Jan Firbas

1.2k total citations
24 papers, 277 citations indexed

About

Jan Firbas is a scholar working on Language and Linguistics, Cultural Studies and Communication. According to data from OpenAlex, Jan Firbas has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 277 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Language and Linguistics, 8 papers in Cultural Studies and 6 papers in Communication. Recurrent topics in Jan Firbas's work include Discourse Analysis and Cultural Communication (8 papers), Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity (7 papers) and Language, Communication, and Linguistic Studies (6 papers). Jan Firbas is often cited by papers focused on Discourse Analysis and Cultural Communication (8 papers), Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity (7 papers) and Language, Communication, and Linguistic Studies (6 papers). Jan Firbas collaborates with scholars based in Czechia. Jan Firbas's co-authors include Karel Pala, Josef Vachek, Kristin Davidse, Kay Hodson Carlton and Brygida Rudzka-Ostyn and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Linguistics, Cambridge University Press eBooks and Americanae (AECID Library).

In The Last Decade

Jan Firbas

13 papers receiving 200 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Jan Firbas Czechia 5 195 106 59 55 39 24 277
František Daneš 7 227 1.2× 118 1.1× 70 1.2× 102 1.9× 37 0.9× 26 346
Ad Foolen Netherlands 8 227 1.2× 159 1.5× 47 0.8× 59 1.1× 68 1.7× 26 319
Susan L. Blake United States 7 207 1.1× 96 0.9× 105 1.8× 33 0.6× 36 0.9× 13 324
María Sandra Peña Cervel Spain 9 235 1.2× 228 2.2× 39 0.7× 38 0.7× 76 1.9× 31 348
Frank Brisard Belgium 10 197 1.0× 145 1.4× 32 0.5× 21 0.4× 53 1.4× 38 273
Timothy Shopen Australia 8 260 1.3× 152 1.4× 54 0.9× 22 0.4× 25 0.6× 8 373
Daniel Gutzmann Germany 9 260 1.3× 111 1.0× 67 1.1× 35 0.6× 84 2.2× 23 315
Ádám Makkai United States 6 198 1.0× 94 0.9× 55 0.9× 15 0.3× 22 0.6× 15 261
Dylan Glynn France 8 199 1.0× 153 1.4× 68 1.2× 29 0.5× 19 0.5× 32 301
Zsuzsanna Fagyal United States 10 174 0.9× 185 1.7× 74 1.3× 45 0.8× 27 0.7× 31 334

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jan Firbas

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Firbas, Jan. (2015). Thoughts on functional sentence perspective, intonation and emotiveness.
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Firbas, Jan. (2015). A case study in linear modification : (on translating Apoc. 21.6b). 1 indexed citations
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Firbas, Jan. (2015). Thoughts on the communicative function of the verb in English, German and Czech.
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Firbas, Jan. (2015). Professor Josef Vachek - an honorary doctor of Masaryk university.
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Firbas, Jan. (2015). Scene and perspective. 1 indexed citations
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Firbas, Jan. (2014). Dogs must be carried on the escalator : (a case study in FSP potentiality). 114–127. 1 indexed citations
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Firbas, Jan. (1995). Retrievability span in functional sentence perspective. 21(1). 5 indexed citations
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Firbas, Jan, Kay Hodson Carlton, Kristin Davidse, & Brygida Rudzka-Ostyn. (1994). Communicative purpose as conveyed by functional sentence perspective. 2 indexed citations
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Vachek, Josef & Jan Firbas. (1994). Historický vývoj angličtiny. 1 indexed citations
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Firbas, Jan. (1993). Can the functional perspective of a spoken sentence be predicted from that of its written counterpart? : an inquiry based on a comparative analysis of J.D. O'Connor's and R. Kingdon's tonetic transcriptions of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. 20(1).
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Firbas, Jan. (1992). Functional Sentence Perspective in Written and Spoken Communication. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 174 indexed citations
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Firbas, Jan. (1989). Degrees of communicative dynamism and degrees of prosodic prominence (weight). 18(1). 4 indexed citations
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Firbas, Jan. (1987). Thoughts on functional sentence perspective, intonation and emotiveness. Part two. 17(1). 1 indexed citations
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Firbas, Jan. (1987). On some basic issues of the theory of functional sentence perspective. II, On Wallace L. Chafe's views on new and old information and communicative dynamism. 17(1). 1 indexed citations
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Firbas, Jan. (1983). On some basic issues of the theory of functional sentence perspective : comments on Alexander Szwedek's critique. 15(1). 2 indexed citations
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Firbas, Jan. (1979). A functional view of "ordo naturalis". 13(1). 29–59. 13 indexed citations
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Firbas, Jan. (1971). On the concept of communicative dynamism in the theory of functional sentence perspective. 20. 135–144. 49 indexed citations
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Firbas, Jan. (1968). On the prosodic features of the modern English finite verb as means of functional sentence perspective : (more thoughts on transition proper). 7(1). 3 indexed citations
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Firbas, Jan. (1964). From comparative word-order studies : (thoughts on V. Mathesius' conception of the word-order system in English compared with that in Czech). 4(1). 111–128. 1 indexed citations

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