OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Language Sciences 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Frege's triangle and Austin's square: the meaning and use of no-predicates in English	114
Dimensions of Respect in Mapuzugun: A Preliminary Ecolinguistic analysis	26
“Language art is to console those who are broken by life”: A discursive analysis of legitimation in Chinese comforting	23
Further semantic change of the derogatory sociomorpheme tái in Chinese gender-related Internet neologisms	19
Nominal classification in Mabia languages of West Africa	18
Inference and indexicality, or how to solve Bakhtin's problem with heteroglossia	13
On the place and role of ‘discourse’ in the Functional Discourse Grammar model. The interface between language system and language use	12
Editorial Board	12
Sequential Time construal is primary in temporal uses of Mandarin Chinese qian ‘front’ and hou ‘back’	12
Editorial Board	12
Sound-meaning mapping: Verbal imitation of Super Mario music by Yorùbá gamers	11
Editorial Board	11
States of idiosyncratic idealized cognitive models in acts of pragmatic meaning	10
Foreign language teaching, educational ecolinguistics, and climate change	9
Disagreement by Chinese speakers of English: evidence of pragmatic transfer	9
Print exposure leads to individual differences in the Turkish aorist	9
Voice, rhythm, and genre in children's early writing	9
Editorial Board	8
Editorial Board	8
Responses to CAT at 50: Reflections on accommodation from a sociolinguist	8
On the elusive nature of AGENT and agentive diagnostics: lessons from causee	7
Grammaticalization of prosodic configurations? The case of evidential interrogative in Spanish	7
A quantitative study on zero copula in Japanese	7
Language, skills, deixis and indexicality – their roles and interactions	7
The practice of metaphor in conversation: an ecological integrational approach	7

Processing units of spoken language and the Mapping Problem: reassessing writing concepts in the study of neurobiological systems	6
Construing chemistry knowledge through English systematic names of organic compounds: a Systemic Functional Linguistics perspective	6
Functional differences of comparison-and-contrast in English and Chinese research articles of applied linguistics	6
What’s in a drilling hole? The indexicality of competing gas terms in Swedish discourse	5
Dialogical cognition	5
Editorial Board	5
Editorial Board	5
Diachronic changes of number use in written American English from 1923 to 2008	5
Forms and functions of self-repetition in Mandarin child-directed speech	5
Tracking identity in minority language policy: a reflexive approach to hybrid concepts in the language sciences	4
Editorial Board	4
Linguistic synesthesia and embodiment: A study based on Mandarin modality exclusivity norms	4
Problematizing language	4
Event structure, force dynamics and verb semantics	4
An Interview with Per Linell	4
From size measurement to simultaneity: the case of Russian po mere ‘by measure’	4
Remarks on Pāṇini's grammar	4
Emotional dimensions in the linguistic analysis of internet memes	4
Examining textism convergence in mediated interactions	4
Editorial Board	4
A little less conversation – On the completeness of discourse-initial action-guiding subsententials	3
Editorial Board	3
Beyond definiteness: exploring epistemic and relational accounts of e-marked formulations in Persian interactions	3
Information reception markers shi ba and shi ma in Mandarin conversation	3
Communication accommodation theory: Past accomplishments, current trends, and future prospects	3
Ecological awareness issues in Chinese language dictionaries: A case study of the Contemporary Chinese Dictionary	3
Prosody in recognizing dialogue-specific functions of speech acts. Evidence from Polish	3
Modesty differs between historical and modern Chinese: A computational analysis of modesty metalinguistics	3
The negotiation of epistemic and deontic rights in child-adult interactions in colloquial Jakartan Indonesian	3
‘Face’-related expressions in the Minnan Dialect of Chinese	3
Reconceptualizing the critical period hypothesis for second language acquisition: An appraisal of Lenneberg's work on the epigenesis of language	3
A cognitive semantic model of Chinese character representation	3
Deixis and dementia: Insights from phenomenological philosophy	3
When translation meets dissemination: Translations of the Chinese diplomatic term Mìngyùn Gòngtóngtǐ in English news reports	3
A defense of a weak linguistic relativist thesis	3
Converge or diverge? An entropy-based analysis of source language effects on linguistic simplification in multilingual simultaneous interpreting	3
Conversation analysis, dialogism, and the case for a minimal communicative unit	3
Ecolinguistic analysis of the blame game in Los Angeles wildfire reporting	2
The construction of “Wangmian Si-le Fuqin” in Mandarin Chinese: A Cardiff Grammar approach	2
Lost and found language: From fuzzy logic to yūgen	2
Editorial Board	2
Principles of variation in the use of diacritics (taškīl) in Arabic books	2
The epistemic marking of questions in Colloquial Jakartan Indonesian	2
I am criticizing you when I say “I am not criticizing you”: a prosodic-pragmatic exploration of the Chinese metapragmatic negation bùshì wǒ shuō nǐ	2
Introduction to the Festschrift for Per Linell: Dialogism as a General Epistemology for the Language Sciences	2
Discursive practices of the performative theory of solidarity discourse	2
Linguistic appropriation and/or dispossession: Two sides of the Marxist coin	2
A study of visual path expressions in Mandarin Chinese from the perspective of motion event typology	2
Ecologies of language, communication, and development: The collection	2
Communication frequency, identity accommodation, and attitudes toward people with disabilities in the United States: Disability salience and intergroup anxiety	2

Expectation through imitation: towards a unified protocol for roleplay in developmental sociolinguistics	2
Naming multiplicity: Taíno ecolinguistics and naming conventions, and implications for language reclamation and decolonizing environmental relationalities	2
Reconceptualising the notion of cross-linguistic transfer in multilingual spaces: A Global South perspective from South Africa	2
Emotion word meaning and grammatical class: do nouns and adjectives mean the same?	2
Linguistic relativity from an enactive perspective: the entanglement of language and cognition	2
Analysis of the gleam-glum effect and affective interference	2
More to gesture than meets the (analyst's) eye? Querying the problem of online gestural loss from applied linguistics and psychotherapy perspectives	2
Generative linguistics: ‘Galilean style’	1
Participatory sense-making and knowing-in-connection in VR	1
Editorial Board	1
Mythbusters united? A dialogue over Harris's integrationist linguistics and Gibson's Ecological Psychology	1
Third-way linguistics: generative and usage-based theories are both right	1
A corpus-based study of maximizer–adjective patterns in Croatian	1
Dialogic ecologies: producer–audience dynamics in Arabic youtube environmental communication	1
English motion and progressive constructions, and the typological drift from bounded to unbounded discourse construal	1
A multidimensional alignment sustainability model for language development: Evidence from L1 and L2 semio-semantic and semio-pragmatic markers	1
Students’ perception of an instructor: The effects of instructor accommodation to student swearing	1
Language awareness: On the semiotics of talk and text	1
Time-to-smile, time-to-speak, time-to-resolve: timescales for shaping engagement in language	1
The situatedness of aesthetic emotions: a review of the literature and a proposal for its study in variationist linguistics	1
Science mapping the literature in Applied Linguistics secondary research: navigating knowledge evolution from an epistemic perspective (1970–2022)	1
Language ontologies and the worlding of language(s)/languaging: does language create the world or does worlding create language?	1
Voices in reading literature	1
Revisiting complement and parenthetical constructions: theory and description	1
“This is perplexing because…”: Examining the impact of gender and geo-academic location on expressions of confusion in research articles	1
Linguistic clues suggest that the Indonesian colonizers directly sailed to Madagascar	1
Ambient identity construction via massive anonymous danmu comments	1
Middle-aged children's perceptions of receiving accommodation from their parent and instrumental caregiving intentions	1
Enlanguaged emotions: a pragmatist-inspired proposal	1
Theorizing temporality in multimodal communication: linearity and non-linearity in bullet comments	1
Editorial Board	1
(Anti)Causativization of psych verbs in Spanish and Japanese	1
Self-documentation and participatory autonomy in language documentation	1
Mutual orientation in and through “skills”: Outline of a problem	1
Productivity of Assamese derivational suffixes	1
Ostensible invitations in Chinese – A pragmatic perspective	1
Ecological linguistics and sound change in Chinese dialects: a case study of the entering tone in Pujiang dialect	1
Languaging territorial assemblage: regional integration through language policy practices in southern China	1
Bibliography as a language communication tool	1