Language and Linguistics

Journal News

Congratulations to Journal of Second Language Writing Author
We congratulate Professor Amanda Kibler on her being given the Steve Cahir Early Career Award for her article “Writing through two languages: First language expertise in a language minority classroom”.
Read the article for free on ScienceDirect

We are very pleased to offer three months' free access to the newly-published Lingua special issue on 'Syntax and Cognition'. Featuring contributions from Chomsky and Haegeman among others, we invite you to read the articles for free here.

Open Access in Linguistics
With major changes being heralded by the Finch Report and other developments, Open Access is a phrase on many lips. Did you know that all our linguistics journals have open access mechanisms? Read more about our access options here.

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Happy New Year from Your Linguistics Publisher!
Read the newsletter from Chris Tancock, Publisher for the language and linguistics portfolio here and learn more about recent initiatives, new journal launches and developments in publishing

Journal Become a member of the International Fluency Association and get the journal free!

Become a member of the International Fluency Association and get this journal free, including free ASHA approved CEUs all year! Starting January 1, 2013, all IFA members can complete an entire year's worth of CEUs, available in each issue, for FREE.

Journal Author wins award for Language & Communication Article

We are very pleased indeed to congratulate Professor Shaylih Muehlmann on her award of the Ton Vallen Award for her article in Language & Communication:
Von Humboldt's parrot and the countdown of last speakers in the Colorado Delta. The Ton Vallen Award serves to publicize and highlight excellence in scholarship in this field, and to stimulate discussion and collaboration among the research community.Read more about the prize here.

Discourse, Context & Media (DCM) Celebrates its First Year

One year on, DCM looks back to a very successful first year including a launch at the Sociolinguistics Symposium and its first special issue. Read more about the journal and submit your article today!

HINARI – Access to Research for Professionals in Developing Countries

Elsevier's entire range of language and linguistics journals are now accessible to professionals in developing countries through HINARI, the World Health Organization's HealthInterNetwork. With over 900 journals in HINARI, Elsevier represents 30% of HINARI's annual 3.3 million downloads and is proud to be one of the founding publishers of this initiative.

Impact Factor News

Celebrating 2011 Impact Factor Success

Journal of Fluency Disorders – now ranked 1st in the Thomson Reuters ISI subject categories Linguistics, rehabilitation AND special education
2010 Impact Factor WAS 2.229
2011 Impact Factor NOW 4.050

Journal of Communication Disorders
2010 Impact Factor WAS 1.433
2011 Impact Factor NOW 1.760

English for Specific Purposes
2010 Impact Factor WAS 0.889
2011 Impact Factor NOW 1.760

Special Issues

Conferences

American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL)
16-19 March 2013, Dallas, USA

International Pragmatics Association
8-13 September 2013, New Delhi, India

British Academy of Audiology 10^th Annual conference
18-19^th November 2013; Manchester, UK

New Editors

New Editor for Journal of Communication Disorders
We welcome Professor Elin Thordardottir of McGill University as Associate Editor. Read more about the journal or submit your own article today.

New Associate Editor for Linguistics and Education
Welcome to Professor Victoria Gillis as Associate Editor for Linguistics and Education. Read more about the journal.

New Associate Editor for Lingua
Professor Anne-Michelle Tessier of the University of Alberta joins the Advisory Editor team of Lingua. We wish her well and invite you to submit your papers to the journal.