OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Lingua is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
‘Using all English is not always meaningful’: Stakeholders’ perspectives on the use of and attitudes towards translanguaging at a Chinese university	84
Funny but aversive: A large-scale survey of the emotional response to Covid-19 humor in the Italian population during the lockdown	47
Altered speech act indication: A contrastive pragmatic study of English and Chinese Thank and Greet expressions	33
The power of swearing: What we know and what we don’t	20
Metadiscourse across languages and genres: An overview	18
Proposing a revised functional classification of pragmatic gestures	17
Simplification in translated Chinese: An entropy-based approach	17
Stance expressions in academic writing: A corpus-based comparison of Chinese students’ MA dissertations and PhD theses	16
Sources for courses: Metadiscourse and the role of citation in student writing	16
‘The goal of this analysis …’: Changing patterns of metadiscursive nouns in disciplinary writing	15
Surprise markers in applied linguistics research articles: A diachronic perspective	15
Framing metaphor use over time: ‘Free Economy’ metaphors in Hong Kong political discourse (1997–2017)	15
Processing implicatures in English as a Lingua Franca communication	13
Conceptual attaching in perception and practice-based behavior	13
Agency and responsibility: A linguistic analysis of culpable acts in retraction notices	12
Automated lexical and time series modelling for critical discourse research: A case study of Hong Kong protest editorials	12
Motion events again: Delimiting constructional patterns	11
Emergent neologism: A study of an emerging meaning with competing forms based on the first six months of COVID-19	11
Dialects or languages: A corpus-based quantitative approach to lexical variation in common signs in Chinese Sign Language (CSL)	10
Narrative pantomime: A protolanguage for persuasive communication	10
Can explicit instruction of formulaic sequences enhance L2 oral fluency?	10
What surprises, interests and confuses researchers? A frame-based analysis of knowledge emotion markers in research articles	9
Interaction, speech acts and ritual: An integrative model	9
Constructional idioms of ‘insanity’ in English and Spanish: A corpus-based study	9
When the owner of information is unsure: Epistemic uncertainty influences evidentiality processing in Turkish	9

There may be differences: Analysing the use of hedges in English and Spanish research articles	8
Syntactic complexity of interpreted, L2 and L1 speech: A constrained language perspective	8
The emergence of referential shift devices in three young sign languages	8
Linguistic insecurity and discrimination among Italian school students	7
How did language evolve in the lineage of higher primates?	7
Parataxis or hypotaxis? Choices of taxis in Chinese–English translation	7
Syntactic and typological properties of translational language: A comparative description of dependency treebank of academic abstracts	7
Afrikaans discourse-pragmatic features in South African English	7
Laryngeal vocalizations: Grunts as a gateway to language?	7
Cognitive control in older Minnan-Mandarin and Hakka-Mandarin bidialectal adults: Advantages in Stroop-type tasks	6
Development of voice onset time in monolingual and bilingual French-speaking children	6
Home and away – Implications of short-term sojourning of young Australian bilinguals	6
Cross-linguistic transfer in Turkish–English bilinguals’ descriptions of motion events	5
Effects of proficiency and gender on learners’ use of the pragmatic marker 吧ba	5
Emotion at the end of life: Semantic annotation and key domains in a pilot study audiovisual corpus	5
Lexical use and social class: A study on lexical richness, word length, and word class in spoken English	5
Towards a new typology of meteorological events: A study based on synchronic and diachronic data	5
Nostalgic diaspora or diasporic nostalgia? Discursive and identity constructions of Greeks in Qatar	5
Cross-linguistic collocational networks in the L1 Turkish–L2 English mental lexicon	5
(Non-)propositional irony in Japanese – Impoliteness behind honorifics	5
Copulas ser and estar production in child and adult heritage speakers of Spanish	5
Syntactic simplification in interpreted English: Dependency distance and direction measures	5
Metadiscourse in academic writing: A systematic review	5
Pseudo-cleft-like structures in Hebrew and French conversation: The syntax-lexicon-body interface	5
Shell nouns as grammatical metaphor in knowledge construal: Variation across science and engineering discourse	5
Exploring the ‘languaging habitus’ of a diasporic community: Colombians in New Zealand	5
The role of interactional and cognitive mechanisms in the evolution of (proto)language(s)	5
Animacy and agentivity of Subject Themes in English-German translation	4
Investigating diachronic change in dependency distance of Modern English: A genre-specific perspective	4
Emotional intelligence, working memory, and emotional vocabulary in L1 and L2: Interactions and dissociations	4
Conceptual metonymy and emotive-affective meaning at the interface: Examples from online medical consultations	4
Are there core and peripheral syntactic structures? Experimental evidence from Dutch native speakers with varying literacy levels	4
Typological characteristics of interlanguage: Across native language types and L2 proficiency levels	4
Dynamic modelling of context: Field, Tenor and Mode revisited	4
Translatorial voice through modal stance: A corpus-based study of modality shifts in Chinese-to-English translation of research article abstracts	4
Semantic scope in Q-float constructions: An experimental investigation	4
What you “mean” is not what I “mean”: Categorization of verbs by Germans and Koreans using the semantic differential	4
Emergence and evolution of language in multi-agent systems	4
Socioenvironmental affordances of an English-medium instruction international university specializing in English as a lingua franca communication: An exploratory study of L2 student voices	4
‘De-ethnicization’ in New Englishes: Perception and recognition of ethnicity in Namibian English	4
Comparison-and-contrast in research articles of applied linguistics: A frame-based analysis	4
A multidimensional analysis of the Spanish reportative epistemic evidential dizque	4
Neological intuition in French: A study of formal novelty and lexical regularity as predictors	4
How Gbe is Guianese French Creole?	4
Acoustic salience in the evaluations of intelligibility and foreign accentedness of nonnative vowel production	4
Pitch syntax as part of an ancient protolanguage	4
Assessing structural language skills of autistic adults: Focus on sentence repetition	4
Inequalities in status: How do they show in discourse and what can be done about them?	4
Morphological processing and individual frequency effects in L1 and L2 Spanish	3
Exploring motion event construal: How much attention do speakers of different languages and cultures pay to context?	3

The development of Latin alphabet identity markers: A comparison among three Romance graphemes	3
Pushing SFL out of its comfort zone: The role of SPCA structure in English and Spanish	3
Variation and change of middle-class /r/ in Standard Scottish English	3
Frequency matters in second language acquisition too! Frequency effects in the production of preterit morphology with state verbs in Spanish second language learners and heritage speakers	3
A corpus-based study of adjectivizations in English	3
Exploring the effect of interpreting training: Eye-tracking English-Chinese sight interpreting	3
Modelability of WAR metaphors across time in cross-national COVID-19 news translation: An insight into ideology manipulation	3
Predictive processing of grammatical gender: Using gender cues to facilitate processing in Spanish	3
Linguistic characteristics of online academic forum posts across subregisters, L1 backgrounds, and grades	3
Comparatives in Korean: A grammaticalization perspective	3
Variation in verbal negation in Jordanian Arabic: A corpus-based analysis	3
The difference intersubjective grammar makes in protactile DeafBlind communities	3
Overlap not gap: Understanding the relationship between animal communication and language with Prototype Theory	3
Anaphora resolution and age effects in Greek-Spanish bilingualism: Evidence from first-generation immigrants, heritage speakers, and L2 speakers	3
Northern Middle English spelling evidence in the Durham Account Rolls	3
The compositionality of English phrasal verbs in terms of imageability	3
Transitivity-ergativity perspectives on causation in legal texts: A contrastive study of Arabic and English website terms of service	3
Retrieval practice enhances learning and memory retention of French words in Chinese-English bilinguals	3
Corpus similarity measures remain robust across diverse languages	3
Contextually categorised adjective as predicate in Mandarin	3
Gratitude for compliance: A developmental study on the speech act of thanking	2
Repair-by-deletion/insertion and the distribution of the copula in African American English	2
The effectiveness of metaphors in Chinese video advertisements for depression: An experimental study	2
Compliment patterns in English: L1 and L2 production in the virtual exchange environment	2
Pseudo-clefts: An interactional analysis across languages	2
Perception of foreign segments in loanword phonology	2
Figuratively used product names: From ergonyms to eponyms and paragons	2
The vowel system of Eastern Andalusian Spanish speakers with articulation disorders	2
Listening to accents: Comprehensibility, accentedness and intelligibility of native and non-native English speech	2
Linguistic encounters in real world prescriptivism: Acknowledging its place and role	2
The functions and evolution of xob ‘well’ in Persian: A thetical analysis	2
Understanding spelling conflicts in Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, and Serbian: Insights from speakers’ attitudes and beliefs	2
Fulfillment types in Realization events: Definition, distinctions, and diagnostics	2
Engaging social media users with attitudinal messages during health crisis communication	2
Is Hanja represented in the Korean mental lexicon?: Encoding cross-script semantic cohorts in the representation of Sino-Korean	2
Compound words are decomposed regardless of semantic transparency and grammatical class: An fMRI study in Persian	2
Gender dissimilarity between subject and object facilitates online-comprehension of agent–patient–relations in German: An eye-tracking study with 6- to 10-year-old monolingual children	2
To combine is to divide: Evidence of the noun-verb distinction at the morphemic level in compound nouns	2
An intercultural analysis of metadiscourse in international mathematical contest papers: From research to EAP practice	2
How are neural machine-translated Chinese-to-English short stories constructed and cohered? An exploratory study based on theme-rheme structure	2
Retracing the phonesthemic {gr-/prehension}, {sm-/oral phenomena} and {sn-/nasality} relations in English to Proto-Indo-European and beyond within a semiogenetic perspective	2
The origin and development of the question particle me1 in Cantonese	2
Visualizing prosodic structure: Manual gestures as highlighters of prosodic heads and edges in English academic discourses	2
Exploring color metaphor with Behavioral Profiles: A usage-based analysis on the metaphorical meanings of the Chinese color term bái “white”	2
Knowledge of idiomatic expressions in the native language: Do emigrants lose their touch?	2
Metaphors and trauma: An image schematic analysis of symptom-specific metaphors	2
The Chinese character you (有): A functional approach	2
The role of semantics and orthography in modulating conscious access to Chinese words	2
Paragon and antonomasia: Similar but/and different?	2
Intonation and exchange: A dynamic and metafunctional view	2
It's as far as the arm can raise: Pointing height marks target distance among the San Juan Quiahije Chatino	2
Fitting in: Stylizing and (re)negotiating Congolese youth identity and multilingualism in Cape Town	2
An extensive analysis of blending in Contemporary Italian	2
Introduction: Reimagining language and belonging in the diaspora	2
Expressions of interest in research articles: Geo-academic location and time as influencing factors	2
No Gods and precious few heroes: SFL and evolutionary linguistics	2
Does dialect matter in the expression of motion? Ways of encoding manner and path in Babao and standard Mandarin	2
On the predicative use of Chinese gradable adjectives	2
Particle stacking in Singlish – New data from the National Speech Corpus	2
A comparative study of the phrase frames used in the essays of native and nonnative English students	2
Intersubjective understanding in finger braille interpreter-mediated interaction: Two case studies of other-initiated repair	2
Intersubjectivity and (non-)shared modes of interaction in Australian tactile signing	2
Possessive pronouns, Condition C and Anti-Cataphora Effects	2