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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Frege's triangle and Austin's square: the meaning and use of no-predicates in English	68
“Language art is to console those who are broken by life”: A discursive analysis of legitimation in Chinese comforting	17
Further semantic change of the derogatory sociomorpheme tái in Chinese gender-related Internet neologisms	16
Inference and indexicality, or how to solve Bakhtin's problem with heteroglossia	16
Nominal classification in Mabia languages of West Africa	15
Challenging ‘definite article’ as a comparative concept: The case of Mopan Maya	10
On the place and role of ‘discourse’ in the Functional Discourse Grammar model. The interface between language system and language use	9
Sound-meaning mapping: Verbal imitation of Super Mario music by Yorùbá gamers	9
Editorial Board	9
Disagreement by Chinese speakers of English: evidence of pragmatic transfer	8
Sequential Time construal is primary in temporal uses of Mandarin Chinese qian ‘front’ and hou ‘back’	8
Responses to CAT at 50: Reflections on accommodation from a sociolinguist	7
Editorial Board	7
States of idiosyncratic idealized cognitive models in acts of pragmatic meaning	7
Dialogical cognition	6
Print exposure leads to individual differences in the Turkish aorist	6
A quantitative study on zero copula in Japanese	6
Construing chemistry knowledge through English systematic names of organic compounds: a Systemic Functional Linguistics perspective	6
Editorial Board	6
Editorial Board	6
The Hamar cattle model: the semantics of appearance in a pastoral linguaculture	6
Voice, rhythm, and genre in children's early writing	6
The practice of metaphor in conversation: an ecological integrational approach	6
Grammaticalization of prosodic configurations? The case of evidential interrogative in Spanish	6
Diachronic changes of number use in written American English from 1923 to 2008	5

Proximal and distal terms in Persian interactions: an integrative approach	5
Event structure, force dynamics and verb semantics	5
A dynamic approach to understanding motivation in an interpreting course	5
Forms and functions of self-repetition in Mandarin child-directed speech	5
From size measurement to simultaneity: the case of Russian po mere ‘by measure’	5
Editorial Board	5
Remarks on Pāṇini's grammar	4
Linguistic synesthesia and embodiment: A study based on Mandarin modality exclusivity norms	4
An Interview with Per Linell	4
Examining textism convergence in mediated interactions	4
Cognitive factive verbs across languages	4
Editorial Board	4
Deixis and dementia: Insights from phenomenological philosophy	4
Editorial Board	4
Tracking identity in minority language policy: a reflexive approach to hybrid concepts in the language sciences	4
The reflexive roots of reference	4
A little less conversation – On the completeness of discourse-initial action-guiding subsententials	4
When translation meets dissemination: Translations of the Chinese diplomatic term Mìngyùn Gòngtóngtǐ in English news reports	3
The negotiation of epistemic and deontic rights in child-adult interactions in colloquial Jakartan Indonesian	3
Editorial Board	3
Prosody in recognizing dialogue-specific functions of speech acts. Evidence from Polish	3
Communication accommodation theory: Past accomplishments, current trends, and future prospects	3
Modesty differs between historical and modern Chinese: A computational analysis of modesty metalinguistics	2
Reconceptualizing the critical period hypothesis for second language acquisition: An appraisal of Lenneberg's work on the epigenesis of language	2
Linguistic relativity from an enactive perspective: the entanglement of language and cognition	2
Communication frequency, identity accommodation, and attitudes toward people with disabilities in the United States: Disability salience and intergroup anxiety	2
Naming multiplicity: Taíno ecolinguistics and naming conventions, and implications for language reclamation and decolonizing environmental relationalities	2
Beyond definiteness: exploring epistemic and relational accounts of e-marked formulations in Persian interactions	2
A defense of a weak linguistic relativist thesis	2
Expectation through imitation: towards a unified protocol for roleplay in developmental sociolinguistics	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
More to gesture than meets the (analyst's) eye? Querying the problem of online gestural loss from applied linguistics and psychotherapy perspectives	2
‘Face’-related expressions in the Minnan Dialect of Chinese	2
Conversation analysis, dialogism, and the case for a minimal communicative unit	2
Principles of variation in the use of diacritics (taškīl) in Arabic books	2
A multifunctional analysis of off-record indirectness in Chinese interactions	2
The construction of “Wangmian Si-le Fuqin” in Mandarin Chinese: A Cardiff Grammar approach	2
Reconceptualising the notion of cross-linguistic transfer in multilingual spaces: A Global South perspective from South Africa	1
Language awareness: On the semiotics of talk and text	1
Editorial Board	1
Voices in reading literature	1
The situatedness of aesthetic emotions: a review of the literature and a proposal for its study in variationist linguistics	1
Does embodied simulation contain schematic motional imagery when it comes to action concepts?	1
Middle-aged children's perceptions of receiving accommodation from their parent and instrumental caregiving intentions	1
Students’ perception of an instructor: The effects of instructor accommodation to student swearing	1
Bibliography as a language communication tool	1
A study of visual path expressions in Mandarin Chinese from the perspective of motion event typology	1
Editorial Board	1
Generative linguistics: ‘Galilean style’	1
A corpus-based study of maximizer–adjective patterns in Croatian	1

Productivity of Assamese derivational suffixes	1
Ostensible invitations in Chinese – A pragmatic perspective	1
Theorizing temporality in multimodal communication: linearity and non-linearity in bullet comments	1
Ambient identity construction via massive anonymous danmu comments	1
Linguistic appropriation and/or dispossession: Two sides of the Marxist coin	1
Languaging territorial assemblage: regional integration through language policy practices in southern China	1
Lost and found language: From fuzzy logic to yūgen	1
English as an index of neoliberal globalization: The linguistic landscape of Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan	1
Time-to-smile, time-to-speak, time-to-resolve: timescales for shaping engagement in language	1
English motion and progressive constructions, and the typological drift from bounded to unbounded discourse construal	1
Lexical expressions and grammatical markers for source of information: A contrast between German and Korean	1
Third-way linguistics: generative and usage-based theories are both right	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
A multidimensional alignment sustainability model for language development: Evidence from L1 and L2 semio-semantic and semio-pragmatic markers	1
Participatory sense-making and knowing-in-connection in VR	1
Discursive practices of the performative theory of solidarity discourse	1
Introduction to the Festschrift for Per Linell: Dialogism as a General Epistemology for the Language Sciences	1