Abstract
This study conducts a bibliometric review of World Englishes (WE) from 2010 to 2020 using CiteSpace. Based on the articles in the four leading journals of WE retrieved from the Web of Science (WoS) database, several findings have been found. First, the number of articles has been gradually increasing from 2010 to 2020, with its citation frequency increasing enormously. Second, the landmark articles in WE research mainly focus on two aspects: the reconceptualization of theoretical frameworks, and the study of English varieties, with an emphasis on English in China. Third, WE research over the past decade includes four major areas: the study of Asian Englishes; language ideology, perceptions, and attitudes toward WE; WE in social media and popular culture; and English as a Lingua Franca (ELF).
Highlights
Quan Li Postgraduate student, School of Foreign Languages, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China; Postgraduate student, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Macau, Macau, China
According to the results of the bibliometric analysis of articles in four leading World Englishes (WE) journals from 2010 to 2020, it is found that the research on WE has been receiving increasing attention from scholars
Through the analysis of the landmark articles of WE, it is found that some theoretical models and frameworks have undergone reconceptualization due to the variability and multilingual nature under the globalization of the 21st century
Summary
“English as an international language of scientific publication: A study of attitudes” “Expanding horizons in the study of World Englishes with the 1.9 billion word Global Web-based English Corpus (GloWbE)” “The statistics of English in China: An analysis of the best available data from government sources”.
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