discourse analysis Journals

When the world is seen as a global village, understanding of the complex and subtle relationship between language, society and culture becomes an essential condition for peaceful co-existence among its villagers. On the basis of this assumption,the journal of Language, Society and Culture (LSC) is produced. It is a refereed international journal publishing articles and reports dealing with theoretical as well as practical issues focusing on the link between language, society and culture within a... Read more

CogniTextes, created in 2005, is the journal of the Association française de linguistique cognitive (AFLiCo). Its main purpose is as a platform for academic exchange and its mission is to forge durable connections between researchers, near and far, working in the domains of cognitive linguistics, who wish to develop their domain in France or abroad. Via its peer review committee, CogniTextes offers previously unpublished articles (long and short), critical reviews and debates. Read more

International Journal of English Studies covers a wide variety of methodological and disciplinary perspectives concerning linguistic issues related to English language. Read more

English for Specific Purposes: An International Research Journal is an international peer-reviewed journal that welcomes submissions from across the world. Authors are encouraged to submit articles and research/discussion notes on topics relevant to the teaching and learning of discourse for specific communities: academic, occupational, or otherwise specialized. Topics such as the following may be treated from the perspective of English for specific purposes: second language acquisition in specialized contexts, needs assessment, curriculum development and evaluation,... Read more

Acta Linguistica: An International Journal of Linguistics publishes papers on general linguistics with particular emphasis on discussions of theoretical issues concerning Hungarian and other Finno-Ugric languages. Papers presenting empirical material must have strong theoretical implications. The scope of the journal is not restricted to the traditional research areas of linguistics, it also covers areas such as socio- and psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, discourse analysis, the philosophy of language, language typology, and formal semantics. Read more

Sociolinguistic Studies is the new title of Estudios de Sociolingüística, a journal founded in 2000 at the University of Vigo (Galicia, Spain) which offers a linguistic and cultural bridge between sociolinguistic research in the Romance world - especially the Spanish and Latino-American world - and the English-speaking research community. All articles in Sociolinguistic Studies are peer-reviewed and may be in English, Spanish, Portuguese or French (75% of the contents are in English). It takes an ecumenical... Read more

Linguistics and Education encourages submissions that apply theory and method from all areas of linguistics to the study of education. Areas of linguistic study include, but are not limited to: text/corpus linguistics, sociolinguistics, functional grammar, discourse analysis, critical discourse analysis, conversational analysis, linguistic anthropology/ethnography, language acquisition, language socialization, narrative studies, gesture/ sign /visual forms of communication, cognitive linguistics, literacy studies, language policy, and language ideology. These linguistic traditions may be applied to a wide variety... Read more

Linguistic pragmatics has been able to formulate a number of questions over the years that are essential to our understanding of language as people’s main instrument of “natural” and “societal” interaction. By providing possible theoretical foundations for the study of linguistic practice, linguistic pragmatics has helped to increase our knowledge of the forms, functions, and foundations, of human interaction. The Journal of Pragmatics identifies with the above general scope and aims of pragmatics. The journal... Read more

Argumentation is an international and interdisciplinary journal that gathers academic contributions from a wide range of scholarly backgrounds and approaches to reasoning, natural inference and persuasion. Read more

The journal publishes the highest quality empirical and theoretical research bearing on language as it is used in interaction. Researchers in communication, discourse analysis, conversation analysis, linguistic anthropology and ethnography are likely to be the most active contributors, but we welcome submission of articles from the broad range of interaction researchers. Published papers will normally involve the close analysis of naturally-occurring interaction. The journal is also open to theoretical essays, and to quantitative studies where... Read more