OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Multilingua-Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Laboring to communicate: Use of migrant languages in COVID-19 awareness campaign in Qatar	32
Why linguistic entrepreneurship?	29
Linguistic diversity and inclusion in Abu Dhabi’s linguistic landscape during the COVID-19 period	28
Peripheral multilingual scholars confronting epistemic exclusion in global academic knowledge production: a positive case study	21
The utilisation of translanguaging for learning and teaching in multilingual primary classrooms	18
Problematizing enterprise culture in global academic publishing: Linguistic entrepreneurship through the lens of two Chinese visiting scholars in a U.S. university	11
“Our graduates will have the edge”: Linguistic entrepreneurship and the discourse of Mandarin enrichment centers in Singapore	8
“I want her to be able to think in English”: challenges to heritage language maintenance in a monolingual society	8
The price of immersion: language learners as a cheap workforce in Malta’s voluntourism industry	7
Regimes of linguistic entrepreneurship: neoliberalism, the entanglement of language ideologies and affective regime in language education policy	7
‘We are two languages here.’ The operation of language policies through spatial ideologies and practices in a co-located and a bilingual school	7
“We contribute to the development of South Korea”: Bilingual womanhood and politics of bilingual policy in South Korea	7
Teachers as agents of transformative pedagogy: Critical reflexivity, activism and multilingual spaces through a continua of biliteracy lens	7
Sharing communicative responsibility: training US students in cooperative strategies for communicating across linguistic difference	7
Multilingual lexical transfer challenges monolingual educational norms: not quite!	6
The discourse of the edge: marginal advantage, positioning and linguistic entrepreneurship	6
Adjusting to linguistic diversity in a primary school through relational agency and expertise: a mother-tongue teacher team’s perspective	5
Lifting the voices of Spanish-speaking Kansans: a community-engaged approach to health equity	5
Do minority-language and majority-language students benefit from pedagogical translanguaging in early foreign language development?	5
Managing a discourse of reporting: the complex composing of an asylum narrative	5
Children’s use of English as lingua franca in Swedish preschools	5
Language norms in L2 education for adult migrants – translanguaging pedagogy in the age of mobility	5
‘Maybe if you talk to her about it’: intensive mothering expectations and heritage language maintenance	5
From garbage to COVID-19: theorizing ‘Multilingual Commanding Urgency’ in the linguistic landscape	5
“I just sit, drink and go back to work.” Topographies of language practice at work	4

Roles, ethics and lawyers’ reactions: An ethnographic study of interpreters’ role performance in interpreted lawyer-client interviews	4
International students’ perceptions of multilingual English-medium instruction classrooms: a case study in Taiwan	4
Transnational identities, being and belonging: the diverse home literacies of multilingual immigrant families	4
Identity and heritage language learning: a case study of two mixed-heritage Korean university students in New Zealand	3
What exactly does an editor do?	3
The role of social networks in academic discourse socialization: insights from degree-seeking multilingual international students in China	3
VOT production, writing skills, and general proficiency in multilingual learners of French: approaching the intertwinement of different linguistic levels	3
Multilingual education in an Italian public preschool: teachers and families among mobility processes and inclusive practices	3
English in a multilingual ecology: “structures of feeling” in South and Central Asia	3
Hesitant versus confident family language policy: a case of two single-parent families in Finland	3
Chronotopic translanguaging and the mobile languaging subject: insights from an Algerian academic sojourner in the UK	3
“It’s like the root of a tree that I grew up from….”: parents’ linguistic identity shaping family language policy in isolated circumstances	3
Introduction to the special issue on translanguaging in the age of mobility	3
Crossing the bridge to literacy in foreign languages: C-test as a measure of language development	3
Language proficiency and use of interpreters/translators in fieldwork: a survey of US-based anthropologists and sociologists	3
Reflecting on past language brokering experiences: how they affected children’s and teenagers’ emotions and relationships	3
Language in multilingual families during the COVID-19 pandemic in Norway: a survey of challenges and opportunities	3
Prof. Juan C. Sager (1929–2021): founding editor of Multilingua	2
The multilingual workplace realities of Polish truckers: A case study in the Netherlands	2
Language choice in churches in indigenous Gã towns: a multilingual balancing act	2
“Creating the illusion of speaking Romanian well”: Hungarian speakers’ teaching and learning the majority language in Romania	2
Convivial linguistic practices: lived togetherness through language in the United Arab Emirates	2
Multilingualism, nationality and flexibility: mobile communicators’ careers in a humanitarian agency	2
Heritage languages and the ʻmultilingual boostʼ: intercomprehension skills of Russian and Polish heritage speakers in Germany	2
“Quierojuksar en lajulaftenito” – Playfulness and metalinguistic awareness in translingual family interactions	2
Redefining Forro as a marker of identity: Language contact as a driving force for language maintenance among Santomeans in Portugal	2
“What I want to do I do not do”: on bi- and multilingual repertoires and linguistic dislocation in a border town	2
Family language policy and dialect-Italian dynamics: across the waves of Italo-Australian migrant families	2
Language shift and language (re)vitalisation: the roles played by women and men in Northern Fenno-Scandia	2
Blowing specific words: verbal charms as material suspended events	2
Second language socialization in the margins: Queering the paradigm	2
Preparing for the deployment of ready-made stories in social interaction: reflexivity and narrative practices in professional communication	2
Knowledge negotiation and interactional power: epistemic stances in Arabic–Swedish antenatal care consultations	2
Sociocultural linguistic approaches to code switching in Japanese women’s talk in interaction: Region, gender, and language	2
“A new worker, for a new order, in a new era”: English, power and shifting ideologies of reflexivity in a Chinese global workplace	1
Framing variation and intersectional identities within Indonesia’s ethnic Chinese minority	1
“Purement Amazigh”: investigating embodied ideologies and linguistic practices in Morocco	1
Unpacking translanguaging in refusals on Chinese social media: strategies, distribution, and functions	1
Adrift between republican values and plurilingual policies: (pre)primary school teachers’ reported practiced language policies in Strasbourg	1
Mediated disclosure in asylum encounters	1
Language ideologies of emerging institutional frameworks of Mapudungun revitalization in contemporary Chile: nation, Facebook, and the moon of Pandora	1
Language naming in Indigenous Australia: a view from western Arnhem Land	1
“Who are you standing with?”: cultural (self-re)translation of a Russian-speaking conference immigrant-interpreter in Israel during the war in Ukraine	1
Amazonian worlds of other-than-human beings and the Apurinã through the materiality of oral stories	1
Code-switching as linguistic microaggression: L2-Japanese and speaker legitimacy	1
Ideological and implementational spaces for translanguaging in the language introduction programme in Swedish Upper Secondary School	1
Polish language of the Polish minority in Daugavpils, Latvia. Comparative analysis of two idiolects	1
Multilingual family language policy in monolingual Australia: multilingual desires and monolingual realities	1
Transgressive Arabic discourse in Lebanese political protest	1
Commentary: the complex nexus between (im)mobility and translanguaging	1

Shame on me: the individual whitewash of a social stigma underpinned by language ideologies	1
How words make the world: language materialities and the circulation of the Sakha algys	1
Epilogue opportunity, fear, and well-being: heritage languages during COVID-19	1
Translation, transcultural remembrance and pandemic: a covert transediting of the Great Influenza memory for lessons to combat COVID-19 in Chinese online media	1
“It is natural, really deaf signing” – script development for fictional programmes involving sign languages	1
The materiality of theletterin Seto oral culture	1