Abbreviated title (ISO 4) J. Lang. Soc. Psychol. Language English Publication history 1982-present | Discipline Psychology Edited by Howard Giles | |
Publisher SAGE Publications (United Kingdom) | ||
Journal of Language and Social Psychology is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes papers in the fields of Communication and Psychology. The journal's editor is Howard Giles (University of California Santa Barbara). It has been in publication since 1982 and is currently published by SAGE Publications.
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Scope
Journal of Language and Social Psychology is devoted to the social psychology of language. The journal publishes reports of research and theory at the cross-roads of language, mind and society. Journal of Language and Social Psychology presents articles from a range of disciplines including linguistics, cognitive science and anthropology with a focus on quantitative, experimental studies and positivistic theory.
Abstracting and indexing
Journal of Language and Social Psychology is abstracted and indexed in, among other databases: SCOPUS, and the Social Sciences Citation Index. According to the Journal Citation Reports, its 2012 impact factor is 1.490, ranking it 29 out of 60 journals in the category ‘Psychology, Social’. and 17 out of 160 journals in the category ‘Linguistics’. and 15 out of 72 journals in the category ‘Communication’.