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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	39
Non-lexical vocalizations help novices learn joint embodied actions	19
Towards a comprehensive model of style-shifting: Evidence from sibilant variation in Mandarin	18
Edutaining with indigeneity: Mediatizing Ainu bilingualism in the Japanese anime, Golden Kamuy	16
Reflexivity & Normativity: A Festschrift for Talbot J. Taylor	16
Editorial Board	16
Editorial Board	15
‘Right an turn agadsa’: The reflexivity between language socialisation and child agency in exploring ‘success’ in FLP	14
The affective, the conceptual and the meaning of ‘life’ in the stylistics of Charles Bally	14
Vygotsky's machinery of the will. Or: Descartes in the dog house	14
Framing of COVID-19 safety protocols in Kusaal musical health communication: Language and literary analysis	12
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Making room inside the doughnut: European audiovisual subtitling in non-hegemonic languages as an opportunity for global language justice	11
Editor Photo	10
Creating new discourses for new feminisms: A critical socio-cognitive approach	9
Linguistic reflexivity and language-shaping: Countering representationalism in ecological research on language	9
The use of ‘bubble’ as an economic metaphor in the news: The case of the ‘real estate bubble’ in Spain	8
Topic modelling as a method for framing analysis of news coverage of the Russia-Ukraine war in 2022–2023	8
Peer socialization in an oral preschool classroom	8
Mediating social and informational serendipity	7
Introduction: The sociolinguistics of exclusion – Indexing (non)belonging in mobile communities	7
Black humour as official slogan: The CDA from Chinese anti-epidemic discourse	7
Demonstration and pantomime in the evolution of teaching and communication	7
Introducing the Volume of Extremity (VoX) method to integrate prosodic data into discourse analysis	7
Developing and testing interaction-based coding schemes for the analysis of sociolinguistic variation	6

Resolving suspicion moment-by-moment. The overall structural organization of police encounters in the Spain-France border area	6
“Do they understand”? A case study of atypical institutional encounters	6
The turn-by-turn unfolding of “dialogue”: Examining participants’ orientations to moments of transformative engagement	6
‘Whose father are you?’ Arabic teknonyms in a socio-pragmatic perspective	5
Up from Babel: On the (r)evolutionary linguistic thought of Eugène Lanti	5
Media frames as adaptive networks of meaning: A conceptual proposition	5
Globalisation and linguistic disturbance in New Caledonia	5
Multi-unit turns that begin with a resaying of a prior speaker's turn	4
Metalinguistic normativity and the supercategory: Law's deployment of ordinary language and the case of Thind v US	4
Gestural depictions in requests for objects	4
Communication through popular culture: Analyzing a googi performance on early marriage among the Kusaas of Ghana	4
The power of conceptual metaphors in the age of pandemic: The influence of the WAR and SPORT domains on emotions and thoughts	4
Biographical note by Tolly Jr	4
Facework in translating and re-narrating vulgar language: The case of Macron's harsh statement against the unvaccinated in English language and Greek mainstream and alternative media	4
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Constructing collective agency through narrative positioning in group meetings within a Chinese professional team	4
Form (Prosody)-Meaning (Pragmatics) pairings of discourse markers: A case study of Nǐ zhīdào (‘You Know’) as a construction in Chinese media interviews	4
Experienced repetition. Integrational linguistics and the first-person perspective	4
On the recognitionality of references to time in social interaction	4
Artificial intelligence and the ethnographic encounter: Transhuman language ontologies, or what it means “to write like a human, think like a machine”	4
Attitudes towards age variation and language change in the British deaf community	4
Toward an interactional approach to multilingualism: Ideologies and practices in the northwest Amazon	4
Lessons in linguistics with ChatGPT: Metapragmatics, metacommunication, metadiscourse and metalanguage in human-AI interactions	4
Editorial Board	4
Linguistics for the apocalypse	3
Editorial Board	3
The death of Gregory Bateson, or why linguists should study language at the end of life	3
Perceiving (non)standardness and the indexicality of new immigrant Cantonese in Hong Kong	3
‘Harsh’ SoMa vs ‘Beige’ Castro: The cross-modal construction of contrasting femininities in queer San Francisco	3
A dynamic metaphor perspective on Trump and Xi's trade negotiation in governmental discourse	3
The commodification of (bad) weather: Destination branding of the Faroe Islands	3
Generic options: Variable use of vos and uno in Patagonia Spanish (Argentina)	3
Editorial Board	3
“There's No ‘I’ in Team”: Identity work in hockey post-game interviews	3
Slurs and speech acts	3
Humour and (mock) aggression: Distinguishing cyberbullying from roasting	3
Automated text classification of opinion vs. news French press articles. A comparison of transformer and feature-based approaches	3
Genres and languages in science communication: The multiple dimensions of the science-policy interface	3
A linguistic ethnography of the sense of belonging: Iraqi Turkmen women refugees in Turkey	3
Framing shared knowledge: The chronotopic organisation of meaning	3
Editorial Board	3
Translocalisation of values, relationality and offence	3
Horse-directed vocalizations: Clicks, trills, and /ho:/	3
Talbot Taylor's engagement with stylistic theory	3
Japanese female English learners’ two-stage learning from Filipino and Western English teachers to acquire “accent-free” English	3
The language of diplomatic mediation – A case study of an emergency meeting in the wake of the Yugoslav wars	2
“We are not amused”. The appreciation of British humour by British and American English L1 users	2
Linguistic negotiation of place identity in a changing Tel Aviv neighborhood	2
Perpetuation of sexism through proverbs: The case of Martínez Kleiser's Refranero General Ideológico Español	2
‘My word against his’: Micro and macro analysis of stories about violence in intimate partner relationships	2

Troubles talk in mother-daughter interaction: Social bond building or social bond blocking?	2
After all, who invented the airplane? Multilingualism and grassroots knowledge production on Wikipedia	2
Indexical meaning of Mandarin full tone in the construction of femininity: Evidence from social perceptual data	2
Heritage learners are more sensitive to effects of script: Evidence from Korean	2
Texting in Time: Approaching time and temporalities of smartphone-based interactions	2
Indicating ideology: Variation in Montenegrin orthography	2
Calming emotional 911 callers: Using redirection as a patient-focused directive in emergency medical calls	2
“I don't mean extradimensional in a woo-woo sense”: Doing non-explanation in discussions of unidentified aerial phenomena	2
Variation in the use of constructed action according to discourse type and age in Finnish Sign Language	2
Sharing procedural knowledge in manual work environments: Material-bodily actions as explanatory resources in construction-site interactions	2
Calibrating hands-on experience and manual know-how in anatomical dissection	2
“Flattery helps”: Relational practices in statecraft	2
Talking language ideologies into being in parent-child conversations in Singapore	2
Temporality and the cooperative infrastructure of human communication: Noticings to delay and to accelerate onward movement in mobile interaction	2
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Form, frequency and sociolinguistic variation in depicting signs in New Zealand Sign Language	2
How to teach know-how? Corrective manual demonstrations in teaching construction work	2
“Call me by my name”: Names, address, and the subjectivization of Korean women	2
Commentary: The sociolinguistics of exclusion	1
Kinship carers' complaints about birth parents' Facebook posts: Mediated evidentiality and identity construction	1
Editorial Board	1
Cultural relativism and understanding difference	1
Stylization of history and heritage commodification: The linguistic landscape of refabricated historical streets in Chinese cities	1
Examining interspecies interactions in light of discourse analytic theory: A case study on the genre of human-goat communication at a petting farm	1
Appraisal theory and the analysis of point of view in news and views journalism – unpacking journalistic “persuasiveness”	1
Complexities of Chineseness: Reflections on race, nationality and language	1
Sounding for others: Vocal resources for embodied togetherness	1
Southern perspectives of language and the construction of the common	1
Language play as resistance: Navigating digital censorship during the COVID-19 pandemic	1
Indexing the ‘included’ migrant? Social categorization and interpersonal digital interaction between labor migrants, teachers and employers in Norway	1
‘Are you man enough?’. Gender as an increasingly decisive factor in the choice of Basque personal pronouns	1
Constructing gender using visual imagery –a study of early readers	1
Linguistic features and pragmatic functions of direct reported speech in Italian troubles telling sequences	1
Involved parenthood in digitally mediated interaction	1
Editorial Board	1
Ritual frames and mimesis: Analysing military training in Chinese universities	1
Verbal and visual communication in constructive news across cultures: A case study of a bilingual English-Spanish corpus with a focus on metaphor	1
“What a standard Taiwan Mandarin accent”: Online metalinguistic commentary on linguistic performances of non-native Chinese speakers	1
Scope and gender in Hebrew generic second person	1
Changing the ownership of ideas: Multimedial accomplishment of collaborative reflection in an organizational workshop	1
Sequence organization in the instruction of embodied activities	1
Joint attention and reference construction: The role of pointing and “so”	1
In weed we trust: Embodied everyday resistance	1
Contextualization cues for media references in everyday conversation	1
Place branding and translocal chronotopes in Finnish municipality slogans	1
The multimodality and temporality of pain displays	1
Perceptions of communicative competence: Stancetaking and explicit metapragmatic discourse in interactions of L1 and L2 users of Japanese	1
‘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
Language and trust: Struggles for recognition of migrant people in the political realm	1
(Online) public denunciation, public incivilities and offence	1
Accommodation in L2 English: Measuring dialect convergence in Nigerian Englishes	1
No puedes hablar ahora: Voice in an interpreter-mediated court meeting	1
Disorienting discourses and the making of gentrifiers in redeveloping Brooklyn	1
A flood of illegal immigrants or a humanitarian crisis provoked by the government – A comparative mixed-methods analysis of framing strategies of Poland's two leading media outlets	1
How to grapple with the green-eyed monster: A discursive approach to jealousy management in Chinese TV dramas	1