Wallace Chafe

13.0k total citations · 3 hit papers
84 papers, 4.4k citations indexed

About

Wallace Chafe is a scholar working on Language and Linguistics, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Linguistics and Language. According to data from OpenAlex, Wallace Chafe has authored 84 papers receiving a total of 4.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Language and Linguistics, 14 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 12 papers in Linguistics and Language. Recurrent topics in Wallace Chafe's work include Historical Linguistics and Language Studies (13 papers), Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (12 papers) and Linguistic Variation and Morphology (11 papers). Wallace Chafe is often cited by papers focused on Historical Linguistics and Language Studies (13 papers), Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (12 papers) and Linguistic Variation and Morphology (11 papers). Wallace Chafe collaborates with scholars based in United States. Wallace Chafe's co-authors include Frank Heny, Paul M. Postal, Deborah Tannen, Sydney M. Lamb, Henry Μ. Hoenigswald, Marianne Mithun, Ronald W. Langacker, Michael Foster, Gertrude P. Kurath and Robert E. Longacre and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Language and The American Journal of Psychology.

In The Last Decade

Wallace Chafe

77 papers receiving 3.2k 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.

Givenness, contrastiveness, definiteness, subjects, topics, and point of view

1976 1.0k citations Wallace Chafe profile →
Discourse, Consciousness, and Time: The Flow and Displacement of Conscious Experience in Speaking and Writing

1994 789 citations Wallace Chafe profile →
Meaning and the Structure of Language

1972 460 citations Wallace Chafe et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Wallace Chafe United States	21	2.7k	1.8k	1.0k	890	784	84	4.4k
Dwight Bolinger United States	32	2.7k 1.0×	2.4k 1.4×	1.3k 1.2×	1.2k 1.3×	805 1.0×	127	4.6k
Jan Svartvik Sweden	14	3.4k 1.3×	1.3k 0.7×	1.5k 1.4×	1.2k 1.3×	847 1.1×	28	5.1k
Paul J. Hopper United States	19	3.6k 1.3×	1.8k 1.0×	969 0.9×	1.5k 1.6×	608 0.8×	37	4.6k
Sidney Greenbaum United Kingdom	21	3.6k 1.3×	1.2k 0.7×	1.5k 1.5×	1.4k 1.6×	909 1.2×	51	5.4k
Wolfgang U. Dressler Austria	24	2.1k 0.8×	965 0.5×	689 0.7×	734 0.8×	830 1.1×	155	3.6k
Rodney Huddleston Australia	17	4.5k 1.7×	1.6k 0.9×	1.6k 1.6×	1.8k 2.0×	794 1.0×	44	6.0k
Randolph Quirk United Kingdom	22	4.3k 1.6×	1.4k 0.8×	1.5k 1.5×	2.0k 2.2×	920 1.2×	71	6.3k
Stig Johansson Norway	17	3.1k 1.2×	1.1k 0.6×	1.4k 1.3×	1.0k 1.2×	1.3k 1.7×	46	4.8k
Jerrold J. Katz United States	24	1.9k 0.7×	1.4k 0.8×	1.1k 1.1×	341 0.4×	592 0.8×	84	3.9k
Margaret E. Winters United States	9	1.9k 0.7×	1.3k 0.8×	563 0.5×	388 0.4×	413 0.5×	30	2.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Wallace Chafe

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Fields of papers citing papers by Wallace Chafe

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wallace Chafe

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Chafe, Wallace, John W. Du Bois, & Sandra A. Thompson. (2014). Towards a new corpus of spoken American English. 76–94. 1 indexed citations

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Chafe, Wallace. (2000). Floyd Glenn Lounsbury. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society: Held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge. 144(2). 225–229. 1 indexed citations

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Chafe, Wallace. (1994). Functional sentence perspective in written and spoken communication . By Jan Firbas. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Pp. xv, 239. Cloth $54.95.. Language. 70(2). 350–353. 169 indexed citations

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Chafe, Wallace, et al.. (1987). Properties of Spoken and Written Language. Technical Report No. 5.. Frontiers in Medicine. 9. 842428–842428. 2 indexed citations

5.

Chafe, Wallace, et al.. (1976). Significado y estructura de la lengua. Planeta eBooks. 1 indexed citations

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Chafe, Wallace. (1976). The Caddoan, Iroquoian, and Siouan Languages. 16 indexed citations

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Chafe, Wallace, et al.. (1976). American Indian languages and American linguistics. 5 indexed citations

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Chafe, Wallace, et al.. (1975). Значение и структура языка. 1 indexed citations

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Chafe, Wallace. (1974). Language and Consciousness. Language. 50(1). 111–133. 157 indexed citations

10.

Chafe, Wallace. (1973). Language and Memory. Language. 49(2). 261–281. 29 indexed citations

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Langacker, Ronald W. & Wallace Chafe. (1972). Meaning and the Structure of Language. Language. 48(1). 134–134. 20 indexed citations

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Chafe, Wallace. (1971). Directionality and Paraphrase. Language. 47(1). 1–1. 12 indexed citations

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Chafe, Wallace & Paul M. Postal. (1970). Aspects of Phonological Theory. Language. 46(1). 116–116. 198 indexed citations

14.

Chafe, Wallace & Sydney M. Lamb. (1968). Outline of Stratificational Grammar. Language. 44(3). 593–593. 83 indexed citations

15.

Chafe, Wallace. (1967). Language as Symbolization. Language. 43(1). 57–57. 14 indexed citations

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Chafe, Wallace & Robert E. Longacre. (1965). Grammar Discovery Procedures: A Field Manual. Language. 41(4). 640–640. 5 indexed citations

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Chafe, Wallace. (1962). Phonetics, Semantics, and Language. Language. 38(4). 335–335. 10 indexed citations

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Chafe, Wallace & Henry Μ. Hoenigswald. (1961). Language Change and Linguistic Reconstruction. Language. 37(1). 113–113. 32 indexed citations

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Chafe, Wallace. (1961). Seneca Morphology VII: Irregularities and Variants. International Journal of American Linguistics. 27(3). 223–225. 1 indexed citations

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Chafe, Wallace. (1959). Internal Reconstruction in Seneca. Language. 35(3). 477–477. 15 indexed citations

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