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Linguistics and Philosophy focuses on issues related to structure and meaning in natural language, as addressed in the semantics, philosophy of language, pragmatics and related disciplines, in particular the following areas:
- philosophical theories of meaning and truth, reference, description, entailment, presupposition, implicatures, context-dependence, and speech acts
- linguistic theories of semantic interpretation in relation to syntactic structure and prosody, of discourse structure, lexcial semantics and semantic change
- psycholinguistic theories of semantic interpretation and issues of the processing and acquisition of natural language, and the relation of semantic interpretation to other cognitive faculties
- mathematical and logical properties of natural language and general aspects of computational linguistics
- philosophical questions raised by linguistics as a science.
It publishes articles, replies, and review articles.
Peer review is conducted using Editorial Manager®, supported by a database of international experts. This database is shared with the journal, Natural Language & Linguistic Theory.
- Examines structure and meaning in natural language, as addressed in the semantics, philosophy of language, pragmatics and related disciplines
- The journal of record for the fields of semantics and philosophy of language
- Included in Thomson/Reuters ISI Social Sciences Citation Index
Journal information
- Co-Editors-in-Chief
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- Regine Eckardt,
- Dilip Ninan
- Publishing model
- Hybrid (Transformative Journal). Learn about publishing Open Access with us
Journal metrics
- 1.711 (2019)
- Impact factor
- 1.759 (2019)
- Five year impact factor
- 121 days
- Submission to first decision
- 647 days
- Submission to acceptance
- 30,044 (2019)
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About this journal
- Electronic ISSN
- 1573-0549
- Print ISSN
- 0165-0157
- Abstracted and indexed in
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- ANVUR
- Arts & Humanities Citation Index
- CNKI
- Current Contents / Social & Behavioral Sciences
- Current Contents/Arts and Humanities
- Dimensions
- EBSCO Communication
- EBSCO Communication & Mass Media Complete
- EBSCO Discovery Service
- EBSCO Humanities International
- EBSCO Humanities Source
- EBSCO Linguistics Abstracts Online
- ERIH PLUS
- Google Scholar
- Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China
- JSTOR
- Journal Citation Reports/Social Sciences Edition
- MLA International Bibliography
- Naver
- OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service
- PhilPapers
- ProQuest Central
- ProQuest Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA)
- ProQuest Philosophy Database
- ProQuest Research Library
- ProQuest Social Science Collection
- ProQuest-ExLibris Primo
- ProQuest-ExLibris Summon
- SCImago
- SCOPUS
- Social Science Citation Index
- TD Net Discovery Service
- UGC-CARE List (India)
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