''Lingua: An International Review of General Linguistics'' is a
peer-reviewed
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academic journal
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of
general linguistics that was established in 1949 and is published by
Elsevier
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. Its
editor-in-chief
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The highest-ranking editor of a publication may also be titled editor, managing ...
is
Marta Dynel (
University of Lodz).
In October 2015 the editors and
editorial board
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Mass media
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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
open access
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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
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