OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Multilingua-Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
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The role of the insider translator in conservation and development: comparing multilingual (auto)ethnobotanical books from Tanzania, Thailand, and Taiwan	26
“The team members were very tolerant”: social interactional ideologies and power in an intercultural context	11
Framing variation and intersectional identities within Indonesia’s ethnic Chinese minority	8
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Co-constructing meaning through semi-understanding: conducting the sociolinguistic interview in an (un)known language	7
Foreign language learning in multilingual Germany	7
Commentary: the complex nexus between (im)mobility and translanguaging	6
From garbage to COVID-19: theorizing ‘Multilingual Commanding Urgency’ in the linguistic landscape	6
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Family language policies during a global pandemic: challenges and opportunities for language maintenance in Arabic-English multilingual families in the USA	5
“Who are you standing with?”: cultural (self-re)translation of a Russian-speaking conference immigrant-interpreter in Israel during the war in Ukraine	5
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Language and political consciousness: explorations from the Philippines at the fin de siècle	5
In pursuit of epistemic authority in public intellectual engagement: the case of language and gender	5
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“I’ll be there for you”: affective production of a “hyper-real” cultural-consumption space	5
The materiality of languages in engagements with the environment	5
Migration, subjectivity and identity: navigating power, agency and discourse in interviews with asylum seekers	4
Mentoring interpreters of new and emerging languages for Australian courts and tribunals	4
“A new worker, for a new order, in a new era”: English, power and shifting ideologies of reflexivity in a Chinese global workplace	4
Shorter but richer versus longer with less information: linguistic differentiation between British Sign Language and sign supported English	3
Navigating whiteness from the margins: Finnish, Somali, and Arabic speakers’ experiences of racialization, (in)visibility, and (im)mobility in Gothenburg, Sweden	3
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Negotiating new cultured identities through stylizing Wenyan: the case of young Chinese in China and the Netherlands	3

The materiality of the representation of the owl in the Mari ways of speaking	3
Crossing the bridge to literacy in foreign languages: C-test as a measure of language development	3
Facilitating or compromising inclusion? Language policies at Swedish higher education institutions as workplaces	3
Language naming in Indigenous Australia: a view from western Arnhem Land	3
Joulu Kotona (Christmas at home): translocal multilingual practices in a Facebook music livestream during COVID-19	3
Identity and heritage language learning: a case study of two mixed-heritage Korean university students in New Zealand	3
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New citizenship and the negotiation of the global/local interface: reflexivity, emotions, and metapragmatics	2
Ideological framing of sign languages and their users in the South African press	2
Multilingual family language policy in monolingual Australia: multilingual desires and monolingual realities	2
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English in a multilingual ecology: “structures of feeling” in South and Central Asia	2
Language ideologies of emerging institutional frameworks of Mapudungun revitalization in contemporary Chile: nation, Facebook, and the moon of Pandora	2
A review of Jie Zhang’s Language policy and planning for the modern olympic games	2
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“You are Apple, why are you speaking to me in Turkish?”: the role of English in voice assistant interactions	2
Polish language of the Polish minority in Daugavpils, Latvia. Comparative analysis of two idiolects	2
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The representation of multilingualism in dubbing and subtitling for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH)	1
“It is natural, really deaf signing” – script development for fictional programmes involving sign languages	1
Sharing communicative responsibility: training US students in cooperative strategies for communicating across linguistic difference	1
The materiality of theletterin Seto oral culture	1
What is a dialect? What is a standard?: shifting indexicality and persistent ideological norms	1
Introduction to the special issue on translanguaging in the age of mobility	1
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Peripheral multilingual scholars confronting epistemic exclusion in global academic knowledge production: a positive case study	1
LINCing learners to digital literacy: supporting social integration and English language learning during COVID-19	1
Deaf migrants in Sweden: exploring linguistic and bureaucratic challenges through the lens of Crip Theory and Crip Linguistics	1
“Eish it’s getting really interesting”: borrowed interjections in South African English	1
Multilingual education in an Italian public preschool: teachers and families among mobility processes and inclusive practices	1
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Linguistic diversity and inclusion in Abu Dhabi’s linguistic landscape during the COVID-19 period	1
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VOT production, writing skills, and general proficiency in multilingual learners of French: approaching the intertwinement of different linguistic levels	1
Keeping the pitch on track: spatiotemporal challenges in ambulant vending on a Buenos Aires trainline	1
Perceiving in networking interactions: emblems, indexicality, and their mapping through reflexivity	0
Introduction: learning, re-learning, and un-learning language(s) in the multilingual family during COVID-19 lockdown	0
Epilogue opportunity, fear, and well-being: heritage languages during COVID-19	0
“Purement Amazigh”: investigating embodied ideologies and linguistic practices in Morocco	0
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The role of social networks in academic discourse socialization: insights from degree-seeking multilingual international students in China	0
The Complementary Principle and language dominance: mapping the language–domain relationships of Spanish–English bilinguals	0
Reflecting on past language brokering experiences: how they affected children’s and teenagers’ emotions and relationships	0
What exactly does an editor do?	0
Exploring the complexity of multilingual spaces: embracing diverse perspectives of linguistic non-understanding	0
Preparing for the deployment of ready-made stories in social interaction: reflexivity and narrative practices in professional communication	0
Unpacking translanguaging in refusals on Chinese social media: strategies, distribution, and functions	0
Children’s use of English as lingua franca in Swedish preschools	0
Adjusting to linguistic diversity in a primary school through relational agency and expertise: a mother-tongue teacher team’s perspective	0

Phonetic loan, graphic borrowing, and script-mixing: key to the vitality of written Cantonese in Hong Kong	0
Hesitant versus confident family language policy: a case of two single-parent families in Finland	0
Lifting the voices of Spanish-speaking Kansans: a community-engaged approach to health equity	0
Translation for language revitalisation: efforts and challenges in documenting botanical knowledge of Thailand’s Northern Khmer speakers	0
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Participant role shifting in minority language institutional interactions: COVID-19 contact tracing telephone calls as complex spaces of linguistic non-understanding	0
Seeking understanding: categories of linguistic (non)belonging in interviews	0
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Multilingual lexical transfer challenges monolingual educational norms: not quite!	0
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When English isn’t enough in advertising: the role of language, ad length, and complexity in consumer attitudes across Spain and Poland	0
Monolingual disobedience, multilingual guilt?: an autoethnographic exploration of heritage language maintenance during COVID-19 lockdowns	0
Code-switching as linguistic microaggression: L2-Japanese and speaker legitimacy	0
Transnational identities, being and belonging: the diverse home literacies of multilingual immigrant families	0
Managing a discourse of reporting: the complex composing of an asylum narrative	0
Language shift and language (re)vitalisation: the roles played by women and men in Northern Fenno-Scandia	0
Adrift between republican values and plurilingual policies: (pre)primary school teachers’ reported practiced language policies in Strasbourg	0
Language norms in L2 education for adult migrants – translanguaging pedagogy in the age of mobility	0
Commodification of English and English-like structures in shop names in Lombok Island, Indonesia	0
The interplay between linguistic and non-verbal communication in an interpreter-mediated main hearing of a victim’s testimony	0
Prof. Juan C. Sager (1929–2021): founding editor of Multilingua	0
The price of immersion: language learners as a cheap workforce in Malta’s voluntourism industry	0
Language proficiency and use of interpreters/translators in fieldwork: a survey of US-based anthropologists and sociologists	0
‘Spaces of linguistic non-understanding’ when ‘researching multilingually’: analyses from a linguistic-ethnographic perspective	0
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Knowledge negotiation and interactional power: epistemic stances in Arabic–Swedish antenatal care consultations	0
“Calming my heartbeat to enjoy the show”: the social-indexical meanings of in-yer-face theater recontextualized in China	0
Stability and change in young children’s linguistic experience during the COVID-19 pandemic: insight from a citizen-science sample in the United States	0
Do minority-language and majority-language students benefit from pedagogical translanguaging in early foreign language development?	0
Language ideologies and the use of French in an English-dominant context of Canada: new insights into linguistic insecurity	0
“What I want to do I do not do”: on bi- and multilingual repertoires and linguistic dislocation in a border town	0
Parental involvement in online education during Covid-19 lockdown: a netnographic case study of Chinese language teaching in the UK	0
(Un)doing regimentation in reflexive practices: on-site processes of sociolinguistic differentiation – a commentary	0
Language choice in churches in indigenous Gã towns: a multilingual balancing act	0
Translanguaging pathways to higher education: a transition program for highly educated refugees	0
Cultivating capabilities and coping: accepting and analysing moments of communicative opacity in multilingual encounters	0
Liberating language education	0
“I just sit, drink and go back to work.” Topographies of language practice at work	0
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Translanguaging as a resource for meaning-making at multilingual construction sites	0
Multilingual imperatives in a local family: implementing a high-pressure family language policy in South Korea	0
Negotiation of resources in everyday activities of a multilingual Berlin street market: a linguistic ethnography approach	0
Multilingual police interaction: a conversation analysis of crime control in border checks	0
Chronotopic translanguaging and the mobile languaging subject: insights from an Algerian academic sojourner in the UK	0
Shame on me: the individual whitewash of a social stigma underpinned by language ideologies	0
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“Every word is a world”: loanword ideologies and linguistic purism in post-Soviet Armenia	0
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Family language policy among Kurdish–Persian speaking families in Kermanshah, Iran	0
The economics of Japanese: investigating the demand for Japanese language skills in the Pearl River Delta labor market	0
Family language policy and dialect-Italian dynamics: across the waves of Italo-Australian migrant families	0
The slowness of language, the speed of capital: conflicting temporalities of the “green transition” in the Swedish north	0
Authorities at play in Indigenous language reclamation: tensions and possibilities in the Yucatan Peninsula	0
Philanthrocapitalism and the languaging of empowered women in the Global South	0
Language in multilingual families during the COVID-19 pandemic in Norway: a survey of challenges and opportunities	0
International students’ perceptions of multilingual English-medium instruction classrooms: a case study in Taiwan	0
“I want her to be able to think in English”: challenges to heritage language maintenance in a monolingual society	0
The topicalization of culture in Cambridge undergraduate admissions interviews	0
Translation, transcultural remembrance and pandemic: a covert transediting of the Great Influenza memory for lessons to combat COVID-19 in Chinese online media	0
Heritage languages and the ʻmultilingual boostʼ: intercomprehension skills of Russian and Polish heritage speakers in Germany	0
Investigating sociolinguistic differentiation through reflexive practices: metapragmatics, regimentation and empowerment	0
Ideological and implementational spaces for translanguaging in the language introduction programme in Swedish Upper Secondary School	0
Engaging with spaces of linguistic partial understanding in multilingual linguistic ethnography	0
Mediated disclosure in asylum encounters	0
Attention-consuming or attention-saving: an eye tracking study on punctuation in Chinese subtitling of English trailers	0
“It’s like the root of a tree that I grew up from….”: parents’ linguistic identity shaping family language policy in isolated circumstances	0
‘Maybe if you talk to her about it’: intensive mothering expectations and heritage language maintenance	0