A Bibliometric Study on Chinese Discourse (1994–2021)

ABSTRACT

As the rise of China in the international sphere, Chinese discourse has received more and more attention from scholars of various disciplines. A bibliometric analysis maps the landscape of Chinese discourse studies (1994–2021) from the Web of Science, mainly concerning its research productivity, research focus and research impact, to investigate contemporary and future trends through co-authorship, co-occurrence, co-citation and citation analysis respectively. Studies on Chinese discourse were found to expand continuously. Discourse analysts are increasingly interested in media discourse, political discourse, regional discourse (especially Hong Kong and Taiwan) by adopting corpus approach with various analytical frameworks.

KEYWORDS:

• Chinese discourse studies (CNDS)
• bibliometric study
• research productivity
• research focus
• research impact

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Notes

1 The eighteen journals are Chinese Language and Discourse, Classroom Discourse, Critical Arts, Critical Discourse Studies, Discourse & Communication, Discourse & Society, Discourse Context & Media, Discourse Processes, Discourse Studies, International Journal of Legal Discourse, Journal of Language and Politics, Journal of Multicultural Discourses, Language & Communication, Language and Intercultural Communication, Lingua, Research on Language and Social Interaction, Social Semiotics and Text & Talk.

2 Many articles will be calculated more than once because of the co-authorship, thus the total number in Table 2 (i.e., 498) is more than that in the dataset for this study (i.e., 471).

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Funding

This study was supported by Postgraduate Education Comprehensive Reform Research and Practice Project (22XWYJGA28) and Undergraduate Teaching Reform Research Project (22BYDSZ05).