sociolinguistics Journals

World Englishes is committed to the study of varieties of English in their distinctive cultural, sociolinguistic and educational contexts. It is integrative in its scope and includes theoretical and applied studies on language, literature and English teaching, with emphasis on cross-cultural perspectives and identities. The journal provides recent research, critical and evaluative papers, and reviews from Africa, Asia, Europe, Oceania and the Americas. Read more

Register and Context is a peer-reviewed journal appearing twice a year. The journal publishes articles, book reviews, research and discussion notes on topics dealing with the discourse of occupational speech communities. In particular, we encourage young scholars such as graduate students and those just embarking on their career to contribute to this journal. The centre of interest is linguistic concerns from a pragmatic and sociolinguistic perspective, though contributions with a focus on the more traditional linguistic... Read more

ProtoSociology is an interdisciplinary journal which crosses the borders of philosophy, social sciences, and their corresponding disciplines. Each issue concentrates on a specific topic taken from the current discussion to which scientists from different fields contribute the results of their research. The developments in the philosophy of language and mind, together with the social system theory are our central concerns, with the objective to cultivate collaboration within the fields of research in philosophy, theory of... Read more

Politicheskaia Lingvistika (Political Linguistics) is a reviewed journal representing a forum for analysing and discussing the various dimensions of political discourse analysis. The primary aim is to publish research that advances our understanding of complex interrelations of language and politics, including cultural, sociological, cognitive, educational and other aspects of communication that may be considered to be political. Read more

The Philippine Journal of Linguistics is an international peer-reviewed journal of research in linguistics. Published once a year in December, it aims to serve as a forum for original studies in descriptive, comparative, historical, and areal linguistics. Although its primary interest is in linguistic theory, it also publishes papers on the application of theory to language teaching, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, anthropological linguistics, etc. Papers on applied linguistics should, however, be chiefly concerned with the principles which... Read more

Names: A Journal of Onomastics is one of the world’s leading journals in the study of onomastics. Since the first issue in 1952, this quarterly journal has published hundreds of articles, reviews, and notes, seeking to find out what really is in a name, and to investigate cultural insights, settlement history, and linguistic characteristics revealed in names. Read more

Lodz Papers in Pragmatics (LPP) is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal released biannually. It seeks to bring together various linguistic disciplines, notably: pragmatics, semantics, semiotics, philosophy of language, sociolinguistics, neurolinguistics, psycholinguistics, discourse analysis, translation, and computational linguistics. LPP is committed to publishing excellent theoretical and empirical research focused on broadly conceptualised human communication, both in everyday interactions and in the media, whether spoken or written, and whether institutional or interpersonal. We invite papers addressing all manner... Read more

Languages and Linguistics is a world forum for the study of natural languages, with a special focus on the languages in use in Africa and the Middle East. The journal brings together research from English, French and Arabic traditions, publishing significant work on phonology, morphology, syntax, lexis and semantics, sociolinguistics, pragmatics, discourse analysis, applied linguistics, language acquisition, computational linguistics and variation and comparative studies. Read more

Language@Internet focuses on all aspects of language and language use in digital media. Submissions are welcomed that make use of analytical methods from linguistics and other language-related disciplines, as well as language-focused studies of digitally-mediated communication from other disciplines. Research methods may be qualitative or quantitative, and corpus studies making use of computational tools are encouraged. To submit a manuscript, follow the Submission Guidelines in the left sidebar. Read more

Language Research contains diverse studies on both general linguistics (e.g., phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics) and applied linguistics (e.g., psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, computational linguistics, contrastive analysis, discourse analysis). Read more