OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Multilingua-Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication is 0. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
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The role of the insider translator in conservation and development: comparing multilingual (auto)ethnobotanical books from Tanzania, Thailand, and Taiwan	17
“I’ll be there for you”: affective production of a “hyper-real” cultural-consumption space	11
New citizenship and the negotiation of the global/local interface: reflexivity, emotions, and metapragmatics	11
What is a dialect? What is a standard?: shifting indexicality and persistent ideological norms	10
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“You are Apple, why are you speaking to me in Turkish?”: the role of English in voice assistant interactions	9
Identity and heritage language learning: a case study of two mixed-heritage Korean university students in New Zealand	9
Children’s use of English as lingua franca in Swedish preschools	8
Peripheral multilingual scholars confronting epistemic exclusion in global academic knowledge production: a positive case study	8
“It’s like the root of a tree that I grew up from….”: parents’ linguistic identity shaping family language policy in isolated circumstances	8
Family language policy and dialect-Italian dynamics: across the waves of Italo-Australian migrant families	8
“Eish it’s getting really interesting”: borrowed interjections in South African English	7
The nameless border: reflections on the Western Gaze, responsibility, and narrative	6
Introduction to the special issue on translanguaging in the age of mobility	6
Adrift between republican values and plurilingual policies: (pre)primary school teachers’ reported practiced language policies in Strasbourg	6
Reflecting on past language brokering experiences: how they affected children’s and teenagers’ emotions and relationships	6
Language management in semi-peripheral game production: how foreign workers in Czech video game studios experience the use of English, Czech, and other Slavic languages	5
Parental involvement in online education during Covid-19 lockdown: a netnographic case study of Chinese language teaching in the UK	5
Hesitant versus confident family language policy: a case of two single-parent families in Finland	5
Philanthrocapitalism and the languaging of empowered women in the Global South	5
Monolingual disobedience, multilingual guilt?: an autoethnographic exploration of heritage language maintenance during COVID-19 lockdowns	5
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Investigating language and inequality in a seemingly equal educational context	5
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“A new worker, for a new order, in a new era”: English, power and shifting ideologies of reflexivity in a Chinese global workplace	4
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Co-constructing meaning through semi-understanding: conducting the sociolinguistic interview in an (un)known language	4
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The topicalization of culture in Cambridge undergraduate admissions interviews	3
Sharing communicative responsibility: training US students in cooperative strategies for communicating across linguistic difference	3
Ideological framing of sign languages and their users in the South African press	3
Phonetic loan, graphic borrowing, and script-mixing: key to the vitality of written Cantonese in Hong Kong	3
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Shorter but richer versus longer with less information: linguistic differentiation between British Sign Language and sign supported English	3
The economics of Japanese: investigating the demand for Japanese language skills in the Pearl River Delta labor market	2
‘Spaces of linguistic non-understanding’ when ‘researching multilingually’: analyses from a linguistic-ethnographic perspective	2
The double-edged sword of language: empowerment and precarity for interpreters in a Chinese border hospital	2
Language ideologies and the use of French in an English-dominant context of Canada: new insights into linguistic insecurity	2
Language ideologies of Greeks in Catalonia: hints of the mirror effect	2
Introduction: learning, re-learning, and un-learning language(s) in the multilingual family during COVID-19 lockdown	2
Requesting at work: exploring the intercultural style hypothesis of German-English bilinguals	2
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Code-switching as linguistic microaggression: L2-Japanese and speaker legitimacy	2
Exploring the complexity of multilingual spaces: embracing diverse perspectives of linguistic non-understanding	2
Mentoring interpreters of new and emerging languages for Australian courts and tribunals	2
Joulu Kotona (Christmas at home): translocal multilingual practices in a Facebook music livestream during COVID-19	1
Language naming in Indigenous Australia: a view from western Arnhem Land	1
Moral foundations and language ideologies: how different moral concerns predict endorsement of linguistic diversity, prescriptivism, and purism	1
Does subtitle segmentation via spaces facilitate Chinese viewers’ reading? An eye-tracking study on the Chinese subtitling of English documentaries	1
Mediated disclosure in asylum encounters	1
Editorial: Critical reflections on criticality in the study of language, culture and society	1
Engaging with spaces of linguistic partial understanding in multilingual linguistic ethnography	1
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Negotiation of resources in everyday activities of a multilingual Berlin street market: a linguistic ethnography approach	1
Digital trans-literacies on social media: the shaping effect on youth self-concept clarity and well-being	1
“I want her to be able to think in English”: challenges to heritage language maintenance in a monolingual society	1
Perceiving in networking interactions: emblems, indexicality, and their mapping through reflexivity	1
The Complementary Principle and language dominance: mapping the language–domain relationships of Spanish–English bilinguals	1
Attention-consuming or attention-saving: an eye tracking study on punctuation in Chinese subtitling of English trailers	1
Navigating whiteness from the margins: Finnish, Somali, and Arabic speakers’ experiences of racialization, (in)visibility, and (im)mobility in Gothenburg, Sweden	1
The representation of multilingualism in dubbing and subtitling for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH)	1
‘Maybe if you talk to her about it’: intensive mothering expectations and heritage language maintenance	1
Performing a linguistic muda in favour of Basque at University: choices, hopes and reality	1
What exactly does an editor do?	1
Investigating sociolinguistic differentiation through reflexive practices: metapragmatics, regimentation and empowerment	0
“The team members were very tolerant”: social interactional ideologies and power in an intercultural context	0
Seeking understanding: categories of linguistic (non)belonging in interviews	0
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Stability and change in young children’s linguistic experience during the COVID-19 pandemic: insight from a citizen-science sample in the United States	0
International students’ perceptions of multilingual English-medium instruction classrooms: a case study in Taiwan	0
The role of social networks in academic discourse socialization: insights from degree-seeking multilingual international students in China	0
Translation for language revitalisation: efforts and challenges in documenting botanical knowledge of Thailand’s Northern Khmer speakers	0

“Every word is a world”: loanword ideologies and linguistic purism in post-Soviet Armenia	0
Commentary: the complex nexus between (im)mobility and translanguaging	0
(Un)doing regimentation in reflexive practices: on-site processes of sociolinguistic differentiation – a commentary	0
Family language policies during a global pandemic: challenges and opportunities for language maintenance in Arabic-English multilingual families in the USA	0
Unpacking translanguaging in refusals on Chinese social media: strategies, distribution, and functions	0
When English isn’t enough in advertising: the role of language, ad length, and complexity in consumer attitudes across Spain and Poland	0
Preparing for the deployment of ready-made stories in social interaction: reflexivity and narrative practices in professional communication	0
Participant role shifting in minority language institutional interactions: COVID-19 contact tracing telephone calls as complex spaces of linguistic non-understanding	0
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A quarter century of online discussions on Arabic and Kurdish in Turkey: a comparative analysis of language attitudes and controversies	0
Facilitating or compromising inclusion? Language policies at Swedish higher education institutions as workplaces	0
“Can you teach me some Pakistani?” – Ethnolinguistic cornering among Copenhagen youth	0
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Migration, subjectivity and identity: navigating power, agency and discourse in interviews with asylum seekers	0
“I just sit, drink and go back to work.” Topographies of language practice at work	0
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“But that’s what I’m saying”: experiential versus institutional truth in guardian-minor interactions	0
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Authorities at play in Indigenous language reclamation: tensions and possibilities in the Yucatan Peninsula	0
National healthcare under pressure: linguistic diversity, nation-state values and welfare state needs	0
The ideation, naturalization, and invisibilization of Discourses in Italy’s tracked secondary education: a critical scalar account	0
Cultivating capabilities and coping: accepting and analysing moments of communicative opacity in multilingual encounters	0
In pursuit of epistemic authority in public intellectual engagement: the case of language and gender	0
Managing a discourse of reporting: the complex composing of an asylum narrative	0
Reverse ethnography and the prefiguration of expertise in sociolinguistics	0
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Keeping the pitch on track: spatiotemporal challenges in ambulant vending on a Buenos Aires trainline	0
Epilogue opportunity, fear, and well-being: heritage languages during COVID-19	0
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“Purement Amazigh”: investigating embodied ideologies and linguistic practices in Morocco	0
Multilingual police interaction: a conversation analysis of crime control in border checks	0
Negotiating new cultured identities through stylizing Wenyan: the case of young Chinese in China and the Netherlands	0
Language proficiency and use of interpreters/translators in fieldwork: a survey of US-based anthropologists and sociologists	0
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Polish language of the Polish minority in Daugavpils, Latvia. Comparative analysis of two idiolects	0
Bilingual autobiographical memory: unveiling the significance of memories encoded in multiple languages	0
“Calming my heartbeat to enjoy the show”: the social-indexical meanings of in-yer-face theater recontextualized in China	0
Multilingual family language policy in monolingual Australia: multilingual desires and monolingual realities	0
The slowness of language, the speed of capital: conflicting temporalities of the “green transition” in the Swedish north	0
Adjusting to linguistic diversity in a primary school through relational agency and expertise: a mother-tongue teacher team’s perspective	0
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“I felt overlooked”: linguistic minorities’ experiences of government multilingual COVID-19 communication in Aotearoa New Zealand	0
Shame on me: the individual whitewash of a social stigma underpinned by language ideologies	0
Deaf migrants in Sweden: exploring linguistic and bureaucratic challenges through the lens of Crip Theory and Crip Linguistics	0
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Commodification of English and English-like structures in shop names in Lombok Island, Indonesia	0
“Therapy of the soul”: learning how to participate in minoritized language research	0
Family language policy among Kurdish–Persian speaking families in Kermanshah, Iran	0
From garbage to COVID-19: theorizing ‘Multilingual Commanding Urgency’ in the linguistic landscape	0
Transnational identities, being and belonging: the diverse home literacies of multilingual immigrant families	0
Language in multilingual families during the COVID-19 pandemic in Norway: a survey of challenges and opportunities	0
LINCing learners to digital literacy: supporting social integration and English language learning during COVID-19	0
Language and political consciousness: explorations from the Philippines at the fin de siècle	0
Liberating language education	0
The interplay between linguistic and non-verbal communication in an interpreter-mediated main hearing of a victim’s testimony	0
“Who are you standing with?”: cultural (self-re)translation of a Russian-speaking conference immigrant-interpreter in Israel during the war in Ukraine	0
Multilingual imperatives in a local family: implementing a high-pressure family language policy in South Korea	0