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Papers

(The median citation count of English Today 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
English in Timor–Leste	16
Coronavirus rhyming slang	15
(t) Glottaling in East Anglian English	12
English signage shaping Tokyo's mosaic cityscape	12
Envisaging the other Korea in English textbooks	11
Multilingual English teachers in Asian Expanding Circle ELT	8
‘As long as I know technology, I am fine’	8
Rethinking the concept of linguistic assemblage to revisit the understanding of agency, creativity and language policy - Lionel Wee, Posthumanist Word Englishes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,	7
Editorial	6
Semantic change of robust	5
From hypernationalism to neoliberalism	5
Dispelling some misconceptions of English-medium instruction	5
Male Salesgirls and Carlik Beep	5
English today and English Today in Adolescence	5
Morocco’s linguistic landscape	5
Land Acknowledgement in English across cultures	5
Celebrating linguistic fieldwork	4
The production of English monophthongs by Chinese Yi and Han speakers	4
A corpus-based study on the “ungrammatical” aren't I	4
Death of the spelling bee? - Gabe Henry, Enough Is Enuf: Our Failed Attempts to Make English Eezier to Spell New York: Dey St./William Morrow, 2025. Pp.	4
English as a global language in China	4
ENG volume 39 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	3
A comprehensive perspective on Namibian English and its position in world Englishes - Gerald Stell, Namibian English in its Multilingual Environment Berl	3
A renewed emphasis on place theory in sociolinguistic research and sample studies of English in New Orleans and Appalachia - Katie Carmichael and Paul E. Reed, Language and Plac	3
The native accent fallacy	3

Some syntactic category changes observed in current British English - ADDENDUM	3
ENG volume 41 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	3
Recent metaphors of Brexit in the British press	3
ENG volume 41 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	3
Linguistic landscape at the grassroots level in Uganda	3
ENG volume 41 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	2
English in Flux: Reframing the Arab Gulf through World Englishes - Kay Gallagher, ed.: World Englishes in the Arab Gulf States Routledge. 2025. Pp. 290. Hardback £150.00, ISBN 9781032699967; eB	2
The influence of CEFR in South Korea’s 2022 National English Curriculum: A focus on grammar	2
ENG volume 40 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	2
Fascination with English in South Korea - Jieun Kiaer and Hyejeong Ahn, Emergence of Korean English: How Korea's Dynamic English Is Born Abingdon and New	2
Recent trends in English Language education in Vietnam	2
ENG volume 39 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	2
English language policy and practice in diverse education contexts - Eric Enongene Ekembe, Lauren Harvey and Eric Dwyer (eds.), Interface between English Language Education Policies and Practice: E	1
ENG volume 40 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	1
A corpus-assisted discourse study of characterisation of anxiety in an online forum - Luke Collins and Paul Baker, Language, Discourse and Anxiety Cambri	1
Rereading political discourse through cross-cultural pragmatics - Juliane House and Dániel Z. Kádár, Language and Politics: A Cross-Cultural Pragmatic Perspective	1
Proposing Chinese English as a lingua franca (ChELF)	1
Cognitive metaphors of love among speakers of English as a foreign language	1
ENG volume 39 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	1
English in a contested plurilingual future - Rosemary Salomone, The Rise of English: Global Politics and the Power of Language. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 488. Hardback, ISBN:	1
The Kongish phenomenon: User perception and language identity	1
China English and Chinese culture	1
ENG volume 41 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	1
Mining terms in the history of English	1
Understanding the meanings of ambiguous noun-noun compounds	1
The role of English in the linguistic landscape of Luang Prabang	1
Between Anglomania and Anglophobia - Virginia Pulcini, The Influence of English on Italian Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 2023. Pp. xii+285. Hardback	1
Improving EFL learners’ self-confidence in English-speaking performance with World Englishes teaching	1
The Scale of Northern-ness	1
Grassroots learning of English in the context of forced migration	1
English-medium education and the perpetuation of girls’ disadvantage	1
Translingual journey of English words and methodological suggestions	1
Taking stock of an ever-widening landscape - Durk Gorter and Jasone Cenoz, A Panorama of Linguistic Landscape Studies Bristol and Jackson: Multilingual M	1
Editorial	1
ENG volume 40 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	1
Acoustic study of vowel quality in Ghanaian English	0
Some syntactic category changes observed in current British English	0
Production of English vowel duration by multilingual speakers of Namibian English	0
Sports and words: Parallel journeys of the Olympics and the English language	0
Reflection on Japan's language policy for English loanwords	0
From Dzongkha to English	0
Syntactic variation in Hong Kong English	0
Stokesy ct. Foakesy b. Woakesy	0
An acoustic and articulatory investigation into Liverpool and Wirral lateral production in female and male adolescent speech	0
The rise of the idea of an American English - Ingrid Paulsen, The Emergence of American English as a Discursive Variety: Tracing Enregisterment Processes in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Newspapers.	0
The China English fallacy	0
English on the Internet: An attempt to redefine the ‘borderless’ and mapping a new geography on the world atlas of Englishes - Patricia Friedrich, Digital World Englishes (1st e	0
Formal strategies in postcolonial Englishes - Esterino Adami, Postcolonial Stylistics New York: Routledge, 2025. Pp. xiv+227. Hardback £140.00, ISBN 9781	0
ENG volume 41 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	0
Digging the Borrowed Lingo: A Review of Borrowings in Informal American English - Małgorzata Kowalczyk, Borrowings in Informal American English (1^st edn.) Cambridge: Cambridge	0

Technology-enhanced approximation to Standard English stress shift	0
Complexities of EMI in multilingual societies - Mark Wyatt and Glenda El Gamal, eds., English as a Medium of Instruction on the Arabian Peninsula London:	0
English - A language that thrives on diversities	0
English signage around U.S. military bases in Japan: Insights from linguistic landscape research	0
ENG volume 39 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	0
ENG volume 38 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	0
The language of non-journalistic true crime podcasts	0
Unveiling the social layers of English grammar - Emma Moore, Socio-Syntax: Exploring the Social Life of Grammar Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 20	0
ENG volume 41 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	0
ENG volume 41 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	0
Indigenising knowledge through world Englishes	0
Why China English should give way to Chinese English	0
Chinese university students’ translanguaging hybrids on WeChat	0
Bogged down ELT, bailed-out CLT?	0
Translanguaging in a transplanted ground	0
Revisiting the phonetic implementation of lexical stress in Chinese ESL speakers	0
The linguistics of contact and change: A review of English In Multilingual South Africa - Raymond Hickey (ed.), English in Multilingual South Africa: The Linguistics of Contact and Change	0
My object pronouns are nominative and reflexive: Nonstandard use of myself and I in coordinate constructio	0
Special issue: Introduction More insights into world Englishes at the grassroots	0
Fourteen centuries of English lexicography - Heming Yong and Jing Peng, A Sociolinguistic History of British English Lexicography Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2022. Pp. viii+254. Paperback	0
Irish English: The state of the art - Raymond Hickey, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Irish English Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. xxix + 698 pp.	0
English in Cyprus	0
POV: me, an empath, sensing the linguistic urge . . . to study the forms and functions of text-memes	0
Trajectorial dynamics of English in Rwanda	0
China English or Chinese English?	0
Seeking employment as an Irish English-language teacher in South Korea	0
Legitimizing China English: A systematic approach to emerging Englishes in academic writing - Alex Baratta, Rui He and Paul Vincent Smith, Emerging Englishes: China English in A	0
English language education in Taiwan	0
ENG volume 40 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	0
A Critical analysis of language attitudes and ideologies - Elizabeth Peterson, Making Sense of ‘Bad English’: An Introduction to Language Attitudes and Ideologies London and New York: Routledge, 2020.	0
Countering anti-Black linguistic racism through critical awareness, agency, and solidarity - April Baker–Bell, Linguistic Justice: Black Language, Literacy, Identity, and Pedagogy (1^st	0
Which English to teach?	0
ENG volume 39 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	0
The paradox of stress in English	0
Language as an interpersonal marker in English dissertation acknowledgments	0
A peculiar pair of festschrifts - Aloysius Ngefac, Hans–Georg Wolf and Thomas Hoffmann (eds.), World Englishes and Creole Languages Today, Vol. I: The Schneiderian Thinking and	0
China's English	0
Multilingual repertoires of Filipina domestic workers in Madrid	0
Continuity and change: A review of The United States of English - Rosemarie Ostler, The United States of English – The American Language from Colonial Times to the Twenty-First Century O	0
Comparative variation analysis at cross roads: perspectives and methods - Benedikt Szmrecsanyi and Jason Grafmiller, Comparative Variation Analysis: Grammatical Alternations in	0
ENG volume 41 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	0
‘BTS, PSY, BLACKPINK’	0
Stylistic functions of anglicisms in German radio	0
Living with 中式英语 Zhongshi Yingyu	0
ENG volume 39 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	0
South Korean higher education English-medium instruction (EMI) policy	0
ENG volume 39 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	0
Global imagination, cultural taste and ritual resistance	0
A unified perspective on the status of English in the Nordic countries - Elizabeth Peterson and Kristy Beers Fägersten, eds., English in the Nordic Countries: Connections, Tensi	0
Cantonese culinary lexical interaction between Hong Kong and Singapore English	0
The future of British English in the European Union	0
Editorial	0
Corpus linguistics in practice: Investigating register variation and usage - Eniko Csomay and William J. Crawford, Doing Corpus Linguistics (2^nd edn.) New York: Routledge, 2024. Pp.	0
China vs Chinese, Belgium vs Belgian	0
‘I am very emo’	0
Editorial	0
The English Cosmopolis	0
The status of Chinese English and experiences learning and using it - Zhichang Xu, Chinese English: Names, Norms and Narratives. London/New York: Routledge, 2023. Pp. xvi+283. Hardback £145.00. ISBN:	0
Around the world in 400 pages - Raymond Hickey, Sounds of English Worldwide. New Jersey: Wiley–Blackwell, 2023. Pp. xxiii + 408. Paperback $59.95, ISBN: 978-1-119-13127-4; e-book $48, ISBN: 978-1-119-	0
A machine that still doesn't quite understand us	0
English's expanding linguistic foothold in K-pop lyrics	0
The curious case of nomenclatures	0
From Tribal to Global - Peter Trudgill, The Long Journey of English: A Geographical History of the Language (1^st edn.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. ix+191. Paperback, $2	0
Englishization of Japanese hara ‘harassment’ in the workplace	0
Double modals beyond the Atlantic	0
ENG volume 40 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	0
Animal proverbs	0
Mutated English in interactional spaces - Axel Bohmann, English across Borders. A Reflexive Approach to Anglophone Migrants’ Repertoires Amsterdam/Philad	0
The Landscape of English in Southeast Asia - Andrew J. Moody, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Southeast Asian Englishes Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. viii+864. Hardback £135, ISBN 9780	0
China or Chinese, Belgium or Belgian, Peru or Peruvian, Guam or Guamanian?	0
Restaurant, lululemon , and queer : The English language and modern classism	0
English in the Slovak glocalized urban space	0
Grassroots quest for upward mobility: Non-elite young Japanese women’s beliefs in global and localized English ideology	0
ENG volume 40 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	0
Exploring wordplay and humour in English usage within Japanese texts	0
Commentary pragmatic markers in Ghanaian and Ugandan Englishes	0
Azerbaijani Higher Education to implement mass English Medium Instruction (EMI) policies	0
English on the Internet: An attempt to redefine the ‘borderless’ and mapping a new geography on the world atlas of Englishes - Patricia Friedrich, Digital World Englishes	0
ENG volume 38 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	0
Diachronic trends in the complementation of the verb prevent	0

Investment dynamics of English learners at the grassroots in Bali’s tourism industry	0
Representativeness of the Hong Kong English lexicon	0
Associative plural marking in English varieties	0
Special feature: introduction	0
The performance and reception of translanguaging humor in Chinese entertainment shows	0
Entanglements of English: Problems to be solved or realities to be acknowledged? - Jerry Won Lee and Sofia Rüdiger (eds.), Entangled Englishes (1^st ed.) London & New York, Routle	0
When the definite article is used for possessive determiners in Kenyan English	0
ENG volume 40 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	0
Global meets local	0
The Low-Back-Merger Shift: Evidence from MENA Americans in the Upper Midwest and southern California	0
Exploring L2 English pronunciation and accent aims among German high school students	0
Semioscaping English as a romantic register in Chinese otome games	0
The Age Seven exam: South Korea’s paradox of early english fever in the AI era	0
Exploring the relationship between stylistics and cognition - Zeki Hamawand, English Stylistics: A Cognitive Grammar Approach Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2	0
English in a rural linguistic landscape of globalizing China	0
New look, same English Today	0
ENG volume 40 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	0
Michele Zappavigna and Lorenzo Logi, Emoji and Social Media Paralanguage Visual Paralanguage in the Digital Age: Unraveling the Role of Emojis in Social	0
The syntactic complexity of the Inner Circle English varieties	0
Editorial	0
English at the grassroots in Trinidad: A first description of an English as a Second Dialect situation	0
Beyond the ‘standard’ - Bertus van Rooy, World Englishes: The Local Lives of a Global Language . 1 ^st	0
Between dissonance and dialogue: Reimagining sociolinguistic critique - Alfonso Del Percio and Mi–Cha Flubacher (eds.), Critical Sociolinguistics: Dialogues, Dissonances, Develo	0
ENG volume 39 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	0
Gender-specific and gender-neutral language trends in the AP Stylebook and online written news	0
EMI policy and practice divides in China, Japan, Malaysia and Nepal	0