OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Lingua 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
‘Using all English is not always meaningful’: Stakeholders’ perspectives on the use of and attitudes towards translanguaging at a Chinese university	65
Funny but aversive: A large-scale survey of the emotional response to Covid-19 humor in the Italian population during the lockdown	42
Altered speech act indication: A contrastive pragmatic study of English and Chinese Thank and Greet expressions	31
Is dependency distance experiencing a process of minimization? A diachronic study based on the State of the Union addresses	19
Investing in English-mediated practices in the EMI university: The case of cross-border mainland Chinese students in Hong Kong	16
The power of swearing: What we know and what we don’t	15
Proposing a revised functional classification of pragmatic gestures	14
Framing metaphor use over time: ‘Free Economy’ metaphors in Hong Kong political discourse (1997–2017)	14
Metadiscourse across languages and genres: An overview	14
Processing implicatures in English as a Lingua Franca communication	13
Stance expressions in academic writing: A corpus-based comparison of Chinese students’ MA dissertations and PhD theses	13
Second language learner intuitions of idiom properties: What do they tell us about L2 idiom knowledge and acquisition?	13
Impression management through hedging and boosting: A cross-cultural investigation of the messages of U.S. and Chinese corporate leaders	12
Surprise markers in applied linguistics research articles: A diachronic perspective	12
Agency and responsibility: A linguistic analysis of culpable acts in retraction notices	12
Sources for courses: Metadiscourse and the role of citation in student writing	12
Automated lexical and time series modelling for critical discourse research: A case study of Hong Kong protest editorials	11
Emergent neologism: A study of an emerging meaning with competing forms based on the first six months of COVID-19	11
Motion events again: Delimiting constructional patterns	11
Simplification in translated Chinese: An entropy-based approach	11
‘The goal of this analysis …’: Changing patterns of metadiscursive nouns in disciplinary writing	10
Conceptual attaching in perception and practice-based behavior	10
Narrative pantomime: A protolanguage for persuasive communication	10
Effect of dependency distance of source text on disfluencies in interpreting	10
Dialects or languages: A corpus-based quantitative approach to lexical variation in common signs in Chinese Sign Language (CSL)	9

Constructional idioms of ‘insanity’ in English and Spanish: A corpus-based study	9
Learning Arabic in Scandinavia: Motivation, metacognition, and autonomy	9
The emergence of referential shift devices in three young sign languages	8
Inferring implications in semantic maps via the Apriori algorithm	8
Lexical bundle use and crosslinguistic influence in academic texts	8
Emancipating Chinese (im)politeness research: Looking back and looking forward	8
Can explicit instruction of formulaic sequences enhance L2 oral fluency?	8
Lexical category bias across interpreting types: Implications for synergy between cognitive constraints and language representations	7
Examining possible sources of L2 divergence at the pragmatics interface: Turkish accusative in the end-state grammar of L1 Russian and L1 English users of L2 Turkish	7
Interaction, speech acts and ritual: An integrative model	7
Parataxis or hypotaxis? Choices of taxis in Chinese–English translation	6
Laryngeal vocalizations: Grunts as a gateway to language?	6
How did language evolve in the lineage of higher primates?	6
Syntactic complexity of interpreted, L2 and L1 speech: A constrained language perspective	6
What surprises, interests and confuses researchers? A frame-based analysis of knowledge emotion markers in research articles	6
Cognitive control in older Minnan-Mandarin and Hakka-Mandarin bidialectal adults: Advantages in Stroop-type tasks	6
There may be differences: Analysing the use of hedges in English and Spanish research articles	6
When the owner of information is unsure: Epistemic uncertainty influences evidentiality processing in Turkish	5
Placeholders in Yoron Ryukyuan: A view from Functional Discourse Grammar	5
Mapping the dimensions of linguistic distance: A study on South Ethiosemitic languages	5
Development of voice onset time in monolingual and bilingual French-speaking children	5
Cross-linguistic transfer in Turkish–English bilinguals’ descriptions of motion events	5
Copulas ser and estar production in child and adult heritage speakers of Spanish	5
Towards a new typology of meteorological events: A study based on synchronic and diachronic data	5
Collective pragmatic acting in networked spaces: The case of #activism in Arabic and English Twitter discourse	5
Afrikaans discourse-pragmatic features in South African English	5
Syntactic and typological properties of translational language: A comparative description of dependency treebank of academic abstracts	5
The role of interactional and cognitive mechanisms in the evolution of (proto)language(s)	5
Home and away – Implications of short-term sojourning of young Australian bilinguals	5
Imagined homogeneity: Identity and geopolitical and geoeconomic influences in the linguistic landscape of Seoul	4
A memetic cultural practice: The use of generalized kinship terms in a research seminar attended by Chinese graduate students	4
Acoustic salience in the evaluations of intelligibility and foreign accentedness of nonnative vowel production	4
Emergence and evolution of language in multi-agent systems	4
Dialogic positioning in Khorchin Mongolian: The temporal and spatial dimensions of propositional engagement in conversations	4
Nostalgic diaspora or diasporic nostalgia? Discursive and identity constructions of Greeks in Qatar	4
Shell nouns as grammatical metaphor in knowledge construal: Variation across science and engineering discourse	4
Linguistic insecurity and discrimination among Italian school students	4
Dynamic modelling of context: Field, Tenor and Mode revisited	4
Hypothetical questions in everyday Italian conversations.	4
Extensive reading and viewing as input for academic vocabulary: A large-scale vocabulary profile coverage study of students’ reading and writing across multiple secondary school subjects	4
Effects of proficiency and gender on learners’ use of the pragmatic marker 吧ba	4
(Non-)propositional irony in Japanese – Impoliteness behind honorifics	4
Pitch syntax as part of an ancient protolanguage	3
Are there core and peripheral syntactic structures? Experimental evidence from Dutch native speakers with varying literacy levels	3
A functional approach to OM-constructions	3
The development of Latin alphabet identity markers: A comparison among three Romance graphemes	3
Exploring the ‘languaging habitus’ of a diasporic community: Colombians in New Zealand	3
Inequalities in status: How do they show in discourse and what can be done about them?	3
Exploring motion event construal: How much attention do speakers of different languages and cultures pay to context?	3
How Gbe is Guianese French Creole?	3

What you “mean” is not what I “mean”: Categorization of verbs by Germans and Koreans using the semantic differential	3
Emotion at the end of life: Semantic annotation and key domains in a pilot study audiovisual corpus	3
Socioenvironmental affordances of an English-medium instruction international university specializing in English as a lingua franca communication: An exploratory study of L2 student voices	3
Typological characteristics of interlanguage: Across native language types and L2 proficiency levels	3
Exploring the effect of interpreting training: Eye-tracking English-Chinese sight interpreting	3
Variation and change of middle-class /r/ in Standard Scottish English	3
A multidimensional analysis of the Spanish reportative epistemic evidential dizque	3
Semantic scope in Q-float constructions: An experimental investigation	3
Overlap not gap: Understanding the relationship between animal communication and language with Prototype Theory	3
Emotional intelligence, working memory, and emotional vocabulary in L1 and L2: Interactions and dissociations	3
Transitivity-ergativity perspectives on causation in legal texts: A contrastive study of Arabic and English website terms of service	3
Cross-linguistic collocational networks in the L1 Turkish–L2 English mental lexicon	3
Culture-specific conceptualisations relating to corruption in China English	3
The difference intersubjective grammar makes in protactile DeafBlind communities	3
The compositionality of English phrasal verbs in terms of imageability	3
Comparatives in Korean: A grammaticalization perspective	3
Animacy and agentivity of Subject Themes in English-German translation	3
Neological intuition in French: A study of formal novelty and lexical regularity as predictors	3
Talking about ‘others’: Referential readings and pragmatic functions of non-phoric plural third persons in Spanish media discourse	3
Pushing SFL out of its comfort zone: The role of SPCA structure in English and Spanish	3
Northern Middle English spelling evidence in the Durham Account Rolls	3
Assessing structural language skills of autistic adults: Focus on sentence repetition	2
The functions and evolution of xob ‘well’ in Persian: A thetical analysis	2
Intonation and exchange: A dynamic and metafunctional view	2
Polish iterative stress and its phonetic parameters in quiet vs. noisy environments	2
Paragon and antonomasia: Similar but/and different?	2
Classifiers in non-European languages and semantic impairments in western neurological patients have a common cognitive structure	2
Language, race or place? Influential factors in determining young “Coloured” individuals’ attitudes towards Afrikaans accents in English	2
Frequency matters in second language acquisition too! Frequency effects in the production of preterit morphology with state verbs in Spanish second language learners and heritage speakers	2
An extensive analysis of blending in Contemporary Italian	2
Perception of foreign segments in loanword phonology	2
Gender dissimilarity between subject and object facilitates online-comprehension of agent–patient–relations in German: An eye-tracking study with 6- to 10-year-old monolingual children	2
A critical analysis and explication of word sense disambiguation as approached by natural language processing	2
The V-Neg-V complex predicates, two types of negation, and grammaticalization in Japanese	2
The vowel system of Eastern Andalusian Spanish speakers with articulation disorders	2
Predictive processing of grammatical gender: Using gender cues to facilitate processing in Spanish	2
Metaphors and trauma: An image schematic analysis of symptom-specific metaphors	2
Is Hanja represented in the Korean mental lexicon?: Encoding cross-script semantic cohorts in the representation of Sino-Korean	2
Fulfillment types in Realization events: Definition, distinctions, and diagnostics	2
Possessive pronouns, Condition C and Anti-Cataphora Effects	2
Investigating diachronic change in dependency distance of Modern English: A genre-specific perspective	2
Retrieval practice enhances learning and memory retention of French words in Chinese-English bilinguals	2
To move or not to move: An ERP study on the processing of fictive and literal motion expressions	2
Spatiality and temporality: The fundamental difference between Chinese and English	2
Linguistic characteristics of online academic forum posts across subregisters, L1 backgrounds, and grades	2
Pseudo-cleft-like structures in Hebrew and French conversation: The syntax-lexicon-body interface	2
Contextually categorised adjective as predicate in Mandarin	2
Visualizing prosodic structure: Manual gestures as highlighters of prosodic heads and edges in English academic discourses	2
The origin and development of the question particle me1 in Cantonese	2
Listening to accents: Comprehensibility, accentedness and intelligibility of native and non-native English speech	2
Does dialect matter in the expression of motion? Ways of encoding manner and path in Babao and standard Mandarin	2
The role of semantics and orthography in modulating conscious access to Chinese words	2
‘De-ethnicization’ in New Englishes: Perception and recognition of ethnicity in Namibian English	2
Engaging social media users with attitudinal messages during health crisis communication	2
Lexical use and social class: A study on lexical richness, word length, and word class in spoken English	2
Gradient optionality in L2 acquisition at the syntax-discourse interface: Evidence from inversion in advanced and near-native English	2
Translatorial voice through modal stance: A corpus-based study of modality shifts in Chinese-to-English translation of research article abstracts	2
Modelability of WAR metaphors across time in cross-national COVID-19 news translation: An insight into ideology manipulation	2
Syntactic simplification in interpreted English: Dependency distance and direction measures	2
Image schemas as prototypes in the diachronic evolution of kámnō and eutheiázō in Greek: A behavioural-profile analysis	2
Conceptual metonymy and emotive-affective meaning at the interface: Examples from online medical consultations	2
Theme choices in Czech University students’ English-medium Master's theses	2
Multidimensionality of tone in Pahari	2
No Gods and precious few heroes: SFL and evolutionary linguistics	2