OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Language & Communication is 4. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Introduction: The sociolinguistics of exclusion – Indexing (non)belonging in mobile communities	53
The affective, the conceptual and the meaning of ‘life’ in the stylistics of Charles Bally	35
Linguistic reflexivity and language-shaping: Countering representationalism in ecological research on language	17
Edutaining with indigeneity: Mediatizing Ainu bilingualism in the Japanese anime, Golden Kamuy	15
Reflexivity & Normativity: A Festschrift for Talbot J. Taylor	15
“Do they understand”? A case study of atypical institutional encounters	15
‘Whose father are you?’ Arabic teknonyms in a socio-pragmatic perspective	14
Up from Babel: On the (r)evolutionary linguistic thought of Eugène Lanti	13
Topic modelling as a method for framing analysis of news coverage of the Russia-Ukraine war in 2022–2023	12
‘Right an turn agadsa’: The reflexivity between language socialisation and child agency in exploring ‘success’ in FLP	12
Attuning to cosmopolitan atmosphere curated in semiotic landscapes: Stance-taking as affective practice	11
The interface of prosody and pragmatics: A phono-pragmatic analysis of bebin (‘look’) in Persian	11
Framing shared knowledge: The chronotopic organisation of meaning	10
Artificial intelligence and the ethnographic encounter: Transhuman language ontologies, or what it means “to write like a human, think like a machine”	9
Slurs and speech acts	9
Coordinating multimodal and screen-based actions in proposal sequences of video-mediated collaborative drawing	9
Southern perspectives of language and the construction of the common	8
Editorial Board	8
Did language originate with Homo erectus? The scavenging inference	8
Defining language and managing its use: Language technology as language management	8
‘Are you man enough?’. Gender as an increasingly decisive factor in the choice of Basque personal pronouns	8
Achieving activity transitions in dental consultations: Managing interprofessional collaboration and patient cooperation during the transition to dental examination	8
Discursive strategies of stigmatization: The case of Bangladesh Islami Chhatra Shibir in news media	7
The quiet resourcefulness of Falderos: Embodied salesmanship in motion	7
Enlanguaged affordances in social practices: A critical rethinking of Gibson's approach to language	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
Commodifying Green living: Discourses of class and sustainability in housing estates	7
Demonstrating and guiding how to smell in tasting sessions: .nhHHHhh and the audible-visible production of sensorial intersubjectivity	7
Metapragmatic comments deconstructing the concept of self-mockery in Chinese on social media	7
Evaluative labels in public discourse: A political crisis from diverse perspectives	6
An Emmet's tale: The duality of social and lexical change	6
Deliberate ambiguity as motivated strategy	6
Boundaries of gestures: Naive segmentation of the stream of human hand movements	6
Documenting the emerging social-semiotic landscape in children ages 5 to 12	6
Ways of participating in a colleague's project: Radio use as collaborative activity in UN military observer training	6
Editorial Board	6
Look at me, please! Human auditory attention-getting devices in dog-human play	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
Hidden behind the text: A linguistic ethnographic study of stancetaking in news production	6
Aggression and its (de)escalation in mediatised rites of aggression	6
Editorial Board	6
Engagement in health representatives’ speeches of Covid-19 pandemic in Saudi Arabia and the UK	5
Investigating sound patterns in interspecies interaction	5
The synchronized instantiation of the ordered pair of instructive and instructed actions	5
‘So you think you can play with me’ – Louis Moholo-Moholo and the semiotics of freedom	5
Roy Harris and the liquidation of ‘languages’ in new sociolinguistics	5
Editorial Board	5
‘Learn Jafaikan in two minutes’ – Multicultural London English, enregisterment and ideology in English newspapers	5
Communication through popular culture: Analyzing a googi performance on early marriage among the Kusaas of Ghana	5
When science meets society: The role of unsolicited self-disclosures in conversations between researchers and community members	5
Experienced repetition. Integrational linguistics and the first-person perspective	4
The art and politics of micronational language planning	4
Playful signs in the city: Toward a semiotics of transgression in urban linguistic landscapes	4
Inside Front Cover - Aims and Scope, Copyright, Publication information, Orders and Claims, Advertising information, Author inquiries, Permissions, Funding body, Permanence of paper, Impressum (German	4
Communicating life-saving knowledge: The multimodal arrangement in Lifesaver VR	4
‘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
Translocalisation of values, relationality and offence	4
“There's No ‘I’ in Team”: Identity work in hockey post-game interviews	4
Lessons in linguistics with ChatGPT: Metapragmatics, metacommunication, metadiscourse and metalanguage in human-AI interactions	4
No puedes hablar ahora: Voice in an interpreter-mediated court meeting	4
Disorienting discourses and the making of gentrifiers in redeveloping Brooklyn	4
Mock foreigner speech and the reification of mediatized (white) foreignness in Japanese media	4
Introduction: Linguistic approaches to point of view in journalism	4
Issues of phonetics and social action in human-animal interaction	4
‘But for calves we were sweeter’. Traditional Finnish cattle calling as trans-species pidgin	4
Texting in Time: Approaching time and temporalities of smartphone-based interactions	4
Talbot Taylor's engagement with stylistic theory	4
Sounding for others: Vocal resources for embodied togetherness	4
Mnemonic normalisation in the visual politics of the German far-right	4
Perceptions of communicative competence: Stancetaking and explicit metapragmatic discourse in interactions of L1 and L2 users of Japanese	4
Editorial Board	4
Putting local dialect in the mix: Indexicality and stylization in a TikTok challenge	4
A linguistic ethnography of the sense of belonging: Iraqi Turkmen women refugees in Turkey	4
Corrigendum to “Artificial intelligence in the training of public service interpreters” [Lang. Commun. 103 (2025) 86–107]	4

Beyond the image and within the text: Visual narratives of drone warfare in the Ukraine–Russia conflict