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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
From intercultural to transcultural communication	30
North/South imbalances in intercultural communication education	23
From Bologna to welfare nationalism: international higher education in Denmark, 2000–2020	20
The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house: decolonising intercultural communication	20
Searching for a third-space methodology to contest essentialist large-culture blocks	19
Acts of distinction at times of crisis: an epistemological challenge to intercultural communication research	17
Developing intercultural awareness from short-term study abroad: insights from an interview study of Japanese students	15
Refocusing the development of critical intercultural competence in higher education: challenges and opportunities	15
Experiences of and preparedness for Intercultural Teacherhood in Higher Education: non-specialist English teachers’ positioning, agency and sense of legitimacy in China	14
Reflections on the co-construction of an interpretive approach to interculturality for higher education in China	13
Indonesian EFL teachers’ pedagogic beliefs and classroom practices regarding culture and interculturality	13
Translation: from mediation to gatekeeping and agenda-setting	12
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	11
Intercultural communicative competence in the digital age: critical digital literacy and inquiry-based pedagogy	11
‘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	10
Beyond and besides language: intercultural communication and creative practice	10
Facilitative practices to promote migrant children’s agency and hybrid integration in schools: discussing data from Italy, Poland and England	9
‘No English, Korean only’: local students’ resistance to English as a lingua franca at an ‘English only’ university in Korea	9
(Re)existence in times of de-existence: political–pedagogical notes to Paulo Freire	9
A collaborative autoethnography of developing a ‘Cultural Stories’ exercise for intercultural teaching in China	9
Pre-service teachers’ translingual negotiation strategies at work: telecollaboration between France, Turkey, and the USA	9
Cosmopolitan translation in multilingual cities: a Macao experience	8
Resources for intercultural learning in a non-essentialist perspective: an investigation of student and teacher perceptions in Chinese universities	8
Critical pedagogy and quality education (UNESCO SDG-4): the legacy of Paulo Freire for language and intercultural communication	8
‘Coming here you should speak Chinese’: the multimodal construction of interculturality in YouTube videos	7

Banal nationalism and global connections: the 23rd World Scout Jamboree as a site for cosmopolitan learning	7
How online news headlines and accompanying images ‘translate’ a violent event: a cross-cultural case study	7
Engaging non-essentialism as lived wisdom: a dialogue between intercultural communication and Buddhism	7
How do audiences of televised English football construct difference based on race/ethnicity?	6
A research trajectory for difficult times: decentring language and intercultural communication	6
All at-sea with learning spaces, interculturality and Yin-Yang	6
Intercultural communication: the pros and cons of being a ‘Discipline’	6
The murder of George Floyd and the mediatization of solidarity by top-ranked universities	6
Functions of small talk in healthcare interpreting: an exploratory study in medical encounters facilitated by healthcare interpreters	6
News translation as collaboration in multilingual community radio stations in South Africa	6
International students' mobility and value added through internationalization of higher education in Estonia and Denmark	6
Intercultural teaching and learning in Chinese higher education: integrating practices and perspectives	5
Asian students in American higher education: negotiating multilingual identities in the era of superdiversity and nationalism	5
Hospitality and internationalization-at-home: the intercultural experiences of ‘buddies’ at a summer school in China	5
Child language brokering and multilingualism in Catalonia: language use and attitudes in a bilingual region	4
Acculturation in a multicultural classroom: perspectives within the yin-yang metaphor framework	4
The interplay between identity construction and L2 investment during study abroad program: cases of MBA students from China	4
Salvini, stereotypes and cultural translation: analysing anglophone news discourse on Italy’s ‘little Mussolini’	4
Intercultural communication, creative practice and embodied activisms: arts-based interculturality in the Maghreb	4
Intercultural personhood: A non-essentialist conception of individuals for intercultural research	4
Questioning translanguaging creativity through Michel de Certeau	4
Mermaids, knitted costumes and pink carbolic soap: making meaning and translating social space in community-led pools	4
Global debates, local challenges: the South talks back	4
Protectors and preparers: novice Indonesian EFL teachers’ beliefs regarding teaching about culture	4
Revisiting mediation: implications for intercultural language education	4
Banal nationalism and conversational cosmopolitanism: the potential of online language education for intercultural communication	3
Environmental activism as counter-hegemony? A comparative critical discourse analysis of self-representations of radical environmental organisations	3
Beyond the mother tongue: language as cultural capital in Xiaolu Guo’s A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers	3
Interrupting the cognitive empire: keynote drama as cultural justice	3
Migrants’ NATION-AS-BODY metaphors as expressions of transnational identities	3
A critical intercultural stance from the margins: EFL education in a conflict-ridden context	3
Issues, controversies and difficult questions: languages and intercultural communication, twenty years on	3
Investment in transnational identity to become microcelebrities in China: on American uploaders’ success in a Chinese video-sharing website	3
Film-making as creative praxis: capturing the intimate side of interculturality	3
Expanding ‘conceptual horizons’: a reflexive approach to intercultural pedagogies in higher education	3
De los debates globales a las prácticas locales: pedagogías emergentes para el fomento de la interculturalidad en el aula de español para adultos migrantes	3
The Unlit Lamp(1924): translation, reception and censorship	3
The use of blind-portrait: an opportunity to de-essentialise intercultural, educational research	3
Intercultural competence in a face-to-face tandem language learning: a micro-analytic perspective	3
Voice activated: a transformative approach to language learning	2
Congolese women speak: languaging, translanguaging and discursive cross-culturing as resources for empowerment	2
Dance, multilingual repertoires and the Italian landscape: asylum seekers’ narratives in an arts-based project	2
The experiences of Mexican language teachers in transnational contexts	2
Intimate engagements with language: creative practices for inclusive public spaces in Iceland	2
The context of study abroad: affordances and constraints in the development of plurilingual identity	2
Avatarian embodiment in Indigenous Futurisms 4D: the intersemiosis of intercultural encounters	2
Banal, civic, and cultural nationalism in the United Arab Emirates: paradoxical discourses and complexities	2
Dual identities? Transnational identities? Psychological acculturation research in dialogue with discursive approaches to the identity work of individuals with a migration background	2
Toward the internationalization of higher education: developing university students’ intercultural communicative competence in Spain	2
Intercultural universities in Mexico: decolonizing the intercultural philosophy of education	2

Intercultural knowledge production: against gender-based violence and towards epistemic justice	2
Homogeneous or hegemonic? A cultural reading of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue burkini	2
Revisiting ‘foreignness’: Nationalism and language education	2
Power relations and change in intercultural communication education: Zhongyong as a complementary analytical framework	2
Cultures in translation, complexity and development inequalities: cultivating spaces for shared understanding	2
Intercultural musicking: learning through klezmer	2
Native speakerism and the Japanese ideal of English language teaching: globalisation, ideology, and practice	2
The role of language use and communication in Mainland Chinese students’ cross-cultural adaptation to Hong Kong: a qualitative investigative study	2
News production and intercultural communication at the crossroads of disciplines	2
Well-educated, middle-class Chinese immigrants in Canada	2
Making sense of the unexpected: critical incident training in three Chinese universities	2
‘They are not very open to people’: how mobile students construct interculturality through metaphor and narrative	2
Global or local? – Notions of nationalism and coloniality in ELT material	2
Constructing interculturality through intercultural dialogues and autoethnography: building relations, nurturing preparedness and rejecting boundaries	2
New methodologies – new interculturalities? The visionary discourse of post-qualitative research on the intercultural	2
Translating cultures, cultures in translation	2
Problematizing cultural difference: YouTube narratives about COVID-19 by South Korean and American Vloggers	2
Towards alternatives to mechanistic models of translation in contemporary journalism	2
Problematizing culture with video in teacher training	2
To be or not to be internationalised: students’ experience of intercultural encounters in Hong Kong universities	2
Syrian refugees receiving information: an approach to dissemination of medical resources	2
Language attitudes towards English in local and immigrant students in Catalonia: analysis of the joint effect of language competence and region of origin	2
‘An army of mutes in disguise’ languages and transnational resistance in France during the Second World War	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
‘ … vayan a San Miguel de Allende, además lleven su visa y su diccionario los que no sepan hablar inglés pues ya se han apropiado de todo los gringos.’ The discursive struggle for interculturality in	1
Saying and doing: a multiliteracies analysis of preservice teachers’ virtual exchange at the onset of COVID-19	1
Diverging narratives: exploring the hidden influence of transquoting in framing the journalistic portrayal of Shiori Ito	1
How ‘good’ or ‘bad’ Others can be: national identity and intercultural encounters in the Iranian protectionist educational policies	1
Multimodal news discourse and COVID-19: on the interplay between stylistic features and images in three UK newsbrands’ early framing of (the pandemic in) Italy	1
Ethnic othering in Nigeria’s electoral discourse: the need for intercultural competence	1
Conceptualizing translanguaging as sociomaterial intra-actions: materialization of language norms in a virtual EFL classroom in rural China	1
Othering the expat majority: Qatari junior academics’ identity work at the interface of migration and institutional reform	1
Editorial	1
Freire’s longevity in intercultural education: entangled histories from Colombian and Mexican higher education	1
Reconstructing British identity: Formula One, Michael Schumacher and the British Press at the turn of the century	1
‘I came as a visitor, but I stayed': an ERASMUS-Sojourn in an ELF country	1
Co-inclusion: problematising binary understandings of social inclusion	1
Negotiating racialized third-space personae as multilingual professionals: raciolinguistic experiences of Chinese American and white CSL speakers in Chinese workplaces	1
Does nationalism motivate or demotivate? Unpacking complex identity-motivation nexus in the context of Chinese learners of Japanese	1
From ivory tower to social arena: critical approaches to cultural identity in the public sphere	1
Nosotros como familia: the negotiation of group identity in a binational community of practice	1
Instagram for learning interculturally: a blueprint in a global Englishes era	1
English Language Teacher Educators’ critical professional identity constructions and negotiations	1
Liberating language education	1
A multimodal analysis of foreign national origin membership categories in Belgian blue collar job interviews with first generation immigrants	1
Transect walks as a critical community mapping tool to develop student teachers’ intercultural awareness	1
The experience of intercultural mediators in the Italian COVID-19 vaccination campaign	1
Transcultural communication through global Englishes: an advanced textbook for students	1
‘We are not the same but feel like we are the same group’: international students’ language choice and identity construction at a Chinese university	1
Popular education, the expansion of higher education and a university for Latin American integration	1
The acquisition of intercultural competence among international and domestic students in China through an internationalisation at home programme	1
Spatial repertoire, translingual creativity, and identity in Chinese speakers’ online intercultural experience	1
Making sense of the intercultural: finding decentred threads	1
Nationalism: threat or opportunity to critical intercultural communication?	1