Functions of Language

Functions of Language is an international journal of linguistics which explores the functionalist perspective on the organisation and use of natural language. It publishes articles and reviews books from the full spectrum of functionalist linguistics, seeking to bring out the fundamental unity behind the various schools of thought, while stimulating discussion among functionalists. It encourages the interplay of theory and description, and provides space for the detailed analysis, qualitative or quantitative, of linguistic data from a broad range of languages. Its scope is broad, covering such matters as prosodic phenomena in phonology, the clause in its communicative context, and regularities of pragmatics, conversation and discourse, as well as the interaction between the various levels of analysis. The overall purpose is to contribute to our understanding of how the use of languages in speech and writing has impacted, and continues to impact, upon the structure of those languages.

Functions of Language publishes its articles Online First.

Browse journal on John Benjamins e-Platform

ISSN 0929-998X | E-ISSN 1569-9765
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/fol

Sample issue: FOL 26:1

Board

Editors

Martin Hilpert | University of Neuchâtel

J. Lachlan Mackenzie | VU University Amsterdam

Sumin Zhao | University of Edinburgh

Review Editor

Mark Nartey | University of the West of England

Managing Editor

Charlotte Maekelberghe | KU Leuven | charlotte.maekelberghe

kuleuven.be

Editorial Board

Svenja Adolphs | University of Nottingham

Jóhanna Barðdal | University of Ghent

Dagmar Barth-Weingarten | University of Potsdam

Walter Bisang | Johannes-Gutenberg-University of Mainz

Kasper Boye | University of Copenhagen

Cristiano Broccias | University of Genoa

Alice Caffarel-Cayron | University of Sydney

Cecilia Colombi | UC Davis

Hendrik De Smet | University of Leuven

Holger Diessel | University of Jena

John W. Du Bois | University of California, Santa Barbara

Anita Fetzer | University of Augsburg

Lise Fontaine | University of Cardiff

Cliff Goddard | Griffith University

Francisco Gonzálvez-García | University of Almería

Martin Haspelmath | MPI-SHH Jena

Kees Hengeveld | University of Amsterdam

Liesbet Heyvaert | University of Leuven

Sally Humphrey | Australian Catholic University, North Sydney

Susan Hunston | University of Birmingham

Laura A. Janda | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Evelien Keizer | University of Vienna

J.R. Martin | University of Sydney

Tanja Mortelmans | University of Antwerp

Stella Neumann | University of Aachen

Dirk Noël | University of Hong Kong

Gerard O’Grady | University of Cardiff

Teresa Oteíza | PUC Santiago

Mary J. Schleppegrell | University of Michigan

Jack Sidnell | University of Toronto

Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen | Ghent University

Elena Smirnova | University of Hannover

Gerard J. Steen | University of Amsterdam

Maite Taboada | Simon Fraser University, Vancouver

Freek Van de Velde | University of Leuven

Subscription Info

Current issue: 29:2, available as of June 2022

Next issue: 29:3, expected December 2022, published online on 17 November 2022

General information about our electronic journals.

Subscription rates

All prices for print + online include postage/handling.

	Online-only	Print + online
Volume 30 (2023): 3 issues; ca. 375 pp.	EUR 283.00	EUR 334.00
Volume 29 (2022): 3 issues; ca. 375 pp.	EUR 283.00	EUR 327.00

Individuals may apply for a special subscription rate of EUR 70.00 (online‑only: EUR 65.00)
Private subscriptions are for personal use only, and must be pre-paid and ordered directly from the publisher.

Available back-volumes

		Online-only	Print + online
Complete backset (Vols. 1‒28; 1994‒2021)	64 issues; 9,000 pp.	EUR 6,663.00	EUR 7,093.00
Volumes 27‒28 (2020‒2021)	3 issues; avg. 375 pp.	EUR 283.00 each	EUR 327.00 each
Volume 26 (2019)	3 issues; 375 pp.	EUR 277.00	EUR 321.00
Volume 25 (2018)	3 issues; 375 pp.	EUR 269.00	EUR 312.00
Volume 24 (2017)	3 issues; 375 pp.	EUR 261.00	EUR 303.00
Volume 23 (2016)	3 issues; 375 pp.	EUR 261.00	EUR 294.00
Volume 22 (2015)	3 issues; 375 pp.	EUR 261.00	EUR 285.00
Volume 21 (2014)	3 issues; 375 pp.	EUR 261.00	EUR 277.00
Volume 20 (2013)	2 issues; 300 pp.	EUR 232.00	EUR 239.00
Volumes 1‒19 (1994‒2012)	2 issues; avg. 300 pp.	EUR 225.00 each	EUR 232.00 each

Issues

Online-first articles

1 November 2022

Self-denigration in academic discourse : The case of the Iranian doctoral defense

Nadia Mayahi & Alireza Jalilifar | FOL 29:3 (2022) pp. 300–327

28 October 2022

Effects of verb and construction frequency in sentence comprehension : The case of dative constructions in Korean

Hyunwoo Kim & Gyu-Ho Shin | FOL 29:3 (2022) pp. 274–299

12 September 2022

Exchange Structure: Refinements to the model through a study of multiparty discourse of 4 to 5 year-old children

Margaret Berry & Sarah Jane Mukherjee | FOL 29:3 (2022) pp. 253–273

J.R. Martin , Karl Maton & Y.J. Doran (eds.). 2020. Accessing academic discourse: Systemic Functional Linguistics and Legitimation Code Theory

Reviewed by Hui Zou & Chenguang Chang | FOL 29:3 (2022) pp. 350–356

10 June 2022

Elizabeth Closs Traugott . 2022. Discourse structuring markers in English: A historical constructionalist perspective on pragmatics

Reviewed by Bernd Heine & Haiping Long | FOL 29:3 (2022) pp. 338–343

Jef Verschueren . 2022. Complicity in discourse and practice

Reviewed by Bob Hodge | FOL 29:3 (2022) pp. 333–337

Eva Maagerø , Ruth Mulvad & Elise Seip Tønnessen (eds.). 2022. Women in social semiotics and SFL: Making a difference

Reviewed by Rebekah Wegener | FOL 29:3 (2022) pp. 344–349

4 March 2022

Diachronic changes of least delicate appraisal in parliamentary and congressional language : An SFL-based computational study

Bandar Alhumaidi A. Almutairi | FOL 29:2 (2022) pp. 169–198

Redefining attitude for studying explicit and indirect evaluations of human behaviour

Sara Vilar Lluch | FOL 29:2 (2022) pp. 199–225

3 March 2022

Modeling the discourse pragmatics of interrogatives

Malte Rosemeyer | FOL 29:1 (2022) pp. 1–24

15 February 2022

A contrastive perspective on French and Italian wh-in situ questions : A discourse-pragmatic approach

Davide Garassino | FOL 29:1 (2022) pp. 25–57

How sentence type influences the interpretation of Spanish future constructions

Malte Rosemeyer & María Sol Sansiñena | FOL 29:1 (2022) pp. 116–141

14 February 2022

Charles Forceville . 2020. Visual and multimodal communication: Applying the relevance principle

Reviewed by Agnieszka Piskorska | FOL 29:3 (2022) pp. 328–332

11 February 2022

Alternatives to QUD : Alternatives to questions

Pavel Ozerov | FOL 29:1 (2022) p. 86

Bernd Heine , Gunther Kaltenböck , Tania Kuteva & Haiping Long . 2021. The rise of discourse markers

Reviewed by Karin Aijmer | FOL 29:2 (2022) pp. 247–251

8 February 2022

Carlos Gussenhoven & Aoju Chen (eds.). 2020. The Oxford handbook of language prosody

Reviewed by Gerard O’Grady | FOL 29:2 (2022) pp. 237–246

2 February 2022

Helen Caple , Changpeng Huan & Monika Bednarek . 2020. Multimodal news analysis across cultures

Reviewed by Peipei Jia | FOL 29:2 (2022) pp. 232–236

1 February 2022

On the discourse pragmatics of German wh-headlines : Diachronic perspectives

Rita Finkbeiner & Robert Külpmann | FOL 29:1 (2022) pp. 58–85

23 September 2021

Hongming Zhang & Youyong Qian (eds.). 2019. Prosodic studies: Challenges and prospects

Reviewed by Chen Ou & Kaijing Zhao | FOL 29:2 (2022) pp. 226–231

13 July 2021

The pragmatism of drawing context networks : Social hierarchy and social distance as dimensions of Tenor

David G. Butt , Alison Rotha Moore , Canzhong Wu & John Cartmill | FOL 28:3 (2021) pp. 260–290

Submission

Manuscripts should be submitted via the online submission and tracking system .

Before submitting to Functions of Language, please consult this Checklist to make sure that the topic of your contribution is relevant to this journal.

Please also consult the Short Guide to EM for Authors and the journal's style sheet; manuscripts not conforming with the style sheet will not be considered.

Papers submitted for consideration should not have been published in any form before in any widely available publication, nor may they be under review elsewhere. They will be reviewed by at least two referees. Please make sure that you have anonymized your paper before you submit it.

Contributions should be in English. Authors who are not expert users of written academic English should have their text carefully checked by such an expert user (preferably a linguist familiar with the discourse of our discipline) before submitting the paper.

All editorial questions should be sent to the Managing Editor:
Charlotte Maekelberghe, charlotte.maekelberghekuleuven.be
KU Leuven, Faculty of Arts - Brussels Campus, Warmoesberg 26, B-1000 Brussels, Belgium

All questions about book reviews should be sent to the Reviews Editor:
Wendy Bowcher, wendyleemail.sysu.edu.cn

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Archiving

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Subjects

Linguistics

Functional linguistics

Pragmatics

Discourse studies

Theoretical linguistics

Corpus linguistics

Main BIC Subject

CF: Linguistics

Main BISAC Subject

LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General

Functions of Language

Subscription rates

Available back-volumes

Volume 29 (2022)

Volume 28 (2021)

Volume 27 (2020)

Volume 26 (2019)

Volume 25 (2018)

Volume 24 (2017)

Volume 23 (2016)

Volume 22 (2015)

Volume 21 (2014)

Volume 20 (2013)

Volume 19 (2012)

Volume 18 (2011)

Volume 17 (2010)

Volume 16 (2009)

Volume 15 (2008)

Volume 14 (2007)

Volume 13 (2006)

Volume 12 (2005)

Volume 11 (2004)

Volume 10 (2003)

Volume 9 (2002)

Volume 8 (2001)

Volume 7 (2000)

Volume 6 (1999)

Volume 5 (1998)

Volume 4 (1997)

Volume 3 (1996)

Volume 2 (1995)

Volume 1 (1994)