Trends and Frontiers of China's Ecolinguistics Studies: A Bibliometric Analysis Based on CNKI Database

This paper conducts a co-word and clustering analysis of articles concerning ecolinguistics studies in China from 1985 to 2016 in order to explore its current situation,foci and trends.The findings show that the amount of ecolinguistics studies has been increasing gradually.In terms of research themes, perspectives and methods, it demonstrates the tendencies of pluralism and diversity in this regard.Based on the above findings,this paper also explores problems existed in current studies and predicts the future trends.