OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Text & Talk 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
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Recurrent gestures and embodied stance-taking in courtroom opening statements	14
English research articles versus MA theses in applied linguistics: comparing the move structure and metadiscourse features in the results and discussion sections	11
“Don’t worry, be a senior?” The metaphorical labelling of late-life depression in Australian news media	10
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Entextualizing high energy texts: an exploration of modal shift on a Chinese online video-sharing website Bilibili	9
Geoff Leech and principled practices	9
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Targeting and double accountabilities of action in interaction	6
The ‘sun’ shinning upon the ‘ever-lasting’ country: a diachronic analysis of Iranian national anthems during the 20th century	6
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 globe	5
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Effects of writing topic, first language background, and second language proficiency on ‘V that’ clauses in argumentative writing	5
Linguistic complexity of public legal information texts for young persons	5
Recontextualization of the arguments of ‘innocence’ by a football club on Turkish newsprint media	5
Interactional functions of truncated predicative complement construction “AP + (dek)le” as topic initiator in Shanghai Wu Chinese conversation	5
Aggression in diplomatic notes – a pragmatic analysis of a Chinese-American conflict in times of colonisation	4
Conversation analysis and Wittgenstein	4
Stance construction via that-clauses in telecommunications research articles: a comparison of L1 and L2 expert writers	4
Meaning-making and transformative engagement – notes on Gunther Kress’s social semiotic and multimodal approach to learning	4
How pandemic detective narratives potentiate and debilitate trust	4
Nextness and story organization: ‘my day’ sequences in parent-child interaction	4
Note-taking/making as a resource for substantiating advice at a second language speaking center	3
The dynamic configuration of non-linear texts in live blogs: a discursive approach	3

Media representations of foreign domestic helpers in Hong Kong: a corpus-assisted discourse analysis	3
Metadiscourse: the evolution of an approach to texts	3
Preliminary jury instructing: a dilemmatic communication practice	3
Development of a translation device for axiological-semantic density in political news articles: wording and charging	3
The Written British National Corpus 2014 – design and comparability	3
“The results might not fully represent…”: Negation in the limitations sections of doctoral theses by Chinese and American students	3
Pragmatic patterns in Bram Stoker’s Dracula	3
Recent advances in the corpus-based study of ongoing grammatical change in English	2
“We usually use paragraph one to introduce the topic”: trust building via appraisals by practicum EFL teachers in classroom interactions	2
Questioning Chinese government officials on a live broadcast TV program: shifted second-person pronouns and journalists’ stance and identity	2
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Comparing the negotiation of attitudes in audience-sensitive art exhibition labels: how they engage visitors of different age groups	2
Identity construction and its collocation networks: a cross-register analysis of the finance domain	2
Developing an annotation protocol for evaluative stance and metaphor in discourse: theoretical and methodological considerations	2
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With or without a purpose? Judges’ appraisal of offenders or their behaviour in six sentencing remarks	2
Motivated signs and multimodal analysis in Gunther Kress’s semiotics	2
Ill, vulnerable and kind: a corpus-based study of the discourse representation of older adults on Weibo	2
A window into interpersonal relations inJane Eyrefrom the perspective of imperatives	2
Turning talk into text: the representation of contemporary urban vernaculars in Swedish fiction	2
The effects of manipulative rhetoric in Kevin Spacey’s “Let Me Be Frank” YouTube video	2
Reframing Arabic narratives on Daesh [ISIS] textually through translation: MEMRI’s translation as a case study	1
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Environmental issues in the Anthropocene: ecolinguistic perspectives across media and genres	1
Self-categorization: a resource for the management of experiential entitlement in talk about child death	1
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Proximization: a critical cognitive analysis of health security discourse	1
The naming of emotions in dispute mediators’ strategic manoeuvring: a case study using a French language corpus	1
Ear cupping in EFL classroom interaction: an embodied means of pursuing students’ response	1
Stancetaking in motion: stance triangle and double dialogicality	1
Frontmatter	1
Representations of “leftover” women and men in the Chinese English-language news media: a keyword analysis of similarities and difference	1
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 sequences	1
What modes can and cannot do: Affordance in Gunther Kress’s theory of sign making	1
Proximal versus distant suffering in TV news discourses on COVID-19 pandemic	1
A comparative study of interactional metadiscourse used by American and Chinese corporate leaders in corporate social responsibility (CSR) statements	1
Epilogue	1
Teacher talk in primary school science: a focus on the exploration phase	1
Whose voice is it? Evaluations of journalistic voices in news translation about the 2014 Hong Kong protests	1
Intensification for discursive evaluation: a corpus-pragmatic view	1
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 experience	1
‘You said, we did’: a corpus-based analysis of marketising discourse in healthcare websites	1
Narratives about epistemic trespassing	1
Text as tautology: an exploration in inference, transitivity, and logical compression	1
The creative minds of Arab cartoonists: metaphor, culture and context	1
The normative order of sensing: enacting the tasting sheet in tasting training sessions	1

Children’s invoking of school rules in directive sequences with adults at home and school: mobilizing the teacher and school artefacts as authoritative sources	1
Appraisal as co-selection and media performativity: 5G technology imaged in German news discourse	1
Genre-structural analysis of Arabic accident news reporting	1
The use of clarificatory metaphors in argumentative discourse in British Public Bill Committee debates	1
Arabic songs: an affective forum for combating COVID-19 and other insecurities	1
Discourse module in mind: a biolinguistical hypothesis of macro-structure	1