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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Linguistic diversity in a time of crisis: Language challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic	101
Laboring to communicate: Use of migrant languages in COVID-19 awareness campaign in Qatar	29
Staying connected during COVID-19: The social and communicative role of an ethnic online community of Chinese international students in South Korea	29
Diaspora micro-influencers and COVID-19 communication on social media: The case of Chinese-speaking YouTube vloggers	26
Why linguistic entrepreneurship?	25
Providing multilingual logistics communication in COVID-19 disaster relief	25
Multilingual communication experiences of international students during the COVID-19 Pandemic	23
Countering COVID-19-related anti-Chinese racism with translanguaged swearing on social media	22
Linguistic diversity and inclusion in Abu Dhabi’s linguistic landscape during the COVID-19 period	22
Public health messages about COVID-19 prevention in multilingual Taiwan	22
Peripheral multilingual scholars confronting epistemic exclusion in global academic knowledge production: a positive case study	18
Conceptualizing national emergency language competence	14
Mobilizing foreign language students for multilingual crisis translation in Shanghai	14
Fighting COVID-19 in East Asia: The role of classical Chinese poetry	12
Fighting COVID-19 with Mongolian fiddle stories	10
The utilisation of translanguaging for learning and teaching in multilingual primary classrooms	10
Investing in the future: Korean early English education as neoliberal management of youth	9
Problematizing enterprise culture in global academic publishing: Linguistic entrepreneurship through the lens of two Chinese visiting scholars in a U.S. university	9
Marked and unmarked translanguaging in accelerated, mainstream, and sheltered English classrooms	9
Investigating the language-culture nexus in refugee legal advice meetings	8
‘Double deficit’ and exclusion: Mediated language ideologies and international students’ multilingualism	7
Commentary: Directions in language planning from the COVID-19 pandemic	7
Regimes of linguistic entrepreneurship: neoliberalism, the entanglement of language ideologies and affective regime in language education policy	7
Linguistic entrepreneurship: Common threads and a critical response	7
“Our graduates will have the edge”: Linguistic entrepreneurship and the discourse of Mandarin enrichment centers in Singapore	7

Interpreting profanity in police interviews	6
‘We are two languages here.’ The operation of language policies through spatial ideologies and practices in a co-located and a bilingual school	6
The price of immersion: language learners as a cheap workforce in Malta’s voluntourism industry	6
“We contribute to the development of South Korea”: Bilingual womanhood and politics of bilingual policy in South Korea	6
Teachers as agents of transformative pedagogy: Critical reflexivity, activism and multilingual spaces through a continua of biliteracy lens	6
Not a white girl and speaking English with slang: Negotiating Hmong American identities in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota, USA	5
Transnational Sri Lankan Sinhalese family language policy: Challenges and contradictions at play in two families in the U.S.	5
Adjusting to linguistic diversity in a primary school through relational agency and expertise: a mother-tongue teacher team’s perspective	5
Language learning through an intersectional lens: Gender, migrant status, and gain in symbolic capital for Syrian refugee women in Turkey	5
Palestinian dialects and identities shifting across physical and virtual borders	5
Multilingual lexical transfer challenges monolingual educational norms: not quite!	5
Sharing communicative responsibility: training US students in cooperative strategies for communicating across linguistic difference	5
Transnational identities, being and belonging: the diverse home literacies of multilingual immigrant families	4
Family multilingualism from a southern perspective: Language ideologies and practices of Brazilian parents in Norway	4
Lifting the voices of Spanish-speaking Kansans: a community-engaged approach to health equity	4
From garbage to COVID-19: theorizing ‘Multilingual Commanding Urgency’ in the linguistic landscape	4
Entrepreneurial visions of the self: Language teaching and learning under neoliberal conditions	4
Multilingual education in an Italian public preschool: teachers and families among mobility processes and inclusive practices	3
Do minority-language and majority-language students benefit from pedagogical translanguaging in early foreign language development?	3
Chronotopic translanguaging and the mobile languaging subject: insights from an Algerian academic sojourner in the UK	3
Crossing the bridge to literacy in foreign languages: C-test as a measure of language development	3
What exactly does an editor do?	3
Children’s use of English as lingua franca in Swedish preschools	3
The discourse of the edge: marginal advantage, positioning and linguistic entrepreneurship	3
Language norms in L2 education for adult migrants – translanguaging pedagogy in the age of mobility	3
Managing a discourse of reporting: the complex composing of an asylum narrative	3
Language shift and language (re)vitalisation: the roles played by women and men in Northern Fenno-Scandia	2
Informal bilingual teachers’ language practices and the consequences on pupils’ language choices in a situation of unequal bilingualism: The case of an Upper Sorbian education system	2
International students’ perceptions of multilingual English-medium instruction classrooms: a case study in Taiwan	2
‘Maybe if you talk to her about it’: intensive mothering expectations and heritage language maintenance	2
Knowledge negotiation and interactional power: epistemic stances in Arabic–Swedish antenatal care consultations	2
VOT production, writing skills, and general proficiency in multilingual learners of French: approaching the intertwinement of different linguistic levels	2
“What I want to do I do not do”: on bi- and multilingual repertoires and linguistic dislocation in a border town	2
Value of communication, value of language: Nahuatl speakers and public health services in Sierra Norte de Puebla	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
Second language socialization in the margins: Queering the paradigm	2
“Creating the illusion of speaking Romanian well”: Hungarian speakers’ teaching and learning the majority language in Romania	2
Family language policy and dialect-Italian dynamics: across the waves of Italo-Australian migrant families	2
A weave of symbolic violence: dominance and complicity in sociolinguistic research on multilingualism	2
Identity and heritage language learning: a case study of two mixed-heritage Korean university students in New Zealand	2
Sociocultural linguistic approaches to code switching in Japanese women’s talk in interaction: Region, gender, and language	2
Prof. Juan C. Sager (1929–2021): founding editor of Multilingua	2
Language proficiency and use of interpreters/translators in fieldwork: a survey of US-based anthropologists and sociologists	2
Redefining Forro as a marker of identity: Language contact as a driving force for language maintenance among Santomeans in Portugal	2
Introduction to the special issue on translanguaging in the age of mobility	2
Convivial linguistic practices: lived togetherness through language in the United Arab Emirates	2
“It’s like the root of a tree that I grew up from….”: parents’ linguistic identity shaping family language policy in isolated circumstances	2
Roles, ethics and lawyers’ reactions: An ethnographic study of interpreters’ role performance in interpreted lawyer-client interviews	2
“Who are you standing with?”: cultural (self-re)translation of a Russian-speaking conference immigrant-interpreter in Israel during the war in Ukraine	1

Code-switching as linguistic microaggression: L2-Japanese and speaker legitimacy	1
Hesitant versus confident family language policy: a case of two single-parent families in Finland	1
Mediated disclosure in asylum encounters	1
Blowing specific words: verbal charms as material suspended events	1
Adrift between republican values and plurilingual policies: (pre)primary school teachers’ reported practiced language policies in Strasbourg	1
The role of social networks in academic discourse socialization: insights from degree-seeking multilingual international students in China	1
The materiality of theletterin Seto oral culture	1
Framing variation and intersectional identities within Indonesia’s ethnic Chinese minority	1
Language shifts in the language biographies of immigrants from Upper Silesia residing in Germany	1
Amazonian worlds of other-than-human beings and the Apurinã through the materiality of oral stories	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
How words make the world: language materialities and the circulation of the Sakha algys	1
Polish language of the Polish minority in Daugavpils, Latvia. Comparative analysis of two idiolects	1
“The bus doesn’t stop for us”: Multilingualism, attitudes and identity in songs of a Tibetic community of Nepal	1
Transgressive Arabic discourse in Lebanese political protest	1
“I just sit, drink and go back to work.” Topographies of language practice at work	1
“Quierojuksar en lajulaftenito” – Playfulness and metalinguistic awareness in translingual family interactions	1
“Purement Amazigh”: investigating embodied ideologies and linguistic practices in Morocco	1
Ideological and implementational spaces for translanguaging in the language introduction programme in Swedish Upper Secondary School	1
The multilingual workplace realities of Polish truckers: A case study in the Netherlands	1
English in a multilingual ecology: “structures of feeling” in South and Central Asia	1