Aims & Scope

The Journal of Discourse, Culture & Society (JDCS) is an international, double-anonymized, diamond open-access journal at the intersection of language, discourse, and social life. It publishes original research on how discourse — spoken, written, multimodal, and digital — shapes and is shaped by cultural practices, social structures, identities, and relations of power.

The journal is interdisciplinary by design and is not tied to any single national, linguistic, or methodological tradition. Submissions are welcome from across the humanities and social sciences, including linguistics, sociology, anthropology, communication and media studies, cultural studies, political science, and education, as well as work that crosses these boundaries.

Scope

JDCS welcomes theoretical, empirical, and methodological contributions across a broad range of areas concerned with discourse, language, and social life, including but not limited to:

• Discourse analysis and critical discourse analysis
• Pragmatics and cognitive pragmatics
• Sociolinguistics and anthropological linguistics
• Ethnomethodology and conversation analysis
• Narrative analysis
• Semiotics and social semiotics
• Intercultural communication and pragmatics
• Bi- and multilingualism
• Media discourse
• Language policy and planning
• Endangered languages

All articles are published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) license, with authors retaining copyright. The journal charges no fees to authors or readers.