OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Language & Communication is 4. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The affective, the conceptual and the meaning of ‘life’ in the stylistics of Charles Bally	41
Linguistic reflexivity and language-shaping: Countering representationalism in ecological research on language	19
Reflexivity & Normativity: A Festschrift for Talbot J. Taylor	18
Edutaining with indigeneity: Mediatizing Ainu bilingualism in the Japanese anime, Golden Kamuy	17
‘Whose father are you?’ Arabic teknonyms in a socio-pragmatic perspective	17
Up from Babel: On the (r)evolutionary linguistic thought of Eugène Lanti	16
‘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	15
Introduction: The sociolinguistics of exclusion – Indexing (non)belonging in mobile communities	13
Topic modelling as a method for framing analysis of news coverage of the Russia-Ukraine war in 2022–2023	13
Attuning to cosmopolitan atmosphere curated in semiotic landscapes: Stance-taking as affective practice	12
Framing shared knowledge: The chronotopic organisation of meaning	12
Coordinating multimodal and screen-based actions in proposal sequences of video-mediated collaborative drawing	11
Slurs and speech acts	11
Global Swearword, local ideologies: The Re-semiotization and indexical field of Fuck in Taiwan	10
The interface of prosody and pragmatics: A phono-pragmatic analysis of bebin (‘look’) in Persian	10
Artificial intelligence and the ethnographic encounter: Transhuman language ontologies, or what it means “to write like a human, think like a machine”	10
‘Are you man enough?’. Gender as an increasingly decisive factor in the choice of Basque personal pronouns	10
They are not us: The rhythm of reggae and two-syllable language prosody in the construction of Jamaican National Identity	10
Achieving activity transitions in dental consultations: Managing interprofessional collaboration and patient cooperation during the transition to dental examination	9
Southern perspectives of language and the construction of the common	9
Did language originate with Homo erectus? The scavenging inference	9
Defining language and managing its use: Language technology as language management	8
The quiet resourcefulness of Falderos: Embodied salesmanship in motion	8
Editorial Board	8

Metapragmatic comments deconstructing the concept of self-mockery in Chinese on social media	8
Commodifying Green living: Discourses of class and sustainability in housing estates	8
Deliberate ambiguity as motivated strategy	7
Enlanguaged affordances in social practices: A critical rethinking of Gibson's approach to language	7
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
Editorial Board	7
Beyond the tree: Darwin’s temporal language and the emergence of evolutionary lineage thinking in the Origin of Species	7
Boundaries of gestures: Naive segmentation of the stream of human hand movements	6
Documenting the emerging social-semiotic landscape in children ages 5 to 12	6
Aggression and its (de)escalation in mediatised rites of aggression	6
A cross-linguistic and pluricentric analysis of address patterns in automobile brand websites: Swiss Italian is not like any other	6
‘Learn Jafaikan in two minutes’ – Multicultural London English, enregisterment and ideology in English newspapers	6
Look at me, please! Human auditory attention-getting devices in dog-human play	6
Evaluative labels in public discourse: A political crisis from diverse perspectives	6
Discursive strategies of stigmatization: The case of Bangladesh Islami Chhatra Shibir in news media	6
‘So you think you can play with me’ – Louis Moholo-Moholo and the semiotics of freedom	6
An Emmet's tale: The duality of social and lexical change	6
Ways of participating in a colleague's project: Radio use as collaborative activity in UN military observer training	6
Demonstrating and guiding how to smell in tasting sessions: .nhHHHhh and the audible-visible production of sensorial intersubjectivity	6
Editorial Board	6
Hidden behind the text: A linguistic ethnographic study of stancetaking in news production	5
Communication through popular culture: Analyzing a googi performance on early marriage among the Kusaas of Ghana	5
Surprise as a knowledge emotion in research articles: Variation across disciplines, genders, geo-academic locations and time	5
The synchronized instantiation of the ordered pair of instructive and instructed actions	5
Corrigendum to “Artificial intelligence in the training of public service interpreters” [Lang. Commun. 103 (2025) 86–107]	5
Engagement in health representatives’ speeches of Covid-19 pandemic in Saudi Arabia and the UK	5
When science meets society: The role of unsolicited self-disclosures in conversations between researchers and community members	5
Lessons in linguistics with ChatGPT: Metapragmatics, metacommunication, metadiscourse and metalanguage in human-AI interactions	5
Talbot Taylor's engagement with stylistic theory	5
Roy Harris and the liquidation of ‘languages’ in new sociolinguistics	5
Editorial Board	5
Prosodic matching beyond humans: On the interactional basis of “cat-directed” talk	5
Beyond the image and within the text: Visual narratives of drone warfare in the Ukraine–Russia conflict	5
Investigating sound patterns in interspecies interaction	5
Experienced repetition. Integrational linguistics and the first-person perspective	5
The art and politics of micronational language planning	4
Issues of phonetics and social action in human-animal interaction	4
Introduction: Linguistic approaches to point of view in journalism	4
Mnemonic normalisation in the visual politics of the German far-right	4
Perceptions of communicative competence: Stancetaking and explicit metapragmatic discourse in interactions of L1 and L2 users of Japanese	4
‘But for calves we were sweeter’. Traditional Finnish cattle calling as trans-species pidgin	4
Sounding for others: Vocal resources for embodied togetherness	4
Playful signs in the city: Toward a semiotics of transgression in urban linguistic landscapes	4
Editorial Board	4
Mobile events: Exploring mobile conversations in context as communicative events	4
‘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	4
Texting in Time: Approaching time and temporalities of smartphone-based interactions	4
A linguistic ethnography of the sense of belonging: Iraqi Turkmen women refugees in Turkey	4
Disorienting discourses and the making of gentrifiers in redeveloping Brooklyn	4
Mock foreigner speech and the reification of mediatized (white) foreignness in Japanese media	4

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Affect in Chinese cyberspace and beyond: Language objects and affective regimes in rural hostels	4
“There's No ‘I’ in Team”: Identity work in hockey post-game interviews	4
No puedes hablar ahora: Voice in an interpreter-mediated court meeting	4