Discourse analysis

Quality:

Discourse analysis - generic term for the analysis of social, language policy or historiographical discourse phenomena. Article “Discourse analysis” in Simple English Wikipedia has 3.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026).

This article has the best quality in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Since the creation of article “Discourse analysis”, its content was written by 4 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 853 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 6 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 2763 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #4837 in July 2012
• Global: #7244 in March 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #7480 in February 2023
• Global: #18664 in December 2014

There are 35 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Diskursanalyse		48.4526
2	Portuguese (pt) Análise do discurso		47.1313
3	Indonesian (id) Analisis wacana		43.5466
4	Ukrainian (uk) Дискурсивний аналіз		37.4649
5	English (en) Discourse analysis		37.4352
6	German (de) Diskursanalyse		36.0213
7	Hebrew (he) חקר השיח		35.134
8	Hungarian (hu) Diskurzuselemzés		33.0029
9	Catalan (ca) Anàlisi del discurs		29.7752
10	Arabic (ar) تحليل الخطاب		25.5424

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Discourse analysis		3 838 084
2	Spanish (es) Análisis del discurso		1 260 117
3	German (de) Diskursanalyse		980 000
4	Portuguese (pt) Análise do discurso		909 171
5	French (fr) Analyse du discours		447 411
6	Arabic (ar) تحليل الخطاب		215 319
7	Indonesian (id) Analisis wacana		150 236
8	Finnish (fi) Diskurssianalyysi		146 804
9	Chinese (zh) 論述分析		140 166
10	Japanese (ja) 談話分析		134 849

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Discourse analysis		3 004
2	German (de) Diskursanalyse		969
3	Portuguese (pt) Análise do discurso		586
4	Spanish (es) Análisis del discurso		484
5	Chinese (zh) 論述分析		351
6	French (fr) Analyse du discours		348
7	Persian (fa) تحلیل گفتمان		207
8	Japanese (ja) 談話分析		193
9	Polish (pl) Analiza dyskursu		156
10	Czech (cs) Diskurzivní analýza		141

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Discourse analysis		227
2	German (de) Diskursanalyse		132
3	French (fr) Analyse du discours		89
4	Spanish (es) Análisis del discurso		71
5	Portuguese (pt) Análise do discurso		67
6	Dutch (nl) Discoursanalyse		22
7	Chinese (zh) 論述分析		21
8	Japanese (ja) 談話分析		20
9	Persian (fa) تحلیل گفتمان		18
10	Arabic (ar) تحليل الخطاب		17

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Spanish (es) Análisis del discurso		3
2	French (fr) Analyse du discours		1
3	Turkish (tr) Söylem çözümlemesi		1
4	Ukrainian (uk) Дискурсивний аналіз		1
5	Chinese (zh) 論述分析		1
6	Arabic (ar) تحليل الخطاب		0
7	Azerbaijani (az) Diskurs təhlili		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Дискурсивен анализ		0
9	Catalan (ca) Anàlisi del discurs		0
10	Czech (cs) Diskurzivní analýza		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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