<![CDATA[The rapid expansion of digital communication and increasingly polarized social interactions have heightened the occurrence and complexity of linguistic impoliteness, necessitating a systematic evaluation of its scholarly evolution. This study presents a comprehensive scoping review and bibliometric analysis of global linguistic impoliteness research published between 1995 and 2023. Using the Scopus database as the primary source, a total of 278 peer-reviewed publications were retrieved and systematically analyzed. To ensure metadata accuracy, bibliographic data were cleaned and standardized using OpenRefine, while performance metrics and science mapping visualizations were generated using BiblioMagika and VOSviewer software. The performance results indicate a steady upward trend in scholarly publications, accumulating 7,148 total citations with an average of 25.71 citations per paper and an h-index of 42. Keyword co-occurrence network analysis successfully mapped the intellectual structure of the field into five distinct thematic clusters: (1) normative and interactional impoliteness represented by red nodes, (2) digital, aggressive, and identity-oriented impoliteness represented by green nodes, (3) pragmatic, face, and discourse foundations represented by blue nodes, (4) social media, conflict, and political impoliteness represented by yellow nodes, and (5) humorous, intercultural, and metapragmatic impoliteness represented by purple nodes. In conclusion, research in this domain has undergone a major epistemological shift from micro-level form-based analysis to context-dependent, socially situated, and metapragmatically negotiated evaluations, heavily driven by the affordances of digital communication. It is recommended that future studies investigate recipient-oriented evaluations, moral-ideological positioning, and multimodal expressions across diverse digital platforms to address existing research gaps.]]>
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