Bibliometric Analysis as a Methodological Tool in Researching Academic Discourse
Abstract
The paper focuses on academic discourse through the prism of bibliometric analysis.
The relevance of the research is determined by a variety of approaches to this type of discourse, a wide range of empiric material, as well as a constantly growing list of publications that reflect various aspects of academic discourse functioning.
The research aims at identifying key trends in the study of English academic discourse at the current stage.
The range of research objectives includes systematization of publications on academic discourse in terms of topics, research material, genre diversity, approaches to its study, as well as methods of analysis. The main methodological principle of the research is to apply bibliometric analysis to the study of the main problems of academic discourse. The research results have shown that the key areas of research in academic discourse are socialization in academic discourse, digital research methods, genre diversity, etc. The study showed that bibliometric analysis is an effective tool for studying current trends in the study of academic discourse. Researchers focus on the linguistic, socio-cultural, evaluative, pragmatic, emotional aspects of this type of discourse. Oral and written texts of academic discourse in all their diversity become the material of research, varying from the statements of the teacher in the classroom to the academic blog.
About the Author
A. A. Vodyanitskaya
Moscow City Pedagogical University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Albina A. Vodyanitskaya, Candidate of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor
Institute of Foreign Languages
Department of Linguistics and Translation Studies
129226
2nd Selskokhozyaistvenny proezd 4
Moscow
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Vodyanitskaya A.A. Bibliometric Analysis as a Methodological Tool in Researching Academic Discourse. Proceedings of the Southwest State University. Series: Linguistics and Pedagogy. 2021;11(1):71-81. (In Russ.)
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