David Lawton

774 total citations · 1 hit paper
13 papers, 436 citations indexed

About

David Lawton is a scholar working on Linguistics and Language, Cultural Studies and Language and Linguistics. According to data from OpenAlex, David Lawton has authored 13 papers receiving a total of 436 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 4 papers in Linguistics and Language, 3 papers in Cultural Studies and 3 papers in Language and Linguistics. Recurrent topics in David Lawton's work include Linguistic Variation and Morphology (4 papers), Caribbean history, culture, and politics (3 papers) and Lexicography and Language Studies (2 papers). David Lawton is often cited by papers focused on Linguistic Variation and Morphology (4 papers), Caribbean history, culture, and politics (3 papers) and Lexicography and Language Studies (2 papers). David Lawton collaborates with scholars based in United States and Australia. David Lawton's co-authors include Pier Paolo Giglioli and Thomas Cable and has published in prestigious journals such as Modern Language Journal, Language Learning and The Modern Language Review.

In The Last Decade

David Lawton

9 papers receiving 307 citations

Hit Papers

1 papers align trajectories

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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 Context

1974 368 citations David Lawton, Pier Paolo Giglioli Modern Language Journal profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
David Lawton United States	5	224	144	115	75	62	13	436
Päivi Pahta Finland	14	288 1.3×	206 1.4×	129 1.1×	52 0.7×	30 0.5×	34	446
Irma Taavitsainen Finland	16	478 2.1×	255 1.8×	156 1.4×	142 1.9×	47 0.8×	58	661
Peter Mackridge United Kingdom	11	266 1.2×	126 0.9×	20 0.2×	102 1.4×	85 1.4×	48	504
Susan Fitzmaurice United States	12	406 1.8×	222 1.5×	185 1.6×	149 2.0×	20 0.3×	38	546
Ronald R. Butters United States	9	466 2.1×	546 3.8×	175 1.5×	112 1.5×	98 1.6×	39	792
John H. McDowell United States	9	183 0.8×	119 0.8×	165 1.4×	79 1.1×	78 1.3×	41	458
Mary Jane Hurst United Kingdom	6	112 0.5×	59 0.4×	253 2.2×	59 0.8×	86 1.4×	12	427
Ruth A. Borker	2	201 0.9×	110 0.8×	131 1.1×	39 0.5×	61 1.0×	4	393
Ladislav Matějka United States	9	81 0.4×	27 0.2×	110 1.0×	61 0.8×	58 0.9×	30	313
Dennis Baron United States	10	138 0.6×	132 0.9×	107 0.9×	25 0.3×	63 1.0×	35	354

Countries citing papers authored by David Lawton

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Lawton

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All Works

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13 of 13 papers shown

1.

Lawton, David. (2003). Sacrilege and Theatricality: the Croxton Play of the Sacrament. Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies. 33(2). 281–309. 7 indexed citations

2.

Lawton, David. (1995). A New Sketch for Verdi's 'I due Foscari'. 1(22). 2. 1 indexed citations

3.

Lawton, David & Thomas Cable. (1994). The English Alliterative Tradition. The Modern Language Review. 89(3). 706–706. 44 indexed citations

4.

Lawton, David. (1987). A. C. Spearing, Medieval to Renaissance in English Poetry. The Yearbook of Langland Studies. 1. 155–159. 1 indexed citations

5.

Lawton, David. (1986). The Autograph of Aida and the New Verdi Edition. 1(14). 1.

6.

Lawton, David. (1982). Review of Cassidy & Le Page (1980): Dictionary of Jamaican English. Language Problems & Language Planning. 6(3). 314–317.

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Lawton, David. (1982). Review of Akers (1981): Phonological Variation in the Jamaican Continuum. English World-Wide A Journal of Varieties of English. 3(2). 255–256. 1 indexed citations

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Lawton, David. (1980). Skelton's Use of Persona. Essays in Criticism. XXX(1). 9–28. 2 indexed citations

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Lawton, David. (1980). Language Attitude, Discreteness, and Code-Shifting in Jamaican Creole. English World-Wide A Journal of Varieties of English. 1(2). 211–226. 4 indexed citations

10.

Lawton, David. (1975). Chicano Spanish: Some Sociolinguistic Considerations.. 1 indexed citations

11.

Lawton, David & Pier Paolo Giglioli. (1974). Language and Social Context. Modern Language Journal. 58(3). 150–150. 368 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lawton, David. (1965). Social class differences in language development.. PubMed. 8(2). 52–7. 4 indexed citations

13.

Lawton, David. (1964). SOME PROBLEMS OF TEACHING A CREOLIZED LANGUAGE TO PEACE CORPS MEMBERS. Language Learning. 14(1-2). 11–19. 3 indexed citations

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