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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Frege's triangle and Austin's square: the meaning and use of no-predicates in English	91
Dimensions of Respect in Mapuzugun: A Preliminary Ecolinguistic analysis	22
Further semantic change of the derogatory sociomorpheme tái in Chinese gender-related Internet neologisms	18
“Language art is to console those who are broken by life”: A discursive analysis of legitimation in Chinese comforting	18
Inference and indexicality, or how to solve Bakhtin's problem with heteroglossia	17
Nominal classification in Mabia languages of West Africa	16
Challenging ‘definite article’ as a comparative concept: The case of Mopan Maya	12
Editorial Board	11
Sound-meaning mapping: Verbal imitation of Super Mario music by Yorùbá gamers	11
Sequential Time construal is primary in temporal uses of Mandarin Chinese qian ‘front’ and hou ‘back’	11
On the place and role of ‘discourse’ in the Functional Discourse Grammar model. The interface between language system and language use	10
Editorial Board	9
Print exposure leads to individual differences in the Turkish aorist	9
Voice, rhythm, and genre in children's early writing	9
States of idiosyncratic idealized cognitive models in acts of pragmatic meaning	9
Disagreement by Chinese speakers of English: evidence of pragmatic transfer	9
The practice of metaphor in conversation: an ecological integrational approach	8
Responses to CAT at 50: Reflections on accommodation from a sociolinguist	8
Editorial Board	8
Editorial Board	8
Language, skills, deixis and indexicality – their roles and interactions	7
On the elusive nature of AGENT and agentive diagnostics: lessons from causee	7
A quantitative study on zero copula in Japanese	7
Construing chemistry knowledge through English systematic names of organic compounds: a Systemic Functional Linguistics perspective	6
Forms and functions of self-repetition in Mandarin child-directed speech	6

Proximal and distal terms in Persian interactions: an integrative approach	6
Editorial Board	6
Grammaticalization of prosodic configurations? The case of evidential interrogative in Spanish	6
Dialogical cognition	6
Diachronic changes of number use in written American English from 1923 to 2008	5
A dynamic approach to understanding motivation in an interpreting course	5
Editorial Board	5
Problematizing language	4
Remarks on Pāṇini's grammar	4
An Interview with Per Linell	4
Event structure, force dynamics and verb semantics	4
Linguistic synesthesia and embodiment: A study based on Mandarin modality exclusivity norms	4
Editorial Board	4
From size measurement to simultaneity: the case of Russian po mere ‘by measure’	4
Editorial Board	4
Tracking identity in minority language policy: a reflexive approach to hybrid concepts in the language sciences	4
Deixis and dementia: Insights from phenomenological philosophy	3
A little less conversation – On the completeness of discourse-initial action-guiding subsententials	3
When translation meets dissemination: Translations of the Chinese diplomatic term Mìngyùn Gòngtóngtǐ in English news reports	3
A defense of a weak linguistic relativist thesis	3
Ecological awareness issues in Chinese language dictionaries: A case study of the Contemporary Chinese Dictionary	3
Prosody in recognizing dialogue-specific functions of speech acts. Evidence from Polish	3
Examining textism convergence in mediated interactions	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
A cognitive semantic model of Chinese character representation	3
Editorial Board	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
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
More to gesture than meets the (analyst's) eye? Querying the problem of online gestural loss from applied linguistics and psychotherapy perspectives	2
‘Face’-related expressions in the Minnan Dialect of Chinese	2
Linguistic relativity from an enactive perspective: the entanglement of language and cognition	2
Naming multiplicity: Taíno ecolinguistics and naming conventions, and implications for language reclamation and decolonizing environmental relationalities	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
Communication frequency, identity accommodation, and attitudes toward people with disabilities in the United States: Disability salience and intergroup anxiety	2
Information reception markers shi ba and shi ma in Mandarin conversation	2
Expectation through imitation: towards a unified protocol for roleplay in developmental sociolinguistics	2
Introduction to the Festschrift for Per Linell: Dialogism as a General Epistemology for the Language Sciences	2
Editorial Board	2
Discursive practices of the performative theory of solidarity discourse	2
The epistemic marking of questions in Colloquial Jakartan Indonesian	2
Principles of variation in the use of diacritics (taškīl) in Arabic books	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
English as an index of neoliberal globalization: The linguistic landscape of Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan	2
Reconceptualising the notion of cross-linguistic transfer in multilingual spaces: A Global South perspective from South Africa	2

Mythbusters united? A dialogue over Harris's integrationist linguistics and Gibson's Ecological Psychology	1
Participatory sense-making and knowing-in-connection in VR	1
Third-way linguistics: generative and usage-based theories are both right	1
Ecological linguistics and sound change in Chinese dialects: a case study of the entering tone in Pujiang dialect	1
A corpus-based study of maximizer–adjective patterns in Croatian	1
Voices in reading literature	1
Ostensible invitations in Chinese – A pragmatic perspective	1
Science mapping the literature in Applied Linguistics secondary research: navigating knowledge evolution from an epistemic perspective (1970–2022)	1
Theorizing temporality in multimodal communication: linearity and non-linearity in bullet comments	1
Ambient identity construction via massive anonymous danmu comments	1
Language awareness: On the semiotics of talk and text	1
Students’ perception of an instructor: The effects of instructor accommodation to student swearing	1
Language ontologies and the worlding of language(s)/languaging: does language create the world or does worlding create language?	1
Languaging territorial assemblage: regional integration through language policy practices in southern China	1
Self-documentation and participatory autonomy in language documentation	1
Linguistic appropriation and/or dispossession: Two sides of the Marxist coin	1
Lexical expressions and grammatical markers for source of information: A contrast between German and Korean	1
English motion and progressive constructions, and the typological drift from bounded to unbounded discourse construal	1
Editorial Board	1
(Anti)Causativization of psych verbs in Spanish and Japanese	1
Bibliography as a language communication tool	1
The situatedness of aesthetic emotions: a review of the literature and a proposal for its study in variationist linguistics	1
Enlanguaged emotions: a pragmatist-inspired proposal	1
Emotion word meaning and grammatical class: do nouns and adjectives mean the same?	1
Mutual orientation in and through “skills”: Outline of a problem	1
A multidimensional alignment sustainability model for language development: Evidence from L1 and L2 semio-semantic and semio-pragmatic markers	1
Editorial Board	1
Lost and found language: From fuzzy logic to yūgen	1
Productivity of Assamese derivational suffixes	1
Revisiting complement and parenthetical constructions: theory and description	1
Editorial Board	1
When in doubt, lay it out: Over vs. under-accommodation in human-robot interaction	1
Linguistic clues suggest that the Indonesian colonizers directly sailed to Madagascar	1
“This is perplexing because…”: Examining the impact of gender and geo-academic location on expressions of confusion in research articles	1
Time-to-smile, time-to-speak, time-to-resolve: timescales for shaping engagement in language	1
Middle-aged children's perceptions of receiving accommodation from their parent and instrumental caregiving intentions	1
Generative linguistics: ‘Galilean style’	1