Miriam Meyerhoff

5.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
76 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Miriam Meyerhoff is a scholar working on Linguistics and Language, Language and Linguistics and Gender Studies. According to data from OpenAlex, Miriam Meyerhoff has authored 76 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 62 papers in Linguistics and Language, 51 papers in Language and Linguistics and 13 papers in Gender Studies. Recurrent topics in Miriam Meyerhoff's work include Linguistic Variation and Morphology (60 papers), Multilingual Education and Policy (41 papers) and Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (32 papers). Miriam Meyerhoff is often cited by papers focused on Linguistic Variation and Morphology (60 papers), Multilingual Education and Policy (41 papers) and Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (32 papers). Miriam Meyerhoff collaborates with scholars based in New Zealand, United Kingdom and United States. Miriam Meyerhoff's co-authors include Janet Holmes, Bill Reynolds, Roumyana Izvorski, Nancy Niedzielski, Erik Schleef, James A. Walker, Václav Březina, Lynn Clark, Laurel MacKenzie and Susan Ehrlich and has published in prestigious journals such as Language, Annual Review of Anthropology and Journal of Pragmatics.

In The Last Decade

Miriam Meyerhoff

66 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Hit Papers

Working papers in linguistics 1994 2026 2004 2015 1994 100 200 300 400
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. Working papers in linguistics
    1994 467 citations Roumyana Izvorski, Miriam Meyerhoff et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Miriam Meyerhoff New Zealand 20 1.2k 1.0k 410 263 218 76 1.8k
Malcah Yaeger‐Dror United States 14 916 0.7× 1.0k 1.0× 473 1.2× 303 1.2× 142 0.7× 38 1.5k
John Baugh United States 17 859 0.7× 1.2k 1.2× 352 0.9× 367 1.4× 122 0.6× 46 1.8k
Dennis R. Preston United States 20 1.5k 1.2× 1.8k 1.7× 605 1.5× 378 1.4× 137 0.6× 70 2.3k
John E. Joseph United Kingdom 21 1.1k 0.9× 722 0.7× 248 0.6× 380 1.4× 112 0.5× 161 1.9k
James Milroy United Kingdom 14 1.4k 1.2× 1.7k 1.7× 456 1.1× 396 1.5× 139 0.6× 32 2.2k
John R. Rickford United States 23 1.3k 1.1× 1.9k 1.8× 493 1.2× 490 1.9× 333 1.5× 56 2.8k
Peter Collins Australia 19 690 0.6× 544 0.5× 213 0.5× 234 0.9× 169 0.8× 75 1.3k
Timothy C. Frazer United States 16 800 0.7× 807 0.8× 248 0.6× 244 0.9× 118 0.5× 39 1.4k
Salikoko S. Mufwene United States 24 2.1k 1.7× 2.3k 2.2× 454 1.1× 549 2.1× 178 0.8× 124 3.1k
Ralph W. Fasold United States 16 1.2k 1.0× 1.4k 1.3× 438 1.1× 356 1.4× 128 0.6× 34 2.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Miriam Meyerhoff

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All Works

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Meyerhoff, Miriam, et al.. (2024). Navigating epistemic challenges: Self-initiated self-repair in weight loss discussions within clinical settings. Journal of Pragmatics. 233. 51–69.
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McKee, Rachel, et al.. (2024). “Two hands are powerful”. Handedness variation and genre in New Zealand Sign Language. Language & Communication. 100. 60–76.
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Meyerhoff, Miriam, et al.. (2020). Styles, standards and meaning. 4(1). 1–16. 5 indexed citations
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Meyerhoff, Miriam. (2019). Unnatural bedfellows? The sociolinguistic analysis of variation and language documentation. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 49(2). 229–241. 8 indexed citations
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Meyerhoff, Miriam. (2019). In pursuit of social meaning. Journal of Sociolinguistics. 23(3). 303–315.
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Meyerhoff, Miriam. (2018). Introducing Sociolinguistics. 62 indexed citations
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Meyerhoff, Miriam. (2015). Turning variation on its head. 1(1). 78–108. 13 indexed citations
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Meyerhoff, Miriam, Erik Schleef, & Laurel MacKenzie. (2015). Doing Sociolinguistics: A practical guide to data collection and analysis. 16 indexed citations
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Meyerhoff, Miriam & James N. Stanford. (2015). “Tings change, all tings change”: the changing face of sociolinguistics with a global perspective. 21–35. 7 indexed citations
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Ehrlich, Susan, Miriam Meyerhoff, & Janet Holmes. (2014). The handbook of language, gender, and sexuality. Wiley-Blackwell eBooks. 14 indexed citations
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Meyerhoff, Miriam, et al.. (2011). Sociolinguistic Fieldwork. Oxford University Press eBooks. 2 indexed citations
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Meyerhoff, Miriam & Erik Schleef. (2010). The Routledge sociolinguistics reader. 11 indexed citations
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Pope, Jennifer, Miriam Meyerhoff, & D. Robert Ladd. (2007). Forty years of language change on Martha's Vineyard. Language. 83(3). 615–627. 25 indexed citations
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Meyerhoff, Miriam. (2001). Another Look at the Typology of Serial Verb Constructions: The Grammaticalization of Temporal Relations in Bislama (Vanuatu). Oceanic Linguistics. 40(2). 247–247. 4 indexed citations
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Meyerhoff, Miriam. (2000). Constraints on null subjects in Bislama (Vanuatu): Social and linguistics factors. California Digital Library. 12 indexed citations
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Meyerhoff, Miriam. (1997). Engendering identities: Pronoun selection as an indicator of salient intergroup identities. Scholarly Commons (University of Pennsylvania). 4(1). 3–7. 2 indexed citations
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Meyerhoff, Miriam. (1996). (N)WAVES and means : a selection of papers from NWAVE 24. 5 indexed citations
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Izvorski, Roumyana, et al.. (1994). Working papers in linguistics. 467 indexed citations breakdown →

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