OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Social Semiotics is 2. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Inheritance and development: revisiting three editions of Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Design and their social-semiotic and linguistic insights	21
“The Amazingly Fabulous Tuk tuk Race”: mobility and carnival praxis in the semiotic landscape of Phnom Penh Pride	18
The white worker’s hotdog and the not-so-white worker’s falafel: food-based public art and urban redevelopment in a changing society	17
Ambivalent or beneficial? An ecolinguistic study of news reports on the northward migration of a herd of Asian elephants	14
Artificial intelligence and visual discourse: a multimodal critical discourse analysis of AI-generated images of “Dementia”	14
Political protest landscapes in Catalonia: language choice, utopian/dystopian discourse and “Catalans”-“Spaniards” identities	13
Rhetoric of a terrorist: a metafunctional thematic analysis of the Unabomber Manifesto	10
Semiotics and framing of Ukrainian refugees in Spanish political discourse: a linguistic and cognitive analysis	10
Slowing metaphor down: elaborating deliberate metaphor theory Slowing metaphor down: elaborating deliberate metaphor theory , by Gerard J. Steen, Amsterdam/Philadelphia,	9
The language of reality: a semiotic guide for shaping thought about American education	9
The communicative linguistic landscape: Production formats and designed environments	9
The logic of language: a semiotic study of speech	9
Orality, multimodality and creativity in digital writing: Chinese users’ experiences and practices with bullet comments on Bilibili	9
Situating affect in Chinese mediated soundscapes of suona	8
Culture-specific “items” in multimodal translation: translating Spring Festival traditions into LEGO bricks	8
“No longer the haven of tolerance”? The press and discursive shifts on immigration in Sweden 2010–2022	8
Stylistic expressions of YouTube lifestyle influencers: authenticity and professional amateurism	7
Encounters at the counter: the organization of shop interactions	7
Shaping Holocaust remembrance through Nazi photographs. A multimodal analysis of Israeli schoolbooks	7
Towards responsible machine translation: ethical and legal considerations in machine translation Towards responsible machine translation: ethical and legal considerations in machine tra	7
Categorisations of developed and developing countries in UN news on climate change	6
Legitimation of governments by renaming of everyday things and places: a comparison of the Pahlavi and Islamic Republic in Iran	6
Multimodality of the non-leading teacher in collaborative teaching	6
“Is your font racist?” Metapragmatic online discourses on the use of typographic mimicry and its appropriateness	6
The linear structure of narrative figures in the Saint Francis Cycle: a linguistic analysis	5

A study of Pinyin as social practice in China’s commercial linguistic landscape	5
Narratology Beyond the Human: Storytelling and Animal Life	5
Multimodal metaphor (re)framing: a critical analysis of the promotional image of China’s Hubei Province in the post-pandemic era on new media	5
The scientifization of “green” anti-ageing cosmetics in online marketing: a multimodal critical discourse analysis	5
Examining the role of television programmes in legitimising inherited wealth and privilege for the super-rich in a society that values meritocracy	5
How defendants frame remorse: a pragmatic and transitivity analysis of allocution statements in Chinese and American courts	5
“Waste-sorting is the new fashion”: waste, power, and the semiotic landscape	5
Russian train graffiti: a history of performance	4
Review of introducing relational political analysis political semiotics as a theory and method	4
Towards a unified affordance approach: searching for congruent meaning making in COVID-19 warning designs	4
Multimodality in translation studies: media, models, and trends in China Multimodality in translation studies: media, models, and trends in China , edited by Li Pan, Xia	4
“Yea I’m a f* Tomboy”: “girl crush,” postfeminism, and the reimagining of K-pop femininity	4
The battle for 5Pointz and signifying regimes: desirable subjects, hierarchies of value, and legitimizing state power	4
A multimodal critical discourse analysis of Nigeria president Bola Tinubu’s fuel subsidy removal policy-related internet memes	4
Taboo metaphtonymy, gender, and impoliteness: how male and female Arab cartoonists think and draw	3
Revolutionary things: the making of South Korea’s Candlelight Protests	3
Hypertranslation	3
The linguistic landscapes of nature trails: creating presence, marking absence, shaping meaning	3
Roland Barthes's Camera Lucida in the rough waters of photography theory	3
Teachers’ gestures in synchronous online language classrooms: embodied elicitation strategies for student participation	3
Embracing transgression(s) : a critical-dialogical semiotic approach on how “rhetorical plasticity” shapes contemporary far-right ideological reproduction	3
The multimodal performance of conversational humor	3
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Linguistic Landscapes	3
Where Covid metaphors come from: reconsidering context and modality in metaphor	2
A boon or a bane: multimodal figurative framing in Chinese and foreign BRI-themed cartoons	2
Review of Language, Discourse and Anxiety	2
Multilingual crisis communication: insights from China	2
Ghost signs at the mall: structuring semiotics and (formerly) branded retail space	2
Screens of inequality: caste narratives in Hindi cinema	2
Advances in discourse analysis of translation and interpreting: linking linguistic approaches with socio-cultural interpretation	2
“All sisters must experience the endorphin rush!” A virtual discourse-ethnographic study on neoliberalism female fitness community on Bilibili	2
Erotic capital in digital age: a multimodal analysis of the idolization of fresh meat elite on Xiaohongshu	2
China opportunity or China threat? A corpus-based study of China’s image in Australian news discourse	2
“ Ps. I’ll find you .” The discourse of postmemory in letters to executed and disappeared grandparents in Chile	2
Approaches to systemic functional grammar: convergence and divergence	2
The effectiveness of sarcastic multimodal semiotic analysis in revealing deficiencies among authority officials: a case study of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT)	2
Alignment, negation, and androcentricity: representation of bride price by Chinese state media	2
Nonprofit campaigning done ethically to elicit empathy instead of aversion: A case study of the UNICEF multimodal book Lives Beyond Figures	2
A comparative critical analysis of official and personal social media videos on being and becoming old in China	2