''Lingua: An International Review of General Linguistics'' is a

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that was established in 1949 and is published by

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. Its

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Marta Dynel Marta Dynel is a Polish linguist and professor at Łódź University, Poland. She is known for her works on pragmatics and is the editor-in-chief of the journal ''Lingua''. Career Marta Dynel received her PhD (2006) from Łódź University, foll ...

(

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). In October 2015 the editors and

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of ''Lingua'' resigned en masse to protest their inability to come to an agreement with Elsevier regarding fair pricing models for

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publishing. They subsequently started a new journal, '' Glossa''. Since then, the majority of the linguistics community has supported ''Glossa'' and boycotted ''Lingua''. As part of the boycott, the journal got the pejorative nickname ''Zombie Lingua''.

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* Linguistics journals Elsevier academic journals Publications established in 1949 English-language journals Journals published between 13 and 25 times per year Hybrid open access journals {{ling-journal-stub