About the Journal

JDCS publishes peer-reviewed research on how discourse—spoken, written, multimodal, and digital—shapes and is shaped by cultural practices, social structures, identities, and power dynamics. Interdisciplinary by design, the journal employs a double-anonymised peer-review model and offers diamond open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence.

The Journal of Discourse, Culture & Society (JDCS) is a peer-reviewed, diamond open-access journal dedicated to advancing critical scholarship at the intersection of language, communication, culture, and society. The journal examines how discursive practices—across spoken, written, multimodal, and digital modalities—constitute and are constituted by broader social systems, cultural formations, institutions, and asymmetric relations of power.

Rooted in an inherently interdisciplinary framework, JDCS bridges linguistics, sociology, media and cultural studies, and political communication. The journal welcomes empirical, methodological, and theoretical contributions covering:

  • Critical Discourse Studies (CDS/CDA) and multimodal interaction analysis
  • Sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, and language ideologies
  • Media discourse, digital publics, and algorithmic cultures
  • Cultural sociology, subcultures, and popular culture practices
  • Pragmatics, conversation analysis, and interactional sociolinguistics
  • Semiotics, visual communication, and cultural representations
  • Language policy, institutional rhetoric, and public deliberation

A detailed breakdown of topic areas and methodological orientations is available on our Aims & Scope page.

Editorial Standards & Open Access Mandate

  • Peer Review: All research submissions undergo rigorous double-anonymised peer review by independent expert referees, overseen by the Editor-in-Chief and Associate Editors.
  • Diamond Open Access: JDCS adheres to the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI). There are no submission charges, article processing charges (APCs), or publication fees for authors, and all published content is freely accessible to the public immediately upon publication.
  • Licensing & Copyright: Content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). Authors retain unrestricted copyright and publishing rights in their work.
  • Publication Ethics: JDCS strictly complies with the best-practice guidelines set by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
  • Archiving & Publisher: JDCS follows a continuous publication model: articles are published online as soon as they are ready and are compiled into two issues a year, in June and December. The journal ensures persistent digital archiving for all published articles and is published by Artsürem, Türkiye.