OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Language in Society is 1. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The (white) ears of Ofsted: A raciolinguistic perspective on the listening practices of the schools inspectorate	27
Other-repetition in conversation across languages: Bringing prosody into pragmatic typology	20
Membership categorization analysis of racism in an online discussion among neighbors	16
Managing narratives, managing identities: Language and credibility in legal consultations with asylum seekers	15
Examining family language policy through realist social theory	14
Modulating action through minimization: Syntax in the service of offering and requesting	14
‘Converse racialization’ and ‘un/marking’ language: The making of a bilingual university in a neoliberal world	14
Calibrate to innovate: Community age vectors and the real time incrementation of language change	11
Affect in sociolinguistic style	11
Culture inside: Scale, intimacy, and chronotopic stance in situated narratives	11
The impact of preschool attendance on children's bidialectism in The Netherlands: Why toddlers may stop speaking a regional language (Limburgish) at home	9
(De)coupling race and language: The state listening subject and its rearticulation of antiracism as racism in Singapore	9
The social meaning of a merger: The evaluation of an Andalusian Spanish consonant merger (ceceo)	8
‘Because it's easier to kill that way’: Dehumanizing epithets, militarized subjectivity, and American necropolitics	7
The spatial logic of linguistic practice: Bourdieusian inroads into language and internationalization in academe	7
Making privilege palatable: Normative sustainability in chefs’ Instagram discourse	7
‘Keep calm, stay safe, and drink bubble tea’: Commodifying the crisis of Covid-19 in Singapore advertising	7
Performing microcelebrity: Analyzing Papi Jiang's online persona through stance and style	6
Affect and iconicity in phonological variation	6
Fear, anger, and desire: Affect and the interactional intricacies of rape humor on a live podcast	6
Continuity and hybridity in language revival: The case of Manx	6
English at the center of the periphery: ‘Chicken nuggets’, chronotopes, and scaling English in Bahraini youth	6
‘I'm a boy, can't you see that?’: Dialogic embodiment and the construction of agency in trans youth discourse	6
Racism is not just hate speech: Ethnonationalist victimhood in YouTube comments about the Roma during Covid-19	6
Marking and unmarking the (non)native speaker through English language proficiency requirements for university admission	5

The prosody of other-repetition in British and North American English	5
Sign networks: Nucleated network sign languages and rural homesign in Papua New Guinea	5
Power, policing, and language policy mechanisms in schools: A response to Hudson	5
Generics in society	5
Grammaticalization and language contact in a discourse-pragmatic change in progress: The spread ofinnitin London English	4
‘I especially loved the little Nana dancing on the balcony’: The emergence, formation, and circulation of chronotopes in mass-mediated communication	4
A tale of two cities: The discursive construction of ‘place’ in gentrifying East London	4
Normativity, power, and agency: On the chronotopic organization of orthographic conventions on social media	4
Probing linguistic change in Arabic vernaculars: A sociohistorical perspective	4
Challenging generalisations: Leveraging the power of individuality in support group interactions	4
‘The good English’: The ideological construction of the target language in adult ESOL	4
(Trans)languaging, power, and resistance: Bordering as discursive agency	4
Neoliberalism, English, and spoiled identity: The case of a high-achieving university graduate in Hong Kong	4
Prosody and ideologies of embodiment: Variation in the use of pitch and articulation rate among fitness instructors	4
Phonetic variation and change in the Cockney Diaspora: The role of place, gender, and identity	4
Linguistic constraint, social meaning, and multi-modal stylistic construction: Case studies from Mandarin pop songs	4
The recontextualisation of Multicultural London English: Stylising the ‘roadman’	3
On the unity of types: Lao gambling, ethno-metapragmatics, and generic and specific modes of typification	3
The social meaning of stylistic variability: Sociophonetic (in)variance in United States presidential candidates’ campaign rallies	3
Doing ‘being interrupted’ in political talk	3
How categorization impacts the design of requests: Asking for email addresses in call-centre interactions	3
Secondary education as a group marker in St. Louis, Missouri	3
Comment on ‘The policy and policing of language in schools’ by Ian Cushing	3
Co-opting the neoliberal manhood ideal: Masculinity, normativity, and recursive normalisation in Serbian gay men's digital dating profiles	3
Introduction to the Generic Special Issue	3
Ní Saoirse go Saoirse na mBan: Gender and the Irish language in the linguistic landscape of Ireland's 2018 abortion referendum	3
The people's critical linguistics: Using archival data to investigate responses to linguistic informalisation	3
Mechanisms of meaning making in the co-occurrence of pragmatic markers with silent pauses	3
‘Use your words’: Vocalization and moral order in an oral preschool classroom for deaf or hard-of-hearing children	3
The prosody of other-repetition in Italian: A system of tunes	3
‘I've got a daughter now man it's clean man’: Heteroglossic and intersectional constructions of fatherhood in the spontaneous talk of a group of young southeast London men	3
Rescaling the global borderlands: Transperipheral projections from ‘the heart of the Amazon’	3
Context, precision, and social perception: A sociopragmatic study	3
The language of suppression: Muslims, migrant workers, and India's response to COVID-19	3
Self-authorizing action: Onlet me Xin English social interaction	3
English as a Southern language	3
‘The words has been immigrate’: Chronotopes in context-shaping narrative co-construction about Taiwanese loanwords with Taiwanese Americans	3
Formulating other minds in social interaction: Accountability and courses of action	2
Feeling disabled: Vowel quality and assistive hearing devices in embodying affect	2
Producing the disciplined English-speaking subjects: Language policing, development ideology, and English medium of instruction policy	2
The discursive construction of new citizen identities in Singapore	2
“Really this girl ought to be going to something better”: Rhoticity and social meaning in oral history data	2
Sri Lankan Tamil experiences of the home-land and host-land: The interaction between language and diasporic identity	2
Understanding the role of transcription in evidential consistency of police interview records in England and Wales	2
Why does the shtyle spread? Street prestige boosts the diffusion of urban vernacular features	2
Labour mobility across the Baltic Sea: Language brokering at a blue-collar workplace in Sweden	2
Integrating qualitative and quantitative analyses of stance: A case study of Englishthat/zero variation	2
Semiotic timescapes	2
The social (and cultural, and syntactic, and semantic) life of generics	2
Preventing the political manipulation of Covid-19 statistics: The importance of going beyond diplomatic language	2

When simple self-reference is too simple: Managing the categorical relevance of speaker self-presentation	2
Colonial labels and the imagined innocence of past times: Debating language and spatial representations of the Danish/Greenlandic relation	2
Hearing the quiet voices: Listening as democratic action in a Norwegian neighborhood	1
Sociolinguistic patterns and names: A variationist study of changes in personal names among Indian South Africans	1
Embedding in Shawi narrations: A quantitative analysis of embedding in a post-colonial Amazonian indigenous society	1
The epistemics of authentication and denaturalization in the construction of identities in social interaction	1
‘Living memories of the changing same’: Rio's linguistic landscape at the crossroads of time and race	1
The anatomy of a conspiracy theory in Covid-19 political commentary	1
Practicing ground rules in police interviews with child witnesses	1
‘You probably have a parasite’: Neoliberal risk and the discursive construction of the body in the wellness industry	1
Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF), La langue française dans le monde [French language in the world]. Paris: Gallimard, 2019. Pp. 368. Hb. €26.	1
‘Gangpu is too funny!’: The mediatization of Hong Kong Mandarin as a jocular register	1
Enregistering mask-wearing in the time of a public health crisis	1
Chronotopes of ‘Chinese’ privilege: Class-inflected racialisation in condominium hoardings	1
Generic reference and social ontology in Vietnamese conversation	1
Dennis Baron, What's your pronoun? Beyond he & she. New York: Liveright, 2020. Pp. 320. Pb. $17.	1
Translation as discrimination: Sociolinguistics and inequality in multilingual institutional contexts	1
Preference organization and possible -isms in institutional interaction: The case of adult second language classrooms	1
Prosody and grammar of other-repetitions in French: The interplay of position and composition – Addendum	1
Commemorative city-texts: Spatio-temporal patterns in street names in Leipzig, East Germany and Poznań, Poland	1
Michael Silverstein (1945–2020)	1
Negotiating social meanings in a plural society: Social perceptions of variants of /l/ in Singapore English	1
Shouting absences: Disentangling the ghosts of Ukraine in occupied Crimea	1
Sylvia Sierra, Millennials talking media: Creating intertextual identities in everyday conversation. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 198. Pb. $40.	1
Mark A. Sicoli, Saying and doing in Zapotec: Multimodality, resonance, and the language of joint actions. London: Bloomsbury, 2020. Pp. 272. Hb. £85.	1
Pop Song English as a supralocal norm	1
Corinne A. Seals, Choosing a mother tongue: The politics of language and identity in Ukraine. Bristol: Multilingual Matters, 2019. Pp. 213. Hb. £100.	1
Indexing political identity in the Catalonianprocés: A sociophonetic approach	1
Constituting institutional identity in political discourse: The use of the first-person plural pronoun in China's press conferences	1
Name(ing) norms: Mispronunciations and ethnic categories in political talk	1