Aug 2026· International journal of social science and human research· Vol 09· 0 citations
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This diachronic study analyzes 6,959 research article titles from over 80 high-impact psychology journals across five decades (1975–2024). By integrating five dimensions—length, informativity, lexical diversity, syntactic structure, and semantic information—it traces the linguistic maturation of psychophysiology and experimental psychology. Results reveal a statistically significant increase in mean title length (11.55 to 14.93 words) and a modest rise in informativity, while lexical diversity remained remarkably stable (≈95%). Compound titles maintained dominance (65.71%), but full-sentence constructions and conclusion-signaling content grew steadily, reflecting a shift toward more explicit result-oriented communication. These patterns underscore the field’s adaptation to digital indexing demands and publication pressures, moving decisively beyond traditional brevity guidelines. By establishing clear decade-level baselines, this investigation provides a robust empirical foundation for evaluating the future impact of generative AI on scholarly communication.
The study supports scholars and practitioners in navigating the complex and evolving landscape of politeness in digital and intercultural contexts by offering a data-driven roadmap for future research, emphasising underexplored areas such as cross-cultural/comparative pragmatics and computational approaches.
This scoping review maps 25 years of empirical research on L2 English pronunciation (1996–2020), covering 463
studies published in 35 prominent journals across second language acquisition, second language learning and teaching, and
phonetics and phonology. Using Arksey and O’Malley’s framework, it traces developments in participants’ L1 profiles, phonological
features, and the treatment of the construct of intelligibility. Four major trends emerge: a gradual diversification of
participant profiles, a move away from native-speaker benchmarks, increased attention to suprasegmental features, and a rising —
yet still unstable — presence of intelligibility as a research focus. The analysis highlights both changes over time and
persistent divides between domains of research. The review calls for more diverse samples, clearer definitions of intelligibility,
and stronger cross-disciplinary dialogue. Such developments could help consolidate theoretical foundations, improve comparability
across studies, and advance both research and pedagogy in L2 pronunciation.
Linda Terrier, Marie-Laure Garnier, Saandia Ali· Journal of Second Language P...· 0 citations
Drawing on bibliometric records of Long March-related scholarly articles indexed in the CNKI database from 2011 to 2025, this paper identifies a three-stage developmental trajectory, demarcated by the pivotal years 2016 and 2021. Employing VOSviewer and CiteSpace for co-occurrence and co-citation analyses, we construct a comprehensive visual mapping of the knowledge structure and thematic contours characterizing this body of research. Empirical analyses generate three salient observations on Long‑March‑related scholarship. First, it features a distinct two‑tiered intellectual structure: foundational canonical historical themes (e.g., Mao ZD, the Zunyi Conference) dominated research in 2011‑2015, while contemporary agendas such as the Long March National Cultural Park and rural revitalization prevailed during 2021‑2025. Second, the field has undergone a paradigmatic shift from historical textual criticism and archival compilation toward policy exegesis and applied inquiry, moving from discipline‑driven historical scholarship to applied and cultural‑communication‑oriented research. Third, journals display functional stratification: core outlets prioritize theoretical elaboration and historical contextual reconstruction, whereas non‑core journals mainly publish practice‑centered and pedagogy‑focused studies on Long March culture. This study clarifies the evolutionary logic and disciplinary layout of Long March research, provides theoretical reference and practical implications for the innovative inheritance and international cross-cultural communication of Chinese Red Culture.
Mijia Chen, Wenjun Lu, Linda Zhang· Journal of Education Teachin...· 0 citations
Although compounding has been widely examined within linguistic research, a systematic overview of its semantic research landscape remains underdeveloped. This study addresses this gap by offering a scientometric mapping of trends and thematic orientations in semantic research on compounding. Drawing on a corpus of 376 publications indexed in the Scopus database between 2014 and 2024, the analysis adopts a quantitative approach and employs VOSviewer to examine publication patterns, thematic structures, and research trajectories. The findings point to a steadily expanding field, with an average annual increase of approximately three publications and an overall growth of 187.5% across the eleven-year period. Reading and Writing, Cognition, and Mental Lexicon emerge as the most prominent publication venues. Thematic analysis identified three principal clusters: (a) “Compounding Formation and Description†(40.71%), encompassing terms such as “affixation,†“morphology,†“neologism,†and “word formation process,†(b) “Cognitive and Developmental Aspects of Compounding†(20.09%), characterized by keywords including “morphological awareness,†“comprehension,†“development,†and “student.â€, and (c) “Semantic Interpretation and Theoretical Frameworks†(29.20%), which includes terms such as “word meaning,†“semantic composition,†“syntax,†and “theory.†Taken together, these findings offer insights into the current state and trajectory of compounding research in the light of semantics, highlighting key themes within the current patterns of advancement.
D. Satria, Kadek Purnawan, Danang Satria Nugraha et al.· GHANCARAN Jurnal Pendidikan...· 0 citations
In this paper, we examined five decades of language and persuasion research from an expert‐curated list of seminal works in the field. We evaluated the most dominant themes in this literature (
N
= 1886 papers), searching for time‐related (e.g., themes that go in and out of style), impact‐related (e.g., themes that associate with citation rates), and authorship‐related trends (e.g., interdisciplinarity). The most prevalent themes were
framing
(64.5% of papers),
content analysis
(51.9%), and
social media
(50.1%) in language and persuasion research. Our computational literature review identified three additional findings: (1) the field has maintained relatively stable theoretical coherence, (2) papers that focus more on content analysis research receive fewer citations, and (3) the application of certain theoretical principles (e.g., argument quality) has declined over time, with researchers potentially citing underlying theories ritualistically versus meaningfully. Implications for language and persuasion research are discussed.
David M. Markowitz, Yi-Xiao Sun· Social & Personality Psychol...· 0 citations
English for Academic Purposes (EAP) recognises that academic language varies according to disciplinary context and that learners’ linguistic needs are shaped by the norms of specific fields. This study investigates whether grammatical patterns in research article abstracts (RAA) differ across levels of disciplinary specificity. A Multidimensional Analysis (MDA) was conducted on a large corpus of RAAs, which were classified according to the Web of Science hierarchy at three levels of disciplinary granularity. Independent t-tests were then used to compare Mean Dimension Scores across disciplinary groups for each of the extracted MDA dimensions. The results show significant differences at the broadest level (e.g. Social Sciences compared to Physical Sciences), driven mainly by variation in tense and authorial stance (past-oriented empirical reporting versus present-oriented author-focused framing), nominalisation and phrasal complexity versus quantitative and conditional features, and evaluative predicative constructions. Smaller but still significant differences were also found at more fine-grained levels of classification, including between related subdisciplines such as Mathematics and Statistics & Probability. Overall, the findings suggest that grammatical variation in academic writing is systematic across multiple levels of disciplinary organisation, indicating that disciplinary specificity in EAP extends beyond broad ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ science distinctions to more fine-grained subdisciplinary differences.
Don Watson, M. Krug, C. Carbon· Research in Corpus Linguisti...· 0 citations
