OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
English in Timor–Leste	11
English signage shaping Tokyo's mosaic cityscape	8
Coronavirus rhyming slang	8
Envisaging the other Korea in English textbooks	6
Multilingual English teachers in Asian Expanding Circle ELT	6
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,	3
‘As long as I know technology, I am fine’	3
Semantic change of robust	3
(t) Glottaling in East Anglian English	3
Should we regard question-based media headlines as clickbait?	3
Editorial	3
Editorial	2
The politics of GCSE English Language	2
English as a global language in China	2
English parenting for Japanese parents	2
English in Valletta's Linguistic Landscape: a case of instrumental rationality?	2
From hypernationalism to neoliberalism	2
ENG volume 39 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	1
The production of English monophthongs by Chinese Yi and Han speakers	1
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 York: Routledge, 2024. Pp. xi+180. Hard	1
Race and the language of incels	1
ENG volume 38 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	1
Educated Nollywood artistes’ accent as a Normative Standard of English pronunciation in Nigeria	1
A corpus-based study on the “ungrammatical” aren't I	1
ENG volume 37 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	1

English in Taiwan	1
ENG volume 39 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	1
The Scale of Northern-ness	1
Recent trends in English Language education in Vietnam	1
Celebrating linguistic fieldwork	1
Recent metaphors of Brexit in the British press	1
ENG volume 37 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	1
China English and Chinese culture	1
ENG volume 40 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	1
ENG volume 40 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	1
ENG volume 40 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	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
Language as an interpersonal marker in English dissertation acknowledgments	0
ENG volume 39 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	0
Cantonese culinary lexical interaction between Hong Kong and Singapore English	0
South Korean higher education English-medium instruction (EMI) policy	0
Editorial	0
ENG volume 38 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	0
The Low-Back-Merger Shift: Evidence from MENA Americans in the Upper Midwest and southern California	0
Beyond the ‘standard’ - Bertus van Rooy, World Englishes: The Local Lives of a Global Language. 1^st ed. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2024. Pp viii+230. Paperback, £24.99. I	0
Reflection on Japan's language policy for English loanwords	0
A machine that still doesn't quite understand us	0
Towards an acceptance of the ideology of English as a lingua franca in Hong Kong?	0
Discourse of ‘early ELT for local development’	0
Michele Zappavigna and Lorenzo Logi, Emoji and Social Media Paralanguage Visual Paralanguage in the Digital Age: Unraveling the Role of Emojis in Social Media Communication. Cambridge: Cambridg	0
Improving EFL learners’ self-confidence in English-speaking performance with World Englishes teaching	0
Meanings of-nomicsin English: FromNixonomicstocoronanomics	0
The booming wave of English in the linguistic landscape in Algeria	0
All Things Newin Singapore: On creativity, complexity, and usage associations in Englishes	0
ENG volume 37 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	0
Between Anglomania and Anglophobia - Virginia Pulcini, The Influence of English on Italian Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 2023. Pp. xii+285. Hardback €114,95, ISBN 9783110754957; e-Book ISB	0
ENG volume 40 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	0
Experiences of non-North American teachers of English in American English-dominant Korean ELT	0
Production of English vowel duration by multilingual speakers of Namibian English	0
ENG volume 37 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	0
ENG volume 40 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	0
Sports and words: Parallel journeys of the Olympics and the English language	0
Stokesy ct. Foakesy b. Woakesy	0
Azerbaijani Higher Education to implement mass English Medium Instruction (EMI) policies	0
The Englishisation of personal names in Nigeria	0
English-medium education and the perpetuation of girls’ disadvantage	0
New look, same English Today	0
Translanguaging in a transplanted ground	0
Unveiling the social layers of English grammar - Emma Moore, Socio-Syntax: Exploring the Social Life of Grammar Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024, Pp. xvi+256. Hardback €110.87, ISBN	0
Mining terms in the history of English	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
ENG volume 39 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	0
Terms of endearment in English	0
Translingual journey of English words and methodological suggestions	0
Editorial	0

Gender-specific and gender-neutral language trends in the AP Stylebook and online written news	0
Editorial	0
The China English fallacy	0
Editorial	0
ENG volume 39 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	0
English in Azerbaijan: Developments and Perspectives	0
Living with 中式英语 Zhongshi Yingyu	0
English loanword use in Greek online women's magazines	0
ENG volume 40 issue 3 Cover and Front 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
ENG volume 40 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	0
Seeking employment as an Irish English-language teacher in South Korea	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, Tensions, and Everyday Re	0
The curious case of nomenclatures	0
China's English	0
Indigenising knowledge through world Englishes	0
Exploring wordplay and humour in English usage within Japanese texts	0
Exploring linguistic variation in English across the world - Axel Bohmann, Variation in English World-Wide: Registers and Global Varieties. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. xviii+249.	0
Linguistic landscaping in medical settings	0
Technology-enhanced approximation to Standard English stress shift	0
Exploring genderlectal variation in the English-speaking world - Tobias Bernaisch, Gender in World Englishes (Studies in English Language). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. xv+2	0
ENG volume 37 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	0
China vs Chinese, Belgium vs Belgian	0
From Kisstory to Megxile	0
ENG volume 39 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	0
Editorial	0
Editorial	0
Peeking into the socio-historical background and current use of ‘me (no)likey’	0
A collection of linguistic approaches to the study of pop culture - Valentin Werner (ed.), The Language of Pop Culture. Routledge: New York and London, 2018. Pp. i-x+271. Hardback £104, ISBN: 978-1-13	0
Animal proverbs	0
A corpus-assisted discourse study of characterisation of anxiety in an online forum - Luke Collins and Paul Baker, Language, Discourse and Anxiety Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. P	0
English in the Slovak glocalized urban space	0
Special feature: introduction	0
From Dzongkha to English	0
English in a rural linguistic landscape of globalizing China	0
Editorial	0
English in Cyprus	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
Editorial	0
ENG volume 38 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	0
The future of British English in the European Union	0
Trajectorial dynamics of English in Rwanda	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
The role of English in the linguistic landscape of Luang Prabang	0
Chinese university students’ translanguaging hybrids on WeChat	0
ENG volume 40 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	0
ENG volume 39 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	0
Syntactic variation in Hong Kong English	0
Typology of English–Korean code ambiguation	0
The emergence of a new phonological feature in Pakistan English	0
‘BTS, PSY, BLACKPINK’	0
POV: me, an empath, sensing the linguistic urge . . . to study the forms and functions of text-memes	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
Associative plural marking in English varieties	0
An acoustic and articulatory investigation into Liverpool and Wirral lateral production in female and male adolescent speech	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
Understanding the meanings of ambiguous noun-noun compounds	0
Double modals beyond the Atlantic	0
English's expanding linguistic foothold in K-pop lyrics	0
English in Valletta's Linguistic Landscape: a case of instrumental rationality? – ERRATUM	0
ENG volume 39 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	0
English in Madeira: History and features of a lesser-known variety in the Atlantic	0
English varieties in Asia: Features, implications and practices - Andy Kirkpatrick & Wang Lixun (eds.), Is English an Asian Language? Queensland/ Hong Kong: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. v	0
Is it in Colloquial Singapore English	0
ENG volume 38 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	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 Beyond Muenchen:	0
Representativeness of the Hong Kong English lexicon	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
When the definite article is used for possessive determiners in Kenyan English	0
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:	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
Comparative variation analysis at cross roads: perspectives and methods - Benedikt Szmrecsanyi and Jason Grafmiller, Comparative Variation Analysis: Grammatical Alternations in World Englishes	0
#Stayhome: Language in tourism advertisements on Instagram	0
Which English to teach?	0
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	0
Introducing the Historical Corpus of English in Nigeria (HiCE–Nig)	0
Stylistic functions of anglicisms in German radio	0
ENG volume 37 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	0
Why China English should give way to Chinese English	0
Proposing Chinese English as a lingua franca (ChELF)	0

‘I am very emo’	0
ENG volume 38 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	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
Taking stock of an ever-widening landscape - Durk Gorter and Jasone Cenoz, A Panorama of Linguistic Landscape Studies Bristol and Jackson: Multilingual Matters, 2023. Pp. xi+452. Paperback £39.	0
ENG volume 38 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	0
Editorial	0
China English or Chinese English?	0
ENG volume 38 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	0
ENG volume 38 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	0