Alessandro Duranti

10.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
57 papers, 4.7k citations indexed

About

Alessandro Duranti is a scholar working on Language and Linguistics, Linguistics and Language and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Alessandro Duranti has authored 57 papers receiving a total of 4.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Language and Linguistics, 22 papers in Linguistics and Language and 11 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Alessandro Duranti's work include Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (23 papers), Linguistic Variation and Morphology (17 papers) and Multilingual Education and Policy (15 papers). Alessandro Duranti is often cited by papers focused on Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (23 papers), Linguistic Variation and Morphology (17 papers) and Multilingual Education and Policy (15 papers). Alessandro Duranti collaborates with scholars based in United States and Italy. Alessandro Duranti's co-authors include Charles Goodwin, Angela Cora Garcia, James F. Weiner, Jack Sidnell, Elinor Ochs, C. Jason Throop, Francesco Antinucci, Jennifer F. Reynolds, Elizabeth Keating and Michael L. Forman and has published in prestigious journals such as Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews, Cognition and Language.

In The Last Decade

Alessandro Duranti

56 papers receiving 3.9k citations

Hit Papers

Rethinking Context: Langu... 1993 2026 2004 2015 1993 1993 1997 250 500 750 1000
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Rethinking Context: Language as an Interactive Phenomenon.
    1993 1.0k citations Alessandro Duranti et al. profile →
  2. Rethinking Context: Language as an Interactive Phenomenon
    1993 697 citations Alessandro Duranti et al. profile →
  3. Linguistic Anthropology
    1997 521 citations Alessandro Duranti Cambridge University Press eBooks profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alessandro Duranti United States 27 2.5k 1.3k 1.2k 946 869 57 4.7k
Deborah Schiffrin United States 26 3.4k 1.3× 1.1k 0.9× 1.8k 1.5× 1.5k 1.6× 628 0.7× 51 5.1k
Zdeněk Salzmann United States 28 2.0k 0.8× 855 0.7× 899 0.7× 781 0.8× 473 0.5× 85 3.7k
Bambi B. Schieffelin United States 22 2.4k 1.0× 2.0k 1.6× 1.2k 1.0× 486 0.5× 711 0.8× 50 4.8k
Robin Tolmach Lakoff United States 20 2.0k 0.8× 755 0.6× 1.1k 0.9× 618 0.7× 466 0.5× 45 3.8k
Nikolas Coupland United Kingdom 37 2.9k 1.2× 2.7k 2.1× 1.2k 0.9× 958 1.0× 779 0.9× 96 5.5k
Michael Silverstein United States 22 2.5k 1.0× 2.5k 1.9× 1.3k 1.1× 644 0.7× 923 1.1× 77 5.1k
Mary Bucholtz United States 30 2.9k 1.2× 3.0k 2.3× 1.8k 1.5× 453 0.5× 1.1k 1.3× 88 5.8k
Alexandra Georgakopoulou United Kingdom 25 1.4k 0.5× 718 0.6× 1.2k 1.0× 372 0.4× 1.0k 1.2× 71 3.5k
Aneta Pavlenko United States 38 3.4k 1.4× 2.2k 1.7× 1.8k 1.5× 1.5k 1.6× 589 0.7× 76 6.1k
J. Maxwell Atkinson United Kingdom 8 3.4k 1.3× 532 0.4× 1.7k 1.4× 1.4k 1.5× 718 0.8× 12 4.8k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Alessandro Duranti

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alessandro Duranti

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Duranti, Alessandro. (2023). If it is language that speaks, what do speakers do? Confronting Heidegger's language ontology. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology. 33(3). 285–310. 1 indexed citations
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Duranti, Alessandro, et al.. (2022). The Semiotics of Cooperation. Annual Review of Anthropology. 51(1). 85–101. 8 indexed citations
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Duranti, Alessandro. (2015). Beyond Bakhtin or the dialogic imagination in academia. Pragmatics Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA). 333–340. 1 indexed citations
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Duranti, Alessandro. (2014). The Anthropology of Intentions: Language in a World of Others. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 46 indexed citations
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Duranti, Alessandro. (2012). "Cortesia", "politeness" e "politesse": gerarchie, strategie e sentimenti. 37. 1 indexed citations
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Duranti, Alessandro. (2009). The Relevance of Husserl's Theory to Language Socialization. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology. 19(2). 205–226. 65 indexed citations
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Duranti, Alessandro. (2006). The social ontology of intentions. Discourse Studies. 8(1). 31–40. 43 indexed citations
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Duranti, Alessandro. (2005). On theories and models. Discourse Studies. 7(4-5). 409–429. 12 indexed citations
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Duranti, Alessandro. (2003). Language as Culture in U.S. Anthropology. Current Anthropology. 44(3). 323–347. 101 indexed citations
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Duranti, Alessandro. (2001). Key terms in language and culture. 66 indexed citations
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Duranti, Alessandro. (2001). Linguistic anthropology : a reader. Wiley-Blackwell eBooks. 183 indexed citations
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Duranti, Alessandro. (1999). Preface. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology. 9(1-2). 4–5. 1 indexed citations
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Duranti, Alessandro. (1997). Linguistic Anthropology. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 521 indexed citations breakdown →
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Duranti, Alessandro. (1994). From Grammar to Politics. 149 indexed citations
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Duranti, Alessandro. (1992). Heteroglossia in Samoan Oratory. Pacific studies. 15(4). 155–175. 5 indexed citations
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Duranti, Alessandro. (1992). La etnografía del habla: hacia una lingüística de la praxis. Dialnet (Universidad de la Rioja). 253–274. 5 indexed citations
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Duranti, Alessandro. (1990). Code Switching and Conflict Management in Samoan Multiparty Interaction. Pacific studies. 14(1). 1–30. 9 indexed citations
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Duranti, Alessandro. (1981). The Samoan fono: A sociolinguistic study. ANU Open Research (Australian National University). 42 indexed citations
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Duranti, Alessandro, et al.. (1977). Haya grammatical structure : phonology, grammar, discourse. 3 indexed citations

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