Text & Talk

Papers
(The median citation count of Text & Talk 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.)
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Recurrent gestures and embodied stance-taking in courtroom opening statements14
English research articles versus MA theses in applied linguistics: comparing the move structure and metadiscourse features in the results and discussion sections11
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“Don’t worry, be a senior?” The metaphorical labelling of late-life depression in Australian news media10
Entextualizing high energy texts: an exploration of modal shift on a Chinese online video-sharing website Bilibili9
Geoff Leech and principled practices9
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Targeting and double accountabilities of action in interaction6
The ‘sun’ shinning upon the ‘ever-lasting’ country: a diachronic analysis of Iranian national anthems during the 20th century6
Effects of writing topic, first language background, and second language proficiency on ‘V that’ clauses in argumentative writing5
Linguistic complexity of public legal information texts for young persons5
Recontextualization of the arguments of ‘innocence’ by a football club on Turkish newsprint media5
Interactional functions of truncated predicative complement construction “AP + (dek)le” as topic initiator in Shanghai Wu Chinese conversation5
Shifting from a ‘just’ to a ‘fair’ transition in environmental discourse: a case of old wine in a new bottle?5
Risk and resilience in a changing climate: a diachronic analysis in the press across the globe5
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Conversation analysis and Wittgenstein4
Stance construction via that-clauses in telecommunications research articles: a comparison of L1 and L2 expert writers4
Meaning-making and transformative engagement – notes on Gunther Kress’s social semiotic and multimodal approach to learning4
How pandemic detective narratives potentiate and debilitate trust4
Nextness and story organization: ‘my day’ sequences in parent-child interaction4
Aggression in diplomatic notes – a pragmatic analysis of a Chinese-American conflict in times of colonisation4
Metadiscourse: the evolution of an approach to texts3
Preliminary jury instructing: a dilemmatic communication practice3
Development of a translation device for axiological-semantic density in political news articles: wording and charging3
The Written British National Corpus 2014 – design and comparability3
“The results might not fully represent…”: Negation in the limitations sections of doctoral theses by Chinese and American students3
Pragmatic patterns in Bram Stoker’s Dracula3
Note-taking/making as a resource for substantiating advice at a second language speaking center3
The dynamic configuration of non-linear texts in live blogs: a discursive approach3
Media representations of foreign domestic helpers in Hong Kong: a corpus-assisted discourse analysis3
Identity construction and its collocation networks: a cross-register analysis of the finance domain2
Developing an annotation protocol for evaluative stance and metaphor in discourse: theoretical and methodological considerations2
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With or without a purpose? Judges’ appraisal of offenders or their behaviour in six sentencing remarks2
Motivated signs and multimodal analysis in Gunther Kress’s semiotics2
Ill, vulnerable and kind: a corpus-based study of the discourse representation of older adults on Weibo2
A window into interpersonal relations inJane Eyrefrom the perspective of imperatives2
Turning talk into text: the representation of contemporary urban vernaculars in Swedish fiction2
The effects of manipulative rhetoric in Kevin Spacey’s “Let Me Be Frank” YouTube video2
Recent advances in the corpus-based study of ongoing grammatical change in English2
“We usually use paragraph one to introduce the topic”: trust building via appraisals by practicum EFL teachers in classroom interactions2
Questioning Chinese government officials on a live broadcast TV program: shifted second-person pronouns and journalists’ stance and identity2
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Comparing the negotiation of attitudes in audience-sensitive art exhibition labels: how they engage visitors of different age groups2
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Representations of “leftover” women and men in the Chinese English-language news media: a keyword analysis of similarities and difference1
The problem of translating Chinese policy-related expressions: a case study of wenming (‘civilised’)1
Multiactivity in adult-child interaction: accounts resolving conflicting courses of action in request sequences1
What modes can and cannot do: Affordance in Gunther Kress’s theory of sign making1
Proximal versus distant suffering in TV news discourses on COVID-19 pandemic1
A comparative study of interactional metadiscourse used by American and Chinese corporate leaders in corporate social responsibility (CSR) statements1
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Teacher talk in primary school science: a focus on the exploration phase1
Whose voice is it? Evaluations of journalistic voices in news translation about the 2014 Hong Kong protests1
Intensification for discursive evaluation: a corpus-pragmatic view1
Typography and meaning-making in Arabic children’s literature: the covert communication!1
The Love Letters: ethnopoetics and echoes of the past in a Danish spoken narrative of personal experience1
‘You said, we did’: a corpus-based analysis of marketising discourse in healthcare websites1
Narratives about epistemic trespassing1
Text as tautology: an exploration in inference, transitivity, and logical compression1
The creative minds of Arab cartoonists: metaphor, culture and context1
The normative order of sensing: enacting the tasting sheet in tasting training sessions1
Children’s invoking of school rules in directive sequences with adults at home and school: mobilizing the teacher and school artefacts as authoritative sources1
Appraisal as co-selection and media performativity: 5G technology imaged in German news discourse1
Genre-structural analysis of Arabic accident news reporting1
The use of clarificatory metaphors in argumentative discourse in British Public Bill Committee debates1
Arabic songs: an affective forum for combating COVID-19 and other insecurities1
Discourse module in mind: a biolinguistical hypothesis of macro-structure1
Reframing Arabic narratives on Daesh [ISIS] textually through translation: MEMRI’s translation as a case study1
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Environmental issues in the Anthropocene: ecolinguistic perspectives across media and genres1
Self-categorization: a resource for the management of experiential entitlement in talk about child death1
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Proximization: a critical cognitive analysis of health security discourse1
The naming of emotions in dispute mediators’ strategic manoeuvring: a case study using a French language corpus1
Ear cupping in EFL classroom interaction: an embodied means of pursuing students’ response1
Stancetaking in motion: stance triangle and double dialogicality1
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Participatory viewers’ engagement with the dual translation problem on the danmu interface: a social semiotic case study0
Enacted category claims and tacit orientations to older identities in the telling of a sexually-explicit anecdote0
Non-directive play therapy with autistic adolescents: a qualitative study of therapists’ interactional practices0
Changing discourses of climate change: building social-ecological resilience cross-culturally0
Japanese hypothetical enactment as a response to third-party complaint0
Compliment responses in Hong Kong: an application of Leech’s pragmatics of politeness0
Bold and impactful: a reappraisal of Gunther Kress’s (social) semiotic legacy in the light of current multimodality research0
Politeness, performance, and pointing: gesture in Chinese reality television0
Identifying and describing functional discourse units in the BNC Spoken 20140
Emotion displays in “moments of conflict” in parent-child interaction0
The discursive legitimation of corporate ecological identity in Chinese sustainability discourse0
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Fighting terrorism, fighting the West: Them versus Us appraisal in Chinese media’s discursive war on terror0
Rapport-building in extreme environments: the case of astronauts in space and support crew on the ground0
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Are netizens social Darwinists?: Recontextualization of Chinese survival discourse in online discussions about the US-China trade war0
Lifting the pen and the gaze: embodied recruitment in collaborative writing0
National discourses in (de)legitimations of the Swedish COVID-19 strategy0
Moral legitimation in capital trials: the case of the prosecution’s closing summation0
“Hope it’s not just the honeymoon phase”: online discursive portrayals of migrant domestic helpers0
Indexicality and ideology in narratives about intimate partner violence0
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Oops! I can’t express this in English!”: managing epistemic challenges by Chinese EFL peer tutors in writing tutorials0
The digital approach to semiotics: a systematic review0
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Car bumper stickers in Jordan as a site of carnivalesque transgression and degradation0
Gunther Kress and the craft of meaning making0
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Damned if feminists do, damned if feminists don’t? Political significance of institutional inclusive writing guidelines in a Belgian francophone university0
The discursive construction of a conflict: a case of disputed islands in the East China Sea0
Explaining the misconduct: Meaning-making of legitimation strategies in corporate apologies on Weibo0
Nǐ kànzhe bàn ba: negotiating complaint solutions in e-shopping service encounters0
“Un projet de justice et de progrès social”: President Macron’s 2020 new year message to the nation. A linguistic viewpoint0
Employing political persuasion to manage rapport: qualitative analysis of campaign leaflets in Sheffield Central constituency0
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The functions of grammaticalized complement-taking-predicate clauses in interrogatives: a typology0
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Divergence in uncertainty: the Korean non-committal suffix -(u)lkel0
The Anthropocene: genesis of a term and popularization in the press0
Marked Themes in academic writing: a comparative look at the sciences and humanities0
Engagement and constructiveness in online news comments in English and Russian0
Epilogue: commentary on stancetaking in motion0
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Expanded and non-conforming answers in standardized survey interviews0
Narrative navigation in legal persuasion: a rhetorical analysis of lawyers’ affidavits and skeleton arguments for appellate relief in criminal cases in Malawi0
Referential accessibility as an index of the discourse functions of predicative and specificational clauses0
Using genre to explain how children linguistically co-construct make-believe social scenarios in classroom role-play0
“Together we can all make little steps towards a better world”: interdiscursive construction of ecologically engaged voices in YouTube vlogs0
Masking directions: teacher instructions and COVID-19 protocols0
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The effects of modal value and imperative mood on self-predicted compliance to health guidance: the case of COVID-190
Insincerity in lawyers’ questioning strategies in Malawian criminal courtroom discourse0
“I did not know that there were problems”: government officials’ blame avoidance strategies in the Life Esidimeni Arbitration Hearings0
The use of material resources in vocabulary explanations: a conversation analytic inquiry0
“Nature needs you”: discursive constructions of legitimacy and identification in environmental charity appeals0
ACTIVATE! Change Drivers: blame-attribution and active citizenship on a South Africa youth blog0
Formulations in Chinese criminal courtroom interaction0
Disease mongering, overdiagnosis, and media practices: a critical discourse analysis of sluggish cognitive tempo (SCT) and the motivational deficiency disorder (MoDeD) spoof0
Constructing future parental suitability: prospective adoptive parents’ communicative strategies in adoption assessment interviews0
Communicating climate change: how (not) to touch a cord with people and promote action0
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Gunther Kress - Explorer of the Semiotic Landscape0
Phrase-frames in business emails: a contrast between learners of business English and working professionals0
Remembering Geoffrey Leech0
The use of animal classifiers as a stance negotiation strategy in Cantonese interactional discourse0
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Determination and agency in the work of Gunther Kress0
An appraisal analysis of judgement values on a Chinese political web forum0
Evaluative language in Chinese online food discourse: overall distribution, local patterning, and readers’ involvement0
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On the face-threat attenuating functions of Korean com: implications for internal and external dialogic processing in interaction0
Stance in press releases versus business news: a lexical bundle approach0
Dialogical functions of metaphors in medical interactions0
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The chair’s use of address terms in workplace meetings0
Metaphor(s) of the platform economy in the trade union discourse0
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Display of understanding in a second story: second teller’s reenactments and reuses of the prior teller’s resources0
“Hypophora” and “question cascade” in Cantonese political discourse: the stance triangle and the use of rhetorical moves and utterance final particles0
Automated football match reports as models of textuality0
The discourse world of unbecoming in online depression narratives in China: a discursive psychology approach0
“Yo I am Superman, You Kiddo Go Home”: ritual impoliteness in Chinese freestyle rap battles0
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Critical comments in the disciplines: a comparative look at peer review reports in applied linguistics and engineering0
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Formulaic language in L1 and advanced L2 English speech: multiword structures in the speech of two Swedish groups compared to a group of L1 English speakers0
Metaphorical language in the discourse of Yasser Arafat0
Narratives of industrial damage and natural recovery: an ecolinguistic perspective0
How do AI and human users interact? Positioning of AI and human users in customer service0
Environmental issues in the Victorian era: an ecostylistic examination of metaphor and framing in Ruskin’sThe Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century0
Correlation between context and language at a high delicate level: taking Chinese emotion 喜欢 as an example0
Embodied movement as a stratified semiotic mode: how movement, gaze and speech mean together in the classroom0
Agency and responsibility in environmental reporting in the Chinese press: a corpus-based diachronic analysis0
Epistemological stance and passive reporting verbs in judicial opinions: the case of BE expected to and BE supposed to0
The readability of online health information for L1 and L2 Australians: text-based and user-focused research0
Metaphors we are robbed by: a critical discourse analysis of ‘the national cake’ and Nigeria’s prebendal elite0
The influences of proficiency and gender on Uyghur-Mandarin children’s advice-giving0
Time for Brexit? Temporalities in the 2019 UK European election campaign0
Positive and negative risk in adventure tourism discourse: adrenaline hunting in “arctic Lapland”0
Swearing in informal spoken English: 1990s–2010s0
Fictional characterization through repair, membership categorization, and attribute ascription0
Towards a new typology of the referential information structure of specificational it-clefts0
Educators’ uptake of Kress’s ideas on meaning-making and literacy: a case study from South Africa0
“Guided by the science”: a keyword analysis of government ministers’ and scientists’ stance in the UK government’s COVID-19 press briefings0
Practices of discursive urban place-making in Brooklyn, New York: (hidden) digital and embodied discourse0
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