Text & Talk

Papers
(The median citation count of Text & Talk is 0. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
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Targeting and double accountabilities of action in interaction11
The dynamic configuration of non-linear texts in live blogs: a discursive approach11
“The results might not fully represent…”: Negation in the limitations sections of doctoral theses by Chinese and American students10
Stance construction via that-clauses in telecommunications research articles: a comparison of L1 and L2 expert writers10
Environmental issues in the Anthropocene: ecolinguistic perspectives across media and genres9
The effects of manipulative rhetoric in Kevin Spacey’s “Let Me Be Frank” YouTube video8
Representations of “leftover” women and men in the Chinese English-language news media: a keyword analysis of similarities and difference6
Teacher talk in primary school science: a focus on the exploration phase6
Moral legitimation in capital trials: the case of the prosecution’s closing summation6
Genre-structural analysis of Arabic accident news reporting6
Divergence in uncertainty: the Korean non-committal suffix -(u)lkel6
The use of clarificatory metaphors in argumentative discourse in British Public Bill Committee debates6
Metaphors we are robbed by: a critical discourse analysis of ‘the national cake’ and Nigeria’s prebendal elite5
Compliment responses in Hong Kong: an application of Leech’s pragmatics of politeness5
The use of animal classifiers as a stance negotiation strategy in Cantonese interactional discourse5
Participatory viewers’ engagement with the dual translation problem on the danmu interface: a social semiotic case study5
Critical comments in the disciplines: a comparative look at peer review reports in applied linguistics and engineering4
“Hypophora” and “question cascade” in Cantonese political discourse: the stance triangle and the use of rhetorical moves and utterance final particles4
National discourses in (de)legitimations of the Swedish COVID-19 strategy4
Narratives of industrial damage and natural recovery: an ecolinguistic perspective4
Automated football match reports as models of textuality4
Explaining the misconduct: Meaning-making of legitimation strategies in corporate apologies on Weibo3
“Nature needs you”: discursive constructions of legitimacy and identification in environmental charity appeals3
Interactional functions of truncated predicative complement construction “AP + (dek)le” as topic initiator in Shanghai Wu Chinese conversation3
Comparing the negotiation of attitudes in audience-sensitive art exhibition labels: how they engage visitors of different age groups3
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The functions of grammaticalized complement-taking-predicate clauses in interrogatives: a typology3
The creative minds of Arab cartoonists: metaphor, culture and context3
Reframing Arabic narratives on Daesh [ISIS] textually through translation: MEMRI’s translation as a case study3
“Un projet de justice et de progrès social”: President Macron’s 2020 new year message to the nation. A linguistic viewpoint3
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Preliminary jury instructing: a dilemmatic communication practice3
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Conversation analysis and Wittgenstein3
Proximization: a critical cognitive analysis of health security discourse2
Narratives about epistemic trespassing2
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Agency and responsibility in environmental reporting in the Chinese press: a corpus-based diachronic analysis2
What modes can and cannot do: Affordance in Gunther Kress’s theory of sign making2
Ear cupping in EFL classroom interaction: an embodied means of pursuing students’ response2
Rapport-building in extreme environments: the case of astronauts in space and support crew on the ground2
Car bumper stickers in Jordan as a site of carnivalesque transgression and degradation2
Typography and meaning-making in Arabic children’s literature: the covert communication!2
The naming of emotions in dispute mediators’ strategic manoeuvring: a case study using a French language corpus2
Employing political persuasion to manage rapport: qualitative analysis of campaign leaflets in Sheffield Central constituency2
Insincerity in lawyers’ questioning strategies in Malawian criminal courtroom discourse2
Risk and resilience in a changing climate: a diachronic analysis in the press across the globe1
“I did not know that there were problems”: government officials’ blame avoidance strategies in the Life Esidimeni Arbitration Hearings1
Damned if feminists do, damned if feminists don’t? Political significance of institutional inclusive writing guidelines in a Belgian francophone university1
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Using genre to explain how children linguistically co-construct make-believe social scenarios in classroom role-play1
Emotion displays in “moments of conflict” in parent-child interaction1
Remembering Geoffrey Leech1
Meaning-making and transformative engagement – notes on Gunther Kress’s social semiotic and multimodal approach to learning1
Disease mongering, overdiagnosis, and media practices: a critical discourse analysis of sluggish cognitive tempo (SCT) and the motivational deficiency disorder (MoDeD) spoof1
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The Written British National Corpus 2014 – design and comparability1
“Don’t worry, be a senior?” The metaphorical labelling of late-life depression in Australian news media1
Nǐ kànzhe bàn ba: negotiating complaint solutions in e-shopping service encounters1
Environmental issues in the Victorian era: an ecostylistic examination of metaphor and framing in Ruskin’sThe Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century1
Metaphorical language in the discourse of Yasser Arafat1
Time for Brexit? Temporalities in the 2019 UK European election campaign1
Expanded and non-conforming answers in standardized survey interviews1
Effects of writing topic, first language background, and second language proficiency on ‘V that’ clauses in argumentative writing1
Towards a new typology of the referential information structure of specificational it-clefts1
Text as tautology: an exploration in inference, transitivity, and logical compression1
Correlation between context and language at a high delicate level: taking Chinese emotion 喜欢 as an example1
Development of a translation device for axiological-semantic density in political news articles: wording and charging1
Questioning Chinese government officials on a live broadcast TV program: shifted second-person pronouns and journalists’ stance and identity1
Positive and negative risk in adventure tourism discourse: adrenaline hunting in “arctic Lapland”1
Indexicality and ideology in narratives about intimate partner violence1
The effects of modal value and imperative mood on self-predicted compliance to health guidance: the case of COVID-191
Swearing in informal spoken English: 1990s–2010s1
“Yo I am Superman, You Kiddo Go Home”: ritual impoliteness in Chinese freestyle rap battles1
How pandemic detective narratives potentiate and debilitate trust1
Representation of the Fukushima nuclear disaster in media opinion pieces1
Children’s invoking of school rules in directive sequences with adults at home and school: mobilizing the teacher and school artefacts as authoritative sources1
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The normative order of sensing: enacting the tasting sheet in tasting training sessions0
Recurrent gestures and embodied stance-taking in courtroom opening statements0
Metaphor(s) of the platform economy in the trade union discourse0
Determination and agency in the work of Gunther Kress0
‘You said, we did’: a corpus-based analysis of marketising discourse in healthcare websites0
Lifting the pen and the gaze: embodied recruitment in collaborative writing0
The Anthropocene: genesis of a term and popularization in the press0
Discourse module in mind: a biolinguistical hypothesis of macro-structure0
Constructing future parental suitability: prospective adoptive parents’ communicative strategies in adoption assessment interviews0
With or without a purpose? Judges’ appraisal of offenders or their behaviour in six sentencing remarks0
Educators’ uptake of Kress’s ideas on meaning-making and literacy: a case study from South Africa0
Phrase-frames in business emails: a contrast between learners of business English and working professionals0
Fighting terrorism, fighting the West: Them versus Us appraisal in Chinese media’s discursive war on terror0
Formulaic language in L1 and advanced L2 English speech: multiword structures in the speech of two Swedish groups compared to a group of L1 English speakers0
Media representations of foreign domestic helpers in Hong Kong: a corpus-assisted discourse analysis0
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Communicating climate change: how (not) to touch a cord with people and promote action0
Appraisal as co-selection and media performativity: 5G technology imaged in German news discourse0
Developing an annotation protocol for evaluative stance and metaphor in discourse: theoretical and methodological considerations0
Enacted category claims and tacit orientations to older identities in the telling of a sexually-explicit anecdote0
The digital approach to semiotics: a systematic review0
Engagement and constructiveness in online news comments in English and Russian0
The influences of proficiency and gender on Uyghur-Mandarin children’s advice-giving0
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Aggression in diplomatic notes – a pragmatic analysis of a Chinese-American conflict in times of colonisation0
“Guided by the science”: a keyword analysis of government ministers’ and scientists’ stance in the UK government’s COVID-19 press briefings0
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Are netizens social Darwinists?: Recontextualization of Chinese survival discourse in online discussions about the US-China trade war0
Linguistic complexity of public legal information texts for young persons0
Epilogue: commentary on stancetaking in motion0
Stance in press releases versus business news: a lexical bundle approach0
Ill, vulnerable and kind: a corpus-based study of the discourse representation of older adults on Weibo0
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The discursive construction of a conflict: a case of disputed islands in the East China Sea0
The Love Letters: ethnopoetics and echoes of the past in a Danish spoken narrative of personal experience0
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A comparative study of interactional metadiscourse used by American and Chinese corporate leaders in corporate social responsibility (CSR) statements0
Intensification for discursive evaluation: a corpus-pragmatic view0
Narrative navigation in legal persuasion: a rhetorical analysis of lawyers’ affidavits and skeleton arguments for appellate relief in criminal cases in Malawi0
Multiactivity in adult-child interaction: accounts resolving conflicting courses of action in request sequences0
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On the face-threat attenuating functions of Korean com: implications for internal and external dialogic processing in interaction0
ACTIVATE! Change Drivers: blame-attribution and active citizenship on a South Africa youth blog0
The ‘sun’ shinning upon the ‘ever-lasting’ country: a diachronic analysis of Iranian national anthems during the 20th century0
Identifying and describing functional discourse units in the BNC Spoken 20140
Identity construction and its collocation networks: a cross-register analysis of the finance domain0
Turning talk into text: the representation of contemporary urban vernaculars in Swedish fiction0
The discourse world of unbecoming in online depression narratives in China: a discursive psychology approach0
The problem of translating Chinese policy-related expressions: a case study of wenming (‘civilised’)0
Oops! I can’t express this in English!”: managing epistemic challenges by Chinese EFL peer tutors in writing tutorials0
Bold and impactful: a reappraisal of Gunther Kress’s (social) semiotic legacy in the light of current multimodality research0
Arabic songs: an affective forum for combating COVID-19 and other insecurities0
An appraisal analysis of judgement values on a Chinese political web forum0
Fictional characterization through repair, membership categorization, and attribute ascription0
The chair’s use of address terms in workplace meetings0
Entextualizing high energy texts: an exploration of modal shift on a Chinese online video-sharing website Bilibili0
The use of material resources in vocabulary explanations: a conversation analytic inquiry0
Epistemological stance and passive reporting verbs in judicial opinions: the case of BE expected to and BE supposed to0
English research articles versus MA theses in applied linguistics: comparing the move structure and metadiscourse features in the results and discussion sections0
Masking directions: teacher instructions and COVID-19 protocols0
The discursive legitimation of corporate ecological identity in Chinese sustainability discourse0
Marked Themes in academic writing: a comparative look at the sciences and humanities0
Recontextualization of the arguments of ‘innocence’ by a football club on Turkish newsprint media0
“We usually use paragraph one to introduce the topic”: trust building via appraisals by practicum EFL teachers in classroom interactions0
Geoff Leech and principled practices0
Shifting from a ‘just’ to a ‘fair’ transition in environmental discourse: a case of old wine in a new bottle?0
Stancetaking in motion: stance triangle and double dialogicality0
Display of understanding in a second story: second teller’s reenactments and reuses of the prior teller’s resources0
Nextness and story organization: ‘my day’ sequences in parent-child interaction0
Proximal versus distant suffering in TV news discourses on COVID-19 pandemic0
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Dialogical functions of metaphors in medical interactions0
Self-categorization: a resource for the management of experiential entitlement in talk about child death0
Referential accessibility as an index of the discourse functions of predicative and specificational clauses0
How do AI and human users interact? Positioning of AI and human users in customer service0
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Motivated signs and multimodal analysis in Gunther Kress’s semiotics0
Politeness, performance, and pointing: gesture in Chinese reality television0
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Practices of discursive urban place-making in Brooklyn, New York: (hidden) digital and embodied discourse0
Pragmatic patterns in Bram Stoker’s Dracula0
The readability of online health information for L1 and L2 Australians: text-based and user-focused research0
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“Hope it’s not just the honeymoon phase”: online discursive portrayals of migrant domestic helpers0
Embodied movement as a stratified semiotic mode: how movement, gaze and speech mean together in the classroom0
Whose voice is it? Evaluations of journalistic voices in news translation about the 2014 Hong Kong protests0
Gunther Kress - Explorer of the Semiotic Landscape0
Non-directive play therapy with autistic adolescents: a qualitative study of therapists’ interactional practices0
“Together we can all make little steps towards a better world”: interdiscursive construction of ecologically engaged voices in YouTube vlogs0
Formulations in Chinese criminal courtroom interaction0
Note-taking/making as a resource for substantiating advice at a second language speaking center0
Evaluative language in Chinese online food discourse: overall distribution, local patterning, and readers’ involvement0
Japanese hypothetical enactment as a response to third-party complaint0
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Recent advances in the corpus-based study of ongoing grammatical change in English0
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Gunther Kress and the craft of meaning making0
Metadiscourse: the evolution of an approach to texts0
A window into interpersonal relations inJane Eyrefrom the perspective of imperatives0
Changing discourses of climate change: building social-ecological resilience cross-culturally0
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