Chinese Language and Discourse

Aims & Scope

A peer-reviewed journal which seeks to publish original work on Chinese and related languages, with a focus on current topics in Chinese discourse studies.

The notion of discourse is a broad one, emphasizing an empirical orientation and encompassing such linguistic fields as language and society, language and culture, language and thought, language and social interaction, discourse and grammar, communication studies, and contact linguistics.

Special emphasis is placed on systematic documentation of Chinese usage patterns and methodological innovations in explaining Chinese and related languages from a wide range of functional perspectives, including, but not limited to, those of conversation analysis, sociolinguistics, corpus linguistics, grammaticalization, cognitive linguistics, typological and comparative studies.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	0.1
2024	0.30

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	24818

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	14

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.146

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q2

h-index

Year	Value
2024	12

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Arts and Humanities and Social Sciences, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• The verbal art of<i>tucao</i>and face-threatening acts in<i>danmu</i>screening

  Citation: 24

  Authors: Chi-hua

• Language and society in Macao

  Citation: 21

  Authors: Andrew

• Metaphor in case study articles on Chinese university counseling service websites

  Citation: 20

  Authors: Dennis

• Subjectivity and result marking in Mandarin

  Citation: 20

  Authors: Fang, Jacqueline, Ted J.M.

• A crosslinguistic study of some extended uses of<i>what</i>-based interrogative expressions in Chinese, English, and Korean

  Citation: 17

  Authors: Heeju, Danjie, Hongyin

• Attitudes toward accents of Mandarin in Singapore

  Citation: 16

  Authors: Rachael Hui-Hui, Ying-Ying

• Traversativity and grammaticalization

  Citation: 15

  Authors: Vittorio

• From language structures to language use

  Citation: 15

  Authors: Liang, Jiansheng

• Corpus-based Chinese studies

  Citation: 14

  Authors: Jiajin

• Language and dialect in China

  Citation: 14

  Authors: Norbert

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