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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Book Review: Poetry in the Mind	13
Literary dynamics in The.PowerBook by Jeanette Winterson and Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood	12
Shakespeare sonnet reading: An empirical study of emotional responses	7
Disability stylistics: An illustration based on Pew in Stevenson’s Treasure Island	7
A pedagogical stylistics of intertextual interaction: Talk as Heteroglot Intertextual Study in higher education pedagogy	6
Author gender and text characteristics in contemporary Swedish fiction	5
Book Review: The Language of Mental Illness: Corpus Linguistics and the Construction of Mental Illness in the Press	4
‘I don’t know how it is best to put this thing down’: Uncooperative narration in Ford Madox Ford’s The Good Soldier	4
A style for every age: A stylometric inquiry into crosswriters for children, adolescents and adults	4
Functions of dialogue in (television) drama: A case study of Indigenous-authored television narratives	3
Posthumanist stylistics	3
Disinherited protagonists in the early history of T/V variation in Middle English	3
30 years of Language and Literature	3
Diachronicity: An issue shared between linguistics and literary studies	2
Book review: The poem as icon: A study in aesthetic cognition	2
Who tells your story: Narration in Hamilton: An American Musical	2
Constraints on verse form and syntactic well-formedness in the cywyddau of Dafydd ap Gwilym	2
Weaving narrative threads with social psychological processes: Narrative modulations in online consumer reviews of a medical memoir	2
Character’s mental functioning during a ‘neuro-transition’: Pragmatic failures in Flowers for Algernon	1
Panoramic social minds: Social minds manipulations in ‘A Mother’	1
Book Review: Surprised by sound: Rhyme’s inner workings	1
Book Reviews: Estilística de corpus: Nuevos enfoques en el análisis de textos literarios	1
Chaucerian modernities: (De)-constructing literary history in The Canterbury Tales	1
Editor’s note	1
Book Review: Translation and style	1

‘Stylistics will never become boring’: An interview with Paul Simpson	1
Is it narration or experience? The narrative effects of present-tense narration in Ali Smith’s How to Be Both	1
Sensory modality as a linguistic sign of the ‘divided self’ in John Banville’s novels	1
“There’s still something positive about the Niger Delta ecology”: Metaphor and ideology in the Niger Delta poetic discourse	1
Book Review: Linguistics and English Literature: An Introduction (Cambridge Introductions to the English Language)	1
Linguistic co-creativity and the performance of identity in the discourse of National Trust holiday cottage guestbooks	1
Dementia mind styles in contemporary narrative fiction	1
The year’s work in stylistics 2021	1
The year’s work in stylistics 2022	1
Cognitive Grammar and Readers’ Perceived Sense of Closeness: A Study of Responses to Mary Borden’s ‘Belgium’	1
‘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	1
Charles Dickens, children’s author: Narrative as rhetoric in A Child’s History of England	1
Syntagmatic conformity: Blessings and curses in Winthrop’s Christian Charitie	0
Dynamic power relations between characters in A View from the Bridge: A pragmastylistic approach	0
Book Reviews: Experiencing Poetry. A Guidebook to Psychopoetics	0
Book Review: Bob Dylan: How the Songs Work	0
Book Reviews: Mixed Metaphors: Their Use and Abuse	0
Language and style in The Gruffalo	0
Book Reviews: Chinese narratologies	0
Genre expectations and discourse community membership in listener reviews of true crime-comedy podcast My Favorite Murder	0
Book Review: Cognitive Poetics: An Introduction	0
Professor Dr Peter Verdonk 21 April 1934–5 November 2021	0
Book Review: Sensory Linguistics: Language, Perception and Metaphor	0
‘Native woodnotes wild’: Shakespeare, his contemporaries, and the syntax of negation	0
Features of orality in the language of fiction: A corpus-based investigation	0
Gender characterization in Lady Windermere’s Fan and its Chinese translations: A corpus stylistic approach	0
Corpus stylistics and colour symbolism in The Great Gatsby and its Thai translations	0
‘A patient act of adjustment’: Subjectivisation, adjectives and Jane Austen	0
A Multi-Dimensional Analysis of English tweets	0
Book Review: Intralingual translation of british novels: A multimodal stylistic perspective	0
Book Review: The Language of Dystopia	0
The evolution of swearing in television catchphrases	0
The reader in the text across time and genres	0
Sensuous modernity: The linguistic construction of femininity in the fashion content of early 1920s Vogue	0
Book Review: Translation and Style (second version)	0
Interjections and individual style: A study of restoration dramatic language	0
‘Novelty’ through narrative and paratextual voice: The case of John Minford’s translation of ‘The laughing girl’	0
Book Reviews: Advances in Corpus Applications in Literary and Translation Studies	0
‘When most I wink, then’ – what? Assessing the comprehension of literary texts in university students of English as a second language	0
Variation in fictional dialogue in A Series of Unfortunate Events	0
Creativity and cognition in fiction by teenage learners of English	0
Contemporary present-tense fiction: Crossing boundaries in narrative	0
Stylistics and children’s literature	0
‘As the title implies’: How readers talk about titles in Amazon book reviews	0
The conventional organisation of request sequences in Scottish letters (1570–1750)	0
Broadening horizons: An interview with Geoff Hall	0
The poetics of attention in Old English verse: A cognitive stylistic approach to the depiction of Grendel in Beowulf	0
Linking Emotions to Surroundings: A Stylistic Model of Pathetic Fallacy	0
In memoriam Tony Bex	0
Gendered body language in children’s literature over time	0

Book Review: New Directions in Cognitive Grammar and Style	0
The creation of Chinese personae in Steinbeck’s fiction	0
Book Reviews: Corpus approaches to language in social media	0
Language, nature, and the framing of death: An ecostylistic analysis of Laura Wade’s Colder Than Here	0
Suspenseful indirectness in gangster film dialogue: A pragma-stylistic study of Scorsese’s mob bosses	0
Telecinematic stylistics: Language and style in fantasy TV series	0
Book Review: Slowing Metaphor Down	0
A new approach to the stylistic analysis of humour	0
Diachronic perspectives on digital reading culture: Crying readers from the age of sensibility to BookTok	0
Towards a cognitive forensic stylistics: An intercoder reliability test for replicable feature finding in the Operation Heron corpus	0
Book Review: Disnarration and the unmentioned in fact and fiction	0
Impoliteness and power dynamics in intimate interactions: An analysis of Joe Blann’s ‘Things We Had’	0
Book Review: Cognitive grammar in stylistics: A practical guide	0
Schemata of estrangement in Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed	0
Narrative Report of Speech Acts as characterization resource in Mansfield Park and its Spanish and German translations	0
Book review: Fiction and pragmatics	0
Developments in autofictional genre signals: Nouns, pronouns and authorial attachment	0
Is Felix Salten the author of the Mutzenbacher novel (1906)? Yes and no	0
A stylistic model of the converse of pathetic fallacy	0
Book Reviews: We-Narratives: Collective Storytelling in Contemporary Fiction	0
The year’s work in stylistics 2020	0
What triggers perceptions of racism in Heart of Darkness? A reader-response analysis	0
Book Review: Storyworld Possible Selves	0
‘Uncle Al is old, has brown eyes and dementia’: The importance of order in zeugmas	0
Tracing palimpsestic text-worlds of key moments in rewrites of King Lear - A Thousand Acres and Dunbar	0
Reading and analysing short story collections: An empirical study of readers' interpretation process of Benni's Il bar sotto il mare	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
Reconfigured reality in scenarios of transformed identity, invasion and environmental threat: The diachronic exploration of recognition scenes in anglophone print and film narratives	0
Book Reviews: Stylistic approaches to pop culture (Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Stylistics)	0
Humans or animals? The linguistic representation of animal characters in original and translated Finnish picture books for children	0
‘Gonna get you, baby!’ A qualitative-empirical study of attentional modulation in reading a short story	0
A review of Leech and Short’s norms of speech and thought presentation	0
Book Review: Political English: Language and the Decay of Politics	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