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Language and Culture

Language and Culture is a research topic within Linguistics and Language. Science Explorer counts 20k research works in it since 1950. 9.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the intersection of language and culture in multicultural contexts, covering topics such as multilingualism, ethnolinguistics, cultural identity, media discourse, sociolinguistics, and lexicography. It delves into the complexities of language use, communication, and cultural representation in diverse communities.

  • Language
  • Culture
  • Multilingualism
  • Ethnolinguistics
  • Cultural Identity
  • Translation
  • Media Discourse
  • Sociolinguistics
  • Lexicography
  • Ethnography
Research works
20k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-22%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Poland
88% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Language and Culture

Which countries lead Language and Culture research?

By volume, Poland and Ukraine publish the most (3.6k and 115 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Poland 3.6k works
  2. 2 Ukraine 115 works
  3. 3 Czechia 89 works
  4. 4 United States 88 works
  5. 5 Germany 56 works
  6. 6 Russia 55 works
  7. 7 Italy 38 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 28 works
  9. 9 Lithuania 25 works
  10. 10 France 22 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

Poland: 87.5%Ukraine: 2.8%Czechia: 2.2%United States: 2.1%6 others listed: 5.4%88%largest
Poland3,620 · 87.5%Ukraine115 · 2.8%Czechia89 · 2.2%United States88 · 2.1%6 others listed223 · 5.4%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Language and Culture research?

By volume in 2022-now, Jagiellonian University publishes the most Language and Culture research, followed by University of Warsaw and Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Jagiellonian UniversityPoland 357 works
  2. 2 University of WarsawPoland 337 works
  3. 3 Adam Mickiewicz University in PoznańPoland 319 works
  4. 4 Polish Academy of SciencesPoland 317 works
  5. 5 University of ŁódźPoland 189 works
  6. 6 Maria Curie-Skłodowska UniversityPoland 147 works
  7. 7 University of Silesia in KatowicePoland 139 works
  8. 8 University of WrocławPoland 133 works
  9. 9 John Paul II Catholic University of LublinPoland 118 works
  10. 10 University of GdańskPoland 116 works

Who are the leading researchers in Language and Culture?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Language and Culture include Pierre Bourdıeu, Erving Goffman and Bruno Latour.

  1. 1 Pierre Bourdıeu France 268k citations
  2. 2 Erving Goffman United States 133k citations
  3. 3 Bruno Latour France 129k citations
  4. 4 Robert A. Kyle United States 120k citations
  5. 5 David Hume Australia 107k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Language and Culture?

The most cited paper in Language and Culture is "On multiple questions and multiple WH fronting" (Catherine Rudin, 1988), with 593 citations. Next come "The semantics of interjection" (294) and "The defective tense hypothesis: on the emergence of tense and aspect in child Polish" (276).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 On multiple questions and multiple WH fronting Catherine Rudin · Natural Language & Linguistic Theory Nov 1988 593
2 The semantics of interjection Anna Wierzbicka · Journal of Pragmatics Sep 1992 294
3 The defective tense hypothesis: on the emergence of tense and aspect in child Polish Richard M. Weist, Hanna Wysocka, Katarzyna Witkowska‐Stadnik et al. · Journal of Child Language Jun 1984 276
4 Poetry of Grammar and Grammar of Poetry Roman Jakobson, Krystyna Pomorska, Stephen Rudy · University of Minnesota Press eBooks Book chapter 31 Dec 1981 221
5 On Headed, Headless, and Light-Headed Relatives Barbara Citko · Natural Language & Linguistic Theory Dec 2003 177
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Where is Language and Culture research done?

The largest centres of Language and Culture research in 2022-now are Warsaw (Poland), Krakow (Poland), Poznań (Poland) and Lublin (Poland). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Gorzów Wielkopolski, Opava and Bydgoszcz.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 WarsawPoland 797 works
  2. 2 KrakowPoland 665 works
  3. 3 PoznańPoland 345 works
  4. 4 LublinPoland 286 works
  5. 5 KatowicePoland 225 works
  6. 6 ŁódźPoland 219 works
  7. 7 WrocławPoland 157 works
  8. 8 GdańskPoland 137 works
  9. 9 ToruńPoland 102 works
  10. 10 OlsztynPoland 95 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Gorzów WielkopolskiPL · 27.7 works306×
  2. OpavaCZ · 22.3 works144×
  3. BydgoszczPL · 75.7 works118×
  4. Zielona GóraPL · 37.6 works117×
  5. KatowicePL · 224.7 works102×
  6. KrakowPL · 665.1 works99×
  7. ToruńPL · 102.4 works98×
  8. OlsztynPL · 94.9 works97×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Language and Culture than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Language and Culture?

Among universities, judged by research, Jagiellonian University, University of Ostrava and University of Łódź score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%10%20%mean 12.19%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of OstravaUniversity of ŁódźJagiellonian Univers…University of Warsaw
above the meannear itbelow it

One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Jagiellonian UniversityPoland 59.410.7%147.6×357 +3.9%
2University of OstravaCzechia 59.316.3%43.2×11 +23.4%
3University of ŁódźPoland 53.913.4%183.5×189 -8.8%
4University of WarsawPoland 53.19.2%181.2×337 -17.6%
5Adam Mickiewicz University in PoznańPoland 51.19.9%216.9×319 -22.6%
6University of Silesia in KatowicePoland 51.19.6%184.3×139 +6.6%
7Kazimierz Wielki University in BydgoszczPoland 48.212.1%247.3×66 +19.3%
8Uniwersytet SWPSPoland 46.120.8%37.1×8 -16.6%
9University of RzeszówPoland 43.910.3%135.3×76 +0.9%
10Maria Curie-Skłodowska UniversityPoland 43.69.6%210.2×147 -34.8%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Language and Culture, country by country

Is Language and Culture research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 22% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2018.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Language and Culture as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.021% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Language and Culture0.014% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Language and Culture over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Language and Culture9.5% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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