| Handbook of language and social interaction KL Fitch, RE Sanders Psychology Press, 2004 | 254 | 2004 |
| Cognitive foundations of calculated speech: Controlling understandings in conversation and persuasion RE Sanders State University of New York Press, 1987 | 201 | 1987 |
| Culture, communication, and preferences for directness in expression of directives KL Fitch, RE Sanders Communication Theory 4 (3), 219-245, 1994 | 86 | 1994 |
| The actual practice of compliance seeking RE Sanders, KL Fitch Communication Theory 11 (3), 263-289, 2001 | 72 | 2001 |
| The two-way relationship between talk in social interactions and actors' goals and plans RE Sanders Understanding face-to-face interaction, 167-188, 2013 | 64 | 2013 |
| The existential center of small groups: Member’s conduct and interaction JA Bonito, RE Sanders Small Group Research 42 (3), 343-358, 2011 | 64 | 2011 |
| The basic interactional competence of language learners I Kecskes, RE Sanders, A Pomerantz Journal of Pragmatics 124, 88-105, 2018 | 55 | 2018 |
| The impossibility of a culturally contexted conversation analysis: On simultaneous, distinct types of pragmatic meaning RE Sanders Research on Language & Social Interaction 32 (1-2), 129-140, 1999 | 48 | 1999 |
| A neo-rhetorical perspective: The enactment of role-identities as interactive and strategic RE Sanders The consequentiality of communication, 67-120, 2013 | 46 | 2013 |
| The production of symbolic objects as components of larger wholes RE Sanders Message production, 245-277, 2013 | 45 | 2013 |
| Implicatures: a schematic approach F Cooren, RE Sanders Journal of pragmatics 34 (8), 1045-1067, 2002 | 42 | 2002 |
| Applying the skills concept to discourse and conversation: The remediation of performance defects in talk-in-interaction RE Sanders Handbook of communication and social interaction skills, 239-274, 2003 | 41 | 2003 |
| Faith, mystery, and data: An analysis of “scientific” studies of persuasion C Larson, R Sanders Quarterly Journal of Speech 61 (2), 178-194, 1975 | 41 | 1975 |
| Speakers' footing in a collaborative writing task: A resource for addressing disagreement while avoiding conflict JA Bonito, RE Sanders Research on language and social interaction 35 (4), 481-514, 2002 | 39 | 2002 |
| Validating “observations” in discourse studies: A methodological reason for attention to cognition RE Sanders Conversation and cognition, 57-78, 2005 | 38 | 2005 |
| Tools for cohering discourse and their strategic utilization: Markers of structural connections and meaning relations RE Sanders Conversational coherence: Form, structure, and strategy, 67-80, 1983 | 37 | 1983 |
| Grammatical rules and explanations of behavior RE Sanders, LW Martin Inquiry 18 (1), 65-82, 1975 | 32 | 1975 |
| Style, meaning, and message effects RE Sanders Communications Monographs 51 (2), 154-167, 1984 | 31 | 1984 |
| The duality of speaker meaning: What makes self-repair, insincerity, and sarcasm possible RE Sanders Journal of Pragmatics 48 (1), 112-122, 2013 | 29 | 2013 |
| The sequential inferential theories of Sanders and Gottman RE Sanders, DP Cushman, B Kovacic Watershed research traditions in human communication theory, 101-136, 1995 | 29 | 1995 |
