OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Text & Talk 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
Swearing in informal spoken English: 1990s–2010s	16
Identifying and describing functional discourse units in the BNC Spoken 2014	10
Entextualizing high energy texts: an exploration of modal shift on a Chinese online video-sharing website Bilibili	9
Proximal versus distant suffering in TV news discourses on COVID-19 pandemic	9
The Written British National Corpus 2014 – design and comparability	8
I’m thinkingandyou’re saying: Speaker stance and the progressive of mental verbs in courtroom interaction	8
Compliment responses in Hong Kong: an application of Leech’s pragmatics of politeness	6
Managing Latin: support and intratextual translation as mediation strategies in the history of English	6
‘You said, we did’: a corpus-based analysis of marketising discourse in healthcare websites	6
Communicating climate change: how (not) to touch a cord with people and promote action	6
Lifting the pen and the gaze: embodied recruitment in collaborative writing	5
Note-taking/making as a resource for substantiating advice at a second language speaking center	5
“Oops! I can’t express this in English!”: managing epistemic challenges by Chinese EFL peer tutors in writing tutorials	5
“Together we can all make little steps towards a better world”: interdiscursive construction of ecologically engaged voices in YouTube vlogs	5
Environmental issues in the Victorian era: an ecostylistic examination of metaphor and framing in Ruskin’sThe Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century	5
Representations of “leftover” women and men in the Chinese English-language news media: a keyword analysis of similarities and difference	5
“Yo I am Superman, You Kiddo Go Home”: ritual impoliteness in Chinese freestyle rap battles	4
A contrastive study of engagement resources between English spoken and written texts	4
Hedging in interpreted and spontaneous speeches: a comparative study of Chinese and American political press briefings	4
Developing an annotation protocol for evaluative stance and metaphor in discourse: theoretical and methodological considerations	4
Stance in press releases versus business news: a lexical bundle approach	4
On the face-threat attenuating functions of Korean com: implications for internal and external dialogic processing in interaction	4
Do Spanish causal connectives vary in subjectivity? What crowdsourcing data reveal about native speakers’ preferences	4
Environmental issues in the Anthropocene: ecolinguistic perspectives across media and genres	4
The Anthropocene: genesis of a term and popularization in the press	4

From image to text to speech: the effects of speech prosody on information sequencing in audio description	4
Stancetaking in motion: stance triangle and double dialogicality	4
Legal reasoning: a textual perspective on common law judicial opinions and Chinese judgments	4
Changing discourses of climate change: building social-ecological resilience cross-culturally	3
Proximization: a critical cognitive analysis of health security discourse	3
Metadiscourse: the evolution of an approach to texts	3
The rhetorical structure of analytical writing: a developmental approach	3
The problem of translating Chinese policy-related expressions: a case study of wenming (‘civilised’)	3
Using written task answer sheets as notes while speaking: changing task-report practices in a second language book club	3
Gestures of closure: A small stories approach to museumgoers' texts	3
Markers of identification in Indigenous academic writing: A case study of genre innovation	3
Risk and resilience in a changing climate: a diachronic analysis in the press across the globe	3
Deployment of I don’t know and wakannai in second language classroom peer discussions	3
The use of material resources in vocabulary explanations: a conversation analytic inquiry	2
“Nature needs you”: discursive constructions of legitimacy and identification in environmental charity appeals	2
The readability of online health information for L1 and L2 Australians: text-based and user-focused research	2
National discourses in (de)legitimations of the Swedish COVID-19 strategy	2
Recent advances in the corpus-based study of ongoing grammatical change in English	2
“We are here to help you”: understanding the role of careers and employability services in UK universities	2
Japanese hypothetical enactment as a response to third-party complaint	2
Dialogical functions of metaphors in medical interactions	2
“Un projet de justice et de progrès social”: President Macron’s 2020 new year message to the nation. A linguistic viewpoint	2
Participatory viewers’ engagement with the dual translation problem on the danmu interface: a social semiotic case study	2
The use of the text-function in Video Relay Service calls	2
The dynamic configuration of non-linear texts in live blogs: a discursive approach	2
Text formulations as practices of demonstrating understanding in dialogic reading	2
Practices of discursive urban place-making in Brooklyn, New York: (hidden) digital and embodied discourse	2
Narratives of industrial damage and natural recovery: an ecolinguistic perspective	2
Time for Brexit? Temporalities in the 2019 UK European election campaign	2
Appraisal as co-selection and media performativity: 5G technology imaged in German news discourse	2
The intertextual nature of embedded email communication for contract negotiation activities	2
The normative order of sensing: enacting the tasting sheet in tasting training sessions	1
Media representations of foreign domestic helpers in Hong Kong: a corpus-assisted discourse analysis	1
Nǐ kànzhe bàn ba: negotiating complaint solutions in e-shopping service encounters	1
The ‘sun’ shinning upon the ‘ever-lasting’ country: a diachronic analysis of Iranian national anthems during the 20th century	1
Epistemic stance in the translations of Chinese medicine classics: a case study of Huang Di Nei Jing	1
“The results might not fully represent…”: Negation in the limitations sections of doctoral theses by Chinese and American students	1
Moral legitimation in capital trials: the case of the prosecution’s closing summation	1
“I did not know that there were problems”: government officials’ blame avoidance strategies in the Life Esidimeni Arbitration Hearings	1
Display of understanding in a second story: second teller’s reenactments and reuses of the prior teller’s resources	1
What modes can and cannot do: Affordance in Gunther Kress’s theory of sign making	1
The digital approach to semiotics: a systematic review	1
Reframing Arabic narratives on Daesh [ISIS] textually through translation: MEMRI’s translation as a case study	1
Construction of a binary evaluative taxonomy within a story	1
With or without a purpose? Judges’ appraisal of offenders or their behaviour in six sentencing remarks	1
Topic shifts in spontaneous interaction of speakers with schizophrenia: Cohesion and thematic structures	1
Interactional functions of truncated predicative complement construction “AP + (dek)le” as topic initiator in Shanghai Wu Chinese conversation	1
Non-directive play therapy with autistic adolescents: a qualitative study of therapists’ interactional practices	1
Geoff Leech and principled practices	1
Epilogue	1

English research articles versus MA theses in applied linguistics: comparing the move structure and metadiscourse features in the results and discussion sections	1
Critical comments in the disciplines: a comparative look at peer review reports in applied linguistics and engineering	1
ACTIVATE! Change Drivers: blame-attribution and active citizenship on a South Africa youth blog	1
Multimodal persuasive strategies in product pitches	1
Correlation between context and language at a high delicate level: taking Chinese emotion 喜欢 as an example	1
The naming of emotions in dispute mediators’ strategic manoeuvring: a case study using a French language corpus	1
Discourse module in mind: a biolinguistical hypothesis of macro-structure	1
Multiactivity in adult-child interaction: accounts resolving conflicting courses of action in request sequences	1
The creative minds of Arab cartoonists: metaphor, culture and context	1
Identity construction and its collocation networks: a cross-register analysis of the finance domain	1
Remembering Geoffrey Leech	1
Stance construction via that-clauses in telecommunications research articles: a comparison of L1 and L2 expert writers	1
Engagement and constructiveness in online news comments in English and Russian	1
The voiceless in The Voice: A multimodal critical discourse analysis	1
How did 1MDB’s CEO manage impressions of culpability in an accountability interview?	1
Curative or beauty treatment? Language and manipulation in leaflets of medical devices	1
The discursive construction of a conflict: a case of disputed islands in the East China Sea	1
Phrase-frames in business emails: a contrast between learners of business English and working professionals	1
How do applied linguistics researchers structure coherence relations in the process of establishing a niche for their research?	1
Ear cupping in EFL classroom interaction: an embodied means of pursuing students’ response	1
Construction of risk in road safety advertising: a multimodal analysis of Vietnamese child helmet awareness advertisements	1
Arabic songs: an affective forum for combating COVID-19 and other insecurities	1
Intensification for discursive evaluation: a corpus-pragmatic view	1