OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Signs and Society 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Language and Neoliberalism in the Online Cosmetic Sample Business	20
From Transcendence to Kitsch: Have We Lost Faith?	15
The Uncanny Magic of Bomb Mail: Cosmopolitan Militarism and the Compulsion to Write on Munitions	13
Improvising through Glitches, Clams, and Deterritorialization in Virtual Reality Games	11
Highlighting and Hiding: Images of Farmers in Chinese News Cartoons	11
A Meditation on Sign-Processes in Their Open-Ended-Ness: On the Non-Purposiveness of Semiosis in Cosmic Play and Equipoise	8
A Semiotics of Coziness and Disappearing Night	8
Multiplex Tactics and Involvement in Small Storytelling: A Case Study from the Global South	8
Diagramming the Possible: Situated Improvisation as a Way of Inhabiting Professional Worlds	7
The Translation Machine: Exploring the Infrastructures of Valorization under Semiocapitalism	6
Poetics and Performance: Fanfa Bands and the Semiotic Landscape in Northern Haiti	5
Creativity and Emergence in Improvisational Theater and in Social Life	4
The Relations between Charles Goodwin’s Interactional Linguistics and Semiotics: Some Reflections on Multimodality and on the Diagram in Scientific Discourse	4
Revisiting the Strategically Deployable Shifter: Manipulating Indeterminacy for Semiotic Power and Profit	4
The Political Uses of Semiotic Indeterminacy	4
Language De-socialization: Introducing a New Concept	3
Signs of Solidarity and Difference: Kaçak Tea, Samimiyet, and the National Public in Turkey	3
How Forests of Qualia Emerge	3
Capitalism and the Semiotics of Corporate Personhood in a Law of Human Persons	3
What Teachers Wear: Working the Wardrobe across 15 Years	2
Civic Stanning and the Semiotics of K-Pop Fan Activism in the Philippines	2
On Metapragmatic Gaslighting: Truth and Trump’s Epistemic Tactics in a Plague Year	2
Selling a Ferrari like Sliced Meat: Confident Stance-Taking, Blockchain Doxa, and the Splitting Power of Asset Tokenization	2
SAS volume 13 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	2
Sticky Raciolinguistics	2

Enregistering Grammatical Gender: Indexing Brabantishness through Languagecultural Practices in Digital Tiles	2
When Dogs Talk: Technologically Mediated Human-Dog Interactions as Semiotic Assemblages	2
Religious Intolerance and the Semiotics of Secular Indeterminacy in Brazil	2
Roundtable: Afterthoughts on the Semiotics of Improvisation	1
“It Was Supposed to Be an Internship”: The Consequences of Semiotic Ambiguity for Labor and Learning in the New Economy	1
The Caveman in the Mirror: Masculinity and Paleofantasy	1
A Raciosemiotics of Appropriation: Transnational Performance of Raciogender among Mexican K-Pop Fans	1
SAS volume 14 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	1
Introduction to “Chronotopes of Gender”	1
Translating Sustainability into Somatic Experience: Renderings of Eco-Cities in Southeast Asia	1
“From the Side, You Should Look like a Japanese Ham Sandwich, No Gap Anywhere”: Exploring Embodied, Linguistic, and Nonlinguistic Signs in Enregisterment Processes of Bikram Yoga in Online and Offline	1
Non-Purposive Semiosis: On the Open-Endedness of Sign- Processes in Cosmic Play and Equipoise – ERRATUM	1
Semiotic Determinacy: Sovereign Citizens’ Approach to Legal Language — CORRIGENDUM	1
From Affect to Value: The Generative Trajectory of K-Pop Fan Practices and Democratic Meaning	1
From Global Expansion to Localization: Recontextualization of the Korean Wave	1
SAS volume 12 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	1
The Enregisterment of Luxembourgish Standards in the Nineteenth Century	1
SAS volume 12 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	1
Introduction: Unthinking Language from a Posthumanist Perspective	0
Gendered Chronotopes on Social Media Through the Lens of Small Stories and Positioning Analysis: The Case of the “Pretty Girl” on Xiaohongshu (RedNote)	0
Korean Words in the OED : Race, Gender, and the Modern English Speaker	0
Commentary: Can the Korean Wave Save the World?	0
The Counting Machinery: Translation, Multiplication, and Liberal Politics of Homelessness in Paris	0
Political Satire and Collective Reproduction: The Power of Political Nicknames in Hong Kong	0
Absurdities of Indeterminacy: Swastikas and Playing with the Token-Type Relationship	0
The Hands as Reflex Republic	0
The Chronotope of Piety in the Contested Space–Time of Islamic Modernity in Pakistan	0
SAS volume 12 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	0
SAS volume 11 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	0
“We Share an Unbreakable Bond:” Sociality and Language Ideologies in Human Relationships with Artificial Intelligence	0
From Berimbolo to Bolo-Player: Kinesic Enregisterment and Motion Text in the Jitsuverse	0
In the Grip of the Moment: Time, Touch, and Embodied Improvisation	0
Creating Common Knowledge about the Causes of Tidal Flooding in Kendal Regency, Indonesia	0
Disgust and Disdain in Meat Interactions in Mumbai: Halal Practice, Industrial Meat Production, and Urban-Spatial Configuration	0
“The Original Conyo”: Elite Register Emanation and Inversion	0
After Words: There Is No Language without Materiality	0
SAS volume 11 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	0
“Songs to Soothe a Mother”: Chronotopes of Gender in Kiowa War Mother Songs	0
From Stance to Identity within Signs: Noncommercial Slogans in China	0
The Collector and the End of Beauty	0
SAS volume 13 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	0
(De)coupling Positional Whiteness and White Identities through “Good English” in Singapore	0
Locally Global: Entextualizations of the K- Morpheme in Contemporary Korean Popular Culture	0
The Poetics of Denial: Epistemic Politics and the Climate Stereotype on Tangier Island, USA	0
The Ideograph-Based Linguistic Chineseness: Evidence from the Disappearance of Derivational Morphology	0
“I Am Not a Computer”: A Multimodal Co-construction of Justice in a Real Jury Deliberation	0
“Say a Sentence”: Drawing an Interactional Link between Organizations, Language Ideologies, and Coloniality	0
From the Time of Ignorance to the Afterlife: Gendered Chronotopes and Religious Nostalgia in Swahili-Language Islamic Marital Booklets	0
Koreaish: Aesthetics, Qualia, and the Sensory Emergence of Korea Among Young Japanese Women	0
Timbre Beyond Words: Communication about Sound in a Violin Crafter’s Workshop	0

What Page Are You On? Cross-Modal Coordination and the Sensory Dimensions of Social Reading	0
Voices, Bodies, and the Cultural Organization of Meaning	0
Semiotic Determinacy: Sovereign Citizens’ Approach to Legal Language	0
SAS volume 13 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	0
Mentalese	0
Introduction to “Synesthetic Encounters”	0
SAS volume 11 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	0
The Rise of Cross-Language Internet Memes: A Social Semiotic Analysis	0
The Semiotics of Aura: Copying Religious Images in Coptic Households	0
Commentary: Recombinant Korea in Late Interdiscursivity	0
Scatological Encounter: Scatoglossia, Adjectival Deixis, and Referential Practice across Sino-Tibetan Inter-Cultural Science Collaboration	0
Semiotics of Naming: Narrating and Meaning-Making of the Place Ieodo	0
Translations Interrupted: Italian Neorural Revivals and the Neodialect Poetics of Nonscalability	0
Beyond the Secret (gsang ba): The Performativity of Citation in an Exile Tibetan Buddhist Ritual	0
SAS volume 14 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	0
Translating Feelings and Mastering Empathy Statements in New Delhi’s International Call Centers	0
Commentary: Synaesthetic Encounters, Spinozan Affect, and Peircean Secondness	0
Crowdsourcing Platforms for Ukrainian Refugees: Meaning Making in Infrastructures of Problem-Solving	0
Transmitting Senses in Street Dance: Body, Freestyle, and Deixis	0
SAS volume 13 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	0
The Semiotics of Improvisation	0
Abstract Spontaneity: On Brushstrokes as Gestures	0
Pearl Nationalism: Tradwives and the Chronotopes of Femininity	0
An Unheard Voice: The Paintings of Zohar Tal Inbar, a Mother Looking at Her Soldier Son	0
More Than Signs: International Sign as Distributed Practice	0
“Since When Do Gos Speak Francanglais?”: Youth Slang and Gender Ideologies in a Cameroonian YouTube Series	0
From Print Capitalism to Data Capitalism in Japan: Desertification through Dataveillance	0
Toward a “Both-And” Semiotics of Intersectionality: Raciolinguistics beyond White Settler-Colonial Situations	0
“How Will I Know?”: Semiotic Indeterminacy, Transparency, and Expectations of Sincerity in the Global Nuclear Order	0
Translating Made-in-Italy Across Time and Space	0