OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Pragmatics and Society 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
Polymedia in interaction	16
Polymedia repertoires of networked individuals	16
A corpus-based study of metaphors used to describe Syrian refugees in Jordanian politico-economic discourse	15
The metapragmatics of mode choice	8
Polymedia and family multilingualism	8
The erasure of nature in the discourse of oil production	8
Compliments and compliment responses in Egyptian and Saudi Arabic	7
Changing patterns of apology in spoken British English	7
Face-oriented acts of empathy in psychotherapy	5
Polymedia life	5
Sancte et sapienter	5
Analyzing interdiscursivity in legal genres	4
Drilling for fissures and exploiting common ground in the discourse of oil production	4
Swear words for sale	4
Kwame Nkrumah’s construction of ‘the African people’ via the Unite or Perish myth	4
“Jerry was a terrific host!” “You were a brilliant guest!”	4
Gratitude communication in academic written acknowledgement	4
Under the shadow of swords: The Rhetoric of Jihad	4
Performing right-wing political identities on reader comments pages	3
Trust me, trust my words	3
The Ethnopragmatics of Jish Arabic-speaking culture	3
On the constitutional relevance of non‑discursive enlanguaged doings to sociomaterial practices	3
Withholding consent	3
Sociality and moral conflicts	3
Text selection proposals in dialogic reading in primary school	3

Insults in political comments on GhanaWeb	2
Covid-19 WhatsApp sticker memes as public signs in Oman	2
The role of prior and actual situational context in conversational routines produced by Chinese learners of English	2
Clean room, uncomfortable bed	2
Challenges of trust in atypical interaction	2
From evaluative authorities to involved narrators	2
Idioms of polymediated practices and the techno-social accomplishment of co-presence in transnational families	2
Politeness in hotel service encounter interactions in Spain	2
Introduction	2
Autism spectrum disorder and language choice in Ghana	2
On the development of the social-linguistic nexus in discourse research	2
Doing things with discourse in the mediated political arena	2
Variation and society	2
Metaphor analysis of the COVID-19 public health emergency on Chinese national news media	2
“I Am Proud to Be a Traitor”	2
“A tour guide losing her cool”	2
Conventions of author self-reference in Chinese academic writing	2
Disseminating risk communication	2
Pragmatic functions of humor in Berlin’s directive Covid-19 Signs	2
Situated co-operative creativity	2
Fear appeals in Chinese public signs of COVID-19 prevention in local communities	2
Finnish and French public signs from commercial premises during the Covid-19 pandemic	2
Disagreement realizations in Arabic	2
Representations of ‘leftover women’ in the Chinese English-medium newspapers	2
Criticism in the Javanese Arek Cultural Community	2
The impact of pragmatic consciousness-raising tasks on EFL learners’ speech act strategy use	2
Negotiating identities	2
“It’s of no value compared to your value”	1
Discursive positioning of doctors and e‑patients in online medical consultations in China	1
Metaphorical framing in news	1
Review of Deppermann & Streeck (2018): Time in embodied interaction: Synchronicity and sequentiality of multimodal resources	1
A politeness-theoretic approach to mitigated disagreements in online radio medical consultations	1
Solidarity and support in Belgian residential linguistic landscapes during the Covid-19 outbreak	1
A socio-pragmatic analysis of the Turkish discourse markers of ‘şey’, ‘yani’, and ‘işte’ based on educational level of speakers	1
The role of assessments in providing evasive answers in news interviews	1
Disagreement strategies and institutional face attack in Chinese mainstream media editorial comments on Weibo	1
Taking actions to enhance inclusivity of persons living with dementia	1
Idioms, proverbs and body part expressions onYiedie“wellbeing” in Akan	1
A marathon to nowhere	1
Dialogic language and meta-language in a conflictual discourse	1
One issue, two genres	1
A semi-supervised algorithm for detecting extremism propaganda diffusion on social media	1
From image to function	1
“Boom! You bought them.”	1
Deconstructing imagined identities and imagined communities through humor	1
Virtual dialogues in monologic political discourse	1
Identity gatekeeping in New Work Order organizations	1
Heteroglossia in mother tongue instruction in Sweden and the development of plurilingual literacies	1
From our sisters/to our sisters	1
Examining the use of reflexive metadiscourse in the construction of affiliative communication in group email requests	1

Analysing the functions of online destination forums through a corpus-assisted discourse-analytic approach	1
“They fabricated lies against us and described us in the harshest of ways”	1
Where there is panic, the media are close by	1
Rhetorical strategies for the construction of a corporate identity	1
Critical sociocognitive analysis of hate speech in the 2015 Nigerian presidential election campaigns	1
When invoked voices blame real politicians	1
Parentheses used as pragmatic strategies in Chinese online socialization	1
Deontic authority-based resolution of deontic right-based resistance in online medical consultation	1
Urban environments favorable to radical narratives	1
Culture and identity in critical remarks	1
Repetition and paraphrase in contexts of concordant and discordant orientations	1
The performance and relational role of toast intervention in Chinese dining contexts	1
A study of linguistic manipulations of activating, seeking and creating common ground in intercultural business communication	1
Representation of women in English and Persian proverbs	1
‘I’m not a tech person’	1
Patients resist, doctors manage	1
The interplay of cultural expectation, gender role, and communicative behavior	1
Maji ssu ka? Isn’t that honorific?	1
Verbal play in dementia care	1
The role of object distance and gender in Persian compliment responses	1
Polemic polyphony	1
Taking an authorial stance in English and Arabic research article discussions	1
On the nature of pragmatic constituents	1
Resemblance in comments/posts interaction	1
Dialogic meaning-making in political settings	1