Social Semiotics
Last updated ISSN 1035-0330
Social Semiotics is published by Routledge in arts and humanities. It is a subscription journal. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Social Semiotics concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Discourse Analysis in Language Studies
- Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
- Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
- Gender, Feminism, and Media
- Multilingual Education and Policy
- Rhetoric and Communication Studies
- Media Studies and Communication
- Digital Communication and Language
- Translation Studies and Practices
- Media, Gender, and Advertising
Key facts
| Publisher | Routledge |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1035-0330, 1470-1219 |
| Subject area | Arts and Humanities |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Arts & Humanities Citation Index · Web of Science — Social Sciences Citation Index · Scopus |
| Articles published | 1,403 |
| Publishing since | 1991 |
| Journal website | www.tandfonline.com/toc/csos20/current |
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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