OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Text & Talk is 2. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
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“The results might not fully represent…”: Negation in the limitations sections of doctoral theses by Chinese and American students	10
The dynamic configuration of non-linear texts in live blogs: a discursive approach	9
Stance construction via that-clauses in telecommunications research articles: a comparison of L1 and L2 expert writers	9
Targeting and double accountabilities of action in interaction	9
Concession expression and evaluative stancetaking: the discourse features of gùrán- utterances in Chinese dialogues	8
Environmental issues in the Anthropocene: ecolinguistic perspectives across media and genres	8
The effects of manipulative rhetoric in Kevin Spacey’s “Let Me Be Frank” YouTube video	8
Genre-structural analysis of Arabic accident news reporting	7
Teacher talk in primary school science: a focus on the exploration phase	7
Representations of “leftover” women and men in the Chinese English-language news media: a keyword analysis of similarities and difference	7
The use of animal classifiers as a stance negotiation strategy in Cantonese interactional discourse	7
The use of clarificatory metaphors in argumentative discourse in British Public Bill Committee debates	7
Metaphors we are robbed by: a critical discourse analysis of ‘the national cake’ and Nigeria’s prebendal elite	6
National discourses in (de)legitimations of the Swedish COVID-19 strategy	6
Divergence in uncertainty: the Korean non-committal suffix -(u)lkel	6
Moral legitimation in capital trials: the case of the prosecution’s closing summation	6
Automated football match reports as models of textuality	6
Critical comments in the disciplines: a comparative look at peer review reports in applied linguistics and engineering	5
Participatory viewers’ engagement with the dual translation problem on the danmu interface: a social semiotic case study	5
Narratives of industrial damage and natural recovery: an ecolinguistic perspective	4
“Hypophora” and “question cascade” in Cantonese political discourse: the stance triangle and the use of rhetorical moves and utterance final particles	4
“Nature needs you”: discursive constructions of legitimacy and identification in environmental charity appeals	4
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Interactional functions of truncated predicative complement construction “AP + (dek)le” as topic initiator in Shanghai Wu Chinese conversation	3
‘SMART goals’ and ‘HR language’: technologised literacy practices and counter-conduct in the workplace	3
Explaining the misconduct: Meaning-making of legitimation strategies in corporate apologies on Weibo	3
The functions of grammaticalized complement-taking-predicate clauses in interrogatives: a typology	3
Conversation analysis and Wittgenstein	3
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Preliminary jury instructing: a dilemmatic communication practice	3
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Praising the client in career guidance	3
Comparing the negotiation of attitudes in audience-sensitive art exhibition labels: how they engage visitors of different age groups	2
The naming of emotions in dispute mediators’ strategic manoeuvring: a case study using a French language corpus	2
Proximization: a critical cognitive analysis of health security discourse	2
Expanded and non-conforming answers in standardized survey interviews	2
Metaphorical language in the discourse of Yasser Arafat	2
Agency and responsibility in environmental reporting in the Chinese press: a corpus-based diachronic analysis	2
What modes can and cannot do: Affordance in Gunther Kress’s theory of sign making	2
Extending local grammar to multimodal meaning-making: a case study of conflict resolution in picture books	2
Ear cupping in EFL classroom interaction: an embodied means of pursuing students’ response	2
Rapport-building in extreme environments: the case of astronauts in space and support crew on the ground	2
Car bumper stickers in Jordan as a site of carnivalesque transgression and degradation	2
Time for Brexit? Temporalities in the 2019 UK European election campaign	2
The creative minds of Arab cartoonists: metaphor, culture and context	2
Typography and meaning-making in Arabic children’s literature: the covert communication!	2
Narratives about epistemic trespassing	2
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Employing political persuasion to manage rapport: qualitative analysis of campaign leaflets in Sheffield Central constituency	2
Emotion displays in “moments of conflict” in parent-child interaction	2