Language & Communication

Papers
(The median citation count of Language & 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
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Introduction: The sociolinguistics of exclusion – Indexing (non)belonging in mobile communities53
The affective, the conceptual and the meaning of ‘life’ in the stylistics of Charles Bally35
Linguistic reflexivity and language-shaping: Countering representationalism in ecological research on language17
“Do they understand”? A case study of atypical institutional encounters15
Edutaining with indigeneity: Mediatizing Ainu bilingualism in the Japanese anime, Golden Kamuy15
Reflexivity & Normativity: A Festschrift for Talbot J. Taylor15
‘Whose father are you?’ Arabic teknonyms in a socio-pragmatic perspective14
Up from Babel: On the (r)evolutionary linguistic thought of Eugène Lanti13
‘Right an turn agadsa’: The reflexivity between language socialisation and child agency in exploring ‘success’ in FLP12
Topic modelling as a method for framing analysis of news coverage of the Russia-Ukraine war in 2022–202312
Attuning to cosmopolitan atmosphere curated in semiotic landscapes: Stance-taking as affective practice11
The interface of prosody and pragmatics: A phono-pragmatic analysis of bebin (‘look’) in Persian11
Framing shared knowledge: The chronotopic organisation of meaning10
Artificial intelligence and the ethnographic encounter: Transhuman language ontologies, or what it means “to write like a human, think like a machine”9
Slurs and speech acts9
Coordinating multimodal and screen-based actions in proposal sequences of video-mediated collaborative drawing9
Southern perspectives of language and the construction of the common8
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Did language originate with Homo erectus? The scavenging inference8
Defining language and managing its use: Language technology as language management8
‘Are you man enough?’. Gender as an increasingly decisive factor in the choice of Basque personal pronouns8
Achieving activity transitions in dental consultations: Managing interprofessional collaboration and patient cooperation during the transition to dental examination8
Discursive strategies of stigmatization: The case of Bangladesh Islami Chhatra Shibir in news media7
The quiet resourcefulness of Falderos: Embodied salesmanship in motion7
Enlanguaged affordances in social practices: A critical rethinking of Gibson's approach to language7
A bibliography of the published writings of Talbot J. Taylor, Louise G.T. Cooley Professor of English and Linguistics in the Department of English at the College of William and Mary7
Commodifying Green living: Discourses of class and sustainability in housing estates7
Demonstrating and guiding how to smell in tasting sessions: .nhHHHhh and the audible-visible production of sensorial intersubjectivity7
Metapragmatic comments deconstructing the concept of self-mockery in Chinese on social media7
Hidden behind the text: A linguistic ethnographic study of stancetaking in news production6
Aggression and its (de)escalation in mediatised rites of aggression6
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Evaluative labels in public discourse: A political crisis from diverse perspectives6
An Emmet's tale: The duality of social and lexical change6
Deliberate ambiguity as motivated strategy6
Boundaries of gestures: Naive segmentation of the stream of human hand movements6
Documenting the emerging social-semiotic landscape in children ages 5 to 126
Ways of participating in a colleague's project: Radio use as collaborative activity in UN military observer training6
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Look at me, please! Human auditory attention-getting devices in dog-human play6
Prosodic matching beyond humans: On the interactional basis of “cat-directed” talk6
Surprise as a knowledge emotion in research articles: Variation across disciplines, genders, geo-academic locations and time6
When science meets society: The role of unsolicited self-disclosures in conversations between researchers and community members5
Engagement in health representatives’ speeches of Covid-19 pandemic in Saudi Arabia and the UK5
Investigating sound patterns in interspecies interaction5
The synchronized instantiation of the ordered pair of instructive and instructed actions5
‘So you think you can play with me’ – Louis Moholo-Moholo and the semiotics of freedom5
Roy Harris and the liquidation of ‘languages’ in new sociolinguistics5
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‘Learn Jafaikan in two minutes’ – Multicultural London English, enregisterment and ideology in English newspapers5
Communication through popular culture: Analyzing a googi performance on early marriage among the Kusaas of Ghana5
A linguistic ethnography of the sense of belonging: Iraqi Turkmen women refugees in Turkey4
Corrigendum to “Artificial intelligence in the training of public service interpreters” [Lang. Commun. 103 (2025) 86–107]4
Beyond the image and within the text: Visual narratives of drone warfare in the Ukraine–Russia conflict4
Experienced repetition. Integrational linguistics and the first-person perspective4
The art and politics of micronational language planning4
Playful signs in the city: Toward a semiotics of transgression in urban linguistic landscapes4
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Communicating life-saving knowledge: The multimodal arrangement in Lifesaver VR4
‘For (…) a leader like this Prime Minister to talk about morals and morality is a disgrace’: offensive action, uptake and moral implications in the context of parliamentary debates4
Translocalisation of values, relationality and offence4
“There's No ‘I’ in Team”: Identity work in hockey post-game interviews4
Lessons in linguistics with ChatGPT: Metapragmatics, metacommunication, metadiscourse and metalanguage in human-AI interactions4
No puedes hablar ahora: Voice in an interpreter-mediated court meeting4
Disorienting discourses and the making of gentrifiers in redeveloping Brooklyn4
Mock foreigner speech and the reification of mediatized (white) foreignness in Japanese media4
Introduction: Linguistic approaches to point of view in journalism4
Issues of phonetics and social action in human-animal interaction4
‘But for calves we were sweeter’. Traditional Finnish cattle calling as trans-species pidgin4
Texting in Time: Approaching time and temporalities of smartphone-based interactions4
Talbot Taylor's engagement with stylistic theory4
Sounding for others: Vocal resources for embodied togetherness4
Mnemonic normalisation in the visual politics of the German far-right4
Perceptions of communicative competence: Stancetaking and explicit metapragmatic discourse in interactions of L1 and L2 users of Japanese4
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Putting local dialect in the mix: Indexicality and stylization in a TikTok challenge4
Question design and stance-taking in political interviews in Flemish news media3
Affect in Chinese cyberspace and beyond: Language objects and affective regimes in rural hostels3
“Democracy under attack”: Viewpoint and doxa in the coverage of the Jan. 6th, 2021 events at the US Capitol3
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Laughter and language attitudes in students’ discussions about language use in Nigeria3
“Molière amoché”: Discourse on the quality of English-speaking Canadian politicians’ French in Canadian news media coverage of the 2020 conservative leadership debate3
The impact of polish accents on guilt3
The “Balfour Gang” versus “the Saladin Gang”: Geographic metaphors and metonyms in Israel as securitized, polarizing constructs3
Doing being ordinary, doing being expatriate: A frame analysis of food activities in everyday vlogs of Korean expatriates3
Responsive animation and the negotiation of (shared) self-deprecating attributes and experiences in interaction3
On the morality of taking offence3
Self-denigration in Mandarin Chinese: An alternative account from sincerity3
Comprehending stories in pantomime. A pilot study with typically developing children and its implications for the narrative origin of language3
Mobile events: Exploring mobile conversations in context as communicative events3
Voice matters: Social categorization and stereotyping of speakers based on sexual orientation and nationality categories3
Interpersonal distance, mouth sounds, and referentiality in child-dog play: A pluridisciplinary approach3
The influence of media narratives in the formation of post-conflict discursive landscapes: Stance, engagement and doubt3
Discursive neutralization in Chinese community corrections: A linguistic analysis of blame avoidance in institutional discourse3
Sequence organization in the instruction of embodied activities2
Metalinguistic normativity and the supercategory: Law's deployment of ordinary language and the case of Thind v US2
Multilingualism in parliamentary discourse: Unpacking ideological conflicts over the use of native languages in the parliament of Ghana2
Attitudes towards age variation and language change in the British deaf community2
Scriptism with a vengeance. Or, how writing was forgotten.2
Developing and testing interaction-based coding schemes for the analysis of sociolinguistic variation2
Contested encounters: Negotiating in-law status during a migrant's return to southeastern Senegal2
The expression of polyphonic city image: A perspective from the linguistic landscape of Beijing’s Hutongs2
‘I just want you to get into the flow of reading’: Reframing Hebrew proficiency as an enactment of liberal Jewishness2
“I don't mean extradimensional in a woo-woo sense”: Doing non-explanation in discussions of unidentified aerial phenomena2
Contextualization cues for media references in everyday conversation2
Generic options: Variable use of vos and uno in Patagonia Spanish (Argentina)2
Linguistic negotiation of place identity in a changing Tel Aviv neighborhood2
The propositional meaning of metaphor: A critical review against the Davidsonian approach2
Media frames as adaptive networks of meaning: A conceptual proposition2
Five dogmas of logic diagrams and how to escape them2
Calibrating hands-on experience and manual know-how in anatomical dissection2
Prosody is used for real-time exercising of other bodies2
A sequential approach to simultaneity in social interaction: The emergent organization of choral actions2
Metalinguistic negation of proper names: Evidence from Russian2
Commentary: The sociolinguistics of exclusion2
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Towards a comprehensive model of style-shifting: Evidence from sibilant variation in Mandarin2
Top-down and bottom-up semiotic landscapes in Eastern Suburb Memory: A scalar-chronotopic approach2
Something wicked this way comes! Applying linguistic structures within Ricoer's interpretation theory2
Arabic–French code-switching in medical consultations in Algeria: A conversation analytic study2
Indicating ideology: Variation in Montenegrin orthography2
Black humour as official slogan: The CDA from Chinese anti-epidemic discourse2
Embodied variation in the sequential greetings of the (dairy) cow2
The influence of ethnicity and language variation on undergraduates' evaluations of Dutch-speaking instructors in Belgium: A contextualized speaker evaluation experiment2
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‘My word against his’: Micro and macro analysis of stories about violence in intimate partner relationships2
Reading (in) law: A critical appraisal of the impact of language on disciplinary novices’ cognitive reading strategies1
“What a standard Taiwan Mandarin accent”: Online metalinguistic commentary on linguistic performances of non-native Chinese speakers1
What would it be like for prelinguistic communication to be Gricean?1
Depicting force at the potter's wheel1
The semiotics of emojis & emoticons: Social hierarchies, platform preferences, and functional implications in digital discourse1
Corrigendum to “The Polish accents of guilt” [Lang Commun, 98 (2024), 1]1
Seeing together: The organisation of looking and seeing in navigational driving instructions1
The role of reflexivity in content-sensitivity1
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Social meanings of academic terms in student-to-student interaction1
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Schizolinguistics, from Tuczek's Analyse einer Katatonikersprache (1921) to Wolfson's Le Schizo et les langues (1970)1
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‘Harsh’ SoMa vs ‘Beige’ Castro: The cross-modal construction of contrasting femininities in queer San Francisco1
The lexicon of rupture: Language, social reconfiguration, and pragmatic survival in the Gaza war1
“And I know that’s not how ‘tm’ works; but in podcasting, it does”: The trademark sign ‘tm’ and mark identification in spotify speech1
Cheering together: The interactional organization of choral vocalizations1
Theorizing rhetoric: A transatlantic perspective1
Language portraits in describing family language policy: How the activity setting shapes power dynamics1
Complaining by category: Managing social categories and action ascription in wargame interactions1
Typology of case-marking in Brajbhāshā1
What animals can tell us about attentional prerequisites of language acquisition1
Form (Prosody)-Meaning (Pragmatics) pairings of discourse markers: A case study of Nǐ zhīdào (‘You Know’) as a construction in Chinese media interviews1
(Online) public denunciation, public incivilities and offence1
Gestural depictions in requests for objects1
“Oh my god that would hurt”: Pain cries in feminist self-defence classes1
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Interlocutor reference and competing social imaginaries in a predominantly Chinese Indonesian workplace in West Kalimantan1
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Assessing potential disinformation campaigns in anonymous online comments: Evaluating available textual cues in debates on the 2019 Hong Kong protests1
A flood of illegal immigrants or a humanitarian crisis provoked by the government – A comparative mixed-methods analysis of framing strategies of Poland's two leading media outlets1
Virtual spaces, real interactions - Analyzing communication in virtual reality1
Hebrew stance-taking gasps: From bodily response to social communicative resource1
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Legitimating Activism as a meaningful category: Negotiation of the protest lexicon in The Guardian and Times since the 1960s1
From resistance to progressivity: The sequential organisation of refusal management in Taiwanese long-term home-based dementia care1
Resolving suspicion moment-by-moment. The overall structural organization of police encounters in the Spain-France border area1
Performing expertise and emotion in AI risk discourse1
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Shifting style-shifts? Higher-order style-shifting in Hong Kong Cantonese-English languaging through indexicality and audience design1
Name it till you mean it: Intersections between formal and semantic neological procedures in naming emerging pandemic objects in Spanish1
Metaphorical emergence through propositional and imagistic modes of metaphor processing1
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