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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Languages/languaging as world-making: the ontological bases of language	18
A distributed perspective on reading: implications for education	17
Investigating colloquialization in the British parliamentary record in the late 19th and early 20th century	17
Harmonious discourse analysis: approaching peoples’ problems in a Chinese context	17
The influence of linguistic and social attitudes on grammaticality judgments of singular ‘they’	16
What's in a code? The code-inference distinction in Neo-Gricean Pragmatics, Relevance Theory, and Integral Linguistics	13
Rethinking ecolinguistics from a distributed language perspective	13
The #bookstagram: distributed reading in the social media age	12
The masculine form in grammatically gendered languages and its multiple interpretations: a challenge for our cognitive system	12
The dynamics of stance constructions	10
Democratization of Englishes: synchronic and diachronic approaches	9
Character amnesia in Chinese handwriting: a mega-study analysis	9
Twitter trolls: a linguistic profile of anti-democratic discourse	8
Language without representation: Gibson's first- and second-hand perception on a pragmatic continuum	8
Communication accommodation theory: Past accomplishments, current trends, and future prospects	8
Time-to-smile, time-to-speak, time-to-resolve: timescales for shaping engagement in language	7
Changes in the modal domain in different varieties of English as potential effects of democratization	7
Democratisation in the South African parliamentary Hansard? A study of change in modal auxiliaries	7
Situated talking	7
Do Speaker's emotions influence their language production? Studying the influence of disgust and amusement on alignment in interactive reference	7
Close reading and distance: between invariance and a rhetoric of embodiment	7
Investment in a model of stancetaking: I mean and just sayin’	7
Methods of data collection in English empirical linguistics research: Results of a recent survey	7
Metalinguistic exchanges in child language development	6
Expressions of stance-to-text: discourse management markers as stance markers	6

Disaster linguistics, climate change semantics and public discourse studies: a semantically-enhanced discourse study of 2011 Queensland Floods	6
Information technologies, literacy, and cognitive development: an ecolinguistic view	6
Modelling stance adverbs in grammatical theory: tackling heterogeneity with Functional Discourse Grammar	5
The diachrony of stance constructions with ‘no’ chance and ‘no’ wonder	5
“We”: conceptual semantics, linguistic typology and social cognition	5
The reflexive roots of reference	5
Person reference and democratization in British English	5
The sound of size revisited - New insights from a German-Hungarian comparative study on sound symbolism	5
Reading: skilled linguistic action	5
Such similatives: a cross-linguistic reconnaissance	5
From clause to discourse marker: on the development of comment clauses	4
Complement-taking predicates, parentheticals and grammaticalization	4
The discursive construction of categories. Categorisation as a dynamic and co-operative process	4
Tolle lege. Embodied reading and the “scene of reading”	4
Nominal classification in Mabia languages of West Africa	4
Expressing stance in spoken political discourse—The function of parenthetical inserts	4
Multimodal coordination and pragmatic modes in conversation	4
How cute do I sound to you?: gender and age effects in the use and evaluation of Korean baby-talk register, Aegyo	4
The type and function of metaphors in Jordanian economic discourse: A critical metaphor analysis approach	3
An ecolinguistic perspective on Assyrian-Iranian migrants’ portrayal of emotions toward their linguistic resources	3
Or constructions, argumentative direction and disappearing ‘alternativity’	3
A dialogue between distributed language and reading disciplines	3
Linguistic and cultural divisions in pre-Hispanic Northern Peru	3
A semiotic approach to grammaticalization: modelling representational and interpersonal modality expressed by verbonominal patterns	3
Cognitive animacy and its relation to linguistic animacy: evidence from Japanese and Persian	3
Spoken word recognition of L2 using probabilistic phonotactics in L1: evidence from Cantonese-English bilinguals	3
Three conceptions of nativism and the faculty of language	3
Language as a problem	3
A micro-typological perspective on resultative secondary predicates: the case of nomination verb constructions	3
Exemplar-based compounds: The case of Chinese	3
Ad hoc categorization and languaging: the online construction of categories in discourse	3
When form deviates from the norm: attitudes towards old and new vernacular features and their impact on the perceived credibility and usefulness of Facebook consumer reviews	3
Parental speech to typical and atypical populations: a study on linguistic partial repetition	3
Conversationalization and democratization in a radio chat show: a grammar-led investigation	3
Thought complements in Australian languages	3
How do we comprehend linguistic and visual narratives? A study in children with typical development	2
Incorporation as a nominal attribute strategy in Akebu	2
Tracing and classifying German intensifiers via information theory	2
Disagreement by Chinese speakers of English: evidence of pragmatic transfer	2
Sequential Time construal is primary in temporal uses of Mandarin Chinese qian ‘front’ and hou ‘back’	2
Constructional variation with two near-synonymous verbs: the case of schicken and senden in present-day German	2
On the integrational approach to reading and writing in the works of Roy Harris	2
Associative plural as indexical category	2
From complementizing to modifying status: On the grammaticalization of the complement-taking-predicate-clauses chances are and odds are	2
Accommodation, social attraction, and intergroup attitudes on social media: the effects of outgroup self-presentation and ingroup accommodation	2
Towards estimating global probabilities of evaluation in English based on automatic extraction of least delicate Appraisal in large corpora	2
Hyphenation as a compounding technique in English	2
English as an index of neoliberal globalization: The linguistic landscape of Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan	2
Hierarchical clause structure as a tool for cognitive advances in early childhood	2
More lexically-specific knowledge and individual differences in adult native speakers' processing of the English passive	2

Principles of variation in the use of diacritics (taškīl) in Arabic books	2
Voice and viewpoint in journalistic narratives	2
Bottom-up probabilistic information in visual word recognition: interactions with phonological and morphological functions	2
Students’ perception of an instructor: The effects of instructor accommodation to student swearing	2
Prosody in recognizing dialogue-specific functions of speech acts. Evidence from Polish	2
Particularized conversational implicatures and miraculous communication	2
Assessing the impact of syntactic complement type on the modifying status of complement-taking predicates: the case of imagine	2
Cognitive factive verbs across languages	2
Disjunctive/conjunctive/whatever: the development of Italian barra (‘slash’) as a non-exhaustive connective	2
Show gestures direct attention to word–object relations in typically developing and Autistic Spectrum Disorder children	1
The plurality of KNOW: a response to Farese	1
Middle-aged children's perceptions of receiving accommodation from their parent and instrumental caregiving intentions	1
‘Face’-related expressions in the Minnan Dialect of Chinese	1
Global estimates of syntactic alignment in adult and child utterances during interaction: NLP estimates based on multiple corpora	1
Discursive practices of the performative theory of solidarity discourse	1
News discourse as a source of metaphorical creativity in political cartooning	1
Examining textism convergence in mediated interactions	1
Language sciences in the future perfect: what will we have become?	1
Skillful use of symbolizations and the dual nature of metalinguistic awareness	1
Linguistic clues suggest that the Indonesian colonizers directly sailed to Madagascar	1
The adventure of a third way: Motion events in Mandarin	1
The Hamar cattle model: the semantics of appearance in a pastoral linguaculture	1
Ditransitive constructions in Caucasian Urum–The effect of givenness on the linearization of objects	1
A multifunctional analysis of off-record indirectness in Chinese interactions	1
Incivility in online news and Twitter: effects on attitudes toward scientific topics when reading in a second language	1
The ethnopragmatic functions of Owe and Tiv personal names in Nigeria	1
When in doubt, lay it out: Over vs. under-accommodation in human-robot interaction	1
Sound-meaning mapping: Verbal imitation of Super Mario music by Yorùbá gamers	1
Frequency changes and stylistic levelling of though in diachronic and synchronic varieties of English – linguistic democratisation?	1
Mythbusters united? A dialogue over Harris's integrationist linguistics and Gibson's Ecological Psychology	1
Turning negative: micro-steps from negative polarity item to negative-word	1
How does language evolve as a multi-level system? A quantitative exploration of written Chinese	1
A dynamic approach to understanding motivation in an interpreting course	1
Speaker stance and evaluative -ly adverbs in the Modern English period	1
Generative linguistics: ‘Galilean style’	1
The look of writing in reading. Graphetic empathy in making and perceiving graphic traces	1
Tense in Khorchin Mongolian: an interpersonal perspective	1
Postcolonial translation theories and the language myth: an integrationist perspective	1
Comedic convergence: Humor responses to verbal irony in text messages	1
Multimodal dairy cow–human interaction in an intensive farming context	1
Parenthetical clauses and speech reporting: the case of shriek	1
The place of ad hoc categories within the typology of plural expressions	1
Linguistic descriptions and cultural models of olfaction in Umpila and English	1