OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Language and Literature is 0. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Book Review: Poetry in the Mind	16
Literary dynamics in The.PowerBook by Jeanette Winterson and Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood	12
Disability stylistics: An illustration based on Pew in Stevenson’s Treasure Island	11
A pedagogical stylistics of intertextual interaction: Talk as Heteroglot Intertextual Study in higher education pedagogy	6
Shakespeare sonnet reading: An empirical study of emotional responses	6
Author gender and text characteristics in contemporary Swedish fiction	6
Book Review: The Language of Mental Illness: Corpus Linguistics and the Construction of Mental Illness in the Press	5
A style for every age: A stylometric inquiry into crosswriters for children, adolescents and adults	4
‘I don’t know how it is best to put this thing down’: Uncooperative narration in Ford Madox Ford’s The Good Soldier	4
Posthumanist stylistics	3
Constraints on verse form and syntactic well-formedness in the cywyddau of Dafydd ap Gwilym	3
Functions of dialogue in (television) drama: A case study of Indigenous-authored television narratives	3
Book review: The poem as icon: A study in aesthetic cognition	3
30 years of Language and Literature	3
Who tells your story: Narration in Hamilton: An American Musical	2
The year’s work in stylistics 2021	2
Weaving narrative threads with social psychological processes: Narrative modulations in online consumer reviews of a medical memoir	2
‘Stylistics will never become boring’: An interview with Paul Simpson	2
Dementia mind styles in contemporary narrative fiction	2
‘If you’re going to do something that’s new and different in an area that hasn’t been looked at much before, you probably need to start with something not too complex’: An interview with Mick Short	1
Charles Dickens, children’s author: Narrative as rhetoric in A Child’s History of England	1
A new approach to the stylistic analysis of humour	1
Editor’s note	1
Character’s mental functioning during a ‘neuro-transition’: Pragmatic failures in Flowers for Algernon	1
Book Review: Surprised by sound: Rhyme’s inner workings	1

“There’s still something positive about the Niger Delta ecology”: Metaphor and ideology in the Niger Delta poetic discourse	1
Towards a cognitive forensic stylistics: An intercoder reliability test for replicable feature finding in the Operation Heron corpus	1
Book Review: Translation and style	1
The intricacies of counting to four in Old English poetry	1
Cognitive Grammar and Readers’ Perceived Sense of Closeness: A Study of Responses to Mary Borden’s ‘Belgium’	1
The year’s work in stylistics 2022	1
Book Reviews: Estilística de corpus: Nuevos enfoques en el análisis de textos literarios	1
Book Review: Linguistics and English Literature: An Introduction (Cambridge Introductions to the English Language)	1
Linguistic co-creativity and the performance of identity in the discourse of National Trust holiday cottage guestbooks	1
Book Review: Political English: Language and the Decay of Politics	1
Sensory modality as a linguistic sign of the ‘divided self’ in John Banville’s novels	1
Panoramic social minds: Social minds manipulations in ‘A Mother’	1
Is it narration or experience? The narrative effects of present-tense narration in Ali Smith’s How to Be Both	1
The restricted possible worlds of depression: A stylistic analysis of Janice Galloway’s The Trick is to Keep Breathing using a possible worlds framework	0
‘A patient act of adjustment’: Subjectivisation, adjectives and Jane Austen	0
Gendered body language in children’s literature over time	0
Gender characterization in Lady Windermere’s Fan and its Chinese translations: A corpus stylistic approach	0
The poetics of attention in Old English verse: A cognitive stylistic approach to the depiction of Grendel in Beowulf	0
Book Review: Sensory Linguistics: Language, Perception and Metaphor	0
Book Reviews: We-Narratives: Collective Storytelling in Contemporary Fiction	0
Book Reviews: Experiencing Poetry. A Guidebook to Psychopoetics	0
A review of Leech and Short’s norms of speech and thought presentation	0
The creation of Chinese personae in Steinbeck’s fiction	0
Language and style in The Gruffalo	0
Is Felix Salten the author of the Mutzenbacher novel (1906)? Yes and no	0
Book Review: Bob Dylan: How the Songs Work	0
‘When most I wink, then’ – what? Assessing the comprehension of literary texts in university students of English as a second language	0
What triggers perceptions of racism in Heart of Darkness? A reader-response analysis	0
Book Reviews: Chinese narratologies	0
Genre expectations and discourse community membership in listener reviews of true crime-comedy podcast My Favorite Murder	0
Book Reviews: Advances in Corpus Applications in Literary and Translation Studies	0
Book Reviews: Stylistic approaches to pop culture (Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Stylistics)	0
Book Review: Cognitive Poetics: An Introduction	0
A Multi-Dimensional Analysis of English tweets	0
Book Review: Intralingual translation of british novels: A multimodal stylistic perspective	0
Corpus stylistics and colour symbolism in The Great Gatsby and its Thai translations	0
The evolution of swearing in television catchphrases	0
Features of orality in the language of fiction: A corpus-based investigation	0
‘Uncle Al is old, has brown eyes and dementia’: The importance of order in zeugmas	0
Professor Dr Peter Verdonk 21 April 1934–5 November 2021	0
Broadening horizons: An interview with Geoff Hall	0
Variation in fictional dialogue in A Series of Unfortunate Events	0
Book Review: Translation and Style (second version)	0
Narrative Report of Speech Acts as characterization resource in Mansfield Park and its Spanish and German translations	0
Book review: Fiction and pragmatics	0
In memoriam Tony Bex	0
Schemata of estrangement in Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed	0
Impoliteness and power dynamics in intimate interactions: An analysis of Joe Blann’s ‘Things We Had’	0
‘Native woodnotes wild’: Shakespeare, his contemporaries, and the syntax of negation	0
Book Review: Disnarration and the unmentioned in fact and fiction	0

Book Review: Cognitive grammar in stylistics: A practical guide	0
Telecinematic stylistics: Language and style in fantasy TV series	0
Syntagmatic conformity: Blessings and curses in Winthrop’s Christian Charitie	0
Do worlds have (fourth) walls? A Text World Theory approach to direct address in Fleabag	0
Humans or animals? The linguistic representation of animal characters in original and translated Finnish picture books for children	0
Sensuous modernity: The linguistic construction of femininity in the fashion content of early 1920s Vogue	0
Book Reviews: Corpus approaches to language in social media	0
Tracing palimpsestic text-worlds of key moments in rewrites of King Lear - A Thousand Acres and Dunbar	0
Reading and analysing short story collections: An empirical study of readers' interpretation process of Benni's Il bar sotto il mare	0
‘There was all this terminology proliferating and the students needed to know precise terms, not vague or impressionistic ones’: An interview with Katie Wales	0
Linking Emotions to Surroundings: A Stylistic Model of Pathetic Fallacy	0
The year’s work in stylistics 2020	0
Book Review: Storyworld Possible Selves	0
Dynamic power relations between characters in A View from the Bridge: A pragmastylistic approach	0
Contemporary present-tense fiction: Crossing boundaries in narrative	0
Stylistics and children’s literature	0
Book Reviews: Mixed Metaphors: Their Use and Abuse	0
Creativity and cognition in fiction by teenage learners of English	0
‘As the title implies’: How readers talk about titles in Amazon book reviews	0
A stylistic model of the converse of pathetic fallacy	0
‘Novelty’ through narrative and paratextual voice: The case of John Minford’s translation of ‘The laughing girl’	0
Interjections and individual style: A study of restoration dramatic language	0
Book Review: New Directions in Cognitive Grammar and Style	0
‘Gonna get you, baby!’ A qualitative-empirical study of attentional modulation in reading a short story	0
Book Review: The Language of Dystopia	0
Language, nature, and the framing of death: An ecostylistic analysis of Laura Wade’s Colder Than Here	0
Book Review: Slowing Metaphor Down	0