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Annual outputs of LPP studies in the 8 journals LPP has been developing into one of the established fields in applied linguistics for nearly 60 years. Based on the SCOPUS database, four international journals emerged as sample journals for our review. We may note from Figure 2 that these four journals engaged in publishing LPP studies showed an obvious increase in publications from 2002 to 2017. These journals are Modern Language Journal, Language Problems & Language Planning, Current Issues in Language Planning, and Language Policy. The articles in the eight journals were first selected by searching for the keyword 'language planning' (or the Chinese translation 语言规划) in their abstracts and keywords. We assumed that any research on language planning would include this phrase in the paper's abstract or as a keyword. Second, we manually selected articles by removing book reviews, editorials, and other irrelevant articles. As listed in Table 3, a total of 356 journal articles published between 2002 and 2017 were identified. After all the articles were prepared, the researchers read the abstracts of the 356 papers to achieve a thorough examination of the first dimension in the study. Second, the approaches and methodologies of the articles were identified by careful reading and classification. Finally, we identified the geographical region of each study. When the classification and review work was finished, we compared and contrasted the articles published in the international and Chinese journals in order
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Recent years have witnessed a surge of interest in language planning in specific domains (e.g. business, courts, science, schools, communities, families, etc.). This paper reviews 356 articles on language planning in specific domains in four preeminent international journals and four leading Chinese journals to develop a portrayal of scholarly ende...
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... starting year of 2002 was chosen because at that time an increasing number of LPP studies began to appear in Chinese journals, making a comparative study feasible. As shown in Figure 2, four Chinese journals were selected as sample journals, based on the corpus of language planning and policy items in the CSSCI database showing an increasing LPP output during the period from 2002 to 2017. These journals are: Foreign Languages in China (Zhongguo Waiyu), Foreign Language Teaching and Research (Waiyu Jiaoxue yu Yanjiu), Applied Linguistics (Yuyan Wenzi Yingyong), and Language Teaching and Linguistic Studies (Yuyan Jiaoxue yu Yanjiu). ...
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... To examine whether research funding from NSSFC contributes to the sustainable development of translation studies as an academic discipline in China, our inquiry drew methodology from previous studies based on both research programs in receipt of national funding [5,8,36,37] and on journal articles and monographs of a given discipline [38][39][40][41]. These studies have used at least three common dimensions to describe the development of an academic discipline, consisting of the total number of program/publication entries, the research focus of each study, and the frequently examined issues during a particular period: (1) the number of research programs and publications forms an direct indicator of the importance attached to a specific academic discipline [5,8,40]; (2) the research focuses map the research territory of an academic discipline [38,39,41]; (3) the frequently examined issues indicate what is trending within that disciplinary scope over a particular time span [36,37]. ...
... To examine whether research funding from NSSFC contributes to the sustainable development of translation studies as an academic discipline in China, our inquiry drew methodology from previous studies based on both research programs in receipt of national funding [5,8,36,37] and on journal articles and monographs of a given discipline [38][39][40][41]. These studies have used at least three common dimensions to describe the development of an academic discipline, consisting of the total number of program/publication entries, the research focus of each study, and the frequently examined issues during a particular period: (1) the number of research programs and publications forms an direct indicator of the importance attached to a specific academic discipline [5,8,40]; (2) the research focuses map the research territory of an academic discipline [38,39,41]; (3) the frequently examined issues indicate what is trending within that disciplinary scope over a particular time span [36,37]. For these reasons, we employed the procedures outlined below to demonstrate the number of grants, research focuses, and frequently examined issues of NSSFC programs related to translation studies. ...
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