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Linguistics and Discourse Analysis

Linguistics and Discourse Analysis is a research topic within Philosophy. Science Explorer counts 44k research works in it since 1950. 10.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on discourse analysis, argumentation, rhetoric, ethos, pragmatics, and sociolinguistics. It explores linguistic variation, genre analysis, and textual cohesion in communication studies.

  • Discourse Analysis
  • Argumentation
  • Rhetoric
  • Ethos
  • Pragmatics
  • Sociolinguistics
  • Genre Analysis
  • Linguistic Variation
  • Communication Studies
  • Textual Cohesion
Research works
44k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
4.8k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-25%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
France
59% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Linguistics and Discourse Analysis

Which countries lead Linguistics and Discourse Analysis research?

By volume, France and Brazil publish the most (3.2k and 612 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 France 3.2k works
  2. 2 Brazil 612 works
  3. 3 Canada 331 works
  4. 4 United States 278 works
  5. 5 Switzerland 204 works
  6. 6 ?? 203 works
  7. 7 Spain 176 works
  8. 8 Belgium 170 works
  9. 9 Italy 123 works
  10. 10 United Kingdom 117 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.

France: 59.4%Brazil: 11.2%Canada: 6.1%United States: 5.1%6 others listed: 18.2%59%largest
France3,246 · 59.4%Brazil612 · 11.2%Canada331 · 6.1%United States278 · 5.1%6 others listed993 · 18.2%

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

Which institutions lead Linguistics and Discourse Analysis research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Linguistics and Discourse Analysis research, followed by Université de Lyon and Université Sorbonne Nouvelle.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 772 works
  2. 2 Université de LyonFrance 159 works
  3. 3 Université Sorbonne NouvelleFrance 133 works
  4. 4 Sorbonne UniversitéFrance 117 works
  5. 5 Université de LorraineFrance 114 works
  6. 6 Université Paris CitéFrance 99 works
  7. 7 Université Paris NanterreFrance 92 works
  8. 8 Université Lille Nord de FranceFrance 87 works
  9. 9 Université Grenoble AlpesFrance 86 works
  10. 10 Université Toulouse - Jean JaurèsFrance 78 works

Who are the leading researchers in Linguistics and Discourse Analysis?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Linguistics and Discourse Analysis include Richard M. Ryan, Pierre Bourdıeu and Michel Foucault.

  1. 1 Richard M. Ryan United States 395k citations
  2. 2 Pierre Bourdıeu France 268k citations
  3. 3 Michel Foucault France 208k citations
  4. 4 Christopher D. Manning United States 179k citations
  5. 5 Aaron T. Beck United States 151k citations
  6. 6 Noam Chomsky United States 141k 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 Linguistics and Discourse Analysis?

The most cited paper in Linguistics and Discourse Analysis is "A theory of focus interpretation" (Mats Rooth, 1992), with 3,203 citations. Next come "Referring as a collaborative process" (2,433) and "Stance and engagement: a model of interaction in academic discourse" (2,004).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A theory of focus interpretation Mats Rooth · Natural Language Semantics Feb 1992 3,203
2 Referring as a collaborative process Herbert H. Clark, Deanna Wilkes-Gibbs · Cognition Open access Feb 1986 2,433
3 Stance and engagement: a model of interaction in academic discourse Ken Hyland · Discourse Studies 2 Mar 2005 2,004
4 Metaphoric structuring: understanding time through spatial metaphors Lera Boroditsky · Cognition Open access Apr 2000 1,853
5 Metapragmatic discourse and metapragmatic function Michael C. Silverstein · Cambridge University Press eBooks Book chapter 4 Mar 1993 1,347
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Linguistics and Discourse Analysis research done?

The largest centres of Linguistics and Discourse Analysis research in 2022-now are Paris (France), Lyon (France), Toulouse (France) and Nanterre (France). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Metz, Cergy-Pontoise and Paris.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 ParisFrance 931 works
  2. 2 LyonFrance 213 works
  3. 3 ToulouseFrance 155 works
  4. 4 NanterreFrance 125 works
  5. 5 MontrealCanada 115 works
  6. 6 GrenobleFrance 106 works
  7. 7 MontpellierFrance 101 works
  8. 8 São PauloBrazil 95 works
  9. 9 LilleFrance 91 works
  10. 10 NancyFrance 90 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Metz35.5 works178×
  2. Cergy-PontoiseFR · 65.0 works101×
  3. Paris52.6 works87×
  4. NanterreFR · 125.5 works67×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Linguistics and Discourse Analysis than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Linguistics and Discourse Analysis?

Among universities, judged by research, Université de Lyon, University of Lausanne and University of Fribourg 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%20%40%mean 12.96%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of FribourgUniversity of LausanneCY Cergy Paris Unive…Université de Lyon
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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
1Université de LyonFrance 61.17.8%42.3×159 +12.1%
2University of LausanneSwitzerland 61.112.3%29.2×78 +34.5%
3University of FribourgSwitzerland 57.640.8%15.1×13 -6.1%
4CY Cergy Paris UniversitéFrance 55.59.6%126.4×64 +69.0%
5University of NeuchâtelSwitzerland 55.123.6%50.0×18 +21.4%
6Université Sorbonne NouvelleFrance 54.06.0%188.8×133 +8.0%
7Université Paris CitéFrance 52.210.6%22.3×99 -16.3%
8Université Toulouse - Jean JaurèsFrance 51.05.7%92.1×78 +14.9%
9Université de LorraineFrance 50.65.4%51.1×114 -3.4%
10Université de MontpellierFrance 50.57.8%18.2×36 +23.0%

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 Linguistics and Discourse Analysis, country by country

Is Linguistics and Discourse Analysis research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 25% 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 Linguistics and Discourse Analysis as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.031% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Linguistics and Discourse Analysis0.017% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Linguistics and Discourse Analysis 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%Linguistics and Discourse Analysis9.4% 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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