''Discourse Studies'' is a bimonthly

peer-reviewed Peer review is the evaluation of work by one or more people with similar competencies as the producers of the work (peers). It functions as a form of self-regulation by qualified members of a profession within the relevant field. Peer review ...

academic journal An academic journal or scholarly journal is a periodical publication in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as permanent and transparent forums for the presentation, scrutiny, and d ...

that covers the field of

discourse analysis Discourse analysis (DA), or discourse studies, is an approach to the analysis of written, vocal, or sign language use, or any significant semiotic event. The objects of discourse Analysis ( discourse, writing, conversation, communicative event ...

, especially articles that offer a detailed, systematic and explicit analysis of the structures and strategies of text and talk, their cognitive basis and their social, political and cultural functions. It specifically also publishes studies in

conversation analysis Conversation analysis (CA) is an approach to the study of social interaction, embracing both verbal and non-verbal conduct, in situations of everyday life. CA originated as a sociological method, but has since spread to other fields. CA began with ...

. The journal was established in 1999 by Teun A. van Dijk.

Scope

''Discourse Studies'' is a general journal for the study of text and talk. It features work on the structures and strategies of written and spoken discourse, with a particular focus on cross-disciplinary studies of text and talk in linguistics, communication studies, ethnomethodology, anthropology, cognitive and social psychology, and law. Articles on the socio-political aspects of discourse are published in its sister journal, ''

Discourse & Society ''Discourse & Society'' is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal that covers the field of discourse analysis. It was established in 1990 by Teun A. van Dijk (Pompeu Fabra University), who has been the editor-in-chief ever since. Abstractin ...

''. Articles that study the relations between discourse and communication are specifically published in ''

Discourse & Communication ''Discourse & Communication'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal that covers the fields of discourse analysis and social communication by focusing on topics in communication analyzed with discourse analytical methods. The journal was est ...

''.

Abstracting and indexing

''Discourse Studies'' is abstracted and indexed in

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and the

Social Sciences Citation Index The Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) is a commercial citation index product of Clarivate Analytics. It was originally developed by the Institute for Scientific Information from the Science Citation Index. The Social Sciences Citation Index is ...

. According to the ''

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'', its 2012

impact factor The impact factor (IF) or journal impact factor (JIF) of an academic journal is a scientometric index calculated by Clarivate that reflects the yearly mean number of citations of articles published in the last two years in a given journal, as i ...

is 0.938, ranking it 31st out of 72 journals in the category "Communication".

External links

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