OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Signs and Society 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Papo Reto: The Politics of Enregisterment amid the Crossfire in Rio de Janeiro	11
Cutting without Cutting Connection: The Semiotics of Power Patrols in Urban Tanzania	9
Performing Whiteness, Troubling Blackness: Afropolitanism and the Visual Politics of Black Bodies in YouTube Videos	7
Spectral Aphasia, Psychical Ghost Stories, and Spirit Post Offices: Three Modern Ghost Stories about Communication Infrastructures	5
Multilingualism and AI: The Regimentation of Language in the Age of Digital Capitalism	5
The Semiotics of Multilingual Desire in Hong Kong and Singapore’s Elite Foodscape	5
Moral Orders of Multinationals: Registers of Value in Corporate Food Production	4
Figure Composition	4
Sticky Raciolinguistics	3
Secret Language as a “Weapon of Defense”: The Problem of Opacity in Italian Colonial Libya	3
“Ni paisana, ni Jacinta”: Language and the Scaling of Indigenous Femininity in Peru	2
(De)coupling Positional Whiteness and White Identities through “Good English” in Singapore	2
“Am I Your Coequal?!”: Memes and Changing Meanings in the Digital Subversion of Ghanaian Hierarchies	2
Signs of Solidarity and Difference: Kaçak Tea, Samimiyet, and the National Public in Turkey	2
Qualia of Stress and Bodily Enregisterment in Ice Swimming	2
A Raciosemiotics of Appropriation: Transnational Performance of Raciogender among Mexican K-Pop Fans	2
Toward a “Both-And” Semiotics of Intersectionality: Raciolinguistics beyond White Settler-Colonial Situations	2
Ideologies of Labor and the Consequences of Toil in India’s Construction Industry	2
Colon + Hyphen + Right Paren: At the Origins of Face Semiotics from Smileys to Memes	2
Housing God, Losing Ground: Protestant and Catholic Chronotopic Ideologies in Urban China	1
The Less Eligible Eaters: Calorie Counts, No-Frills, and Vending Machines in Prison	1
Artificial Skin and Biopolitical Masks, or How to Deal with Face-Habits	1
Technique and the Threat of Deethicalization	1
Voicing the Supply Chain	1
Discursive Registers in Finno-Karelian Communicative Incantations	1

Pigs and Pork in Denmark: Meaning Change, Ideology, and Traditional Foods	1
“Say a Sentence”: Drawing an Interactional Link between Organizations, Language Ideologies, and Coloniality	1
Negotiating “Good Food” at an Elite Elementary School in New York City	1
Voices, Bodies, and the Cultural Organization of Meaning	1
Sacred Skin: The Religious Significance of Medieval Scars	0
Discriminating an Accent, Enacting a Race (and Vice Versa): Perception and Representation of Phonic Variability on the Caribbean Coast of Colombia	0
Selling a Ferrari like Sliced Meat: Confident Stance-Taking, Blockchain Doxa, and the Splitting Power of Asset Tokenization	0
Front Matter	0
Enregistering Grammatical Gender: Indexing Brabantishness through Languagecultural Practices in Digital Tiles	0
After Words: There Is No Language without Materiality	0
Language and Neoliberalism in the Online Cosmetic Sample Business	0
The Rise of Cross-Language Internet Memes: A Social Semiotic Analysis	0
Front Matter	0
Front Matter	0
Qualia of Proximity and Materiality in Classic Maya Hieroglyphs	0
Front Matter	0
More Than Signs: International Sign as Distributed Practice	0
Front Matter	0
Beyond the Secret (gsang ba): The Performativity of Citation in an Exile Tibetan Buddhist Ritual	0
Regimenting Circulation: A Case Study of Mediatization in Corporate Communication	0
Front Matter	0
Political Satire and Collective Reproduction: The Power of Political Nicknames in Hong Kong	0
Introduction: Unthinking Language from a Posthumanist Perspective	0
On Metapragmatic Gaslighting: Truth and Trump’s Epistemic Tactics in a Plague Year	0
Front Matter	0
From Transcendence to Kitsch: Have We Lost Faith?	0
Polyphony and the Carnivalesque in Kyiv	0
How Forests of Qualia Emerge	0
Front Matter	0
An Unheard Voice: The Paintings of Zohar Tal Inbar, a Mother Looking at Her Soldier Son	0
Front Matter	0
Highlighting and Hiding: Images of Farmers in Chinese News Cartoons	0
Front Matter	0
The Enregisterment of Luxembourgish Standards in the Nineteenth Century	0
When Dogs Talk: Technologically Mediated Human-Dog Interactions as Semiotic Assemblages	0
Gaining and Losing Control: Tattoos and Interpretive Sovereignty	0
Independent Declarations: Attributions of Peoplehood in News Narratives	0
“From the Side, You Should Look like a Japanese Ham Sandwich, No Gap Anywhere”: Exploring Embodied, Linguistic, and Nonlinguistic Signs in Enregisterment Processes of Bikram Yoga in Online and Offline	0
Rhymed Talk and Ideophones: Recovering Extinct Discourse Practices from Russian Realist Fiction	0
Front Matter	0
The Hands as Reflex Republic	0