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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Topic modelling as a method for framing analysis of news coverage of the Russia-Ukraine war in 2022–2023	46
The affective, the conceptual and the meaning of ‘life’ in the stylistics of Charles Bally	20
Reflexivity & Normativity: A Festschrift for Talbot J. Taylor	19
‘Whose father are you?’ Arabic teknonyms in a socio-pragmatic perspective	19
“Do they understand”? A case study of atypical institutional encounters	19
Up from Babel: On the (r)evolutionary linguistic thought of Eugène Lanti	18
Edutaining with indigeneity: Mediatizing Ainu bilingualism in the Japanese anime, Golden Kamuy	17
Introduction: The sociolinguistics of exclusion – Indexing (non)belonging in mobile communities	17
Linguistic reflexivity and language-shaping: Countering representationalism in ecological research on language	14
‘Right an turn agadsa’: The reflexivity between language socialisation and child agency in exploring ‘success’ in FLP	12
The power of conceptual metaphors in the age of pandemic: The influence of the WAR and SPORT domains on emotions and thoughts	12
Demonstration and pantomime in the evolution of teaching and communication	12
Slurs and speech acts	10
Artificial intelligence and the ethnographic encounter: Transhuman language ontologies, or what it means “to write like a human, think like a machine”	9
‘Are you man enough?’. Gender as an increasingly decisive factor in the choice of Basque personal pronouns	9
Framing shared knowledge: The chronotopic organisation of meaning	9
Southern perspectives of language and the construction of the common	9
Editorial Board	8
The multimodality and temporality of pain displays	8
Editorial Board	7
A bibliography of the published writings of Talbot J. Taylor, Louise G.T. Cooley Professor of English and Linguistics in the Department of English at the College of William and Mary	7
Metapragmatic comments deconstructing the concept of self-mockery in Chinese on social media	7
Commodifying Green living: Discourses of class and sustainability in housing estates	7
Deliberate ambiguity as motivated strategy	7
Demonstrating and guiding how to smell in tasting sessions: .nhHHHhh and the audible-visible production of sensorial intersubjectivity	7

‘Learn Jafaikan in two minutes’ – Multicultural London English, enregisterment and ideology in English newspapers	6
Look at me, please! Human auditory attention-getting devices in dog-human play	6
Editorial Board	6
Editorial Board	6
Aggression and its (de)escalation in mediatised rites of aggression	6
Prosodic matching beyond humans: On the interactional basis of “cat-directed” talk	6
Surprise as a knowledge emotion in research articles: Variation across disciplines, genders, geo-academic locations and time	6
Ways of participating in a colleague's project: Radio use as collaborative activity in UN military observer training	6
Documenting the emerging social-semiotic landscape in children ages 5 to 12	6
Hidden behind the text: A linguistic ethnographic study of stancetaking in news production	5
Communication through popular culture: Analyzing a googi performance on early marriage among the Kusaas of Ghana	5
Lessons in linguistics with ChatGPT: Metapragmatics, metacommunication, metadiscourse and metalanguage in human-AI interactions	5
When science meets society: The role of unsolicited self-disclosures in conversations between researchers and community members	5
Editorial Board	5
Islands, geopolitics and language ideologies: Sociolinguistic differentiation between Taiwanese and Kinmenese Hokkien	5
Superdiversity and translocal brutality in Asian extreme metal lyrics	5
“There's No ‘I’ in Team”: Identity work in hockey post-game interviews	5
Trivializing language correctness in an online metalinguistic debate	5
An Emmet's tale: The duality of social and lexical change	5
Making room inside the doughnut: European audiovisual subtitling in non-hegemonic languages as an opportunity for global language justice	5
Experienced repetition. Integrational linguistics and the first-person perspective	5
‘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	4
Texting in Time: Approaching time and temporalities of smartphone-based interactions	4
The death of Gregory Bateson, or why linguists should study language at the end of life	4
No puedes hablar ahora: Voice in an interpreter-mediated court meeting	4
Cultural relativism and understanding difference	4
Doing being ordinary, doing being expatriate: A frame analysis of food activities in everyday vlogs of Korean expatriates	4
Editorial Board	4
A linguistic ethnography of the sense of belonging: Iraqi Turkmen women refugees in Turkey	4
Talbot Taylor's engagement with stylistic theory	4
‘But for calves we were sweeter’. Traditional Finnish cattle calling as trans-species pidgin	4
Perceptions of communicative competence: Stancetaking and explicit metapragmatic discourse in interactions of L1 and L2 users of Japanese	4
Place formulation in an emergency: The case of 911 calls in Costa Rica	4
Mock foreigner speech and the reification of mediatized (white) foreignness in Japanese media	4
Translocalisation of values, relationality and offence	4
Corrigendum to “Artificial intelligence in the training of public service interpreters” [Lang. Commun. 103 (2025) 86–107]	4
Disorienting discourses and the making of gentrifiers in redeveloping Brooklyn	4
Sounding for others: Vocal resources for embodied togetherness	4
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The “Balfour Gang” versus “the Saladin Gang”: Geographic metaphors and metonyms in Israel as securitized, polarizing constructs	3
Affect in Chinese cyberspace and beyond: Language objects and affective regimes in rural hostels	3
Communicating life-saving knowledge: The multimodal arrangement in Lifesaver VR	3
The influence of media narratives in the formation of post-conflict discursive landscapes: Stance, engagement and doubt	3
“Democracy under attack”: Viewpoint and doxa in the coverage of the Jan. 6th, 2021 events at the US Capitol	3
Introduction: Linguistic approaches to point of view in journalism	3
Literacy and perceptions of aging: Evidence from the Dani in Papua	3
‘Labor is the most glorious’ : Chronotopic linguistic landscaping and the making of working class identities	3
Interpersonal distance, mouth sounds, and referentiality in child-dog play: A pluridisciplinary approach	3
“Molière amoché”: Discourse on the quality of English-speaking Canadian politicians’ French in Canadian news media coverage of the 2020 conservative leadership debate	3
Self-denigration in Mandarin Chinese: An alternative account from sincerity	3

Mobile events: Exploring mobile conversations in context as communicative events	3
Putting local dialect in the mix: Indexicality and stylization in a TikTok challenge	3
Editorial Board	3
Question design and stance-taking in political interviews in Flemish news media	3
Laughter and language attitudes in students’ discussions about language use in Nigeria	3
On the morality of taking offence	3
Voice matters: Social categorization and stereotyping of speakers based on sexual orientation and nationality categories	3
Framing of COVID-19 safety protocols in Kusaal musical health communication: Language and literary analysis	2
Scriptism with a vengeance. Or, how writing was forgotten.	2
Responsive animation and the negotiation of (shared) self-deprecating attributes and experiences in interaction	2
Black humour as official slogan: The CDA from Chinese anti-epidemic discourse	2
‘My word against his’: Micro and macro analysis of stories about violence in intimate partner relationships	2
Editorial Board	2
Commentary: The sociolinguistics of exclusion	2
Perpetuation of sexism through proverbs: The case of Martínez Kleiser's Refranero General Ideológico Español	2
Attitudes towards age variation and language change in the British deaf community	2
Comprehending stories in pantomime. A pilot study with typically developing children and its implications for the narrative origin of language	2
Five dogmas of logic diagrams and how to escape them	2
Towards a comprehensive model of style-shifting: Evidence from sibilant variation in Mandarin	2
Generic options: Variable use of vos and uno in Patagonia Spanish (Argentina)	2
Metalinguistic normativity and the supercategory: Law's deployment of ordinary language and the case of Thind v US	2
Calming emotional 911 callers: Using redirection as a patient-focused directive in emergency medical calls	2
A sequential approach to simultaneity in social interaction: The emergent organization of choral actions	2
Linguistic negotiation of place identity in a changing Tel Aviv neighborhood	2
Developing and testing interaction-based coding schemes for the analysis of sociolinguistic variation	2
The impact of polish accents on guilt	2
Something wicked this way comes! Applying linguistic structures within Ricoer's interpretation theory	2
Arabic–French code-switching in medical consultations in Algeria: A conversation analytic study	2
Editorial Board	2
“I don't mean extradimensional in a woo-woo sense”: Doing non-explanation in discussions of unidentified aerial phenomena	2
Indicating ideology: Variation in Montenegrin orthography	2
Calibrating hands-on experience and manual know-how in anatomical dissection	2
Media frames as adaptive networks of meaning: A conceptual proposition	2
Editorial Board	1
Assessing potential disinformation campaigns in anonymous online comments: Evaluating available textual cues in debates on the 2019 Hong Kong protests	1
Name it till you mean it: Intersections between formal and semantic neological procedures in naming emerging pandemic objects in Spanish	1
Making talk together	1
(Online) public denunciation, public incivilities and offence	1
“What a standard Taiwan Mandarin accent”: Online metalinguistic commentary on linguistic performances of non-native Chinese speakers	1
Reading (in) law: A critical appraisal of the impact of language on disciplinary novices’ cognitive reading strategies	1
What animals can tell us about attentional prerequisites of language acquisition	1
What would it be like for prelinguistic communication to be Gricean?	1
Editorial Board	1
Cheering together: The interactional organization of choral vocalizations	1
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The influence of ethnicity and language variation on undergraduates' evaluations of Dutch-speaking instructors in Belgium: A contextualized speaker evaluation experiment	1
Resolving suspicion moment-by-moment. The overall structural organization of police encounters in the Spain-France border area	1
‘I just want you to get into the flow of reading’: Reframing Hebrew proficiency as an enactment of liberal Jewishness	1
Sequence organization in the instruction of embodied activities	1
Netflix likes it dubbed: Taking on the challenge of dubbing into English	1
Editor Photo	1
Seeing together: The organisation of looking and seeing in navigational driving instructions	1
The role of reflexivity in content-sensitivity	1
Theorizing rhetoric: A transatlantic perspective	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
Editorial Board	1
Variation in the use of constructed action according to discourse type and age in Finnish Sign Language	1
Complaining by category: Managing social categories and action ascription in wargame interactions	1
Contents	1
Hebrew stance-taking gasps: From bodily response to social communicative resource	1
Gestural depictions in requests for objects	1
Embodied variation in the sequential greetings of the (dairy) cow	1
Ritual frames and mimesis: Analysing military training in Chinese universities	1
Metalinguistic negation of proper names: Evidence from Russian	1
Contextualization cues for media references in everyday conversation	1
Editorial Board	1
Corrigendum to “The Polish accents of guilt” [Lang Commun, 98 (2024), 1]	1
“Oh my god that would hurt”: Pain cries in feminist self-defence classes	1
Editorial Board	1
Legitimating Activism as a meaningful category: Negotiation of the protest lexicon in The Guardian and Times since the 1960s	1
Kinship carers' complaints about birth parents' Facebook posts: Mediated evidentiality and identity construction	1
Depicting force at the potter's wheel	1
‘Harsh’ SoMa vs ‘Beige’ Castro: The cross-modal construction of contrasting femininities in queer San Francisco	1
Virtual spaces, real interactions - Analyzing communication in virtual reality	1
Editorial Board	1
The discourse structure of video games: A multimodal discourse semantics approach to game tutorials	1
Form (Prosody)-Meaning (Pragmatics) pairings of discourse markers: A case study of Nǐ zhīdào (‘You Know’) as a construction in Chinese media interviews	1
Prosody is used for real-time exercising of other bodies	1