Abstract
The idiom, which is short but powerful, is a set phrase accepted through common practices for a long period of time. The idiom has various forms, and are mainly of four-character structure. Aiming at important issues about the diachronic situation, current hot spots and future trend of four-character idiom research, etc., this paper sorts out the relevant literature published in CNKI from 1979 to 2021, and utilizes CiteSpace to develop the author collaboration network, research institution cooperation network, keyword co-appearance network, clustering map and other visualized knowledge maps in respect to diachronic research situation of four-character idioms. Then, those visualized knowledge maps are quantitatively analyzed to obtain their development trend that rises steadily as a whole. After analysis of current research hot spots, it’s found that the academic circles are currently focusing on researches about ontology and translation of the Chinese. Based on the analysis results, this paper makes a scientific prediction for future idiom development, and deduces that the idioms will evolve towards the direction of construction grammar, cognitive science, etc., in the future.
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