CiteSpace-based Analysis on Frontiers and Hot Issues of China's Discourse System for International Communication

In the new era the construction of discourse system for international communication is of paramount importance to the improvement of China's cultural soft power,which has become a research hotspot.This paper uses the database of CNKI(2010-2018) to examine the status quo of research on discourse system for international communication by means of CiteSpace.The limited period has witnessed an upsurge of its domestic research.Most research focuses on its reason, significance, value, and principle."The Belt and Road Initiative", "Community with a Shared Future for Mankind", "Chinese Dream", "Chinese Stories", and "the International Discursive Power" are the keywords of the existing research, and are expected to be the focus in the future.Despite the achievements, there still remind some problems such as terminology confusion, indistinct definition,scarcity of interdisciplinary perspectives, the monotonous research methods, vague classification of audiences, lack of in-depth study, and so on.In view of the above research gaps, this study offers suggestions so as to shed some light on the future research of the construction of China's discourse system for international communication.