OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Discourse & Society 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Managing moral category implications of former drug addiction	98
Antisemitism in contemporary Türkiye: Discourses on Turkish Jews on Twitter	35
Dispatching First Responders: Language Practices and the Dispatcher’s Operational Role in Radio Encounters With Police Officers	19
Identity in crisis: Power, agency, and subjugation in the small stories of the Moroccan diaspora in Spain	19
Book review: Chris Heffer, All Bullshit and Lies?: Insincerity, Irresponsibility, and the Judgment of Untruthfulness	17
Reacting to homophobia in a French online discussion: The fuzzy boundaries between heteronormativity and homophobia	17
Neoliberalism, alternatives and (de)politicisation: Analysis of political discourse during the coronavirus crisis	15
Book review: I. Theodoropoulou and J. Tovar (eds), Research Companion to Language and Country Branding [Routledge Studies in Language and Identity] TheodoropoulouI.Tovar	15
Rags to riches: A critical analysis of social mobility discourse, ideology and power in neoliberal Indonesia	14
Authoritarian stereotyping: Values, judgements and representations of groups in conversations on news	14
‘Feel like going crazy’: Mental health discourses in an online support group for mothers during COVID-19	14
A clumsy messenger with a flippant tongue: Reported speech by Chinese males between their mothers and wives	13
Mining misinformation discourse on social media within the ‘ideological square’	13
From marginalization to resistance: A critical discourse analysis of indigenous Tao anti-racist and anti-nuclear waste narratives in Taiwan	13
Resistant discourse strategies in social media in China’s epidemic prevention context	12
Reporting the news: How Breitbart derives legitimacy from recontextualised news	11
Denying racial animus: Political discourse in Arizona anti-ethnic studies legislation	11
Accounting for discrimination through categorization work: An examination of the target-of-discrimination group members’ practices	10
A critical enthymematic deconstruction of anti/pro LGBTQ+ arguments on Malaysian social media	10
Speech act of flaming: A pragmatic analysis of Twitter trolling in Pakistan	10
Linguistic encoding of women’s agency in the German political discourse on abortion: A diachronic Critical Discourse Analysis	9
Analysis of governmental open letters mobilizing residents in China during the COVID-19 pandemic	9
Book review: Nataša Lacković and Alin Olteanu, Relational and Multimodal Higher Education: Digital, Social and Environmental Perspectives LackovićNatašaOlteanuAlin, Rela	8
Delving deeper into OpIndia.com’s representation of Hindus and Muslims	8
Afro-diasporan racial discourse in Germany	8

Political alliance with COVID-19: Macedonian politics and the strategic use of the pandemic	7
Book review: Teun A. van Dijk, Social Movement Discourse: An Introduction van DijkTeun A., Social Movement Discourse: An Introduction, London and New York, NY: Routledge	7
Changing concepts of greenhouse gas expressions: Discursive specialization in parliamentary discourses on climate change	7
‘The ultimate violation’: A linguistic taxonomy for rape euphemisms in courtroom discourse	7
Surveillant care or benevolent control? A multimodal genre and sentiment analysis of therapeutic mHealth app reviews	7
‘It will never be well with SARS’: A discourse analytic study of the #EndSARS protests on social media	7
Book review: Jonathan Charteris-Black, Metaphors of Coronavirus: Invisible Enemy or Zombie Apocalypse?	6
‘Noticias no son noticias, ¿no?’: Mexican perspectives on violence in the media and the war on drugs	6
‘Never have they had any chance to spread their wings’: The construction of agency and socio-gender identity of Iranian women	6
Decoding intentions in evaluations: A discursive study of disputants’ discourses in Chinese family mediation	6
Religious othering in Nigeria’s electoral discourse: Towards a critical religious tolerance	6
Friends, enemies, and agonists: Politics, morality and media in the COVID-19 conjuncture	5
‘[P]aying back to the community and to the British people’: Migration as transactional discourse in curated stories by UK charity organisations	5
Book review: Mark Nartey, Political Myth-Making, Nationalist Resistance and Populist Performance: Examining Kwame Nkrumah’s Construction and Promotion of the African Dream	5
Appified surveillance: TripAdvisor as a site for entextualized surveillant assemblage	5
Rule 1: Remember the human. A socio-cognitive discourse study of a Reddit forum banned for promoting hate based on identity	5
Pro-vaccination personal narratives in response to online hesitancy about the HPV vaccine: The challenge of tellability	5
Gender and politics in a digitalised world: Investigating online hostility against UK female MPs	4
A discourse analysis of critical commenting online: A study of comments on a self-mockery event	4
‘Wrap our arms around them here in Ireland’: Social media campaigns in the Irish abortion referendum	4
An analysis of self-other representations in the incelosphere: Between online misogyny and self-contempt	4
Kindness in British communities: Discursive practices of promoting kindness during the Covid pandemic	4
‘I’m not blue or green. I’m black’. The participatory entextualization of translingual memes and metapragmatic comments in transnational sociopolitical discourse	4
‘I have controlled so much’: Discourse of prison violence	4
‘Language’, power and liberty: Discursive constructions of Ghanaian glossolalic speeches	4
Book review: Risa Applegarth, Just Kids: Youth Activism and Rhetorical Agency ApplegarthRisa, Just Kids: Youth Activism and Rhetorical Agency, Columbus, OH: Ohio State U	3
Book review: Cynthia Gordon (ed.), Approaches to Discourse Analysis	3
Debating the legal recognition of gender identity in parliamentary discourse: Human rights and queer politics	3
Gesture and legitimation in the anti-immigration discourse of Nigel Farage	3
Nationalism in discursive legitimation: An analysis of the Vietnamese Communist Party’s ‘bamboo diplomacy’ discourse on digital journalism	3
Book review: Jesse W. C. Yip, Discourse of Online Social Support: A Study of Online Self-Help Groups for Anxiety and Depression	3
Book review: Colleen Elizabeth Kelley, A Rhetoric of Divisive Partisanship: The 2016 American Presidential Campaign Discourse of Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump	3
Book review: Casey Ryan Kelly, Apocalypse Man: The Death Drive and the Rhetoric of White Masculine Victimhood KellyCasey Ryan, Apocalypse Man: The Death Drive and the Rh	3
Book review: Lisa Nahajec, Negation, Expectation and Ideology in Written Texts: A Textual and Communicative Perspective	3
Book review: Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard, Malcolm Coulthard (eds.), Texts and Practices Revisited: Essential Readings in Critical Discourse Analysis, 2nd edn	3
Making it internally persuasive: Analysis of the conspiratorial discourse on COVID-19	3
Discursive pragmatics of justification in terrorist threat texts: Victim-blaming, denying, discrediting, legitimating, manipulating, and retaliation	3
Book review: Kristin Enola Gilbert and Gregory Matoesian, Multimodal Performance and Interaction in Focus Groups	3