多元社會環境下,跨文化交際研究具有十分重要的理論和現實意義。 本文採用 HistCite 和 CiteSpace 兩款軟體,對跨文化交際研究的歷史、現狀 和當前研究熱點進行了分析,資料來源為 1950 至 2021 年間科學引文資料 庫(Web of Science,WOS)收錄的所有跨文化交際研究文獻資料。結果發現, 跨文化交際研究在 2008 年之後進入繁盛期,形成了以跨文化交際能力、網 路與跨文化交際、電腦與全球通信為主要研究主題的學術文獻網路。研究 的交叉學科性質日益凸顯,人文社會科學領域是跨文化交際的核心研究領 域,其中語言學、教育學和心理學等方向發文數量領先。美國和荷蘭在文 獻產出量、文獻被引量、研究機構、高影響力文獻與研究者等方面佔據優 勢。中國發文數量則增長迅速。研究熱點包括跨文化交際能力、跨文化敏 感性和語言教育等。據此,本文對未來研究和中國現階段的跨文化交際研 究提出了建議和意見。
Today’s world is a multicultural community, hence intercultural communica- tion research has both important theoretical and practical significance. The present study is a bibliometric analysis of intercultural communication research based on the Web of Science Database from 1950 to 2021, collected by utilizing Hiscite and CiteSpace. The findings show that intercultural communication research started to develop most rapidly after 2008. As an interdisciplinary area, the humanities and social sciences such as linguistics, educational studies, and psychology lead in the number of publications. Furthermore, the United States and the Netherlands dom- inate the research field in all respects. Intercultural communicative competence, intercultural sensitivity, and language education are the most prominent research foci today. The paper concludes with suggestions for future research and for inter- cultural communication studies in China.