Interactional Linguistics
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CiteScore: 1.9SNIP: 1.115 SJR: 0.503
This journal is peer reviewed and indexed in: CNKI Scholar ; Dimensions ; IBR/IBZ ; Linguistic Bibliography/Bibliographie Linguistique ; Linguistics Abstracts Online ; Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA ) ; MLA International Bibliography ; Scopus
In the past two decades, usage-based approaches to linguistic inquiry have forged an empirically grounded comprehension of language as locally contingent, temporal, and ever-adaptive. Interactionally-oriented approaches to the study of language have evidenced both how linguistic structures function as resources for organizing social interaction, and, conversely, how social interaction shapes linguistic structures.
Interactional Linguistics aims to advance our understanding of this symbiotic relationship between language and social interaction, contributing to a more encompassing comprehension of what language is, in light of its use within the dynamics of social interaction. This fully peer-reviewed journal publishes original research that demonstrates how close scrutiny of linguistic structures as they occur in social interaction can deepen our appreciation of the functional and formal aspects of language, be it within a single language or cross-linguistically. The journal publishes qualitative and quantitative research and welcomes empirical as well as theoretical arguments. We aim for two issues a year at six-monthly intervals.
Interactional Linguistics publishes its articles Online First.
Information on Open Access publication can be found under the button Submission below.
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Issues
Online-first articlesVolume 6 (2026)
Volume 5 (2025)
Volume 4 (2024)
Volume 3 (2023)
Volume 2 (2022)
Volume 1 (2021)
Editorial info
Subscription Info
General information about our electronic journals.
Subscription rates
All prices for print + online include postage/handling.
| Online-only | Print + online | ||
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| Volume 7 (2027): 2 issues; ca. 250 pp. | EUR | EUR | |
| Volume 6 (2026): 2 issues; ca. 250 pp. | EUR | EUR |
Individuals may apply for a special online-only subscription rate of EUR
Private subscriptions are for personal use only, and must be pre-paid and ordered directly from the publisher.
Available back-volumes
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| Complete backset (Vols. 1‒5; 2021‒2025) | 10 issues; 1,250 pp. | EUR 825.00 | EUR 968.00 |
| Volume 5 (2025) | 2 issues; 250 pp. | EUR | EUR |
| Volume 4 (2024) | 2 issues; 250 pp. | EUR | EUR |
| Volume 3 (2023) | 2 issues; 250 pp. | EUR | EUR |
| Volumes 1‒2 (2021‒2022) | 2 issues; avg. 250 pp. | EUR | EUR |
Author info
Interactional Linguistics offers online submission .
Before submitting, please consult the guidelines and the Short Guide to EM for Authors .
If you are not able to submit online, or for any other editorial correspondence, please contact the editors via e-mail: interactional.linguisticsgmail.com
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Open Access
Articles accepted for this journal can be made Open Access through payment of an Article Publication Charge (APC) of EUR 1800 (+ VAT/tax if applicable). To arrange this, please contact openaccessbenjamins.nl as soon as your paper has been accepted for publication. More information can be found on the publisher's Open Access Policy page.
Corresponding authors from institutions with which John Benjamins has a Read & Publish arrangement can publish Open Access without paying a fee. Please consult this list of institutions for up-to-date information on the criteria for articles covered under the agreement. Make sure that the correct author is clearly marked as the corresponding author in the final version that you submit to the journal editor(s) to forward to production, and check carefully in the proofs; once an article is published (also online first, which is the Version of Record) it is no longer possible to make changes to the order of the authors or the designation of the corresponding author.
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If the article is not (to be made) Open Access, there is no fee for the author to publish in this journal.
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