Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics
Last updated ISSN 2199-2894
Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics is published by De Gruyter in social sciences. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $2,712.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Linguistic Variation and Morphology
- Historical Linguistics and Language Studies
- Linguistic research and analysis
- Multilingual Education and Policy
- Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity
- Gender Studies in Language
- Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies
- Linguistics and language evolution
- Lexicography and Language Studies
- Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
Key facts
| Publisher | De Gruyter |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 2199-2894, 2199-2908 |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $2,712 |
| Indexed in | Scopus |
| Articles published | 270 |
| Publishing since | 2015 |
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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