OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Language Sciences 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Frege's triangle and Austin's square: the meaning and use of no-predicates in English	98
Dimensions of Respect in Mapuzugun: A Preliminary Ecolinguistic analysis	22
“Language art is to console those who are broken by life”: A discursive analysis of legitimation in Chinese comforting	19
Further semantic change of the derogatory sociomorpheme tái in Chinese gender-related Internet neologisms	19
Inference and indexicality, or how to solve Bakhtin's problem with heteroglossia	18
Nominal classification in Mabia languages of West Africa	18
On the place and role of ‘discourse’ in the Functional Discourse Grammar model. The interface between language system and language use	12
Editorial Board	12
Sequential Time construal is primary in temporal uses of Mandarin Chinese qian ‘front’ and hou ‘back’	12
Sound-meaning mapping: Verbal imitation of Super Mario music by Yorùbá gamers	12
Print exposure leads to individual differences in the Turkish aorist	11
Editorial Board	10
States of idiosyncratic idealized cognitive models in acts of pragmatic meaning	9
Disagreement by Chinese speakers of English: evidence of pragmatic transfer	9
Responses to CAT at 50: Reflections on accommodation from a sociolinguist	9
Voice, rhythm, and genre in children's early writing	9
A quantitative study on zero copula in Japanese	8
Editorial Board	8
The practice of metaphor in conversation: an ecological integrational approach	8
Editorial Board	8
Grammaticalization of prosodic configurations? The case of evidential interrogative in Spanish	7
Language, skills, deixis and indexicality – their roles and interactions	7
On the elusive nature of AGENT and agentive diagnostics: lessons from causee	7
Dialogical cognition	6
Construing chemistry knowledge through English systematic names of organic compounds: a Systemic Functional Linguistics perspective	6

Proximal and distal terms in Persian interactions: an integrative approach	6
Editorial Board	6
Forms and functions of self-repetition in Mandarin child-directed speech	6
A dynamic approach to understanding motivation in an interpreting course	6
From size measurement to simultaneity: the case of Russian po mere ‘by measure’	5
Editorial Board	5
Problematizing language	5
Diachronic changes of number use in written American English from 1923 to 2008	5
Remarks on Pāṇini's grammar	4
Linguistic synesthesia and embodiment: A study based on Mandarin modality exclusivity norms	4
Deixis and dementia: Insights from phenomenological philosophy	4
Event structure, force dynamics and verb semantics	4
Tracking identity in minority language policy: a reflexive approach to hybrid concepts in the language sciences	4
An Interview with Per Linell	4
A little less conversation – On the completeness of discourse-initial action-guiding subsententials	4
Editorial Board	4
Editorial Board	4
Examining textism convergence in mediated interactions	4
Editorial Board	3
Beyond definiteness: exploring epistemic and relational accounts of e-marked formulations in Persian interactions	3
Conversation analysis, dialogism, and the case for a minimal communicative unit	3
‘Face’-related expressions in the Minnan Dialect of Chinese	3
The negotiation of epistemic and deontic rights in child-adult interactions in colloquial Jakartan Indonesian	3
Modesty differs between historical and modern Chinese: A computational analysis of modesty metalinguistics	3
Communication accommodation theory: Past accomplishments, current trends, and future prospects	3
Reconceptualizing the critical period hypothesis for second language acquisition: An appraisal of Lenneberg's work on the epigenesis of language	3
Information reception markers shi ba and shi ma in Mandarin conversation	3
When translation meets dissemination: Translations of the Chinese diplomatic term Mìngyùn Gòngtóngtǐ in English news reports	3
Prosody in recognizing dialogue-specific functions of speech acts. Evidence from Polish	3
A cognitive semantic model of Chinese character representation	3
Ecological awareness issues in Chinese language dictionaries: A case study of the Contemporary Chinese Dictionary	3
A defense of a weak linguistic relativist thesis	3
More to gesture than meets the (analyst's) eye? Querying the problem of online gestural loss from applied linguistics and psychotherapy perspectives	2
The epistemic marking of questions in Colloquial Jakartan Indonesian	2
Introduction to the Festschrift for Per Linell: Dialogism as a General Epistemology for the Language Sciences	2
Ambient identity construction via massive anonymous danmu comments	2
Participatory sense-making and knowing-in-connection in VR	2
English as an index of neoliberal globalization: The linguistic landscape of Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan	2
Linguistic relativity from an enactive perspective: the entanglement of language and cognition	2
Communication frequency, identity accommodation, and attitudes toward people with disabilities in the United States: Disability salience and intergroup anxiety	2
Principles of variation in the use of diacritics (taškīl) in Arabic books	2
Naming multiplicity: Taíno ecolinguistics and naming conventions, and implications for language reclamation and decolonizing environmental relationalities	2
A multidimensional alignment sustainability model for language development: Evidence from L1 and L2 semio-semantic and semio-pragmatic markers	2
Lost and found language: From fuzzy logic to yūgen	2
Reconceptualising the notion of cross-linguistic transfer in multilingual spaces: A Global South perspective from South Africa	2
Expectation through imitation: towards a unified protocol for roleplay in developmental sociolinguistics	2
Analysis of the gleam-glum effect and affective interference	2
The construction of “Wangmian Si-le Fuqin” in Mandarin Chinese: A Cardiff Grammar approach	2
Emotion word meaning and grammatical class: do nouns and adjectives mean the same?	2
Editorial Board	2

Discursive practices of the performative theory of solidarity discourse	2
A study of visual path expressions in Mandarin Chinese from the perspective of motion event typology	2
Ecolinguistic analysis of the blame game in Los Angeles wildfire reporting	2
I am criticizing you when I say “I am not criticizing you”: a prosodic-pragmatic exploration of the Chinese metapragmatic negation bùshì wǒ shuō nǐ	2
Linguistic clues suggest that the Indonesian colonizers directly sailed to Madagascar	1
Methodological issues in ecolinguistics as a research project: a constructivist perspective	1
When in doubt, lay it out: Over vs. under-accommodation in human-robot interaction	1
Editorial Board	1
Mutual orientation in and through “skills”: Outline of a problem	1
Theorizing temporality in multimodal communication: linearity and non-linearity in bullet comments	1
Third-way linguistics: generative and usage-based theories are both right	1
Students’ perception of an instructor: The effects of instructor accommodation to student swearing	1
Ostensible invitations in Chinese – A pragmatic perspective	1
Bibliography as a language communication tool	1
Generative linguistics: ‘Galilean style’	1
Editorial Board	1
Depression, neuroticism, extraversion and pronoun use in first and foreign languages following mood induction	1
Science mapping the literature in Applied Linguistics secondary research: navigating knowledge evolution from an epistemic perspective (1970–2022)	1
(Anti)Causativization of psych verbs in Spanish and Japanese	1
Voices in reading literature	1
Revisiting complement and parenthetical constructions: theory and description	1
Mythbusters united? A dialogue over Harris's integrationist linguistics and Gibson's Ecological Psychology	1
The situatedness of aesthetic emotions: a review of the literature and a proposal for its study in variationist linguistics	1
Lexical expressions and grammatical markers for source of information: A contrast between German and Korean	1
Enlanguaged emotions: a pragmatist-inspired proposal	1
Language ontologies and the worlding of language(s)/languaging: does language create the world or does worlding create language?	1
Language awareness: On the semiotics of talk and text	1
Productivity of Assamese derivational suffixes	1
English motion and progressive constructions, and the typological drift from bounded to unbounded discourse construal	1
Four kinds of subjectivity: from speaking to communicating	1
Tok Pisin metalanguage: why is Sinasina Sign Language not tok (‘language’)?	1
Self-documentation and participatory autonomy in language documentation	1
Ecological linguistics and sound change in Chinese dialects: a case study of the entering tone in Pujiang dialect	1
Feeding the imagination: Linguistic features of motion descriptions in audio-described movies	1
“This is perplexing because…”: Examining the impact of gender and geo-academic location on expressions of confusion in research articles	1
Editorial Board	1
Languaging territorial assemblage: regional integration through language policy practices in southern China	1
A corpus-based study of maximizer–adjective patterns in Croatian	1
Middle-aged children's perceptions of receiving accommodation from their parent and instrumental caregiving intentions	1
Linguistic appropriation and/or dispossession: Two sides of the Marxist coin	1
Time-to-smile, time-to-speak, time-to-resolve: timescales for shaping engagement in language	1