John Benjamins Publishing Company is an independent
academic publisher
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in
social sciences
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and
humanities
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with its head office in
Amsterdam
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,
Netherlands
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. The company was founded in the 1960s by John and Claire Benjamins and is currently managed by their daughter
Seline Benjamins. Its North American office is in
Philadelphia
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.
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John Benjamins is especially noted for its publications in
language
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,
linguistics
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,
political linguistics Political linguistics is the study of the relations between language and politics. Language is used as a means to form a state and is enacted in various ways that help achieve political objectives. Language allows for people in a very large number t ...
and
literary studies
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. It publishes books, as well as a number of
academic journals
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and
yearbooks
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, including ''
Archiv Orientální
The ''Archiv Orientální'' (''ArOr'') is a triannual peer-reviewed academic journal covering African, Asian, and Near Eastern studies. It is currently published by the Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences.
The current editor-in ...
'', ''
International Journal of Corpus Linguistics
The ''International Journal of Corpus Linguistics'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes scholarly articles and book reviews on corpus linguistics, with a focus on applied linguistics. The journal is published by John Ben ...
'', ''
Language Problems and Language Planning
''Language Problems and Language Planning'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by John Benjamins Publishing Company in cooperation with the Center for Research and Documentation on World Language Problems. Its core topics are issues o ...
'', ''
Studies in Language'', ''
Lingvisticae Investigationes
''Lingvisticae Investigationes: International Journal of Linguistics and Language Resources'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal of linguistics published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. It publishes articles, book reviews, and summaries of ...
'', ''Journal of Language and Politics'' and ''
Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area
''Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area'' is a biannual peer-reviewed academic journal covering research on the Sino-Tibetan languages and other mainland Southeast Asian languages. It was established in 1974 and was closely associated with the Sin ...
''.
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