20世纪中叶,学科互涉现象开始在学术界和教育界普及,并一举成为现代学科发展与知识创新的全新模式。学科互涉是在经典学科理论框架之隐忧日益显露的时候出现的,它并非呼吁取消学科分类,而是为了在学科交汇的中间地带谋求学科的合法性存在。鉴于此,诞生于人文社会科学与自然科学十字路口的传播学,借助学科互涉概念推动学科建设与发展,具有天然的优势。本文以Web of Science数据库1937-2020年收录的传播学学科互涉论文为研究样本,基于学科共现分析方法对传播学领域的学科互涉网络结构及其演化历程进行了定量分析。结果表明,传播学的学科互涉程度越发深入,学科互涉群体间的关系也愈加稳固。在竞争日趋激烈的社会科学领域,传播学想要实现重大学术突破,借助学科互涉框架或许是最佳策略,因为传播学的优势在于它本就是一个多学科互涉空间。
Research on the Historical Trend of Communication Interdisciplinarity——Based on Discipline Co-occurrence Analysis from 1937 to 2020
In the mid-20th century,the phenomenon of interdisciplinarity began to spread in academia and education,and became a new model of modern discipline development and knowledge innovation.Interdisciplinarity emerged at a time when the hidden concerns of classical disciplinary theoretical frameworks were increasingly exposed.It is not a call to cancel disciplinary classification,but to seek the legitimacy of disciplines in the middle area of interdisciplinarity.In view of this,communication which born at the crossroads of humanities and social sciences and natural sciences,has a natural advantage in promoting discipline construction and development with the concept of interdisciplinarity.Taking the interdisciplinary papers on communication included in the Web of Science database from 1937 to 2020 as research samples,this paper conducts a quantitative analysis of the interdisciplinary network structure and its evolution process in the field of communication based on the discipline co-occurrence analysis method.The results show that the degree of interdisciplinary research in communication is deepening,and the relationship between interdisciplinary groups is becoming more stable.In the field of social sciences with increasingly fierce competition,communication wants to achieve major academic breakthroughs,the use of interdisciplinary framework may be the best strategy,because the advantage of communication is that it is a interdisciplinary space..