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Academic Journals

Scholars publish their research articles on academic journals to introduce them to the world. If you want to know what are the latest developments in linguistics you might want to follow a few journals usually. At the time of writing, all of the journals are either open access or accesible for Boğaziçi students through instutional login. If your primary research interest is not listed here, any journals or books from publishers like any university press, Taylor & Francis/Routledge, Palgrave/Kluwer/Springer Online, Macmillan, Wiley-Blackwell, Bloomsbury/Continuum, Rowman and Littlefield/Lexington, Polity, De Gruyter, Brill/Elsiever, Sage are reliable and can be cited or followed for accurate research. This page will be updated with more journals, please send me an e-mail with your suggestions if you have any.

General Linguistics

  • Glossa is a journal dedicated to general linguistics and it is published by the Open Library of Humanities You can find articles from all areas of theoretical linguistics in it.
  • Language is the flagship journal of the LSA. You can find articles on linguistic theory, language and public policy, and the teaching of linguistics in it
  • Dilbilim Araştırmaları Dergisi is the most prominent journal of linguistics in Turkey, published by Dilbilim Derneği. It's mostly focused on theoretical linguistics but there is applied linguistics articles published as well.
  • Dilbilim (İÜ) is another journal of linguistics in Turkey, published by Istanbul University. They are focused more on applied linguistics.

Applied Pragmatics

  • Internet Pragmatics contains articles exploring how people – and intelligent systems – use online platforms to meet communicative, social and professional needs, and how these virtual interactions carry pragmatic implications for identity, relationships and collective formation.

Sociolinguistics

  • Language in Society is one of the most important journals of sociolinguistics. Language and Woman's Place by Robin Lakoff, which is the article that started the field of gender and language studies, was published here. The journal still outputs high quality articles on everything from linguistic anthropology and ethnography of speaking to language policy and multilingualism.
  • Journal of Sociolinguistics hosts articles on both quantitative variationist sociolinguistic studies and qualitative social theory, identity construction, and the effects of globalization on language.
  • Language Variation and Change is a journal for variationist sociolinguistics (the school of thought pioneered by William Labov).

Critical Discourse Studies

  • Discourse & Society is a journal focused on Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), especially the type pioneered by Teun A. van Dijk. It's heavily focused on the socio-political and socio-cognitive structures of discourse.
  • Journal of Language and Politics is another journal on discourse studies, specifically focusing on Ruth Wodak's Discourse-Historical Approach (DHA). It bridges linguistics with political science, history, and sociology, focusing heavily on national identity, populism, and the "politics of fear."
  • Critical Discourse Studies is the most explicitly "CDA-centric" journal. It leans heavily into Norman Fairclough's Dialectical-Relational approach, exploring how language interacts with social change, capitalism, neoliberalism, and globalization.

Semantics