OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Language and Literature is 0. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Book Review: Poetry in the Mind	16
Book Review: Intertextuality in Practice	11
Weaving narrative threads with social psychological processes: Narrative modulations in online consumer reviews of a medical memoir	11
Who tells your story: Narration in Hamilton: An American Musical	6
Book Review: Intralingual translation of british novels: A multimodal stylistic perspective	6
‘As the title implies’: How readers talk about titles in Amazon book reviews	5
Dynamic power relations between characters in A View from the Bridge: A pragmastylistic approach	5
Book Review: Translation and Style (second version)	4
The intricacies of counting to four in Old English poetry	4
What triggers perceptions of racism in Heart of Darkness? A reader-response analysis	3
‘Native woodnotes wild’: Shakespeare, his contemporaries, and the syntax of negation	3
Book Review: Slowing Metaphor Down	3
Interjections and individual style: A study of restoration dramatic language	3
A review of Leech and Short’s norms of speech and thought presentation	3
A new approach to the stylistic analysis of humour	2
Humans or animals? The linguistic representation of animal characters in original and translated Finnish picture books for children	2
Shakespeare sonnet reading: An empirical study of emotional responses	2
Dementia mind styles in contemporary narrative fiction	2
Disability stylistics: An illustration based on Pew in Stevenson’s Treasure Island	2
Stylistics and children’s literature	2
Literary dynamics in The.PowerBook by Jeanette Winterson and Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood	1
The creation of Chinese personae in Steinbeck’s fiction	1
Book Review: New Directions in Cognitive Grammar and Style	1
A pedagogical stylistics of intertextual interaction: Talk as Heteroglot Intertextual Study in higher education pedagogy	1
Professor Dr Peter Verdonk 21 April 1934–5 November 2021	1

‘Novelty’ through narrative and paratextual voice: The case of John Minford’s translation of ‘The laughing girl’	1
‘Stylistics will never become boring’: An interview with Paul Simpson	1
Book Review: Cognitive Poetics: An Introduction	1
The year’s work in stylistics 2022	1
Book Review: Political English: Language and the Decay of Politics	1
‘Gonna get you, baby!’ A qualitative-empirical study of attentional modulation in reading a short story	1
Book Review: What’s Your Pronoun? Beyond He & She	1
Book Reviews: Chinese narratologies	1
Broadening horizons: An interview with Geoff Hall	1
Book Reviews: We-Narratives: Collective Storytelling in Contemporary Fiction	1
‘Your duplicitous point of view’: Delayed revelations of hypothetical focalisation in Ian McEwan’s Atonement and Sweet Tooth	0
Tracing palimpsestic text-worlds of key moments in rewrites of King Lear - A Thousand Acres and Dunbar	0
Is it narration or experience? The narrative effects of present-tense narration in Ali Smith’s How to Be Both	0
Book Review: Linguistics and English Literature: An Introduction (Cambridge Introductions to the English Language)	0
The poetics of attention in Old English verse: A cognitive stylistic approach to the depiction of Grendel in Beowulf	0
The restricted possible worlds of depression: A stylistic analysis of Janice Galloway’s The Trick is to Keep Breathing using a possible worlds framework	0
‘If you’re going to do something that’s new and different in an area that hasn’t been looked at much before, you probably need to start with something not too complex’: An interview with Mick Short	0
30 years of Language and Literature	0
Contemporary present-tense fiction: Crossing boundaries in narrative	0
‘A patient act of adjustment’: Subjectivisation, adjectives and Jane Austen	0
Book review: The poem as icon: A study in aesthetic cognition	0
The year’s work in stylistics 2020	0
Book Review: The Language of Dystopia	0
Is Felix Salten the author of the Mutzenbacher novel (1906)? Yes and no	0
Book Reviews: Experiencing Poetry. A Guidebook to Psychopoetics	0
Book review: Fiction and pragmatics	0
A stylistic model of the converse of pathetic fallacy	0
Book Review: Translation and style	0
Reading and analysing short story collections: An empirical study of readers' interpretation process of Benni's Il bar sotto il mare	0
Book Review: Surprised by sound: Rhyme’s inner workings	0
Editor’s note	0
Language and style in The Gruffalo	0
The year’s work in stylistics 2021	0
“There’s still something positive about the Niger Delta ecology”: Metaphor and ideology in the Niger Delta poetic discourse	0
Book Review: Disnarration and the unmentioned in fact and fiction	0
Book Review: Sensory Linguistics: Language, Perception and Metaphor	0
‘There was all this terminology proliferating and the students needed to know precise terms, not vague or impressionistic ones’: An interview with Katie Wales	0
Book Reviews: Mixed Metaphors: Their Use and Abuse	0
Book Review: The Language of Mental Illness: Corpus Linguistics and the Construction of Mental Illness in the Press	0
Sensuous modernity: The linguistic construction of femininity in the fashion content of early 1920s Vogue	0
Genre expectations and discourse community membership in listener reviews of true crime-comedy podcast My Favorite Murder	0
Cognitive Grammar and Readers’ Perceived Sense of Closeness: A Study of Responses to Mary Borden’s ‘Belgium’	0
Narrative Report of Speech Acts as characterization resource in Mansfield Park and its Spanish and German translations	0
Schemata of estrangement in Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed	0
Book Reviews: Corpus approaches to language in social media	0
Book Review: Bob Dylan: How the Songs Work	0
Posthumanist stylistics	0
In memoriam Tony Bex	0
Creativity and cognition in fiction by teenage learners of English	0
Book Review: Poetry and Language: The Linguistics of Verse	0

The evolution of swearing in television catchphrases	0
Variation in fictional dialogue in A Series of Unfortunate Events	0
Constraints on verse form and syntactic well-formedness in the cywyddau of Dafydd ap Gwilym	0
Syntagmatic conformity: Blessings and curses in Winthrop’s Christian Charitie	0
Corpus stylistics and colour symbolism in The Great Gatsby and its Thai translations	0
Author gender and text characteristics in contemporary Swedish fiction	0
‘When most I wink, then’ – what? Assessing the comprehension of literary texts in university students of English as a second language	0
Do worlds have (fourth) walls? A Text World Theory approach to direct address in Fleabag	0
Book Review: Cognitive grammar in stylistics: A practical guide	0
A Multi-Dimensional Analysis of English tweets	0
Book Reviews: Estilística de corpus: Nuevos enfoques en el análisis de textos literarios	0
‘Uncle Al is old, has brown eyes and dementia’: The importance of order in zeugmas	0
Impoliteness and power dynamics in intimate interactions: An analysis of Joe Blann’s ‘Things We Had’	0
‘I shouldn’t even be telling you that I shouldn’t be telling you the story’: Pseudonymous Bosch and the postmodern narrator in children’s literature	0
Sensory modality as a linguistic sign of the ‘divided self’ in John Banville’s novels	0
Linking Emotions to Surroundings: A Stylistic Model of Pathetic Fallacy	0
Character’s mental functioning during a ‘neuro-transition’: Pragmatic failures in Flowers for Algernon	0
Gender characterization in Lady Windermere’s Fan and its Chinese translations: A corpus stylistic approach	0
Functions of dialogue in (television) drama: A case study of Indigenous-authored television narratives	0
‘I don’t know how it is best to put this thing down’: Uncooperative narration in Ford Madox Ford’s The Good Soldier	0
Charles Dickens, children’s author: Narrative as rhetoric in A Child’s History of England	0
‘And that’: Halliday’s logogenesis, sociogenesis, and phylogenesis in Darwin’s tangled bank	0
Book Reviews: Stylistic approaches to pop culture (Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Stylistics)	0
Telecinematic stylistics: Language and style in fantasy TV series	0
A style for every age: A stylometric inquiry into crosswriters for children, adolescents and adults	0
Language, nature, and the framing of death: An ecostylistic analysis of Laura Wade’s Colder Than Here	0
Features of orality in the language of fiction: A corpus-based investigation	0
Panoramic social minds: Social minds manipulations in ‘A Mother’	0
Book Review: Storyworld Possible Selves	0
Gendered body language in children’s literature over time	0
Book Reviews: Advances in Corpus Applications in Literary and Translation Studies	0
Linguistic co-creativity and the performance of identity in the discourse of National Trust holiday cottage guestbooks	0