OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Contextual slanguage as linguistic performance among female youth in Nigeria	10
Vocabulary knowledge and academic achievement revisited: General and academic vocabulary as determinant factors	8
Stance-taking across monologic and dialogic modes of academic speech	6
Translanguaging strategies in multimodality and audiovisual translation	5
Sociocultural narratives and the anthropomorphic power of agency in a semiotic landscape	5
Teachers’ language ideologies, conflicting language policy and practices in Zimbabwean education system	4
Why is a gradual transition to Botswana’s languages in higher education necessary? How can it be achieved?	4
Motion events in Changana spoken narrative	4
Translanguaging for academic reading at a South African university	4
Partial homophony and decoy lexicalisation in S’ncamtho and Ndebele slang	3
Multilingual pragmatic markers in South African English	3
Guiding principles for the appraisal of English-teaching software	3
The predictive power of vocabulary, syntax and metacognitive strategies for L2 reading comprehension	3
A bibliometric study of metaphor research and its implications (2010–2020)	3
Non-native English-speaking Engineers’ Writing at the Workplace	3
The search for V-stranding VP ellipsis in isiXhosa	2
Complementarity of communicative modes on meaning making in Tanzania’s digital telecom marketing: A social semiotic multimodal perspective	2
Developing and validating a visual questionnaire for the study of impersonalisation strategies: A design thinking approach	2
Language regulation in post-independence Zimbabwe (1981–2015) and Kalanga linguistic citizenship	2
Expert writers’ structural outlines in research papers: An inquiry into social sciences	2
(Mis)versioning as a quality assurance compromise in the development of numeracy curriculum in African languages	2
A discursive construction of resistance in police-suspect interactions in Ibadan, Nigeria	2
Co-text and critical reading for international postgraduates in Australia	2
Stigmatisation through metaphors borrowed from religious discourse in the early coverage of HIV and AIDS by the Sesotho press	2
Family language policy in post-genocide Matabeleland: The case of a Ndebele family	2

Do additional, visual elements in recorded lectures influence the processing of subtitles?	2
Translanguaging and minoritised language revitalisation in multilingual classrooms: Examining teachers’ agency	2
Application of teachers’ philosophies on literacy teaching and learning in rural schools	2
The extraction of terminology list using ParaConc for creating a quadrilingual dictionary	2
Code-switching as a bilingual and multilingual linguistic strategy in the construction of Amathaf’entandabuzo	1
A semantic-pragmatic deconstruction of Blinding Lights by The Weeknd and Bad Guy by Billie Eilish	1
Sesotho figurative language: Ineffective conversational strategy in commissions of enquiry	1
Teaching critical literacy in South African English classrooms: Constraints and affordances	1
Gender and ethnic stereotypes in selected Nigerian sitcoms	1
The (re)making of an African language: Revisiting epistemologies for quality assessment practices	1
First language instruction? Eswatini teachers’ insight of the Eswatini language-in-education policy	1
Preserving indigenous minority languages through community radio in development programmes in Malawi	1
Merging English Home Language and First Additional Language curricula: Implications for future quality assurance practices	1
V₂elision in root-suffix hiatus contexts in Malawian CiTonga (Bantu N.15)	1
A corpus-driven analysis of phrase frames in research articles on business management	1
Establishing a research territory in economics: Implications for academic writing instruction	1
Profiling a microeconomics noun collocation list: A corpus-based approach	1
Lexical cohesion in the translation of English-Swahili health care texts	1
Subject-verb agreement marking by Ghanaian learners of French	1
Informal features in English academic writing: Mismatch between prescriptive advice and actual practice	1
Translating taboo words in health care texts from English into Swahili in Kenya	1
Lexical and sub-lexical frequencies in isiXhosa-medium children’s stories	1
Wetin una dey yan: Variation in the use of copuladeyin Nigerian Pidgin English	1
Complex variability and difficulty processing Yoruba relativisers and the relative clause	1
A cross-cultural, cross-contextual study of interactional metadiscourse in academic research articles: An interpersonal approach	1
Translation and feminism in post-Islamic revolution Iran: A sociological approach	1
Developing EFL learners’ syntactic complexity in writing: The role of eTandem communication	1
Cause-effect patterns in the discussion sections of articles in language studies journals: The discourse of scientific explanation across language sub-disciplines	1
Tshebediso ya melao kabong ya dinoko tsa Sesotho	1
Patterns of lexical innovation in Nigerian English	1