Journal of Sociolinguistics
Last updated ISSN 1360-6441
Journal of Sociolinguistics is published by Wiley in social sciences. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $3,730.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Journal of Sociolinguistics concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Multilingual Education and Policy
- Linguistic Variation and Morphology
- Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
- Gender Studies in Language
- Discourse Analysis in Language Studies
- Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity
- Second Language Learning and Teaching
- Phonetics and Phonology Research
- Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies
- Digital Communication and Language
Key facts
| Publisher | Wiley |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1360-6441, 1467-9841 |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $3,730 |
| Indexed in | Scopus |
| Articles published | 1,722 |
| Publishing since | 1997 |
| Journal website | onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1467-9 |
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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