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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Swearing in informal spoken English: 1990s–2010s	15
Young children’s affective stance through embodied displays of emotion during tellings	12
Identifying and describing functional discourse units in the BNC Spoken 2014	10
The face of noncompliance in family interaction	9
Proximal versus distant suffering in TV news discourses on COVID-19 pandemic	8
Entextualizing high energy texts: an exploration of modal shift on a Chinese online video-sharing website Bilibili	8
The passive voice in scientific writing through the ages: A diachronic study	8
‘Please make your verdict speak the truth’: Insights from an Appraisal analysis of the closing arguments from a rape trial	7
The Written British National Corpus 2014 – design and comparability	7
I’m thinking and you’re saying: Speaker stance and the progressive of mental verbs in courtroom interaction	7
Compliment responses in Hong Kong: an application of Leech’s pragmatics of politeness	6
‘You said, we did’: a corpus-based analysis of marketising discourse in healthcare websites	6
Managing Latin: support and intratextual translation as mediation strategies in the history of English	5
The moral character of emotion work in adult-child interactions	5
Communicating climate change: how (not) to touch a cord with people and promote action	5
Moments and mechanisms of intervention along textual trajectories: norm negotiations in English-medium research writing	5
Environmental issues in the Victorian era: an ecostylistic examination of metaphor and framing in Ruskin’s The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century	5
Subversive compliance and embodiment in remedial interchanges	5
Stance in press releases versus business news: a lexical bundle approach	4
Working with gender in psychotherapy: A discursive analysis of psychotherapy sessions with women suffering from bulimia	4
A contrastive study of engagement resources between English spoken and written texts	4
Representations of “leftover” women and men in the Chinese English-language news media: a keyword analysis of similarities and difference	4
Developing an annotation protocol for evaluative stance and metaphor in discourse: theoretical and methodological considerations	4
The Anthropocene: genesis of a term and popularization in the press	4
“Yo I am Superman, You Kiddo Go Home”: ritual impoliteness in Chinese freestyle rap battles	4

Do Spanish causal connectives vary in subjectivity? What crowdsourcing data reveal about native speakers’ preferences	4
Hedging in interpreted and spontaneous speeches: a comparative study of Chinese and American political press briefings	4
Note-taking/making as a resource for substantiating advice at a second language speaking center	4
“Oops! I can’t express this in English!”: managing epistemic challenges by Chinese EFL peer tutors in writing tutorials	4
Lifting the pen and the gaze: embodied recruitment in collaborative writing	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
Metadiscourse: the evolution of an approach to texts	4
The rhetorical structure of analytical writing: a developmental approach	3
Changing discourses of climate change: building social-ecological resilience cross-culturally	3
Using written task answer sheets as notes while speaking: changing task-report practices in a second language book club	3
Risk and resilience in a changing climate: a diachronic analysis in the press across the globe	3
“Together we can all make little steps towards a better world”: interdiscursive construction of ecologically engaged voices in YouTube vlogs	3
Markers of identification in Indigenous academic writing: A case study of genre innovation	3
Environmental issues in the Anthropocene: ecolinguistic perspectives across media and genres	3
Deployment of I don’t know and wakannai in second language classroom peer discussions	3
Gestures of closure: A small stories approach to museumgoers' texts	3
Counsellors’ interactional practices for facilitating group members’ affiliative talk about personal experiences in group counselling	3
Morality-in-interaction: Toddlers’ recyclings of institutional discourses of feeling during peer disputes in daycare	3
The use of material resources in vocabulary explanations: a conversation analytic inquiry	2
Practices of discursive urban place-making in Brooklyn, New York: (hidden) digital and embodied discourse	2
Co-constructing a child as disorderly: Moral character work in narrative accounts of upsetting experiences	2
The readability of online health information for L1 and L2 Australians: text-based and user-focused research	2
Appraisal as co-selection and media performativity: 5G technology imaged in German news discourse	2
Enabling students’ knowledge building in English classrooms in China: The role of teacher monologue	2
Text formulations as practices of demonstrating understanding in dialogic reading	2
Dialogical functions of metaphors in medical interactions	2
On the participatory agency of texts: Using institutional forms in performance appraisal interviews	2
On the face-threat attenuating functions of Korean com: implications for internal and external dialogic processing in interaction	2
The intertextual nature of embedded email communication for contract negotiation activities	2
Interpreting real and fictional worlds in interaction: A socio-cognitive approach to reading group talk	2
Japanese hypothetical enactment as a response to third-party complaint	2
“Nature needs you”: discursive constructions of legitimacy and identification in environmental charity appeals	2
Narratives of industrial damage and natural recovery: an ecolinguistic perspective	2
Proximization: a critical cognitive analysis of health security discourse	2
“We are here to help you”: understanding the role of careers and employability services in UK universities	2
Metadiscourse and the management of relationships during online conflict among academics	1
The ‘sun’ shinning upon the ‘ever-lasting’ country: a diachronic analysis of Iranian national anthems during the 20th century	1
How did 1MDB’s CEO manage impressions of culpability in an accountability interview?	1
National discourses in (de)legitimations of the Swedish COVID-19 strategy	1
Participatory viewers’ engagement with the dual translation problem on the danmu interface: a social semiotic case study	1
All you need is love: metaphors of love in 1946–2016 Billboard year-end number-one songs	1
The naming of emotions in dispute mediators’ strategic manoeuvring: a case study using a French language corpus	1
The discursive construction of a conflict: a case of disputed islands in the East China Sea	1
Arabic songs: an affective forum for combating COVID-19 and other insecurities	1
What modes can and cannot do: Affordance in Gunther Kress’s theory of sign making	1
Construction of risk in road safety advertising: a multimodal analysis of Vietnamese child helmet awareness advertisements	1
Multiactivity in adult-child interaction: accounts resolving conflicting courses of action in request sequences	1
Media representations of foreign domestic helpers in Hong Kong: a corpus-assisted discourse analysis	1

The influence of religious ideology on subtitling expletives: A quantitative approach	1
Identity construction and its collocation networks: a cross-register analysis of the finance domain	1
Epilogue	1
Stance construction via that-clauses in telecommunications research articles: a comparison of L1 and L2 expert writers	1
“Un projet de justice et de progrès social”: President Macron’s 2020 new year message to the nation. A linguistic viewpoint	1
Curative or beauty treatment? Language and manipulation in leaflets of medical devices	1
Time for Brexit? Temporalities in the 2019 UK European election campaign	1
Display of understanding in a second story: second teller’s reenactments and reuses of the prior teller’s resources	1
Construction of a binary evaluative taxonomy within a story	1
Intensification for discursive evaluation: a corpus-pragmatic view	1
Discourse module in mind: a biolinguistical hypothesis of macro-structure	1
Reframing Arabic narratives on Daesh [ISIS] textually through translation: MEMRI’s translation as a case study	1
With or without a purpose? Judges’ appraisal of offenders or their behaviour in six sentencing remarks	1
The use of the text-function in Video Relay Service calls	1
Nǐ kànzhe bàn ba: negotiating complaint solutions in e-shopping service encounters	1
The voiceless in The Voice: A multimodal critical discourse analysis	1
Epistemic stance in the translations of Chinese medicine classics: a case study of Huang Di Nei Jing	1
The dynamic configuration of non-linear texts in live blogs: a discursive approach	1
Critical comments in the disciplines: a comparative look at peer review reports in applied linguistics and engineering	1
Moral legitimation in capital trials: the case of the prosecution’s closing summation	1
How do applied linguistics researchers structure coherence relations in the process of establishing a niche for their research?	1
Multimodal persuasive strategies in product pitches	1
Ear cupping in EFL classroom interaction: an embodied means of pursuing students’ response	1
The digital approach to semiotics: a systematic review	1
Correlation between context and language at a high delicate level: taking Chinese emotion 喜欢 as an example	1
The problem of translating Chinese policy-related expressions: a case study of wenming (‘civilised’)	1
Recent advances in the corpus-based study of ongoing grammatical change in English	1
Engagement and constructiveness in online news comments in English and Russian	1
Topic shifts in spontaneous interaction of speakers with schizophrenia: Cohesion and thematic structures	1