OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Discourse Studies is 1. 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
Downgrading commitment: The final particle ba in complying responses to directives in Mandarin Chinese conversation	32
Book review: Amanda Laugesen and Catherine Fisher (Eds.), Expressions of War in Australia and the Pacific: Language, Trauma, Memory, and Official Discourse	21
‘My family wouldn’t have survived, and I would not be here’: Juxtaposing counterfactual and actual pasts and presents in narratives of rescue by Aristides de Sousa Mendes	21
Book Review: Ruth Page, David Barton, Carmen Lee, Johann Wolfgang Unger, and Michele Zappavigna, Researching Language and Social Media: A Student Guide	15
Divided discourse: Establishing a methods-centered approach to latrinalia research	13
Small stories of a key moment: Exploring discursive construction in digital quarantine stories	12
Book Review: Othman Khalid Al-Shboul, The Politics of Climate Change Metaphors in the U.S. Discourse: Conceptual Metaphor Theory and Analysis from an Ecolinguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis	11
Book Review: Sandrine Sorlin, The Stylistics of “You”: Second-Person Pronoun and its Pragmatic Effects	9
Book Review: Patricia Canning and Brian Walker, Discourse Analysis: A Practical Introduction	8
Humour and laughter as indicators of meeting leadership style in FOMC meetings	8
Multimodal media: Framing climate change	7
Ageism in job interviews: Discreet ways of building co-membership through age categorisation	7
Analyzing frame analysis: A critical review of framing studies in social movement research	7
Book review: Eliecer Crespo-Fernández (ed.), Discourse Studies in Public Communication	7
Framing and related concepts in interactional sociolinguistics	6
Book Review: Simon Statham, Critical Discourse Analysis: A Practical Introduction to Power in Language	6
Backchannel forms and functions in context and culture: The use of backchannels in Arab media discourse	6
Self-description in everyday interaction: Generalizations about oneself as accounts of behavior	5
Avoidance of cognitive efforts as a risk factor in interaction	5
Book Review: Anna Islentyeva, A Corpus-Based Analysis of Ideological Bias: Migration in the British Press	5
Book Review: Annelie Ädel and Jan-Ola Östman (eds), Risk Discourse and Responsibility	5
On granularity of doing other-initiation: Nǐ yìsi shì X ‘Your Meaning is X’ in Mandarin Chinese	5
Book Review: Caroline Tagg and Agnieszka Lyons, Mobile Messaging and Resourcefulness: A Post-Digital Ethnography	5
Closing medical encounters in China’s Mainland: Doctors’ fishing for patient-initiated terminal exchanges	5
Multimodal engagement strategies in science dissemination: A case study of TED talks and YouTube science videos	4

Book Review: Lorena Pérez-Hernández, Speech Acts in English: From Research to Instruction and Textbook Development	4
Book review: Camilla Vásquez, Research Methods for Digital Discourse Analysis	4
Book review: Paul Baker, Gavin Brookes and Craig Evans, The Language of Patient Feedback: A Corpus Linguistic Study of Online Health Communication	4
Repetition for real-time coordination of action: Lexical and non-lexical vocalizations in collaborative time management	4
‘The sequential organisation of gossip talk’	4
Book Review: Ole Schützler and Julia Schlüter (ed.), Data and Methods in Corpus Linguistics: Comparative Approaches	4
Introduction to “Scaling stories: Narratives and the dialogic regimentation of scales”	4
Book Review: Gerard J. Steen, Slowing Metaphor Down: Elaborating Deliberate Metaphor Theory	3
Book review: Thomas C Messerli, Repetition in Telecinematic Discourse. How American Sitcoms Employ Formal and Semantic Repetition in the Construction of Multimodal Humour	3
On the defence of antifascist Italy in Alcide De Gasperi’s 1946 speech to the Paris Peace Conference	3
Book review: Eva Ogiermann and Pilar G Blitvich (eds), From Speech Acts to Lay Understandings of Politeness: Multilingual and Multicultural Perspectives	3
A functional diversity of argumentative styles	3
Book review: Bernd Heine, Gunther Kaltenböck, Tania Kuteva and Haiping Long, The Rise of Discourse Markers	3
Book Review: Sandrine Zufferey and Liesbeth Degand, Connectives and Discourse Relations	3
Socio-cultural and contextual resources shaping the initiation of closings of public utility service interactions	3
Book Review: Heidrun Dorgeloh and Anja Wanner, Discourse Syntax: English Grammar Beyond the Sentence	3
Book Review: Sandrine Sorlin and Tuija Virtanen, The Pragmatics of Hypocrisy	3
‘Neyse Halim Çıksın Falim’: Turkish women’s intimate discourse in fortune-telling sessions through coffee cup readings	3
Back to the future: Topic modelling and beyond	2
Book review: Óscar Loureda, Inés Recio Fernández, Laura Nadal and Adriana Cruz (eds), Empirical Studies of the Construction of Discourse	2
Book review: Jenni Ingram and Victoria Elliott, Research Methods for Classroom Discourse	2
How professionals deal with clients’ explicit objections to their advice	2
‘Answer in any way you want’: Discursive tensions in conversations of a citizen participation process	2
Book review: María-José Luzón & Carmen Pérez-Llantada (eds.), Science Communication on the Internet: Old Genres Meet New Genres	2
Book Review: Elizabeth Closs Traugott, Ten Lectures on a Diachronic Constructionalist Approach to Discourse Structuring Markers	2
Turn-allocation and gaze: A multimodal revision of the “current-speaker-selects-next” rule of the turn-taking system of conversation analysis	2
‘I just need a yes or no’: Managing resistant responses in U.S. Senate hearings	2
Sexual consent as an interactional achievement: Overcoming ambiguities and social vulnerabilities in the initiations of sexual activities	2
Framing offer-related actions as assistance at jewelry stores in Japan	2
Book Review: Fabrizio Gallai, Relevance Theory in Translation and Interpreting: A Cognitive-Pragmatic Approach	2
An epistemic illumination of the acceptance of advice in Chinese phone-in counseling for family problems	2
Book review: Jesse Egbert, Tove Larsson and Douglas Biber, Doing Linguistics with a Corpus: Methodological Considerations for the Everyday User	2
Offensive, hateful comment: A networked discourse practice of blame and petition for justice during COVID-19 on Chinese Weibo	2
Introduction	2
Book review: Robin James Smith, Richard Fitzgerald, and William Housley (eds), On Sacks: Methodology, Materials, and Inspirations	2
Book Review: Robert Lawson, Language and Mediated Masculinities: Cultures, Contexts, Constraints	2
Practices of patient participation: Getting a turn during hospital ward rounds	2
Argumentative patterns based on pragmatic argumentation at China’s diplomatic press conferences	2
Police officers’ management of suspects’ I don’t know responses in Chinese investigative interviews	2
Acknowledging and legitimizing the embarrassment: Responding to embarrassment-telling	1
Expecting the unpredictable: Categorisation of children and youth during driver training	1
Seeing and knowing in interaction: Two distinct resources for action construction	1
A conversation analytical study of story-openings in advice-giving episodes in doctoral research supervision meetings	1
Book review: Sol Rojas-Lizana, The Discourse of Perceived Discrimination: Perspectives from contemporary Australian Society	1
Book Review: Samira Bakeer, Discourse Markers in Doctoral Supervision Sessions: A Multimodal Perspective	1
Book Review: Istvan Kecskes, The Cambridge Handbook of Intercultural Pragmatics	1
Book Review: Marjut Johansson, Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen, and Jan Chovanec, Analyzing Digital Discourses: Between Convergence and Controversy	1
Teasing via the [lo, ki ‘no, because’ + ironic utterance] structure in Hebrew talk-in-interaction	1
Rest in space, Starman! Creative reframing of death metaphors on David Bowie’s mural in London	1
The story of two connectives: Korean tunci ‘or’ and kena ‘or’	1

‘Go on keep going’: The instruction of sustained embodied activities	1
Frame analysis	1
Book review: Sam Bennett, Constructions of Migrant Integration in British Public Discourse	1
Time-oriented decisions in Palliative Care team meetings	1
Scalar stories: Visuality of scales in photographic narratives	1
Book Review: Fei Victor Lim, Designing Learning With Embodied Teaching: Perspectives From Multimodality	1
Classroom teasing: Institutional contingencies and embodied action	1
Book Review: Carina Rasse, Poetic Metaphors: Creativity and Interpretation	1
‘Something that’s very American’: The interactional role of Light-Head Relative Clauses	1
All but naive: Patrolling epistemic territories in radio phone-ins	1
Book Review: Stephen C. Levinson, The Dark Matter of Pragmatics	1
Book Review: Dezheng (William) Feng, Multimodal Chinese Discourse: Understanding Communication and Society in Contemporary China	1
Justice Under Microscope: Analysing Mandarin Chinese Markers in Virtual Courtroom Discourse	1
‘That’s what the dream says’: The use of normalizing devices in dream reports	1
Communicating disciplinary knowledge to a wide audience in 3MT presentations: How students engage with popularization of science	1
Epistemic stance in Korean assessment pairs: The role of evidential and non-evidential sentence-ending suffixes	1
Book Review: Neda Chepinchikj, Interactional Approach to Cinematic Discourse: How Do Woody Allen’s Characters Talk?	1
Book review: Joyce Lamerichs, Susan J. Danby, Amanda Bateman and Stuart Ekberg (eds), Children and Mental Health Talk: Perspectives on Social Competence	1
Book Review: Bill Cope and Mary Kalantzis, Making Sense: Reference, Agency and Structure in a Grammar of Multimodal Meaning Mary Kalantzis and Bill Cope, Adding Sense: Context and Interest i	1
A study of emotion management and identity construction in Chinese medical treatment discussions	1
What’s really in a frame? The case of public marriage proposals	1
Book review: Karen Sullivan, Mixed Metaphors: Their Use and Abuse	1
Book Review: Paula Pérez Sobrino, Jeannette Littlemore and Samantha Ford, Unpacking Creativity: The Power of Figurative Communication in Advertising	1
Book Review: Alexa Hepburn and Jonathan Potter, Essentials of Conversation Analysis	1
Responsive advice-giving to troubles in supervision interaction	1
Prospective expertise: The use of ‘listen’ in the discourse of television sports pundits	1
Two ways of spilling drink: The construction of offences as ‘accidental’ in police interviews with suspects	1