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The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. - Chinese Proverb

Linguistics is the study of the nature, structure, and variation of language, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, sociolinguistics, and pragmatics. - The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language (retrieved from http://www.thefreedictionary.com/linguistics).


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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. Thematic special issues and colloquia appear regularly. Special sections such as "Comments / Replies" and "Forum" promote open discussions and debate. To read more, click HERE...

Linguistik Online
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Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft
Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft is published by the German Linguistic Society (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft), providing a forum for research in the language sciences. Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft accepts high-quality contributions - regular articles, book reviews and discussion notes on current controversies - from all fields of modern linguistics. Submitted manuscripts undergo a doubleblind review. The languages of publication are German and English... 

Language and Speech
Language and Speech is published quarterly and welcomes corpus-based, experimental and observational research bringing spoken or written language within the domain of linguistic, psychological or computational models. Interdisciplinary submissions are encouraged. The journal is published quarterly...

Semantics and Pragmatics
Semantics and Pragmatics is a peer-reviewed open access journal. The main content is high quality, original, self-contained research articles on the semantics and pragmatics of natural languages. The journal is affiliated with and published by the Linguistic Society of America...

The International Journal of Lexicography
The International Journal of Lexicography was launched in 1988. Interdisciplinary as well as international, it is concerned with all aspects of lexicography, including issues of design, compilation and use, and with dictionaries of all languages, though the chief focus is on dictionaries of the major European languages - monolingual and bilingual, synchronic and diachronic, pedagogical and encyclopedic...

International Journal of Applied Linguistics
International Journal of Applied Linguistics (ITL) is a biannual refereed journal that welcomes manuscripts in the broad area of applied linguistics, with a strong preference for contributions relating to language acquisition and educational linguistics. The journal publishes reports of empirical studies and ground-breaking theoretical articles. Each issue also includes book reviews. The journal is published by the Department of Linguistics at the K.U.Leuven, the Department of Applied Linguistics of the VLEKHO (Brussels) and the Department of Applied Linguistics of the Lessius Hogeschool (Antwerp). To learn more, click HERE...

International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics
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The Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics
The Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics is a biannual, bilingual scientific and professional journal dealing with the following aspects of applied linguistics: mother tongue and second-language teaching, first and second language acquisition, bilingual education, sociolinguistics, language planning, sociology of language, psycholinguistics, literacy, applied phonetics, translation/terminology and multimedia and language teaching. The Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics is indexed in Points de repère, Linguistics Abstracts, Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts, MLA Bibliography and Viniti (All Russian Institute of Scientific and Technical Information). Most back issues are available for purchase. More...
 
English for Specific Purposes World
English for Specific Purposes World is a web-based journal of international ESP community...

The Journal of Applied Linguistics
The Journal of Applied Linguistics seeks to publish material that highlights the evidence in establishing claims of relevance to practice in Applied Linguistics research and has a special concern for research methodology through a focus on research tools, cross-disciplinary contributions, issues of ethics and research participation...

The International Journal of Applied Linguistics
The International Journal of Applied Linguistics (InJAL) publishes articles that explore the relationship between expertise in linguistics, broadly defined, and the everyday experience of language. Its scope is international in that it welcomes articles which show explicitly how local issues of language use or learning exemplify more global concerns. The International Journal of Applied Linguistics is published in co-operation with the International Association of Applied Linguistics/Association Internationale de Linguistique Appliquée (AILA). Also, see AILA...

Language Policy
Language Policy presents policies concerning the status and form of languages as well as acquisition policies pertaining to the teaching and learning of languages. It contains detailed accounts of promoting and managing language policy and research papers on the development, implementation and effects of language policy in all regions of the world and under different conditions. The journal also includes empirical studies that contribute to a theory of language policy...

Child Language Teaching and Therapy
Child Language Teaching and Therapy is a peer-reviewed journal with articles of high practical relevance on all aspects of spoken or written language needs of children. Research and practice in this field are at a point where linguistics, psychology, speech and language pathology, education and social sciences meet and overlap. Articles focus on practitioner research, action research, case studies and small-scale studies, together with papers discussing professional, theoretical, methodological or philosophical issues in the field of child language teaching and/or therapy...

Literary and Linguistic Computing
Literary and Linguistic Computing is an international journal which publishes material on all aspects of computing and information technology applied to literature, language research and teaching. Papers include results of research projects, description and evaluation of techniques and methodologies, and reports on work in progress...

ALSIC
ALSIC, Language Learning and Information and Communication Systems / Apprentissage des langues et systèmes d'information et de communication publishes research in the following fields: didactics, applied linguistics, psycholinguistics, educational sciences, computational linguistics, and computer science. It gives priority to papers from the French speaking community written in French...
 
Academic Exchange Quarterly
Academic Exchange Quarterly is devoted to education, teaching and learning...

Acta Linguistica
Acta Linguistica is an international journal published by Eurasia Academic Publishers in the fields of theoretical and applied linguistics. Articles are accepted in English, German and Russian...

Acta Lingvistica Hafniensia
Acta Lingvistica Hafniensia is an international journal of general linguistics, published by the Linguistic Circle of Copenhagen and edited by Department of Linguistics, University of Copenhagen...

AILA Review
AILA Review is a refereed publication of the Association Internationale de Linguistique Appliquée, an international federation of national associations for applied linguistics...

Sociolinguistic Studies
Sociolinguistic Studies, a peer-reviewed journal in two formats, online and in hard copy, offers a linguistic and cultural bridge between the Romance world - particularly the Spanish and Latin American world - and the English-speaking world...

The Web Journal of Modern Language Linguistics
The Web Journal of Modern Language Linguistics is published online by the School of Modern Languages, University of Newcastle upon Tyne. Research interests are related to any area of linguistic science which is of relevance to the work of Modern Languages departments...

Linguistics Research Today
Linguistics Research Today is a free monthly online journal that collates and summarizes the latest research about Linguistics, including details on human language, phonetics, syntax, phonology...

Foreign Language Annals
Foreign Language Annals (FLA) is the official journal of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL). The first volume of FLA was published in 1967. FLA is a refereed journal published four times per year. There are approximately 10 articles per issue...

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