Sign Language & Linguistics
Last updated ISSN 1387-9316
Sign Language & Linguistics is published by John Benjamins Publishing Company in psychology. It is a subscription journal. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Sign Language & Linguistics concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Hearing Impairment and Communication
- Hand Gesture Recognition Systems
- Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
- Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
- linguistics and terminology studies
- Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity
- Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism
- Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies
- Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
- Legal case studies and regulations
Key facts
| Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1387-9316, 1569-996X |
| Subject area | Psychology |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Emerging Sources Citation Index · Scopus |
| Articles published | 565 |
| Publishing since | 1998 |
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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