Discourse Studies
Last updated ISSN 1461-4456
Discourse Studies is published by SAGE Publishing in arts and humanities. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $3,650.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Discourse Studies concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
- Discourse Analysis in Language Studies
- Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
- Multilingual Education and Policy
- Digital Communication and Language
- EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
- Linguistic Variation and Morphology
- Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare
- Linguistics and Discourse Analysis
- Rhetoric and Communication Studies
Key facts
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1461-4456, 1461-7080 |
| Subject area | Arts and Humanities |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $3,650 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Social Sciences Citation Index · Scopus |
| Articles published | 1,787 |
| Publishing since | 1999 |
| Journal website | www.sagepub.com/journalsProdDesc.nav?prodId=Journal2 |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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