
A simplest systematics for the organization of turn-taking for conversation
Language|1974
8.7k cit.
5
One size fits all? What counts as quality practice in (reflexive) thematic analysis?
Qualitative Research in Psychology|2020
8.3k cit.
6
Thematic Analysis: A Practical Guide
QMiP Bulletin|2022
5k cit.
7
Thematic analysis
The Journal of Positive Psychology|2016
4.8k cit.
8
To saturate or not to saturate? Questioning data saturation as a useful concept for thematic analysis and sample-size rationales
Qualitative Research in Sport Exercise and Health|2019
4.4k cit.
9
WEIRD languages have misled us, too [Comment on Henrich et al.]
Max Planck Digital Library|2010
4.1k cit.
10
Conceptual and design thinking for thematic analysis.
Qualitative Psychology|2021
4k cit.

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