OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Language & Communication is 3. 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
(Online) public denunciation, public incivilities and offence	10
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
Neoliberal globalisation and language minoritisation: Lessons from Ireland 2008-18	9
Ideologies of sign language and their repercussions in language policy determinations	9
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
Prosody is used for real-time exercising of other bodies	8
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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