A CiteSpace-based Analysis of International Advances of Critical Discourse Analysis Study (2014-2023)

Abstract

Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) has developed into the second decade of the 21^st century, there is necessary to visualize their evolution and envision their future development. By utilizing the visualization software CiteSpace, this paper makes a scientometric analysis of SSCI journal papers in Web of Science core database of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) from 2014-2023. Through analyzing the quantity of journal papers, the high productivity authors, the research institutions, published journals and the research focus key words, the study tries to figure out the general trend and characteristics of the international CDA researches and depicts a holistic insight of international CDA researches in recent 10 years. The paper presents the latest international research advances and tendency as well as provides references for the CDA study in the future.