Aims
The Journal of Applied Linguistics and Language in Use aims to provide a rigorous, open-access, bilingual venue for data-driven applied linguistics research that examines language in actual use.
The journal seeks to:
- show how linguistic knowledge helps to understand and address problems in law, health, media, technology and public life;
- build knowledge on Turkish and the other languages of Türkiye grounded in authentic usage data;
- create a two-way link between theory and practice, so that questions arising in practice feed back into linguistic theory;
- make data and code sharing, methodological transparency and replicability a standard in linguistics publishing in Türkiye;
- bring researchers together with practitioners such as lawyers, police, health professionals, translators and institutions.
Scope
The journal publishes original research that analyses language in use through authentic data and connects its findings to a context of practice. Core areas include:
- Pragmatics: speech acts, politeness, implicature, context and meaning
- Discourse analysis and critical discourse studies
- Corpus linguistics and corpus-based analysis
- Forensic linguistics and language and the law: authorship analysis, threat and deception discourse, interview and courtroom interaction, legal texts
- Institutional and professional communication: health communication, public services, workplace discourse
- Media and digital discourse: news language, social media, online harm and hate speech
- Language and artificial intelligence: human and machine-generated text, linguistic evaluation of large language models
- Sociolinguistics, linguistic variation, language policy and multilingualism
- Translation and interpreting in practice
- Applying quantitative and computational methods to authentic language data
Language teaching research falls within scope when it addresses a social or institutional problem beyond the classroom. The journal gives priority to research on Turkish and other languages spoken in Türkiye, and also welcomes studies of other languages with comparative relevance.
The journal publishes research articles, short reports, practitioner co-authored "From the Field" papers, data and methods notes, and book reviews, in Turkish or English.
Purely theoretical or formal studies not based on authentic language data, literary criticism, and descriptive work without an applied dimension fall outside the journal's scope.