| The classification of cooperative illocutionary acts M Hancher Language in society 8 (1), 1-14, 1979 | 532 | 1979 |
| The Tenniel illustrations to the" Alice" books M Hancher Ohio State University Press, 1985 | 114* | 1985 |
| Three kinds of intention M Hancher MLN 87 (7), 827-851, 1972 | 90 | 1972 |
| How to play games with words: Speech-act jokes M Hancher Journal of Literary Semantics 9 (1), 20-29, 1980 | 63 | 1980 |
| Humpty Dumpty and Verbal Meaning M Hancher The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 40 (1), 49-58, 1981 | 52 | 1981 |
| Lewis Carroll, a celebration: essays on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson E Guiliano (No Title), 1982 | 36 | 1982 |
| Speech acts and the law M Hancher Georgetown University Press, 1980 | 35 | 1980 |
| Beyond a speech-act theory of literary discourse M Hancher MLN 92 (5), 1081-1098, 1977 | 34 | 1977 |
| Dead Letters: Wills and Poems M Hancher Tex. L. Rev. 60, 507, 1981 | 31 | 1981 |
| Performative Utterance, the Word of God, and the Death of the Author M Hancher Semeia 41, 27-40, 1988 | 28 | 1988 |
| Grice’s “implicature” and literary interpretation: background and preface M Hancher Twentieth Annual Meeting of the Midwest Modern Language Association …, 1978 | 27 | 1978 |
| Re: Search and Close Reading M Hancher Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016, 118-38, 2016 | 25 | 2016 |
| Re: Search and Close Reading M Hancher Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016, 218-38, 2016 | 25 | 2016 |
| Alice’s Audiences M Hancher Romanticism and Children’s Literature in Nineteenth-Century England, 190-207, 1991 | 25 | 1991 |
| Understanding poetic speech acts M Hancher College English 36 (6), 632-639, 1975 | 24* | 1975 |
| The science of interpretation, and the art of interpretation M Hancher MLN 85 (6), 791-802, 1970 | 21 | 1970 |
| Punch and Alice: Through Tenniel’s Looking-Glass: Essays on the Occasion of the 150th Anniversary of the Birth of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson M Hancher Lewis Carroll, A Celebration: Essays on the Occasion of the 150th …, 1982 | 15 | 1982 |
| "Punch" and "Alice": Through Tenniel's Looking Glass M Hancher Lewis Carroll: A Celebration—Essays on the Occasion of the 150th …, 1982 | 15* | 1982 |
| What kind of speech act is interpretation? M Hancher poetics 10 (2-3), 263-281, 1981 | 14 | 1981 |
| Penny Magazine:‘March of Intellect in the Butchering Line' M Hancher Nineteenth-Century Media and the Construction of Identities, 93, 0 | 13* | |
