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Scirj Volume XIII, Issue X, October 2025 Edition
ISSN: 2201-2796

Abstract: Political discourse serves as a core carrier of political practice, intertwined with power dynamics and social governance, and constitutes an interdisciplinary hub integrating linguistics, political science, and communication studies. Its research holds significant theoretical value for understanding language-politics interactions and practical implications for global governance and cross-cultural dialogue. Despite growing scholarly attention, existing reviews focus on specific subthemes, lacking systematic long-term scientometric analyses to capture the field’s holistic research advances and evolution. This study conducts a comprehensive scientometric analysis of 2,104 articles from the Web of Science Core Collection (SSCI/A&HCI) spanning 2000-2025, utilizing the Bibliometrix R-package. The core findings are as follows: first, the research on political discourse include three distinct developmental phases, namely, initial exploratory period (2000-2006), steady growth period (2007-2019) and explosive growth period (2020-2025), fueled by global political and technological changes, with the US, UK and China as top contributors in publications and citations. Second, European scholars lead high-impact studies; Discourse & Society, Journal of Pragmatics, and Journal of Language and Politics are flagship journals, with Fairclough’s critical discourse analysis and Lakoff’s cognitive metaphor theory as core frameworks. Third, core research themes revolve around rhetorical and metaphorical strategies, discursive construction of ideology and identity, digital media-driven discourse transformation, and crisis narratives and response strategies, reflecting academic inheritance and responses to real-world changes. This study delivers a 25-year scientometric overview, clarifying the field’s evolutionary logic and core dynamics, and informs future research on emerging topics like algorithmic discourse power and cross-cultural digital consensus.

Keywords: political discourse; scientometric analysis; Bibilometrix; research advances

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