Asif Agha

7.5k total citations · 3 hit papers
29 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

About

Asif Agha is a scholar working on Language and Linguistics, Linguistics and Language and Communication. According to data from OpenAlex, Asif Agha has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Language and Linguistics, 13 papers in Linguistics and Language and 6 papers in Communication. Recurrent topics in Asif Agha's work include Multilingual Education and Policy (10 papers), Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (9 papers) and Linguistic Variation and Morphology (8 papers). Asif Agha is often cited by papers focused on Multilingual Education and Policy (10 papers), Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (9 papers) and Linguistic Variation and Morphology (8 papers). Asif Agha collaborates with scholars based in United States and China. Asif Agha's co-authors include Jiaqing Zeng and has published in prestigious journals such as Annual Review of Anthropology, American Anthropologist and Language in Society.

In The Last Decade

Asif Agha

28 papers receiving 3.0k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Language and Social Relations

2006 1.0k citations Asif Agha Cambridge University Press eBooks profile →
The social life of cultural value

2003 613 citations Asif Agha Language & Communication profile →
Voice, Footing, Enregisterment

2005 591 citations Asif Agha Journal of Linguistic Anthropology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Asif Agha United States	17	1.9k	1.7k	879	563	350	29	3.3k
Judith T. Irvine United States	18	1.4k 0.7×	1.3k 0.8×	646 0.7×	390 0.7×	171 0.5×	40	2.5k
Kira Hall United States	18	1.2k 0.6×	1.4k 0.8×	889 1.0×	547 1.0×	458 1.3×	39	2.7k
Nancy C. Dorian United States	20	2.0k 1.0×	1.5k 0.9×	1.1k 1.2×	443 0.8×	154 0.4×	60	3.5k
Monica Heller Canada	29	3.4k 1.7×	2.1k 1.2×	1.9k 2.1×	850 1.5×	238 0.7×	105	4.4k
Sally McConnell‐Ginet United States	21	1.1k 0.6×	1.7k 1.0×	847 1.0×	419 0.7×	1.0k 2.9×	38	3.2k
Alexandra Jaffe United States	20	1.0k 0.5×	843 0.5×	583 0.7×	464 0.8×	189 0.5×	53	2.0k
Robert Phillipson Denmark	26	2.9k 1.5×	2.6k 1.5×	2.8k 3.2×	594 1.1×	197 0.6×	114	4.8k
Crispin Thurlow Switzerland	22	716 0.4×	717 0.4×	540 0.6×	650 1.2×	246 0.7×	62	2.2k
Ingrid Piller Australia	23	1.7k 0.9×	1.7k 1.0×	1.5k 1.7×	533 0.9×	238 0.7×	95	3.3k
Jonathan Rosa United States	17	2.7k 1.4×	1.6k 0.9×	1.9k 2.1×	1.2k 2.2×	235 0.7×	24	4.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Asif Agha

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Fields of papers citing papers by Asif Agha

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This network shows the impact of papers produced by Asif Agha. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Asif Agha. The network helps show where Asif Agha may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Asif Agha

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Asif Agha. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Asif Agha based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Asif Agha. Asif Agha is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Agha, Asif. (2023). Norm and trope in social indexicality. Chinese Semiotic Studies. 19(4). 569–593. 1 indexed citations

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Zeng, Jiaqing & Asif Agha. (2021). Cantonese as a World Language. Journal of Student Research. 10(2). 1 indexed citations

3.

Agha, Asif, et al.. (2015). Registers of Communication. Directory of Open access Books (OAPEN Foundation). 10 indexed citations

4.

Agha, Asif. (2015). Tropic aggression in the Clinton-Dole presidential debate. Pragmatics Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA). 461–497. 15 indexed citations

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Agha, Asif. (2015). Tropes of Slang. Signs and Society. 3(2). 306–330. 31 indexed citations

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Agha, Asif. (2015). Chronotopic Formulations and Kinship Behaviors in Social History. Anthropological Quarterly. 88(2). 401–415. 26 indexed citations

7.

Agha, Asif. (2011). Commodity Registers. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology. 21(1). 22–53. 103 indexed citations

8.

Agha, Asif. (2011). Mediatized projects at State peripheries. Language & Communication. 32(2). 98–101. 13 indexed citations

9.

Agha, Asif. (2011). Large and small scale forms of personhood. Language & Communication. 31(3). 171–180. 65 indexed citations

10.

Agha, Asif. (2011). Meet mediatization. Language & Communication. 31(3). 163–170. 127 indexed citations

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Agha, Asif. (2010). Recycling mediatized personae across participation frameworks. Pragmatics and Society. 1(2). 311–319. 5 indexed citations

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Agha, Asif. (2007). The Object Called “Language” and the Subject of Linguistics. Journal of English Linguistics. 35(3). 217–235. 45 indexed citations

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Agha, Asif. (2006). Language and Social Relations. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 1042 indexed citations breakdown →

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Agha, Asif. (2005). Introduction. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology. 15(1). 1–5. 66 indexed citations

15.

Agha, Asif. (1999). Understanding Cultures through Their Key Words: English, Russian, Polish, German, and Japanese. American Anthropologist. 101(4). 860–861. 5 indexed citations

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Agha, Asif. (1998). Stereotypes and registers of honorific language. Language in Society. 27(2). 151–193. 26 indexed citations

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Agha, Asif. (1998). Stereotypes and registers of honorific language. Language in Society. 27(2). 151–193. 109 indexed citations

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Agha, Asif. (1997). ‘Concept’ and ‘communication’ in evolutionary terms. Semiotica. 116(2-4). 189–216. 5 indexed citations

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Agha, Asif. (1994). The Semantics and Pragmatics of Verb Classifiers in Urdu-Hindi. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. 20(1). 14–14.

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Agha, Asif. (1993). Grammatical and Indexical Convention in Honorific Discourse. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology. 3(2). 131–163. 59 indexed citations

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