OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Multilingua-Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
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“I’ll be there for you”: affective production of a “hyper-real” cultural-consumption space	17
To translanguage or not to translanguage: negotiating the status of linguistic features in bilingual talk-in-interaction	12
The role of the insider translator in conservation and development: comparing multilingual (auto)ethnobotanical books from Tanzania, Thailand, and Taiwan	12
New citizenship and the negotiation of the global/local interface: reflexivity, emotions, and metapragmatics	11
Peripheral multilingual scholars confronting epistemic exclusion in global academic knowledge production: a positive case study	10
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“You are Apple, why are you speaking to me in Turkish?”: the role of English in voice assistant interactions	9
Identity and heritage language learning: a case study of two mixed-heritage Korean university students in New Zealand	9
“Eish it’s getting really interesting”: borrowed interjections in South African English	8
What is a dialect? What is a standard?: shifting indexicality and persistent ideological norms	8
“It’s like the root of a tree that I grew up from….”: parents’ linguistic identity shaping family language policy in isolated circumstances	8
Children’s use of English as lingua franca in Swedish preschools	8
The nameless border: reflections on the Western Gaze, responsibility, and narrative	7
Parental involvement in online education during Covid-19 lockdown: a netnographic case study of Chinese language teaching in the UK	7
Reflecting on past language brokering experiences: how they affected children’s and teenagers’ emotions and relationships	6
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Philanthrocapitalism and the languaging of empowered women in the Global South	6
Monolingual disobedience, multilingual guilt?: an autoethnographic exploration of heritage language maintenance during COVID-19 lockdowns	5
Investigating language and inequality in a seemingly equal educational context	5
Ukrainian youth challenging the given role of a war refugee in arts-based collaborative research	5
Hesitant versus confident family language policy: a case of two single-parent families in Finland	5
Language management in semi-peripheral game production: how foreign workers in Czech video game studios experience the use of English, Czech, and other Slavic languages	5
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“A new worker, for a new order, in a new era”: English, power and shifting ideologies of reflexivity in a Chinese global workplace	4
Co-constructing meaning through semi-understanding: conducting the sociolinguistic interview in an (un)known language	4
Shorter but richer versus longer with less information: linguistic differentiation between British Sign Language and sign supported English	4
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Ideological framing of sign languages and their users in the South African press	3
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The economics of Japanese: investigating the demand for Japanese language skills in the Pearl River Delta labor market	3
Phonetic loan, graphic borrowing, and script-mixing: key to the vitality of written Cantonese in Hong Kong	3
The topicalization of culture in Cambridge undergraduate admissions interviews	3
Code-switching as linguistic microaggression: L2-Japanese and speaker legitimacy	3
Digital trans-literacies on social media: the shaping effect on youth self-concept clarity and well-being	2
The representation of multilingualism in dubbing and subtitling for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH)	2
Mediated disclosure in asylum encounters	2
‘Spaces of linguistic non-understanding’ when ‘researching multilingually’: analyses from a linguistic-ethnographic perspective	2
The double-edged sword of language: empowerment and precarity for interpreters in a Chinese border hospital	2
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Does subtitle segmentation via spaces facilitate Chinese viewers’ reading? An eye-tracking study on the Chinese subtitling of English documentaries	2
Mentoring interpreters of new and emerging languages for Australian courts and tribunals	2
Language ideologies of Greeks in Catalonia: hints of the mirror effect	2
Language ideologies and the use of French in an English-dominant context of Canada: new insights into linguistic insecurity	2
Requesting at work: exploring the intercultural style hypothesis of German-English bilinguals	2
Editorial: Critical reflections on criticality in the study of language, culture and society	2
‘Maybe if you talk to her about it’: intensive mothering expectations and heritage language maintenance	2
Exploring the complexity of multilingual spaces: embracing diverse perspectives of linguistic non-understanding	2
Introduction: learning, re-learning, and un-learning language(s) in the multilingual family during COVID-19 lockdown	2
Engaging with spaces of linguistic partial understanding in multilingual linguistic ethnography	1
Performing a linguistic muda in favour of Basque at University: choices, hopes and reality	1
Attention-consuming or attention-saving: an eye tracking study on punctuation in Chinese subtitling of English trailers	1
Joulu Kotona (Christmas at home): translocal multilingual practices in a Facebook music livestream during COVID-19	1
Language naming in Indigenous Australia: a view from western Arnhem Land	1
A quarter century of online discussions on Arabic and Kurdish in Turkey: a comparative analysis of language attitudes and controversies	1
“I want her to be able to think in English”: challenges to heritage language maintenance in a monolingual society	1
Moral foundations and language ideologies: how different moral concerns predict endorsement of linguistic diversity, prescriptivism, and purism	1
What exactly does an editor do?	1
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Creating learning opportunities through cultural categories: a sequential categorization analysis of multicultural cooking instruction	1
Perceiving in networking interactions: emblems, indexicality, and their mapping through reflexivity	1
The Complementary Principle and language dominance: mapping the language–domain relationships of Spanish–English bilinguals	1
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Navigating whiteness from the margins: Finnish, Somali, and Arabic speakers’ experiences of racialization, (in)visibility, and (im)mobility in Gothenburg, Sweden	1
Performing legitimacy: interactional authority in Arpitan language activism	1