OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Text & Talk is 2. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
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Targeting and double accountabilities of action in interaction	17
Stance construction via that-clauses in telecommunications research articles: a comparison of L1 and L2 expert writers	13
“The results might not fully represent…”: Negation in the limitations sections of doctoral theses by Chinese and American students	12
The dynamic configuration of non-linear texts in live blogs: a discursive approach	11
The effects of manipulative rhetoric in Kevin Spacey’s “Let Me Be Frank” YouTube video	9
Environmental issues in the Anthropocene: ecolinguistic perspectives across media and genres	9
Representations of “leftover” women and men in the Chinese English-language news media: a keyword analysis of similarities and difference	8
The use of clarificatory metaphors in argumentative discourse in British Public Bill Committee debates	7
The use of animal classifiers as a stance negotiation strategy in Cantonese interactional discourse	7
Genre-structural analysis of Arabic accident news reporting	7
Participatory viewers’ engagement with the dual translation problem on the danmu interface: a social semiotic case study	7
Teacher talk in primary school science: a focus on the exploration phase	7
National discourses in (de)legitimations of the Swedish COVID-19 strategy	6
Divergence in uncertainty: the Korean non-committal suffix -(u)lkel	6
“Un projet de justice et de progrès social”: President Macron’s 2020 new year message to the nation. A linguistic viewpoint	6
Compliment responses in Hong Kong: an application of Leech’s pragmatics of politeness	6
Metaphors we are robbed by: a critical discourse analysis of ‘the national cake’ and Nigeria’s prebendal elite	6
Narratives of industrial damage and natural recovery: an ecolinguistic perspective	6
Automated football match reports as models of textuality	6
Critical comments in the disciplines: a comparative look at peer review reports in applied linguistics and engineering	6
Explaining the misconduct: Meaning-making of legitimation strategies in corporate apologies on Weibo	6
Moral legitimation in capital trials: the case of the prosecution’s closing summation	6
“Hypophora” and “question cascade” in Cantonese political discourse: the stance triangle and the use of rhetorical moves and utterance final particles	5

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“Nature needs you”: discursive constructions of legitimacy and identification in environmental charity appeals	5
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Interactional functions of truncated predicative complement construction “AP + (dek)le” as topic initiator in Shanghai Wu Chinese conversation	4
The functions of grammaticalized complement-taking-predicate clauses in interrogatives: a typology	4
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Preliminary jury instructing: a dilemmatic communication practice	3
What modes can and cannot do: Affordance in Gunther Kress’s theory of sign making	3
Reframing Arabic narratives on Daesh [ISIS] textually through translation: MEMRI’s translation as a case study	3
Comparing the negotiation of attitudes in audience-sensitive art exhibition labels: how they engage visitors of different age groups	3
The creative minds of Arab cartoonists: metaphor, culture and context	3
The naming of emotions in dispute mediators’ strategic manoeuvring: a case study using a French language corpus	3
Proximization: a critical cognitive analysis of health security discourse	3
Conversation analysis and Wittgenstein	3
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Typography and meaning-making in Arabic children’s literature: the covert communication!	3
Agency and responsibility in environmental reporting in the Chinese press: a corpus-based diachronic analysis	2
Rapport-building in extreme environments: the case of astronauts in space and support crew on the ground	2
Employing political persuasion to manage rapport: qualitative analysis of campaign leaflets in Sheffield Central constituency	2
Swearing in informal spoken English: 1990s–2010s	2
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Narratives about epistemic trespassing	2
Insincerity in lawyers’ questioning strategies in Malawian criminal courtroom discourse	2
Car bumper stickers in Jordan as a site of carnivalesque transgression and degradation	2
Metaphorical language in the discourse of Yasser Arafat	2
Ear cupping in EFL classroom interaction: an embodied means of pursuing students’ response	2
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Expanded and non-conforming answers in standardized survey interviews	2
Time for Brexit? Temporalities in the 2019 UK European election campaign	2
Emotion displays in “moments of conflict” in parent-child interaction	2