Aims And Scope

The International Journal of Linguistics Studies (IJLS) is a peer-reviewed international academic journal publishing research in Linguistics and related fields. It is international with regard to its editorial board, contributing authors and thematic foci of publications.

The aims of the journal:

1- to promote scholarly exchange and cooperation among all international linguists and specialists in all subfield of linguistics;
2- to disseminate theoretically grounded research and advance knowledge pertaining to the field of linguistics;
3- to publish results of original research on a broad range of interdisciplinary issues relating to language, culture, cognition and communication;
4- to promote the development and understanding of language use in different sociocultural contexts.

The journal covers functional and socio-cognitive aspects of different languages and publishes a wide range of interdisciplinary studies that focus on the effect of sociocultural contexts on language development and use. This special approach allows the editors to publish research from a broad range of different linguistics subfields such as language and culture, comparative linguistics, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, cognitive linguistics, pragmatics, applied linguistics, discourse analysis, intercultural communication, theory and practice of translation.

In addition to research articles, the journal welcomes book reviews, literature overviews, conference reports and research project announcements.