Visual Analysis of Domestic Conceptual Metaphor Research Based on CiteSpace
Using CiteSpace information visualization technology,this paper conducts a quantitative analysis of the journal papers related to the research of conceptual metaphor included in CNKI database,covering dimen-sions of authors,institutions,journals,number of published articles,keyword co-occurrence and mutation,etc.,which conducts statistics to draw a scientific knowledge map and detect the research hotspots and frontier topics in this field. The research finds that in the past three years,the domestic research of conceptual metaphor has a small downward trend,and the number of published articles is stable,which is still widely concerned by schol-ars. There are connections between researchers,but the overall distribution is loose. The core author group in this field has not yet formed,and further cooperation is needed. The research hotspots are mainly"discourse a-nalysis"and"basic metaphor".