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

Article	Citations
Textual and reader factors in narrative empathy: An empirical reader response study using focus groups	15
Antisemitic conspiracy fantasy in the age of digital media: Three ‘conspiracy theorists’ and their YouTube audiences	14
Do worlds have (fourth) walls? A Text World Theory approach to direct address inFleabag	10
A Multi-Dimensional Analysis of English tweets	5
Depictions of deception: A corpus-based analysis of five Shakespearean characters	5
Mapping the links between gender, status and genre in Shakespeare’s plays	4
The evolution of swearing in television catchphrases	4
Literary dialect as social deixis	4
Postscript: Pedagogical stylistics: Past and future	4
Dementia mind styles in contemporary narrative fiction	4
Real readers reading Wasco’s ‘City’: A storyworld possible selves approach	3
Linking Emotions to Surroundings: A Stylistic Model of Pathetic Fallacy	3
The pedagogy of stylistics: Enhancing practice by flipping the classroom, using whiteboards and action research	3
Gendered body language in children’s literature over time	3
Impoliteness and power dynamics in intimate interactions: An analysis of Joe Blann’s ‘Things We Had’	3
Features of orality in the language of fiction: A corpus-based investigation	3
Shakespeare’s language: Styles and meanings via the computer	2
Functions of dialogue in (television) drama: A case study of Indigenous-authored television narratives	2
Charles Dickens, children’s author: Narrative as rhetoric inA Child’s History of England	2
A style for every age: A stylometric inquiry into crosswriters for children, adolescents and adults	2
Identity inferences: Implicatures, implications and extended interpretations	2
Who ‘let all this happen’? Shifts of responsibilities in representing the Cultural Revolution in Jung Chang’s Wild Swans	2
Creativity and cognition in fiction by teenage learners of English	1
The restricted possible worlds of depression: A stylistic analysis of Janice Galloway’sThe Trick is to Keep Breathingusing a possible worlds framework	1
Posthumanist stylistics	1

A pedagogical stylistics of intertextual interaction: Talk as Heteroglot Intertextual Study in higher education pedagogy	1
Text-worlds, blending and allegory in ‘Flamingos in Dudley Zoo’ by Emma Purshouse	1
Genre expectations and discourse community membership in listener reviews of true crime-comedy podcast My Favorite Murder	1
‘I shouldn’t even be telling you that I shouldn’t be telling you the story’: Pseudonymous Bosch and the postmodern narrator in children’s literature	1
Is it narration or experience? The narrative effects of present-tense narration in Ali Smith’sHow to Be Both	1
‘Gonna get you, baby!’ A qualitative-empirical study of attentional modulation in reading a short story	1
Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf? Readers’ responses to experimental techniques of speech, thought and consciousness presentation in Woolf’sTo the LighthouseandMrs Dalloway	1
Linguistic co-creativity and the performance of identity in the discourse of National Trust holiday cottage guestbooks	1
Multilevel grounded semantics across cognitive modalities: Music, vision, poetry	1
The role of empirical methods in investigating readers’ constructions of authorial creativity in literary reading	1
What do students find difficult when they read Shakespeare? Problems and solutions	1
Shakespeare sonnet reading: An empirical study of emotional responses	1
Schematic incongruity, conversational power play and criminal mind style in Thomas Harris’ Silence of the Lambs	1
Book Reviews: Mixed Metaphors: Their Use and Abuse	0
Book Reviews: Estilística de corpus: Nuevos enfoques en el análisis de textos literarios	0
Dynamic power relations between characters in A View from the Bridge: A pragmastylistic approach	0
Corpus stylistics and colour symbolism in The Great Gatsby and its Thai translations	0
Broadening horizons: An interview with Geoff Hall	0
Stylistics and children’s literature	0
30 years of Language and Literature	0
Professor Dr Peter Verdonk 21 April 1934–5 November 2021	0
Book Review: Patricia Kolaiti, The Limits of Expression: Language, Literature, Mind	0
Panoramic social minds: Social minds manipulations in ‘A Mother’	0
Contemporary present-tense fiction: Crossing boundaries in narrative	0
Literary dynamics inThe.PowerBookby Jeanette Winterson andOryx and Crakeby Margaret Atwood	0
Book Review: Sam Browse,Cognitive Rhetoric: The Cognitive Poetics of Political Discourse	0
Disability stylistics: An illustration based on Pew in Stevenson’s Treasure Island	0
Character’s mental functioning during a ‘neuro-transition’: Pragmatic failures in Flowers for Algernon	0
Book Review: Cognitive Poetics: An Introduction	0
Telecinematic stylistics: Language and style in fantasy TV series	0
‘When most I wink, then’ – what? Assessing the comprehension of literary texts in university students of English as a second language	0
Book Review: What’s Your Pronoun? Beyond He & She	0
‘A patient act of adjustment’: Subjectivisation, adjectives and Jane Austen	0
Book Review: The Language of Mental Illness: Corpus Linguistics and the Construction of Mental Illness in the Press	0
National identities in the context of Shakespeare’sHenry V: Exploring contemporary understandings through collocations	0
‘Uncle Al is old, has brown eyes and dementia’: The importance of order in zeugmas	0
#Ledatoo: The morality ofLeda and the Swanin teaching stylistics	0
Book Review: Intralingual translation of british novels: A multimodal stylistic perspective	0
Reading and analysing short story collections: An empirical study of readers' interpretation process of Benni'sIl bar sotto il mare	0
‘Your duplicitous point of view’: Delayed revelations of hypothetical focalisation in Ian McEwan’sAtonementandSweet Tooth	0
The intricacies of counting to four in Old English poetry	0
Epistolary cognition: The family letters of Rosalie Calvert	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
Book Review: Intertextuality in Practice	0
‘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	0
Syntagmatic conformity: Blessings and curses in Winthrop’sChristian Charitie	0
Book Review: Cognitive grammar in stylistics: A practical guide	0
Book Review: Angeliki Athanasiadou and Herbert L. Colston (eds.), Irony in Language Use and Communication	0
‘I don’t know how it is best to put this thing down’: Uncooperative narration in Ford Madox Ford’s The Good Soldier	0
‘Stylistics will never become boring’: An interview with Paul Simpson	0

Book Review: Ruth Page, Beatrix Busse and Nina Nørgaard (eds.), Rethinking Language, Text and Context: Interdisciplinary Research in Stylistics in Honour of Michael Toolan	0
The year’s work in stylistics 2020	0
Book Reviews: Chinese narratologies	0
Book Review: Poetry and Language: The Linguistics of Verse	0
Book Review: Political English: Language and the Decay of Politics	0
Is Felix Salten the author of the Mutzenbacher novel (1906)? Yes and no	0
Cognitive Grammar and Readers’ Perceived Sense of Closeness: A Study of Responses to Mary Borden’s ‘Belgium’	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
Author gender and text characteristics in contemporary Swedish fiction	0
What triggers perceptions of racism in Heart of Darkness? A reader-response analysis	0
“There’s still something positive about the Niger Delta ecology”: Metaphor and ideology in the Niger Delta poetic discourse	0
Sensory modality as a linguistic sign of the ‘divided self’ in John Banville’s novels	0
‘As the title implies’: How readers talk about titles in Amazon book reviews	0
Book Review: Sensory Linguistics: Language, Perception and Metaphor	0
The year’s work in stylistics 2021	0
‘Native woodnotes wild’: Shakespeare, his contemporaries, and the syntax of negation	0
Book Review: Bob Dylan: How the Songs Work	0
Epilogues and last words in Shakespeare: Exploring patterns in a small corpus	0
Editor’s note	0
Afterword	0
Book Reviews: We-Narratives: Collective Storytelling in Contemporary Fiction	0
A stylistic model of the converse of pathetic fallacy	0
The year’s work in stylistics 2019	0
Clause complexing and characterisation: Joyce’s ‘Two Gallants’ revisited	0
A special issue	0
‘And that’: Halliday’s logogenesis, sociogenesis, and phylogenesis in Darwin’s tangled bank	0
The creation of Chinese personae in Steinbeck’s fiction	0
Language and style inThe Gruffalo	0
Book Review: Storyworld Possible Selves	0
A survey of grammatical variability in Early Modern English drama	0
Book review: The poem as icon: A study in aesthetic cognition	0
Corrigendum to: Book Review: Mind Style and Cognitive Grammar: Language and Worldview in Speculative Fiction	0
Interjections and individual style: A study of restoration dramatic language	0
Tracing palimpsestic text-worlds of key moments in rewrites of King Lear - A Thousand Acres and Dunbar	0
The poetics of attention in Old English verse: A cognitive stylistic approach to the depiction of Grendel inBeowulf	0
A new approach to the stylistic analysis of humour	0