Language & Communication

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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
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The affective, the conceptual and the meaning of ‘life’ in the stylistics of Charles Bally47
Reflexivity & Normativity: A Festschrift for Talbot J. Taylor21
Edutaining with indigeneity: Mediatizing Ainu bilingualism in the Japanese anime, Golden Kamuy20
“Do they understand”? A case study of atypical institutional encounters20
Linguistic reflexivity and language-shaping: Countering representationalism in ecological research on language19
‘Right an turn agadsa’: The reflexivity between language socialisation and child agency in exploring ‘success’ in FLP18
Demonstration and pantomime in the evolution of teaching and communication17
Up from Babel: On the (r)evolutionary linguistic thought of Eugène Lanti17
Introduction: The sociolinguistics of exclusion – Indexing (non)belonging in mobile communities15
‘Whose father are you?’ Arabic teknonyms in a socio-pragmatic perspective12
Topic modelling as a method for framing analysis of news coverage of the Russia-Ukraine war in 2022–202312
The power of conceptual metaphors in the age of pandemic: The influence of the WAR and SPORT domains on emotions and thoughts12
Coordinating multimodal and screen-based actions in proposal sequences of video-mediated collaborative drawing11
The interface of prosody and pragmatics: A phono-pragmatic analysis of bebin (‘look’) in Persian9
Artificial intelligence and the ethnographic encounter: Transhuman language ontologies, or what it means “to write like a human, think like a machine”9
Attuning to cosmopolitan atmosphere curated in semiotic landscapes: Stance-taking as affective practice9
Slurs and speech acts9
‘Are you man enough?’. Gender as an increasingly decisive factor in the choice of Basque personal pronouns8
Framing shared knowledge: The chronotopic organisation of meaning8
The multimodality and temporality of pain displays8
Commodifying Green living: Discourses of class and sustainability in housing estates7
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 Mary7
Southern perspectives of language and the construction of the common7
Metapragmatic comments deconstructing the concept of self-mockery in Chinese on social media7
Deliberate ambiguity as motivated strategy7
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Enlanguaged affordances in social practices: A critical rethinking of Gibson's approach to language6
Aggression and its (de)escalation in mediatised rites of aggression6
An Emmet's tale: The duality of social and lexical change6
Trivializing language correctness in an online metalinguistic debate6
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Demonstrating and guiding how to smell in tasting sessions: .nhHHHhh and the audible-visible production of sensorial intersubjectivity6
Documenting the emerging social-semiotic landscape in children ages 5 to 126
‘Learn Jafaikan in two minutes’ – Multicultural London English, enregisterment and ideology in English newspapers6
Surprise as a knowledge emotion in research articles: Variation across disciplines, genders, geo-academic locations and time6
Superdiversity and translocal brutality in Asian extreme metal lyrics6
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Hidden behind the text: A linguistic ethnographic study of stancetaking in news production5
Look at me, please! Human auditory attention-getting devices in dog-human play5
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Evaluative labels in public discourse: A political crisis from diverse perspectives5
Ways of participating in a colleague's project: Radio use as collaborative activity in UN military observer training5
Islands, geopolitics and language ideologies: Sociolinguistic differentiation between Taiwanese and Kinmenese Hokkien5
When science meets society: The role of unsolicited self-disclosures in conversations between researchers and community members5
Prosodic matching beyond humans: On the interactional basis of “cat-directed” talk5
Communication through popular culture: Analyzing a googi performance on early marriage among the Kusaas of Ghana5
Making room inside the doughnut: European audiovisual subtitling in non-hegemonic languages as an opportunity for global language justice5
The death of Gregory Bateson, or why linguists should study language at the end of life4
Experienced repetition. Integrational linguistics and the first-person perspective4
Talbot Taylor's engagement with stylistic theory4
Disorienting discourses and the making of gentrifiers in redeveloping Brooklyn4
Perceptions of communicative competence: Stancetaking and explicit metapragmatic discourse in interactions of L1 and L2 users of Japanese4
Sounding for others: Vocal resources for embodied togetherness4
‘But for calves we were sweeter’. Traditional Finnish cattle calling as trans-species pidgin4
Corrigendum to “Artificial intelligence in the training of public service interpreters” [Lang. Commun. 103 (2025) 86–107]4
“There's No ‘I’ in Team”: Identity work in hockey post-game interviews4
A linguistic ethnography of the sense of belonging: Iraqi Turkmen women refugees in Turkey4
‘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 debates4
The art and politics of micronational language planning4
Doing being ordinary, doing being expatriate: A frame analysis of food activities in everyday vlogs of Korean expatriates4
Texting in Time: Approaching time and temporalities of smartphone-based interactions4
Lessons in linguistics with ChatGPT: Metapragmatics, metacommunication, metadiscourse and metalanguage in human-AI interactions4
Translocalisation of values, relationality and offence4
Place formulation in an emergency: The case of 911 calls in Costa Rica4
Cultural relativism and understanding difference4
Issues of phonetics and social action in human-animal interaction4
No puedes hablar ahora: Voice in an interpreter-mediated court meeting4
‘Labor is the most glorious’ : Chronotopic linguistic landscaping and the making of working class identities3
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Mock foreigner speech and the reification of mediatized (white) foreignness in Japanese media3
Mobile events: Exploring mobile conversations in context as communicative events3
Putting local dialect in the mix: Indexicality and stylization in a TikTok challenge3
On the morality of taking offence3
“Molière amoché”: Discourse on the quality of English-speaking Canadian politicians’ French in Canadian news media coverage of the 2020 conservative leadership debate3
Laughter and language attitudes in students’ discussions about language use in Nigeria3
Voice matters: Social categorization and stereotyping of speakers based on sexual orientation and nationality categories3
Communicating life-saving knowledge: The multimodal arrangement in Lifesaver VR3
The “Balfour Gang” versus “the Saladin Gang”: Geographic metaphors and metonyms in Israel as securitized, polarizing constructs3
Affect in Chinese cyberspace and beyond: Language objects and affective regimes in rural hostels3
Question design and stance-taking in political interviews in Flemish news media3
“Democracy under attack”: Viewpoint and doxa in the coverage of the Jan. 6th, 2021 events at the US Capitol3
Responsive animation and the negotiation of (shared) self-deprecating attributes and experiences in interaction3
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Introduction: Linguistic approaches to point of view in journalism3
Literacy and perceptions of aging: Evidence from the Dani in Papua3
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The influence of media narratives in the formation of post-conflict discursive landscapes: Stance, engagement and doubt3
Self-denigration in Mandarin Chinese: An alternative account from sincerity3
Commentary: The sociolinguistics of exclusion2
Perpetuation of sexism through proverbs: The case of Martínez Kleiser's Refranero General Ideológico Español2
Towards a comprehensive model of style-shifting: Evidence from sibilant variation in Mandarin2
Comprehending stories in pantomime. A pilot study with typically developing children and its implications for the narrative origin of language2
Five dogmas of logic diagrams and how to escape them2
Top-down and bottom-up semiotic landscapes in Eastern Suburb Memory: A scalar-chronotopic approach2
Framing of COVID-19 safety protocols in Kusaal musical health communication: Language and literary analysis2
‘My word against his’: Micro and macro analysis of stories about violence in intimate partner relationships2
Calming emotional 911 callers: Using redirection as a patient-focused directive in emergency medical calls2
A sequential approach to simultaneity in social interaction: The emergent organization of choral actions2
Linguistic negotiation of place identity in a changing Tel Aviv neighborhood2
Media frames as adaptive networks of meaning: A conceptual proposition2
The impact of polish accents on guilt2
Scriptism with a vengeance. Or, how writing was forgotten.2
Arabic–French code-switching in medical consultations in Algeria: A conversation analytic study2
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“I don't mean extradimensional in a woo-woo sense”: Doing non-explanation in discussions of unidentified aerial phenomena2
Indicating ideology: Variation in Montenegrin orthography2
Calibrating hands-on experience and manual know-how in anatomical dissection2
Generic options: Variable use of vos and uno in Patagonia Spanish (Argentina)2
Black humour as official slogan: The CDA from Chinese anti-epidemic discourse2
Developing and testing interaction-based coding schemes for the analysis of sociolinguistic variation2
Something wicked this way comes! Applying linguistic structures within Ricoer's interpretation theory2
Interpersonal distance, mouth sounds, and referentiality in child-dog play: A pluridisciplinary approach2
Attitudes towards age variation and language change in the British deaf community2
Metalinguistic normativity and the supercategory: Law's deployment of ordinary language and the case of Thind v US2
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Name it till you mean it: Intersections between formal and semantic neological procedures in naming emerging pandemic objects in Spanish1
Form (Prosody)-Meaning (Pragmatics) pairings of discourse markers: A case study of Nǐ zhīdào (‘You Know’) as a construction in Chinese media interviews1
Depicting force at the potter's wheel1
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Theorizing rhetoric: A transatlantic perspective1
Assessing potential disinformation campaigns in anonymous online comments: Evaluating available textual cues in debates on the 2019 Hong Kong protests1
Metalinguistic negation of proper names: Evidence from Russian1
‘I just want you to get into the flow of reading’: Reframing Hebrew proficiency as an enactment of liberal Jewishness1
Sequence organization in the instruction of embodied activities1
The expression of polyphonic city image: A perspective from the linguistic landscape of Beijing’s Hutongs1
Reading (in) law: A critical appraisal of the impact of language on disciplinary novices’ cognitive reading strategies1
“What a standard Taiwan Mandarin accent”: Online metalinguistic commentary on linguistic performances of non-native Chinese speakers1
‘Harsh’ SoMa vs ‘Beige’ Castro: The cross-modal construction of contrasting femininities in queer San Francisco1
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Netflix likes it dubbed: Taking on the challenge of dubbing into English1
Gestural depictions in requests for objects1
What would it be like for prelinguistic communication to be Gricean?1
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Hebrew stance-taking gasps: From bodily response to social communicative resource1
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The influence of ethnicity and language variation on undergraduates' evaluations of Dutch-speaking instructors in Belgium: A contextualized speaker evaluation experiment1
Embodied variation in the sequential greetings of the (dairy) cow1
Contextualization cues for media references in everyday conversation1
Complaining by category: Managing social categories and action ascription in wargame interactions1
The role of reflexivity in content-sensitivity1
Kinship carers' complaints about birth parents' Facebook posts: Mediated evidentiality and identity construction1
Variation in the use of constructed action according to discourse type and age in Finnish Sign Language1
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 outlets1
Cheering together: The interactional organization of choral vocalizations1
Resolving suspicion moment-by-moment. The overall structural organization of police encounters in the Spain-France border area1
Virtual spaces, real interactions - Analyzing communication in virtual reality1
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Prosody is used for real-time exercising of other bodies1
The discourse structure of video games: A multimodal discourse semantics approach to game tutorials1
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Legitimating Activism as a meaningful category: Negotiation of the protest lexicon in The Guardian and Times since the 1960s1
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Ritual frames and mimesis: Analysing military training in Chinese universities1
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