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A science mapping of studies on courtroom discourse with CiteSpace

  • Min Yang ORCID logo und Min Wang

    Min Wang is a Ph.D. candidate at the School of Foreign Languages, Renmin University of China. She is interested in Forensic Linguistics.

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Abstract

The courtroom, as the most dramatic setting of legal language, is a rich linguistic domain for research; therefore, a science mapping study of the state of the art of this emerging field is of necessity. By CiteSpace V, the present study provides a comprehensive and up-to-date systematic review of the research on courtroom discourse, as presented by 379 article publications and their 10,538 references in the Web of Science (WoS) Core Collection from 1979 to 2021. According to statistics on publications by year, it appears that courtroom discourse research has experienced a period of silence (1979–1992), followed by an emergent period (1993–2005), before entering a period of considerable growth since 2006. Weak cooperative networks, extensive information base, multiple research fronts, and dynamic hotspots of courtroom discourse research have been discovered. Courtroom discourse research focuses on three core topics: courtroom interpreting, the interaction between law, language, power, and ideology, and the investigation of courtroom trial structures. Linguistic communication issues are prominent in courtroom discourse. As far as courtroom subjects are concerned, there is an audience-oriented turn in the latest research front of courtroom discourse. The research hotspots have shifted from language ontology during the emergent period to consolidating and developing the theoretical foundations of courtroom discourse during the rapid development period. According to keyword clustering, stance studies and miscommunication research are significant research hotspots of courtroom discourse.


Corresponding author: Min Wang, School of Foreign Languages, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China, E-mail:

Funding source: Renmin University of China

Award Identifier / Grant number: 20XNL016

About the author

Min Wang

Min Wang is a Ph.D. candidate at the School of Foreign Languages, Renmin University of China. She is interested in Forensic Linguistics.

  1. Research funding: The study was supported by research grant 20XNL016, entitled “Identity Construction of Legal Discourse”, which has been awarded and financed by Renmin University of China as a major research project.

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Received: 2021-05-20
Accepted: 2021-09-20
Published Online: 2021-11-25
Published in Print: 2021-12-20

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