OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Language & Communication is 3. 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
Vigilante disparaging humour at r/IncelTears: Humour as critique of incel ideology	26
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
The tipping point: On the use of signs from American Sign Language in International Sign	18
Moral emotions, good moral panics, social regulation, and online public shaming	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
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
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
Ritual frames and mimesis: Analysing military training in Chinese universities	6
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
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
Ideological indeterminacy: Worker Esperantism in 1920s Sweden	4
Superdiversity and translocal brutality in Asian extreme metal lyrics	4
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
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
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