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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
‘Whose father are you?’ Arabic teknonyms in a socio-pragmatic perspective	48
The affective, the conceptual and the meaning of ‘life’ in the stylistics of Charles Bally	26
Edutaining with indigeneity: Mediatizing Ainu bilingualism in the Japanese anime, Golden Kamuy	21
Linguistic reflexivity and language-shaping: Countering representationalism in ecological research on language	21
‘Right an turn agadsa’: The reflexivity between language socialisation and child agency in exploring ‘success’ in FLP	15
“Do they understand”? A case study of atypical institutional encounters	13
Reflexivity & Normativity: A Festschrift for Talbot J. Taylor	13
The power of conceptual metaphors in the age of pandemic: The influence of the WAR and SPORT domains on emotions and thoughts	13
Up from Babel: On the (r)evolutionary linguistic thought of Eugène Lanti	12
Introduction: The sociolinguistics of exclusion – Indexing (non)belonging in mobile communities	11
The interface of prosody and pragmatics: A phono-pragmatic analysis of bebin (‘look’) in Persian	10
Topic modelling as a method for framing analysis of news coverage of the Russia-Ukraine war in 2022–2023	10
Attuning to cosmopolitan atmosphere curated in semiotic landscapes: Stance-taking as affective practice	9
Slurs and speech acts	9
Coordinating multimodal and screen-based actions in proposal sequences of video-mediated collaborative drawing	8
‘Are you man enough?’. Gender as an increasingly decisive factor in the choice of Basque personal pronouns	8
Artificial intelligence and the ethnographic encounter: Transhuman language ontologies, or what it means “to write like a human, think like a machine”	8
Achieving activity transitions in dental consultations: Managing interprofessional collaboration and patient cooperation during the transition to dental examination	8
Southern perspectives of language and the construction of the common	8
Framing shared knowledge: The chronotopic organisation of meaning	8
Editorial Board	8
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 Mary	7
Commodifying Green living: Discourses of class and sustainability in housing estates	7
Demonstrating and guiding how to smell in tasting sessions: .nhHHHhh and the audible-visible production of sensorial intersubjectivity	7
Metapragmatic comments deconstructing the concept of self-mockery in Chinese on social media	7

Enlanguaged affordances in social practices: A critical rethinking of Gibson's approach to language	6
Surprise as a knowledge emotion in research articles: Variation across disciplines, genders, geo-academic locations and time	6
Ways of participating in a colleague's project: Radio use as collaborative activity in UN military observer training	6
Hidden behind the text: A linguistic ethnographic study of stancetaking in news production	6
Editorial Board	6
‘Learn Jafaikan in two minutes’ – Multicultural London English, enregisterment and ideology in English newspapers	6
Editorial Board	6
Documenting the emerging social-semiotic landscape in children ages 5 to 12	6
Deliberate ambiguity as motivated strategy	6
Look at me, please! Human auditory attention-getting devices in dog-human play	6
‘So you think you can play with me’ – Louis Moholo-Moholo and the semiotics of freedom	6
Boundaries of gestures: Naive segmentation of the stream of human hand movements	6
Aggression and its (de)escalation in mediatised rites of aggression	5
Superdiversity and translocal brutality in Asian extreme metal lyrics	5
Communication through popular culture: Analyzing a googi performance on early marriage among the Kusaas of Ghana	5
Prosodic matching beyond humans: On the interactional basis of “cat-directed” talk	5
Islands, geopolitics and language ideologies: Sociolinguistic differentiation between Taiwanese and Kinmenese Hokkien	5
Editorial Board	5
Evaluative labels in public discourse: A political crisis from diverse perspectives	5
An Emmet's tale: The duality of social and lexical change	5
Trivializing language correctness in an online metalinguistic debate	5
“There's No ‘I’ in Team”: Identity work in hockey post-game interviews	4
Making room inside the doughnut: European audiovisual subtitling in non-hegemonic languages as an opportunity for global language justice	4
‘But for calves we were sweeter’. Traditional Finnish cattle calling as trans-species pidgin	4
Experienced repetition. Integrational linguistics and the first-person perspective	4
The art and politics of micronational language planning	4
When science meets society: The role of unsolicited self-disclosures in conversations between researchers and community members	4
Editorial Board	4
Translocalisation of values, relationality and offence	4
A linguistic ethnography of the sense of belonging: Iraqi Turkmen women refugees in Turkey	4
Corrigendum to “Artificial intelligence in the training of public service interpreters” [Lang. Commun. 103 (2025) 86–107]	4
Investigating sound patterns in interspecies interaction	4
Lessons in linguistics with ChatGPT: Metapragmatics, metacommunication, metadiscourse and metalanguage in human-AI interactions	4
Talbot Taylor's engagement with stylistic theory	4
Texting in Time: Approaching time and temporalities of smartphone-based interactions	4
Responsive animation and the negotiation of (shared) self-deprecating attributes and experiences in interaction	3
Laughter and language attitudes in students’ discussions about language use in Nigeria	3
Mnemonic normalisation in the visual politics of the German far-right	3
Mobile events: Exploring mobile conversations in context as communicative events	3
Disorienting discourses and the making of gentrifiers in redeveloping Brooklyn	3
‘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	3
Mock foreigner speech and the reification of mediatized (white) foreignness in Japanese media	3
Affect in Chinese cyberspace and beyond: Language objects and affective regimes in rural hostels	3
On the morality of taking offence	3
“Molière amoché”: Discourse on the quality of English-speaking Canadian politicians’ French in Canadian news media coverage of the 2020 conservative leadership debate	3
Question design and stance-taking in political interviews in Flemish news media	3
Voice matters: Social categorization and stereotyping of speakers based on sexual orientation and nationality categories	3
Doing being ordinary, doing being expatriate: A frame analysis of food activities in everyday vlogs of Korean expatriates	3
Issues of phonetics and social action in human-animal interaction	3
No puedes hablar ahora: Voice in an interpreter-mediated court meeting	3

Sounding for others: Vocal resources for embodied togetherness	3
Putting local dialect in the mix: Indexicality and stylization in a TikTok challenge	3
The “Balfour Gang” versus “the Saladin Gang”: Geographic metaphors and metonyms in Israel as securitized, polarizing constructs	3
Inside Front Cover - Aims and Scope, Copyright, Publication information, Orders and Claims, Advertising information, Author inquiries, Permissions, Funding body, Permanence of paper, Impressum (German	3
Editorial Board	3
Self-denigration in Mandarin Chinese: An alternative account from sincerity	3
The influence of media narratives in the formation of post-conflict discursive landscapes: Stance, engagement and doubt	3
“Democracy under attack”: Viewpoint and doxa in the coverage of the Jan. 6th, 2021 events at the US Capitol	3
Editorial Board	3
Communicating life-saving knowledge: The multimodal arrangement in Lifesaver VR	3
Perceptions of communicative competence: Stancetaking and explicit metapragmatic discourse in interactions of L1 and L2 users of Japanese	3
Literacy and perceptions of aging: Evidence from the Dani in Papua	3
Introduction: Linguistic approaches to point of view in journalism	3
Interpersonal distance, mouth sounds, and referentiality in child-dog play: A pluridisciplinary approach	3