OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Moral emotions, good moral panics, social regulation, and online public shaming	25
The tipping point: On the use of signs from American Sign Language in International Sign	18
The power of conceptual metaphors in the age of pandemic: The influence of the WAR and SPORT domains on emotions and thoughts	18
Demonstration and pantomime in the evolution of teaching and communication	16
The newsworthiness of Li Na—A critical comparative analysis of Chinese and international news media	16
Humour and (mock) aggression: Distinguishing cyberbullying from roasting	16
Genres and languages in science communication: The multiple dimensions of the science-policy interface	15
Netflix likes it dubbed: Taking on the challenge of dubbing into English	14
Filipino, Chinese, neither, or both? The Lannang identity and its relationship with language	14
Lexical necropolitics: The raciolinguistics of language oppression on the Tibetan margins of Chineseness	13
The multimodality and temporality of pain displays	12
“You don't ask me to speak Mandarin, okay?”: Ideologies of language and race among Chinese Singaporeans	11
Personal names in Kusaal: A sociolinguistic analysis	11
The turn-by-turn unfolding of “dialogue”: Examining participants’ orientations to moments of transformative engagement	11
Complicating raciolinguistics: Language, Chineseness, and the Sinophone	11
Chineseness and Cantonese tones in post-1997 Hong Kong	10
Chineseness, Taiwaneseness, and the traditional and simplified Chinese scripts:Tourism, identity, and linguistic commodification	10
(Online) public denunciation, public incivilities and offence	10
Evolution of conventional communication. A cross-cultural study of pantomimic re-enactments of transitive events	9
Coordinating action in technology-supported shared tasks: Virtual pointing as a situated practice for mobilizing a response	9
Neoliberal globalisation and language minoritisation: Lessons from Ireland 2008-18	9
Ideologies of sign language and their repercussions in language policy determinations	9
Examining interspecies interactions in light of discourse analytic theory: A case study on the genre of human-goat communication at a petting farm	8
‘Labor is the most glorious’ : Chronotopic linguistic landscaping and the making of working class identities	8
‘I love James Blunt as much as I love herpes’ – ‘I love that you're not ashamed to admit you have both’: Attempted insults and responses on Twitter	8

Prosody is used for real-time exercising of other bodies	8
Complexities of Chineseness: Reflections on race, nationality and language	7
The use of ‘bubble’ as an economic metaphor in the news: The case of the ‘real estate bubble’ in Spain	7
Superdiversity and translocal brutality in Asian extreme metal lyrics	7
Variation in the use of constructed action according to discourse type and age in Finnish Sign Language	7
Asymmetric use of diminutives and hypocoristics to pet animals in Italian, German, English, and Arabic	7
Lessons in linguistics with ChatGPT: Metapragmatics, metacommunication, metadiscourse and metalanguage in human-AI interactions	7
Joint attention and reference construction: The role of pointing and “so”	6
Creating new discourses for new feminisms: A critical socio-cognitive approach	6
Self-denigration in Mandarin Chinese: An alternative account from sincerity	6
Calming emotional 911 callers: Using redirection as a patient-focused directive in emergency medical calls	6
Ritual frames and mimesis: Analysing military training in Chinese universities	6
Form, frequency and sociolinguistic variation in depicting signs in New Zealand Sign Language	6
Constructing success and hope among migrant students and families. A mother tongue teacher's didactic narratives	5
On the recognitionality of references to time in social interaction	5
Living in harmony: The negotiation of intergenerational family language policy in Singapore	5
Translocalisation of values, relationality and offence	5
Brutoglossia: Democracy, authenticity, and the enregisterment of connoisseurship in ‘craft beer talk’	4
Complaining by category: Managing social categories and action ascription in wargame interactions	4
Making talk together	4
Morality, aggression, and social activism in a transmedia sports controversy	4
From the White House with anger: Conversational features in President Trump's official communication	4
Peer socialization in an oral preschool classroom	4
On the morality of taking offence	4
The language predicament of South African universities in a global perspective	4
The influence of ethnicity and language variation on undergraduates' evaluations of Dutch-speaking instructors in Belgium: A contextualized speaker evaluation experiment	4
Cultural relativism and understanding difference	4
Taking a detour before answering the question: Turn-initial okay in second position in English interaction	4
Offence and morality: Pragmatic perspectives	4
Tunisian hip-hop music discourse: Linguistic, socio-cultural and political movements from the local to the global or vice versa? A case study of Balti's songs	4
Place formulation in an emergency: The case of 911 calls in Costa Rica	4
Southern perspectives of language and the construction of the common	4
First names and sociolinguistic enregisterment: Digital tropes of linguistic mobility	3
Comprehending stories in pantomime. A pilot study with typically developing children and its implications for the narrative origin of language	3
Joining actions through effort sounds: Mothers and infants in routine activities	3
Metapragmatic comments deconstructing the concept of self-mockery in Chinese on social media	3
Sounding for others: Vocal resources for embodied togetherness	3
A linguistic ethnography of the sense of belonging: Iraqi Turkmen women refugees in Turkey	3
Constructing collective agency through narrative positioning in group meetings within a Chinese professional team	3
Five dogmas of logic diagrams and how to escape them	3
Perception and evaluation of requests on social media in Chinese and Japanese	3
Punctuating the other: Graphic cues, voice, and positioning in digital discourse	3
Hebrew stance-taking gasps: From bodily response to social communicative resource	3
Constructing gender using visual imagery –a study of early readers	3
Is there such a thing as summary interpreting? “Cross-linguistic formulation”, facilitation and mediation in French asylum proceedings	3
“We are not amused”. The appreciation of British humour by British and American English L1 users	3
‘Thank you for your blessing’: Constructed mobile chronotopes in a Buddhist online community in Bhutan	3
Islands, geopolitics and language ideologies: Sociolinguistic differentiation between Taiwanese and Kinmenese Hokkien	3
Barriers and opportunities for cinema distribution in European minority languages. The case of in the Digital Single Market	3
Non-lexical vocalisations + “so_was” as a multimodal package in establishing joint decisions in music rehearsals	3

Voice matters: Social categorization and stereotyping of speakers based on sexual orientation and nationality categories	3
Indexing the ‘included’ migrant? Social categorization and interpersonal digital interaction between labor migrants, teachers and employers in Norway	3
“Maybe useful to the future generation but not my own”: How “useful” is Mandarin really for contemporary Hoisan-heritage Chinese Americans in the San Francisco Bay Area?	3
Multi-unit turns that begin with a resaying of a prior speaker's turn	3
“Scouse” but not “Scouser”? Embedded enregistered repertoires for adolescent girls on The Wirral	2
Neoliberalization of higher education in China: A critical discourse analytical approach	2
Responsive animation and the negotiation of (shared) self-deprecating attributes and experiences in interaction	2
The competence of the professional standard language speaker in flux? Support from the speech therapy context	2
Verbal and visual communication in constructive news across cultures: A case study of a bilingual English-Spanish corpus with a focus on metaphor	2
Talking language ideologies into being in parent-child conversations in Singapore	2
Purposeful life or sugar-coated lies: How Elizabeth Holmes legitimised her fraud	2
Toward an interactional approach to multilingualism: Ideologies and practices in the northwest Amazon	2
The affective, the conceptual and the meaning of ‘life’ in the stylistics of Charles Bally	2
Coda /s/ and intervocalic /d/ elision in Andalusia: The formation of Susana Díaz's regional identity in political discourse	2
Demonstrating and guiding how to smell in tasting sessions: .nhHHHhh and the audible-visible production of sensorial intersubjectivity	2
The scope of linguistic relativity in graphic and lexical numeration	2
On the dissemination of the discourse of going: The case of Iranian for-profit study abroad institution's chronotopic representation of ideal life there	2
Lexical repetitions during time critical moments in boxing	2
Involved parenthood in digitally mediated interaction	2
Indicating ideology: Variation in Montenegrin orthography	2
Perceiving (non)standardness and the indexicality of new immigrant Cantonese in Hong Kong	2
Experienced repetition. Integrational linguistics and the first-person perspective	2
Framing of COVID-19 safety protocols in Kusaal musical health communication: Language and literary analysis	2
Media frames as adaptive networks of meaning: A conceptual proposition	2
Aggression and its (de)escalation in mediatised rites of aggression	2
Register features in Kalevala-metric incantations	2
Metalinguistic relativity: Does one's ontology determine one's view on linguistic relativity?	2
Language policy and prospects: Metalinguistic discourses on social disruption and language maintenance in a transatlantic, minority community	2
The discourse structure of video games: A multimodal discourse semantics approach to game tutorials	2
Changing the ownership of ideas: Multimedial accomplishment of collaborative reflection in an organizational workshop	2
“Flattery helps”: Relational practices in statecraft	2
Resolving suspicion moment-by-moment. The overall structural organization of police encounters in the Spain-France border area	2
‘Right an turn agadsa’: The reflexivity between language socialisation and child agency in exploring ‘success’ in FLP	2
Edutaining with indigeneity: Mediatizing Ainu bilingualism in the Japanese anime, Golden Kamuy	2
An Emmet's tale: The duality of social and lexical change	2
Communication and the principle of intersubjectivity	1
Putting local dialect in the mix: Indexicality and stylization in a TikTok challenge	1
The role of reflexivity in content-sensitivity	1
How to grapple with the green-eyed monster: A discursive approach to jealousy management in Chinese TV dramas	1
Accommodation in L2 English: Measuring dialect convergence in Nigerian Englishes	1
Scope and gender in Hebrew generic second person	1
Linguistics for the apocalypse	1
Introduction: The sociolinguistics of exclusion – Indexing (non)belonging in mobile communities	1
Documenting the emerging social-semiotic landscape in children ages 5 to 12	1
Globalisation and linguistic disturbance in New Caledonia	1
Tautologies with proper names in discourse: Rhetorical relations and interpretation	1
Grammaticalised and non-grammaticalised conceptualisations of liyil ‘head’ in Likpakpaln (Konkomba)	1
‘I just want you to get into the flow of reading’: Reframing Hebrew proficiency as an enactment of liberal Jewishness	1
Literacy and perceptions of aging: Evidence from the Dani in Papua	1
“I don't mean extradimensional in a woo-woo sense”: Doing non-explanation in discussions of unidentified aerial phenomena	1
Contextualization cues for media references in everyday conversation	1
Linguistic features and pragmatic functions of direct reported speech in Italian troubles telling sequences	1
“Call me by my name”: Names, address, and the subjectivization of Korean women	1
Metalinguistic normativity and the supercategory: Law's deployment of ordinary language and the case of Thind v US	1
Linguistic reflexivity and language-shaping: Countering representationalism in ecological research on language	1
Trivializing language correctness in an online metalinguistic debate	1
Scaling diasporic soundings in the globalised world: A study of Polish stops in the UK	1
Integrating linguistic relativity	1
“Molière amoché”: Discourse on the quality of English-speaking Canadian politicians’ French in Canadian news media coverage of the 2020 conservative leadership debate	1
“Oh my god that would hurt”: Pain cries in feminist self-defence classes	1
Body of knowledge and knowledge of the body: The early development of metaphor in bilingual children	1
Perceptions of communicative competence: Stancetaking and explicit metapragmatic discourse in interactions of L1 and L2 users of Japanese	1
Kinship carers' complaints about birth parents' Facebook posts: Mediated evidentiality and identity construction	1
‘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 debates	1
Talbot Taylor's engagement with stylistic theory	1
Up from Babel: On the (r)evolutionary linguistic thought of Eugène Lanti	1
Vygotsky's machinery of the will. Or: Descartes in the dog house	1
Remaking futsuu ‘ordinary’ in the discourse of younger Japanese adults	1
Non-lexical vocalizations help novices learn joint embodied actions	1
Self-denigration in Chinese: An interactional speech act approach	1