World Englishes
Last updated ISSN 0883-2919
World Englishes is published by Wiley in social sciences. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $3,570.
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What it publishes
Recent work in World Englishes concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Multilingual Education and Policy
- Linguistic Variation and Morphology
- Second Language Learning and Teaching
- EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
- Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity
- Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
- Discourse Analysis in Language Studies
- Lexicography and Language Studies
- Phonetics and Phonology Research
- Gender Studies in Language
Key facts
| Publisher | Wiley |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0883-2919, 1467-971X |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $3,570 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Arts & Humanities Citation Index · Web of Science — Social Sciences Citation Index · Scopus |
| Articles published | 2,531 |
| Publishing since | 1981 |
| Journal website | onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1467971X |
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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