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Journals
If you want to know what is going on in linguistics, you have to read the journals.
Very often important developments do not appear in books until several
years after they first make their appearance in the pages of periodicals or
learned journals.
Table 24.1 simply provides a list of some of the more important linguistics
journals. Brief comments are added as necessary. The list provided here is
clearly a biased one: it does not list journals written in Asian languages, for
example. Nevertheless, the list is extensive, and shows just how much is published
on linguistics and language-related areas.
What I have called ‘national’ journals in this list are often journals produced
by a national linguistics society. They often carry articles in the language of
the nation they serve and articles about the languages of the area they serve.
At the same time, these journals may carry articles in ‘international languages’
(whose definition varies depending on the particular country involved, but
usually including English and French), including articles by linguists from
outside their national boundaries, and they often carry articles of general
interest.
The coverage of many of the journals is made clear by their titles. The
journal English language and linguistics deals with just that and requires little
other comment. Journals which do not specialise in terms of their topic are said
to deal with ‘general’ linguistics.
Some journals have had several publishers in their lifetimes; only the most
current one known about is listed. In some cases, the imprint under which a
journal is published may actually be owned by a different publishing house.
Finally, since new journals are being introduced all the time, this list is bound
to be slightly out of date.