OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Language and Intercultural Communication 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
From intercultural to transcultural communication	27
North/South imbalances in intercultural communication education	19
From Bologna to welfare nationalism: international higher education in Denmark, 2000–2020	18
Difference, becoming and rhizomatic subjectivities beyond ‘otherness’. A posthuman framework for intercultural communication	15
Vibrant identities and finding joy in difference	15
Art matters in languages and intercultural citizenship education	15
The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house: decolonising intercultural communication	12
Developing intercultural awareness from short-term study abroad: insights from an interview study of Japanese students	11
Indonesian EFL teachers’ pedagogic beliefs and classroom practices regarding culture and interculturality	11
Translation: from mediation to gatekeeping and agenda-setting	11
Acts of distinction at times of crisis: an epistemological challenge to intercultural communication research	11
Searching for a third-space methodology to contest essentialist large-culture blocks	11
Reflections on the co-construction of an interpretive approach to interculturality for higher education in China	10
Experiences of and preparedness for Intercultural Teacherhood in Higher Education: non-specialist English teachers’ positioning, agency and sense of legitimacy in China	10
Interpreter-mediated discourse as a vital source of meaning potential in intercultural communication: the case of the interpreted premier-meets-the-press conferences in China	10
Refocusing the development of critical intercultural competence in higher education: challenges and opportunities	10
A collaborative autoethnography of developing a ‘Cultural Stories’ exercise for intercultural teaching in China	9
Raising awareness of multilingualism as lived – in the context of teaching English as a foreign language	9
(Re)existence in times of de-existence: political–pedagogical notes to Paulo Freire	9
Transcultural literacies in online collaboration: a case study of fanfiction translation from Russian into English	8
Facilitative practices to promote migrant children’s agency and hybrid integration in schools: discussing data from Italy, Poland and England	8
‘No English, Korean only’: local students’ resistance to English as a lingua franca at an ‘English only’ university in Korea	7
Beyond and besides language: intercultural communication and creative practice	7
Critical pedagogy and quality education (UNESCO SDG-4): the legacy of Paulo Freire for language and intercultural communication	7
Multiple becomings in digital story creation	7

A research trajectory for difficult times: decentring language and intercultural communication	6
Foreign language and intercultural development in the Japanese context – a case study	6
Engaging preservice students in decolonizing education through the blanket exercise	6
All at-sea with learning spaces, interculturality and Yin-Yang	6
Banal nationalism and global connections: the 23rd World Scout Jamboree as a site for cosmopolitan learning	6
A moving story from Dhaka to London: revealing vibrant identities in young people’s intercultural encounters with mobile art, embroidery and artefacts	6
How online news headlines and accompanying images ‘translate’ a violent event: a cross-cultural case study	6
‘Coming here you should speak Chinese’: the multimodal construction of interculturality in YouTube videos	6
Pre-service teachers’ translingual negotiation strategies at work: telecollaboration between France, Turkey, and the USA	6
How do audiences of televised English football construct difference based on race/ethnicity?	5
International students' mobility and value added through internationalization of higher education in Estonia and Denmark	5
Intercultural communicative competence in the digital age: critical digital literacy and inquiry-based pedagogy	5
Resources for intercultural learning in a non-essentialist perspective: an investigation of student and teacher perceptions in Chinese universities	5
The murder of George Floyd and the mediatization of solidarity by top-ranked universities	5
Engaging non-essentialism as lived wisdom: a dialogue between intercultural communication and Buddhism	5
Intercultural communication: the pros and cons of being a ‘Discipline’	5
Exploring ‘vibrant matter’ in animation making	5
Acculturation in a multicultural classroom: perspectives within the yin-yang metaphor framework	4
Protectors and preparers: novice Indonesian EFL teachers’ beliefs regarding teaching about culture	4
Cosmopolitan translation in multilingual cities: a Macao experience	4
Salvini, stereotypes and cultural translation: analysing anglophone news discourse on Italy’s ‘little Mussolini’	4
Intercultural personhood: A non-essentialist conception of individuals for intercultural research	4
‘Mask must wear at all times’: top-down and bottom-up multilingual COVID-scape in Hong Kong as a prime site of epidemiological and public health knowledge (re)construction during the COVID-19 pandemic	4
The interplay between identity construction and L2 investment during study abroad program: cases of MBA students from China	4
Syncretising ways of doing, seeing and becoming in children's faith-inspired text-making and conversations around texts at home	4
Hospitality and internationalization-at-home: the intercultural experiences of ‘buddies’ at a summer school in China	4
News translation as collaboration in multilingual community radio stations in South Africa	4
Revisiting mediation: implications for intercultural language education	4
Indirect literary translation and intercultural communication: crossing borders in the Neighbours with a Go-Between project	3
Expanding ‘conceptual horizons’: a reflexive approach to intercultural pedagogies in higher education	3
Functions of small talk in healthcare interpreting: an exploratory study in medical encounters facilitated by healthcare interpreters	3
ELT and the role of translation in developing intercultural competence	3
Interrupting the cognitive empire: keynote drama as cultural justice	3
The relational identity of the translator	3
A critical intercultural stance from the margins: EFL education in a conflict-ridden context	3
Questioning translanguaging creativity through Michel de Certeau	3
Asian students in American higher education: negotiating multilingual identities in the era of superdiversity and nationalism	3
Child language brokering and multilingualism in Catalonia: language use and attitudes in a bilingual region	3
Global debates, local challenges: the South talks back	3
Intercultural teaching and learning in Chinese higher education: integrating practices and perspectives	3
The context of study abroad: affordances and constraints in the development of plurilingual identity	2
De los debates globales a las prácticas locales: pedagogías emergentes para el fomento de la interculturalidad en el aula de español para adultos migrantes	2
Banal, civic, and cultural nationalism in the United Arab Emirates: paradoxical discourses and complexities	2
News production and intercultural communication at the crossroads of disciplines	2
Well-educated, middle-class Chinese immigrants in Canada	2
Investment in transnational identity to become microcelebrities in China: on American uploaders’ success in a Chinese video-sharing website	2
Voice activated: a transformative approach to language learning	2
Migrants’ NATION-AS-BODY metaphors as expressions of transnational identities	2
Translating cultures, cultures in translation	2
Dance, multilingual repertoires and the Italian landscape: asylum seekers’ narratives in an arts-based project	2

Towards alternatives to mechanistic models of translation in contemporary journalism	2
Environmental activism as counter-hegemony? A comparative critical discourse analysis of self-representations of radical environmental organisations	2
Intercultural universities in Mexico: decolonizing the intercultural philosophy of education	2
The use of blind-portrait: an opportunity to de-essentialise intercultural, educational research	2
Beyond the mother tongue: language as cultural capital in Xiaolu Guo’s A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers	2
Congolese women speak: languaging, translanguaging and discursive cross-culturing as resources for empowerment	2
Constructing interculturality through intercultural dialogues and autoethnography: building relations, nurturing preparedness and rejecting boundaries	2
Mermaids, knitted costumes and pink carbolic soap: making meaning and translating social space in community-led pools	2
Avatarian embodiment in Indigenous Futurisms 4D: the intersemiosis of intercultural encounters	2
Problematizing culture with video in teacher training	2
Introducing language and intercultural communication	2
Preface	2
The Unlit Lamp(1924): translation, reception and censorship	2
Film-making as creative praxis: capturing the intimate side of interculturality	2
‘They are not very open to people’: how mobile students construct interculturality through metaphor and narrative	2
How university students of Mandarin Chinese experience ‘Chinese culture’: an interculturality and small cultures perspective	2
Banal nationalism and conversational cosmopolitanism: the potential of online language education for intercultural communication	2
Does nationalism motivate or demotivate? Unpacking complex identity-motivation nexus in the context of Chinese learners of Japanese	1
Issues, controversies and difficult questions: languages and intercultural communication, twenty years on	1
To be or not to be internationalised: students’ experience of intercultural encounters in Hong Kong universities	1
Syrian refugees receiving information: an approach to dissemination of medical resources	1
Child-volunteer socialisation in an after-school programme: a case study about transcaring and transformation	1
Make a name for yourself: exploring the interculturality of naming and addressing practices among transnational teachers of Chinese as a foreign language	1
Revisiting ‘foreignness’: Nationalism and language education	1
New methodologies – new interculturalities? The visionary discourse of post-qualitative research on the intercultural	1
Intercultural competence in a face-to-face tandem language learning: a micro-analytic perspective	1
Global or local? – Notions of nationalism and coloniality in ELT material	1
The experiences of Mexican language teachers in transnational contexts	1
Transect walks as a critical community mapping tool to develop student teachers’ intercultural awareness	1
Freire’s longevity in intercultural education: entangled histories from Colombian and Mexican higher education	1
Negotiating racialized third-space personae as multilingual professionals: raciolinguistic experiences of Chinese American and white CSL speakers in Chinese workplaces	1
Popular education, the expansion of higher education and a university for Latin American integration	1
The role of language use and communication in Mainland Chinese students’ cross-cultural adaptation to Hong Kong: a qualitative investigative study	1
Dual identities? Transnational identities? Psychological acculturation research in dialogue with discursive approaches to the identity work of individuals with a migration background	1
Nosotros como familia: the negotiation of group identity in a binational community of practice	1
Spatial repertoire, translingual creativity, and identity in Chinese speakers’ online intercultural experience	1
‘An army of mutes in disguise’ languages and transnational resistance in France during the Second World War	1
Othering the expat majority: Qatari junior academics’ identity work at the interface of migration and institutional reform	1
Power relations and change in intercultural communication education: Zhongyong as a complementary analytical framework	1
Editorial	1
Intimate engagements with language: creative practices for inclusive public spaces in Iceland	1
Cultures in translation, complexity and development inequalities: cultivating spaces for shared understanding	1
Intercultural musicking: learning through klezmer	1
A multimodal analysis of foreign national origin membership categories in Belgian blue collar job interviews with first generation immigrants	1
Homogeneous or hegemonic? A cultural reading of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue burkini	1
Theatre of the Oppressed in French as a second language	1
Co-inclusion: problematising binary understandings of social inclusion	1
How ‘good’ or ‘bad’ Others can be: national identity and intercultural encounters in the Iranian protectionist educational policies	1
Being a good neighbour: developing intercultural understanding through critical dialogue between an Australian and Finnish cross-case study	1
Intercultural theatrical encounter and the dramaturgy of surtitles	1
Language attitudes towards English in local and immigrant students in Catalonia: analysis of the joint effect of language competence and region of origin	1
Making sense of the intercultural: finding decentred threads	1
Intercultural knowledge production: against gender-based violence and towards epistemic justice	1
Making sense of the unexpected: critical incident training in three Chinese universities	1
Problematizing cultural difference: YouTube narratives about COVID-19 by South Korean and American Vloggers	1
Linguistic and cultural representation in audiovisual translation	1
Articulating arts and intercultural education: static and dynamic views of language teaching at school	1
Intercultural communication, creative practice and embodied activisms: arts-based interculturality in the Maghreb	1
Imagining and building the nation through citizenship education: an interculturalist perspective on the case of Denmark	1
An intercultural approach to English language teaching: 2nd edition	1
Citizenship and intercultural dialogue: IR analysis & minority youth in the UK and Germany	1
Transcultural communication through global Englishes: an advanced textbook for students	1