World Overview of Scientific Production on Speech Acts: A Bibliometric Analysis
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https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.lyl.n83a09Keywords:
speech acts, scientific production, bibliometrics, pragmatics, linguisticsAbstract
The objective of the study is to characterize the world scientific production on speech acts in the Scopus and Web of Science databases from January 2000 to June 2022. For the bibliometric analysis, Bibliometrix R, Publish or Perish v. 8.1, and VOSviewer were used. The results show a higher production in Scopus, while the highest production peaks occurred in the years 2010, 2015. As of 2017, a constant growth in production on the subject is observed.
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