Abstract
The Belt and Road Initiative was proposed in 2013, which develops economic partnerships with countries along the route actively, and builds a community of shared future, interests and responsibility, borrowing the historical symbol of the ancient Silk Road. Language plays an important role in serving the construction of the Belt and Road Initiative. Therefore, by means of bibliometrics analysis, the research tool, CiteSpace, was used to analyze the annual output, authors, keywords, institutes, and hotspots of 1430 papers related to the field of language studies in the context of the Belt and Road Initiative by CNKI database from 2014 to 2018. This paper adopts research methods of co-word analysis and co-word cluster analysis, and more specially, uses research yield analysis, cooperation diagrams analysis and strategic diagram analysis methods. The aim of this research is to sort out the relevant research comprehensively and systematically, outline the overall situation and development trend of these researches, summarize and analyze the hotspots and frontiers. The research shows that the overall trend of language studies in the context of the Belt and Road Initiative has rapid and linear growth. In recent years, the focus of research has been on personnel training, translation strategy, education reform, foreign language talents and so on.
Highlights
The Silk Road is an ancient land commercial trade route starting from ancient China and connecting Asia, Africa and Europe
“popularity” are introduced in the strategic diagram instead of the traditional Centrality and Density, which can more visually disclose the structure of research hotspots in a certain field and its development trend
If there are N co-occurrence technical terms to form K clusters, and M technical terms in each cluster, Y represents the year of emergence, the calculation formula of “novelty” is:
Summary
The Silk Road is an ancient land commercial trade route starting from ancient China and connecting Asia, Africa and Europe. The Belt and Road Initiative is the abbreviation of “Silk Road Economic Belt” and “21st Century Maritime Silk Road”. The Belt and Road upholds the principles of extensive consultation, joint contribution, and shared benefits. It follows the Silk Road spirit featuring peace and cooperation, openness and inclusiveness, mutual learning and mutual benefit. It focuses on policy coordination, connectivity of infrastructure, unimpeded trade, financial integration, and closer people-to-people ties
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