OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Language & 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
A four-stage model for language evolution under the effects of human self-domestication	29
Ideologies of linguistic research on small sign languages in the global South: A Caribbean perspective	26
Understanding figures of speech: Dependency relations and organizational patterns	26
Vigilante disparaging humour at r/IncelTears: Humour as critique of incel ideology	26
Moral emotions, good moral panics, social regulation, and online public shaming	18
The tipping point: On the use of signs from American Sign Language in International Sign	18
Introduction: Ideologies in sign language vitality and revitalization	14
Humour and (mock) aggression: Distinguishing cyberbullying from roasting	14
“Sign to me, not the children”: Ideologies of language contamination at a deaf tourist site in Bali	13
The power of conceptual metaphors in the age of pandemic: The influence of the WAR and SPORT domains on emotions and thoughts	13
The newsworthiness of Li Na—A critical comparative analysis of Chinese and international news media	13
Lexical necropolitics: The raciolinguistics of language oppression on the Tibetan margins of Chineseness	12
Demonstration and pantomime in the evolution of teaching and communication	12
Netflix likes it dubbed: Taking on the challenge of dubbing into English	11
Genres and languages in science communication: The multiple dimensions of the science-policy interface	11
Filipino, Chinese, neither, or both? The Lannang identity and its relationship with language	11
“You don't ask me to speak Mandarin, okay?”: Ideologies of language and race among Chinese Singaporeans	10
(Online) public denunciation, public incivilities and offence	9
The multimodality and temporality of pain displays	9
Chineseness and Cantonese tones in post-1997 Hong Kong	9
Chineseness, Taiwaneseness, and the traditional and simplified Chinese scripts:Tourism, identity, and linguistic commodification	8
Complicating raciolinguistics: Language, Chineseness, and the Sinophone	8
Evolution of conventional communication. A cross-cultural study of pantomimic re-enactments of transitive events	8
Metalinguistic density as an indicator of sharedness: Economic and financial terms in online interaction	8
The turn-by-turn unfolding of “dialogue”: Examining participants’ orientations to moments of transformative engagement	8

Neoliberal globalisation and language minoritisation: Lessons from Ireland 2008-18	8
The agency of habitus: Bourdieu and language at the conjunction of Marxism, phenomenology and structuralism	8
Globalization, hybridity, and vitality in the linguistic ideologies of New Zealand Sign Language users	7
The use of ‘bubble’ as an economic metaphor in the news: The case of the ‘real estate bubble’ in Spain	7
Coordinating action in technology-supported shared tasks: Virtual pointing as a situated practice for mobilizing a response	7
Ideologies of sign language and their repercussions in language policy determinations	7
Walking on Wilton Drive	7
‘Labor is the most glorious’ : Chronotopic linguistic landscaping and the making of working class identities	7
‘I love James Blunt as much as I love herpes’ – ‘I love that you're not ashamed to admit you have both’: Attempted insults and responses on Twitter	7
Prosody is used for real-time exercising of other bodies	6
Form, frequency and sociolinguistic variation in depicting signs in New Zealand Sign Language	6
Joint attention and reference construction: The role of pointing and “so”	6
Deliberative speech acts: An interactional approach	6
Personal names in Kusaal: A sociolinguistic analysis	6
Ritual frames and mimesis: Analysing military training in Chinese universities	6
Making the threatening other laughable: Ambiguous performances of urban vernaculars in Swedish media	5
The narrative games we play: Varied use of narrative strategies across genres and socioeconomic positions	5
How do I teach you? An examination of multiple intelligences and the impact on communication in the classroom	5
Self-denigration in Mandarin Chinese: An alternative account from sincerity	5
Complexities of Chineseness: Reflections on race, nationality and language	5
Creating new discourses for new feminisms: A critical socio-cognitive approach	5
Constructing success and hope among migrant students and families. A mother tongue teacher's didactic narratives	5
Asymmetric use of diminutives and hypocoristics to pet animals in Italian, German, English, and Arabic	5
Examining interspecies interactions in light of discourse analytic theory: A case study on the genre of human-goat communication at a petting farm	5
Making talk together	4
White hot heroes: Semiotics of race and sexuality in Hollywood ninja films	4
Multimodal framing devices in European online news	4
“I ain't sorry”: African American English as a strategic resource in Beyoncé’s performative persona	4
How to get someone to play with you: Format differences in recruiting others to participate in family play activities	4
Morality, aggression, and social activism in a transmedia sports controversy	4
Translocalisation of values, relationality and offence	4
Taking a detour before answering the question: Turn-initial okay in second position in English interaction	4
Complaining by category: Managing social categories and action ascription in wargame interactions	4
On the morality of taking offence	4
From the White House with anger: Conversational features in President Trump's official communication	4
Calming emotional 911 callers: Using redirection as a patient-focused directive in emergency medical calls	4
Ideological indeterminacy: Worker Esperantism in 1920s Sweden	4
Superdiversity and translocal brutality in Asian extreme metal lyrics	4
Tunisian hip-hop music discourse: Linguistic, socio-cultural and political movements from the local to the global or vice versa? A case study of Balti's songs	3
“Maybe useful to the future generation but not my own”: How “useful” is Mandarin really for contemporary Hoisan-heritage Chinese Americans in the San Francisco Bay Area?	3
Multi-unit turns that begin with a resaying of a prior speaker's turn	3
Multilingualism and the politics of participation at a Cameroonian wildlife sanctuary	3
Peer socialization in an oral preschool classroom	3
Barriers and opportunities for cinema distribution in European minority languages. The case of in the Digital Single Market	3
Is there such a thing as summary interpreting? “Cross-linguistic formulation”, facilitation and mediation in French asylum proceedings	3
“We are not amused”. The appreciation of British humour by British and American English L1 users	3
On the recognitionality of references to time in social interaction	3
Language and happiness: Cultural epistemologies and ideological conflicts in Finnish online discourses on the causes of happiness	3
The human-animal divide in communication: anthropocentric, posthuman and integrationist answers	3
Place formulation in an emergency: The case of 911 calls in Costa Rica	3

Cultural relativism and understanding difference	3
Variation in the use of constructed action according to discourse type and age in Finnish Sign Language	3
Brutoglossia: Democracy, authenticity, and the enregisterment of connoisseurship in ‘craft beer talk’	3
Ideologies behind the scoring of factors to rate sign language vitality	3
Metapragmatic comments deconstructing the concept of self-mockery in Chinese on social media	2
Purposeful life or sugar-coated lies: How Elizabeth Holmes legitimised her fraud	2
Constructing gender using visual imagery –a study of early readers	2
‘Thank you for your blessing’: Constructed mobile chronotopes in a Buddhist online community in Bhutan	2
When pointing becomes more than pointing: Multimodal evaluation in product pitches	2
An Emmet's tale: The duality of social and lexical change	2
Aggression and its (de)escalation in mediatised rites of aggression	2
Hebrew stance-taking gasps: From bodily response to social communicative resource	2
Queering language socialization: Fostering inclusive Muslim interpretations through talk-in-interaction	2
The language predicament of South African universities in a global perspective	2
Sounding for others: Vocal resources for embodied togetherness	2
On the civilising of objectification. Language use, discursive patterns and the psychological expertise of work planning	2
Evaluative affect in the social practice of institutional identity: Making a case for connotative inversion	2
Southern perspectives of language and the construction of the common	2
Resolving suspicion moment-by-moment. The overall structural organization of police encounters in the Spain-France border area	2
Offence and morality: Pragmatic perspectives	2
Comprehending stories in pantomime. A pilot study with typically developing children and its implications for the narrative origin of language	2
Neoliberalization of higher education in China: A critical discourse analytical approach	2
Register features in Kalevala-metric incantations	2
Voice matters: Social categorization and stereotyping of speakers based on sexual orientation and nationality categories	2
Indexing the ‘included’ migrant? Social categorization and interpersonal digital interaction between labor migrants, teachers and employers in Norway	2
A linguistic ethnography of the sense of belonging: Iraqi Turkmen women refugees in Turkey	2
Perceiving (non)standardness and the indexicality of new immigrant Cantonese in Hong Kong	2
The ear from nowhere: Listening techniques and the politics of negation in the practice of Japanese interfaith chaplains	2
Perception and evaluation of requests on social media in Chinese and Japanese	2
Islands, geopolitics and language ideologies: Sociolinguistic differentiation between Taiwanese and Kinmenese Hokkien	2
“Scouse” but not “Scouser”? Embedded enregistered repertoires for adolescent girls on The Wirral	2
Non-lexical vocalisations + “so_was” as a multimodal package in establishing joint decisions in music rehearsals	2
‘For (…) a leader like this Prime Minister to talk about morals and morality is a disgrace’: offensive action, uptake and moral implications in the context of parliamentary debates	1
Tautologies with proper names in discourse: Rhetorical relations and interpretation	1
Food, class and ideological political affiliation: Indexical fields in the #secondcivilwarletters tweets	1
Arabizi in Kuwait: An Emerging Case of digraphia	1
Indicating ideology: Variation in Montenegrin orthography	1
Integrating linguistic relativity	1
Talking language ideologies into being in parent-child conversations in Singapore	1
“Molière amoché”: Discourse on the quality of English-speaking Canadian politicians’ French in Canadian news media coverage of the 2020 conservative leadership debate	1
Framing of COVID-19 safety protocols in Kusaal musical health communication: Language and literary analysis	1
Demonstrating and guiding how to smell in tasting sessions: .nhHHHhh and the audible-visible production of sensorial intersubjectivity	1
Toward an interactional approach to multilingualism: Ideologies and practices in the northwest Amazon	1
The scope of linguistic relativity in graphic and lexical numeration	1
The competence of the professional standard language speaker in flux? Support from the speech therapy context	1
Body of knowledge and knowledge of the body: The early development of metaphor in bilingual children	1
Changing the ownership of ideas: Multimedial accomplishment of collaborative reflection in an organizational workshop	1
‘How can Johns Hopkins not be angry?’ A discursive case study of Chinese lay expert's science communication in the digital age	1
Kinship carers' complaints about birth parents' Facebook posts: Mediated evidentiality and identity construction	1
First names and sociolinguistic enregisterment: Digital tropes of linguistic mobility	1
Linguistics for the apocalypse	1
Social identity, group speech, and negotiated meaning	1
Experienced repetition. Integrational linguistics and the first-person perspective	1
Lexical repetitions during time critical moments in boxing	1
Talbot Taylor's engagement with stylistic theory	1
On the dissemination of the discourse of going: The case of Iranian for-profit study abroad institution's chronotopic representation of ideal life there	1
Non-lexical vocalizations help novices learn joint embodied actions	1
Language policy and prospects: Metalinguistic discourses on social disruption and language maintenance in a transatlantic, minority community	1
The affective, the conceptual and the meaning of ‘life’ in the stylistics of Charles Bally	1
Communication and the principle of intersubjectivity	1
Literacy and perceptions of aging: Evidence from the Dani in Papua	1
Living in harmony: The negotiation of intergenerational family language policy in Singapore	1
Linguistic features and pragmatic functions of direct reported speech in Italian troubles telling sequences	1
Accommodation in L2 English: Measuring dialect convergence in Nigerian Englishes	1
How to grapple with the green-eyed monster: A discursive approach to jealousy management in Chinese TV dramas	1
Five dogmas of logic diagrams and how to escape them	1
Metalinguistic normativity and the supercategory: Law's deployment of ordinary language and the case of Thind v US	1
Coda /s/ and intervocalic /d/ elision in Andalusia: The formation of Susana Díaz's regional identity in political discourse	1
Introduction to Special Issue on ‘Group Speech Acts’	1
Joining actions through effort sounds: Mothers and infants in routine activities	1
“Flattery helps”: Relational practices in statecraft	1
Punctuating the other: Graphic cues, voice, and positioning in digital discourse	1
‘Right an turn agadsa’: The reflexivity between language socialisation and child agency in exploring ‘success’ in FLP	1
Metalinguistic relativity: Does one's ontology determine one's view on linguistic relativity?	1
Edutaining with indigeneity: Mediatizing Ainu bilingualism in the Japanese anime, Golden Kamuy	1
“Oh my god that would hurt”: Pain cries in feminist self-defence classes	1
The role of reflexivity in content-sensitivity	1
Putting local dialect in the mix: Indexicality and stylization in a TikTok challenge	1
Contextualization cues for media references in everyday conversation	1