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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
‘As the title implies’: How readers talk about titles in Amazon book reviews	16
Dynamic power relations between characters in A View from the Bridge: A pragmastylistic approach	11
‘Native woodnotes wild’: Shakespeare, his contemporaries, and the syntax of negation	10
Book Review: Intertextuality in Practice	5
Weaving narrative threads with social psychological processes: Narrative modulations in online consumer reviews of a medical memoir	5
A review of Leech and Short’s norms of speech and thought presentation	4
Book Review: Poetry in the Mind	4
Stylistics and children’s literature	4
What triggers perceptions of racism in Heart of Darkness? A reader-response analysis	3
Dementia mind styles in contemporary narrative fiction	3
Interjections and individual style: A study of restoration dramatic language	3
Book Review: Translation and Style (second version)	3
Book Review: Intralingual translation of british novels: A multimodal stylistic perspective	2
The intricacies of counting to four in Old English poetry	2
A new approach to the stylistic analysis of humour	2
‘Novelty’ through narrative and paratextual voice: The case of John Minford’s translation of ‘The laughing girl’	2
Book Review: Slowing Metaphor Down	2
Disability stylistics: An illustration based on Pew in Stevenson’s Treasure Island	2
Book Review: The Language of Mental Illness: Corpus Linguistics and the Construction of Mental Illness in the Press	1
Book Review: Political English: Language and the Decay of Politics	1
Book Review: Cognitive Poetics: An Introduction	1
‘Stylistics will never become boring’: An interview with Paul Simpson	1
Syntagmatic conformity: Blessings and curses in Winthrop’s Christian Charitie	1
Book Review: Surprised by sound: Rhyme’s inner workings	1
The creation of Chinese personae in Steinbeck’s fiction	1

Literary dynamics in The.PowerBook by Jeanette Winterson and Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood	1
Shakespeare sonnet reading: An empirical study of emotional responses	1
Book Reviews: We-Narratives: Collective Storytelling in Contemporary Fiction	1
‘Gonna get you, baby!’ A qualitative-empirical study of attentional modulation in reading a short story	1
Book Reviews: Chinese narratologies	1
Book Review: What’s Your Pronoun? Beyond He & She	1
Book Review: New Directions in Cognitive Grammar and Style	1
Author gender and text characteristics in contemporary Swedish fiction	0
Language and style in The Gruffalo	0
Book Review: The Language of Dystopia	0
#Ledatoo: The morality of Leda and the Swan in teaching stylistics	0
Is Felix Salten the author of the Mutzenbacher novel (1906)? Yes and no	0
Schemata of estrangement in Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed	0
The year’s work in stylistics 2022	0
30 years of Language and Literature	0
Book Reviews: Estilística de corpus: Nuevos enfoques en el análisis de textos literarios	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
Posthumanist stylistics	0
The year’s work in stylistics 2021	0
Book Review: Sensory Linguistics: Language, Perception and Metaphor	0
Book Review: Poetry and Language: The Linguistics of Verse	0
‘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	0
Editor’s note	0
Book Reviews: Experiencing Poetry. A Guidebook to Psychopoetics	0
Creativity and cognition in fiction by teenage learners of English	0
Gender characterization in Lady Windermere’s Fan and its Chinese translations: A corpus stylistic approach	0
Linking Emotions to Surroundings: A Stylistic Model of Pathetic Fallacy	0
Book Review: Translation and style	0
Linguistic co-creativity and the performance of identity in the discourse of National Trust holiday cottage guestbooks	0
Charles Dickens, children’s author: Narrative as rhetoric in A Child’s History of England	0
Book Reviews: Stylistic approaches to pop culture (Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Stylistics)	0
A pedagogical stylistics of intertextual interaction: Talk as Heteroglot Intertextual Study in higher education pedagogy	0
The poetics of attention in Old English verse: A cognitive stylistic approach to the depiction of Grendel in Beowulf	0
Book Reviews: Corpus approaches to language in social media	0
The year’s work in stylistics 2020	0
Book Review: Disnarration and the unmentioned in fact and fiction	0
Telecinematic stylistics: Language and style in fantasy TV series	0
Panoramic social minds: Social minds manipulations in ‘A Mother’	0
Gendered body language in children’s literature over time	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
Impoliteness and power dynamics in intimate interactions: An analysis of Joe Blann’s ‘Things We Had’	0
Book review: Fiction and pragmatics	0
‘And that’: Halliday’s logogenesis, sociogenesis, and phylogenesis in Darwin’s tangled bank	0
Book Reviews: Advances in Corpus Applications in Literary and Translation Studies	0
Tracing palimpsestic text-worlds of key moments in rewrites of King Lear - A Thousand Acres and Dunbar	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: Storyworld Possible Selves	0
‘Uncle Al is old, has brown eyes and dementia’: The importance of order in zeugmas	0
Contemporary present-tense fiction: Crossing boundaries in narrative	0
Book review: The poem as icon: A study in aesthetic cognition	0

Sensuous modernity: The linguistic construction of femininity in the fashion content of early 1920s Vogue	0
Character’s mental functioning during a ‘neuro-transition’: Pragmatic failures in Flowers for Algernon	0
Language, nature, and the framing of death: An ecostylistic analysis of Laura Wade’s Colder Than Here	0
Constraints on verse form and syntactic well-formedness in the cywyddau of Dafydd ap Gwilym	0
Do worlds have (fourth) walls? A Text World Theory approach to direct address in Fleabag	0
“There’s still something positive about the Niger Delta ecology”: Metaphor and ideology in the Niger Delta poetic discourse	0
Book Review: Cognitive grammar in stylistics: A practical guide	0
‘Your duplicitous point of view’: Delayed revelations of hypothetical focalisation in Ian McEwan’s Atonement and Sweet Tooth	0
Book Review: Linguistics and English Literature: An Introduction (Cambridge Introductions to the English Language)	0
A stylistic model of the converse of pathetic fallacy	0
Broadening horizons: An interview with Geoff Hall	0
Genre expectations and discourse community membership in listener reviews of true crime-comedy podcast My Favorite Murder	0
Is it narration or experience? The narrative effects of present-tense narration in Ali Smith’s How to Be Both	0
Corpus stylistics and colour symbolism in The Great Gatsby and its Thai translations	0
A style for every age: A stylometric inquiry into crosswriters for children, adolescents and adults	0
Sensory modality as a linguistic sign of the ‘divided self’ in John Banville’s novels	0
A Multi-Dimensional Analysis of English tweets	0
Features of orality in the language of fiction: A corpus-based investigation	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
Reading and analysing short story collections: An empirical study of readers' interpretation process of Benni's Il bar sotto il mare	0
Cognitive Grammar and Readers’ Perceived Sense of Closeness: A Study of Responses to Mary Borden’s ‘Belgium’	0
Book Reviews: Mixed Metaphors: Their Use and Abuse	0
Narrative Report of Speech Acts as characterization resource in Mansfield Park and its Spanish and German translations	0
Book Review: Bob Dylan: How the Songs Work	0
The evolution of swearing in television catchphrases	0
Functions of dialogue in (television) drama: A case study of Indigenous-authored television narratives	0
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
In memoriam Tony Bex	0
Multilevel grounded semantics across cognitive modalities: Music, vision, poetry	0
‘A patient act of adjustment’: Subjectivisation, adjectives and Jane Austen	0
Professor Dr Peter Verdonk 21 April 1934–5 November 2021	0