Title: A Visual Analysis of the Articles on Language and Literature in the International Community of Digital Humanities (2010-2023)

Abstract: This paper employs bibliometric method and utilizes CiteSpace 6.2.4 to conduct a visual analysis of the WOS indexed data of 1,128 articles on language and literature in the international community of “Digital Humanities” from 2010 to 2023. The results indicate that the annual publication volume in this field shows an overall increasing trend. The prolific authors, institutions, and countries (regions) are predominantly from Europe and North America, with a strong emphasis on interdisciplinary collaboration. The hot research topics are concentrated in four areas: “Discussions on Digital Humanities”, “Computer-Assisted English Learning Research”, “Telecollaboration Research for Language Learners” and “Distant Reading”. The two monographs of Matthew L. Jockers and Franco Moretti are most frequently co-cited, making them the core scholars with high co-citation rates in this field. Based on these findings, domestic scholars are supposed to actively seek cross-disciplinary cooperation, consciously develop digital literacy, while maintaining the fundamental position of language and literature disciplines, and strive to construct a “Digital Humanities” theoretical discourse system with Chinese characteristics.

Keywords: digital humanities, language and literature, CiteSpace 6.2.4, visual analysis

Author: Biao Liang, Ph.D. Candidate, Foreign Studies College, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan, China.

DOI: 10.19967/j.cnki.flc.2024.04.011