Linguistics Library Guide: Journals A-D

Acta Linguistica Hafniensa is an international journal of linguistics, published by the Linguistic Circle of Copenhagen. Articles are in English, French, and German.

The Association of Departments of Foreign Languages (ADFL) Bulletin is a refereed journal published two times a year by the Association of Departments of Foreign Languages, a subsidiary of the Modern Language Association. Articles are in English.

The American Journal of Semiotics, the journal of the Semiotic Society of America, is a peer-reviewed research publication with an interdisciplinary focus on the general subject of signs and sign systems. Articles are in English.

The Annual Review of Applied Linguistics publishes research on key topics in the broad field of applied linguistics. Each issue is thematic, providing a variety of perspectives on the topic through research summaries, critical overviews, position papers and empirical studies. Articles are in English.

Applied Linguistics, published by Oxford University Press, publishes research into language, with a focus on real-world problems. Applied Linguistics is interested in making connections between fields, theories, research methods, and scholarly discourses. Articles are in English.

Asian Englishes: an international journal of the sociolinguistics of English in Asia/Pacific is directed at the diffusion of English and its diversification in Asia and the Pacific. Articles are in English.

The Australian Journal of Linguistics is the official journal of the Australian Linguistic Society. The Journal publishes all branches of linguistics, with preference given to articles of theoretical interest. Articles have an international focus, but the journal also encourages articles on Australian languages, Australian English, and language in Australian society. Articles are in English.

Babel is designed for translators, interpreters, and terminologists, but is also a good way for non-specialists to keep up with current issues and events in the field. Babel is published for the International Federation of Translators. Articles are in English, French, Arabic, Chinese, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish.

Le Banque des Mots is a journal published by the Conseil international de la langue française (International Council for the French Language), and specializes in the questions raised by the continuing development of scientific and other terminologies. Articles are in French.

CALICO Journal is the official publication of the Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO) and focuses on information concerning the application of technology to language teaching and language learning. Articles are in English.

CLA Journal is the College Language Association Journal. CLAJ encourages the publication of socially engaged, innovative, and groundbreaking scholarship in language, literature, linguistics, and pedagogy. Articles are primarily in English, but have no published restrictions on submission languages and JSTOR describes CLAJ as "multilingual."

CLS, or Comparative Literature Studies, is published by Pennsylvania State University Press. It publishes comparative articles in literature and culture, critical theory, and cultural and literary relations within and beyond the Western tradition, and every two years an issue focuses entirely on East-West literary and cultural concerns. Articles are in English.

Cognitive Linguistics publishes research on the interaction between language and cognition. The journal focuses on significant advancements to the theory or methods of cognitive linguistics, and unknown or understudied phenomena in cognitive linguistics. Articles are in English.

CALL is an interdisciplinary journal which concerns itself with the use of computers in language learning (L1 and L2), teaching and testing. Articles are in English.

Computer Speech and Language publishes research on recognition, understanding, production, coding and mining of speech and language. Often, this research is performed by individuals in artificial intelligence, computer science, electronic engineering, information retrieval, linguistics, phonetics, or psychology. The journal encourages an interdisciplinary approach to speech and language research and technology. Articles are in English.

Constructions and Frames, an international journal published by the John Benjamins Publishing Company, focuses on construction-based approaches to language analysis. Articles are in English.

Diachronica, the International Journal for Historical Linguistics, is published by the John Benjamins Publishing Company. The journal publishes articles focusing on aspects of language change in any and all languages of the globe. Articles are in English, French, German, and Spanish.

The Journal of the International Society for Dialectology and Geolinguistics, also known as Dialectologia et Geolinguistica, publishes contributions on the variation of languages world-wide, systematic and inherent, diachronic and synchronic, regional and social, based on either oral or written data. Articles are primarily in English and German, but the journal is multilingual.

Dictionaries is the journal of the Dictionary Society of North America. The journal publishes articles focusing on lexicography, as well as areas of linguistics inquiry related to lexicography, and reference works in general related to dictionary-making. Articles are primarily in English, but do not appear to have submission restrictions and articles in French are apparent.

Digital Scholarship in the Humanities (formerly Literary and Linguistic Computing) is the Journal of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing. From the publisher: "The first issue of Literary and Linguistic Computing (1986) published papers on authorship, style, meaning, text processing, linguistics, and lexicometrics. In 2015, the festive celebratory 30th volume of the Journal will publish papers on oral history, film, ontologies, digital collections, and data modelling next to other papers of a more literary and linguistic nature." Articles are in English.