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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Inheritance and development: revisiting three editions of Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Design and their social-semiotic and linguistic insights	28
The white worker’s hotdog and the not-so-white worker’s falafel: food-based public art and urban redevelopment in a changing society	27
Gazes, words, and silences in pragmatics	19
Institutional and conceptual flipsiding: illiberal subversion of “democracy”	19
“The Amazingly Fabulous Tuk tuk Race”: mobility and carnival praxis in the semiotic landscape of Phnom Penh Pride	18
Artificial intelligence and visual discourse: a multimodal critical discourse analysis of AI-generated images of “Dementia”	18
Semiotics and framing of Ukrainian refugees in Spanish political discourse: a linguistic and cognitive analysis	16
Orality, multimodality and creativity in digital writing: Chinese users’ experiences and practices with bullet comments on Bilibili	15
Political protest landscapes in Catalonia: language choice, utopian/dystopian discourse and “Catalans”-“Spaniards” identities	14
Digital gastronationalism: how “white people food” discourse constructs national identity on Douyin	14
The language of reality: a semiotic guide for shaping thought about American education	12
The communicative linguistic landscape: Production formats and designed environments	11
Ambivalent or beneficial? An ecolinguistic study of news reports on the northward migration of a herd of Asian elephants	11
Slowing metaphor down: elaborating deliberate metaphor theory	10
The logic of language: a semiotic study of speech	10
Correction	10
Exclusionary and xenophobic speech in Swedish health care settings: the challenge of “language”	9
Culture-specific “items” in multimodal translation: translating Spring Festival traditions into LEGO bricks	9
Situating affect in Chinese mediated soundscapes of suona	8
Shaping Holocaust remembrance through Nazi photographs. A multimodal analysis of Israeli schoolbooks	8
Morality in discourse	8
Visual Citizenship. Communicating Political Opinions and Emotions on Social Media	8
Towards responsible machine translation: ethical and legal considerations in machine translation Towards responsible machine translation: ethical and legal considerations in machine tra	7
“No longer the haven of tolerance”? The press and discursive shifts on immigration in Sweden 2010–2022	7
“We’re the party of common sense”: conflicting appeals to “normal/ity” and “common sense” in the discourse of the Freedom Party of Austria	7

Encounters at the counter: the organization of shop interactions	7
Examining the role of television programmes in legitimising inherited wealth and privilege for the super-rich in a society that values meritocracy	7
The multimodal landscape in healthcare: technology, culture, and communication	7
Multimodality of the non-leading teacher in collaborative teaching	7
Stylistic expressions of YouTube lifestyle influencers: authenticity and professional amateurism	7
Multimodal metaphor (re)framing: a critical analysis of the promotional image of China’s Hubei Province in the post-pandemic era on new media	6
Language assemblage	6
How defendants frame remorse: a pragmatic and transitivity analysis of allocution statements in Chinese and American courts	6
Introduction: cancel culture & celebrity bashing, exploring the theatre of morality?	6
Digital rehegemony and the cultural politics of child protection in Indonesia	6
“Waste-sorting is the new fashion”: waste, power, and the semiotic landscape	6
A study of Pinyin as social practice in China’s commercial linguistic landscape	6
Review of introducing relational political analysis political semiotics as a theory and method	5
Appraisal, sentiment and emotion analysis in political discourse: a multimodal, multi-method approach	5
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	5
Reproductive rights and the recontextualization of abortion: a multimodal analysis of ballot initiatives in the US	5
Constructing the prosecution-defense relationship through multimodal positioning: a corpus-based analysis of Chinese courtroom argumentation	5
Who are the “People” and what does “Home” mean? A case of frame transformation and counter-framing of the “People’s Home” in the Sweden Democrat Rhetoric 1989–2022	4
“Yea I’m a f* Tomboy”: “girl crush,” postfeminism, and the reimagining of K-pop femininity	4
(Dis)connecting commerce and everyday life multimodally: professional vision and frame laminations in sponsored everyday vlogging	4
The linear structure of narrative figures in the Saint Francis Cycle: a linguistic analysis	4
Benign, malign, and tolerable: authoritarianism across the spectrum of likeability	4
Representations of “Divorced” in Turkish media on psychological health: a multimodal critical discourse analysis	4
Correction	4
A multimodal critical discourse analysis of Nigeria president Bola Tinubu’s fuel subsidy removal policy-related internet memes	4
Multimodality across epistemologies in second language research	3
Response To Evangelos Kourdis’ “Multimodal, polysemiotic, multisemiotic: a necessary demarcation for semiotics and translation studies”	3
The battle for 5Pointz and signifying regimes: desirable subjects, hierarchies of value, and legitimizing state power	3
Roland Barthes's Camera Lucida in the rough waters of photography theory	3
Russian train graffiti: a history of performance	3
Multimodal, polysemiotic, multisemiotic: a necessary demarcation for semiotics and translation studies	3
Hypertranslation	2
Statelessness and the semiotics of benign visibility in Malaysian news media	2
Taboo metaphtonymy, gender, and impoliteness: how male and female Arab cartoonists think and draw	2
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Linguistic Landscapes	2
Response to Evangelos Kourdis’ “Multimodal, polysemiotic, multisemiotic: a necessary demarcation for semiotics and translation studies”	2
Embracing transgression(s) : a critical-dialogical semiotic approach on how “rhetorical plasticity” shapes contemporary far-right ideological reproduction	2
The linguistic landscapes of nature trails: creating presence, marking absence, shaping meaning	2
The effectiveness of sarcastic multimodal semiotic analysis in revealing deficiencies among authority officials: a case study of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT)	2
Advances in discourse analysis of translation and interpreting: linking linguistic approaches with socio-cultural interpretation	2
Nationalism for sale: advertising, consumption, and the discursive construction of legitimacy in contemporary India	2
The multimodal performance of conversational humor	2
Revolutionary things: the making of South Korea’s Candlelight Protests	2
Teachers’ gestures in synchronous online language classrooms: embodied elicitation strategies for student participation	2
Review of Language, Discourse and Anxiety	2