Abstract
The editorial review of the top 100 most cited articles on discourse in the subject area of ‘linguistics and language’ aims to define the dominating trends and find out the prevailing article structures for JLE authors to follow as the best practice-based patterns and guidelines. The top 100 quoted articles were singled out from Scopus database, filtered through subject areas (social sciences; arts and humanities), language (English), years (2015-2019), document type (article) and keywords (discourse; discourse analysis; critical discourse analysis; semantics). The research finds out that educational discourses and news media coverage discourses are the most popular themes with 23 publications each; other prevailing topics cover media, policy-related, ecology discourses, metaphors, racism and religion in discourses. As the top 100 cited articles include mainly original articles (both theoretical and empirical), the study focused on the article structure, calling JLE authors’ attention to the journal editors’ stance on article formats.
Highlights
Discourse studies actively started in the 20th century
The term ‘discourse’ appeared in 36,084 document titles indexed in Scopus, with the earliest of them published in 1838
The selected documents decreased to 207. They were published in the following journals: Critical Discourse Studies, Discourse and Communication, Discourse, Discourse Context and Media, Discourse Studies, Journal of Pragmatics, Journal of Multicultural Discourses, Lingua, Linguistics, International Review of Pragmatics, Pragmatics and Society
Summary
Discourse studies actively started in the 20th century. The term ‘discourse’ appeared in 36,084 document titles indexed in Scopus (as of March 1, 2019), with the earliest of them published in 1838. Nearly 2,5002,800 titles, incorporating the term, enter the Scopus database annually. The discourse field coverage ranges from humanities and social sciences to dentistry and geosciences. As discourses occur only in social and cultural settings, much of the focus in research is given to the relationships between discourse and community. Most of discourse studies turn to discourse analysis or based on it, as it examines patterns of language within diverse frameworks and settings. The concept of discourse is studied across the fields and approaches. Extensive methods and approaches evolve and are applied in the field to cover corpus approaches, multimodal discourse analysis, and critical discourse analysis, etc
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