OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
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Targeting and double accountabilities of action in interaction	9
“The results might not fully represent…”: Negation in the limitations sections of doctoral theses by Chinese and American students	8
Concession expression and evaluative stancetaking: the discourse features of gùrán- utterances in Chinese dialogues	8
Teacher talk in primary school science: a focus on the exploration phase	7
Stance construction via that-clauses in telecommunications research articles: a comparison of L1 and L2 expert writers	7
Environmental issues in the Anthropocene: ecolinguistic perspectives across media and genres	7
The effects of manipulative rhetoric in Kevin Spacey’s “Let Me Be Frank” YouTube video	7
Genre-structural analysis of Arabic accident news reporting	6
The use of animal classifiers as a stance negotiation strategy in Cantonese interactional discourse	5
Representations of “leftover” women and men in the Chinese English-language news media: a keyword analysis of similarities and difference	5
Divergence in uncertainty: the Korean non-committal suffix -(u)lkel	4
Automated football match reports as models of textuality	4
National discourses in (de)legitimations of the Swedish COVID-19 strategy	4
Praising the client in career guidance	4
Critical comments in the disciplines: a comparative look at peer review reports in applied linguistics and engineering	4
Participatory viewers’ engagement with the dual translation problem on the danmu interface: a social semiotic case study	4
Explaining the misconduct: Meaning-making of legitimation strategies in corporate apologies on Weibo	3
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Conversation analysis and Wittgenstein	3
Comparing the negotiation of attitudes in audience-sensitive art exhibition labels: how they engage visitors of different age groups	3
“Hypophora” and “question cascade” in Cantonese political discourse: the stance triangle and the use of rhetorical moves and utterance final particles	3
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Extending local grammar to multimodal meaning-making: a case study of conflict resolution in picture books	3

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The functions of grammaticalized complement-taking-predicate clauses in interrogatives: a typology	3
The creative minds of Arab cartoonists: metaphor, culture and context	3
‘SMART goals’ and ‘HR language’: technologised literacy practices and counter-conduct in the workplace	3
The naming of emotions in dispute mediators’ strategic manoeuvring: a case study using a French language corpus	2
Expanded and non-conforming answers in standardized survey interviews	2
Typography and meaning-making in Arabic children’s literature: the covert communication!	2
What modes can and cannot do: Affordance in Gunther Kress’s theory of sign making	2
Emotion displays in “moments of conflict” in parent-child interaction	2
Narratives about epistemic trespassing	2
Rapport-building in extreme environments: the case of astronauts in space and support crew on the ground	2
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Preliminary jury instructing: a dilemmatic communication practice	2
The effects of modal value and imperative mood on self-predicted compliance to health guidance: the case of COVID-19	1
Indexicality and ideology in narratives about intimate partner violence	1
Metaphorical language in the discourse of Yasser Arafat	1
Using genre to explain how children linguistically co-construct make-believe social scenarios in classroom role-play	1
“Don’t worry, be a senior?” The metaphorical labelling of late-life depression in Australian news media	1
Construing chemistry knowledge through structural formulas	1
Questioning Chinese government officials on a live broadcast TV program: shifted second-person pronouns and journalists’ stance and identity	1
Representation of the Fukushima nuclear disaster in media opinion pieces	1
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Insincerity in lawyers’ questioning strategies in Malawian criminal courtroom discourse	1
Nǐ kànzhe bàn ba: negotiating complaint solutions in e-shopping service encounters	1
Damned if feminists do, damned if feminists don’t? Political significance of institutional inclusive writing guidelines in a Belgian francophone university	1
How pandemic detective narratives potentiate and debilitate trust	1
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Children’s invoking of school rules in directive sequences with adults at home and school: mobilizing the teacher and school artefacts as authoritative sources	1
Development of a translation device for axiological-semantic density in political news articles: wording and charging	1
Positive and negative risk in adventure tourism discourse: adrenaline hunting in “arctic Lapland”	1
Lexico-syntactic features of science and science popularization texts: an information-theoretic view	1
Time for Brexit? Temporalities in the 2019 UK European election campaign	1
Car bumper stickers in Jordan as a site of carnivalesque transgression and degradation	1
Effects of writing topic, first language background, and second language proficiency on ‘V that’ clauses in argumentative writing	1
Meaning-making and transformative engagement – notes on Gunther Kress’s social semiotic and multimodal approach to learning	1
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Disease mongering, overdiagnosis, and media practices: a critical discourse analysis of sluggish cognitive tempo (SCT) and the motivational deficiency disorder (MoDeD) spoof	1
Metadiscourse: the evolution of an approach to texts	0
Are netizens social Darwinists?: Recontextualization of Chinese survival discourse in online discussions about the US-China trade war	0
Educators’ uptake of Kress’s ideas on meaning-making and literacy: a case study from South Africa	0
Recurrent gestures and embodied stance-taking in courtroom opening statements	0
Formulations in Chinese criminal courtroom interaction	0
Masking directions: teacher instructions and COVID-19 protocols	0
Crafting moral legitimation: insights from lawyers’ strategic deployment of Attitude resources in civil trials	0
“We usually use paragraph one to introduce the topic”: trust building via appraisals by practicum EFL teachers in classroom interactions	0
Towards a new typology of the referential information structure of specificational it-clefts	0
Embodied movement as a stratified semiotic mode: how movement, gaze and speech mean together in the classroom	0
On the face-threat attenuating functions of Korean com: implications for internal and external dialogic processing in interaction	0
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The use of material resources in vocabulary explanations: a conversation analytic inquiry	0

Aggression in diplomatic notes – a pragmatic analysis of a Chinese-American conflict in times of colonisation	0
Turning talk into text: the representation of contemporary urban vernaculars in Swedish fiction	0
Evaluative language in Chinese online food discourse: overall distribution, local patterning, and readers’ involvement	0
Distributed semiosis: algorithms, affordances and the multi-agent ecosystem of meaning across platfospheres	0
Stancetaking in motion: stance triangle and double dialogicality	0
The problem of translating Chinese policy-related expressions: a case study of wenming (‘civilised’)	0
An appraisal analysis of judgement values on a Chinese political web forum	0
Phrase-frames in business emails: a contrast between learners of business English and working professionals	0
The digital approach to semiotics: a systematic review	0
English research articles versus MA theses in applied linguistics: comparing the move structure and metadiscourse features in the results and discussion sections	0
Hermeneutic injustice and troubling experiences of interactional inequality: a review	0
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Metaphor(s) of the platform economy in the trade union discourse	0
Mothering in a digital age – a first-time mother’s account of using an infant tracking application	0
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How do AI and human users interact? Positioning of AI and human users in customer service	0
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A comparative study of interactional metadiscourse used by American and Chinese corporate leaders in corporate social responsibility (CSR) statements	0
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Gunther Kress and the craft of meaning making	0
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Marked Themes in academic writing: a comparative look at the sciences and humanities	0
Positive ecological concepts in discourses of animals: an ecostylistic analysis of the documentary Wild China	0
Engagement and strategic alignment in academic talks across languages and disciplines	0
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The influences of proficiency and gender on Uyghur-Mandarin children’s advice-giving	0
Announcement	0
The normative order of sensing: enacting the tasting sheet in tasting training sessions	0
Fighting terrorism, fighting the West: Them versus Us appraisal in Chinese media’s discursive war on terror	0
Epilogue: commentary on stancetaking in motion	0
Developing an annotation protocol for evaluative stance and metaphor in discourse: theoretical and methodological considerations	0
Gunther Kress - Explorer of the Semiotic Landscape	0
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Recontextualization of the arguments of ‘innocence’ by a football club on Turkish newsprint media	0
Unveiling romance in categories: exploring compatibility in Tinder conversations	0
Whose voice is it? Evaluations of journalistic voices in news translation about the 2014 Hong Kong protests	0
Politeness, performance, and pointing: gesture in Chinese reality television	0
Narrative navigation in legal persuasion: a rhetorical analysis of lawyers’ affidavits and skeleton arguments for appellate relief in criminal cases in Malawi	0
With or without a purpose? Judges’ appraisal of offenders or their behaviour in six sentencing remarks	0
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The discursive legitimation of corporate ecological identity in Chinese sustainability discourse	0
Cutting emissions, halting biodiversity loss: climate change solutions in the language of UK politicians and UK climate activists, 2018–2020	0
Constructing future parental suitability: prospective adoptive parents’ communicative strategies in adoption assessment interviews	0
Japanese hypothetical enactment as a response to third-party complaint	0
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Shifting from a ‘just’ to a ‘fair’ transition in environmental discourse: a case of old wine in a new bottle?	0
Motivational interviewing and the reframing of identity: small stories in first encounters between clients with alcohol use disorders and their therapists	0
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Linguistic complexity of public legal information texts for young persons	0
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Mapping textual horror: a cognitive linguistic exploration of the Backrooms discourse	0
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 speakers	0
Metaphors and China’s COVID-19 policies: a diachronic analysis of Chinese-English bilingual news editorials	0
“Guided by the science”: a keyword analysis of government ministers’ and scientists’ stance in the UK government’s COVID-19 press briefings	0
Fictional characterization through repair, membership categorization, and attribute ascription	0
The discourse world of unbecoming in online depression narratives in China: a discursive psychology approach	0
Bold and impactful: a reappraisal of Gunther Kress’s (social) semiotic legacy in the light of current multimodality research	0
Empathy as dynamic social meaning-making: audience responses to patient-generated materials about endometriosis care	0
Media representations of foreign domestic helpers in Hong Kong: a corpus-assisted discourse analysis	0
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Editorial	0
Determination and agency in the work of Gunther Kress	0
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Motivated signs and multimodal analysis in Gunther Kress’s semiotics	0
Arabic songs: an affective forum for combating COVID-19 and other insecurities	0
Epistemological stance and passive reporting verbs in judicial opinions: the case of BE expected to and BE supposed to	0
“No Gain? No Pain!”: metapragmatic comments and their role in online fandom construction on social media	0
Self-categorization: a resource for the management of experiential entitlement in talk about child death	0
“Kaigewanxiao” (‘Just kidding’): the use of humor markers in Chinese media discourse	0
Diachronic changes in the grammatical complexity of The Times (1920–2020)	0
Ill, vulnerable and kind: a corpus-based study of the discourse representation of older adults on Weibo	0