''Gender and Language'' is an international
peer-reviewed
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academic journal
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for language-based research on
gender
Gender is the range of social, psychological, cultural, and behavioral aspects of being a man (or boy), woman (or girl), or third gender. Although gender often corresponds to sex, a transgender person may identify with a gender other tha ...
and
sexuality
Human sexuality is the way people experience and express themselves sexually. This involves biological, psychological, physical, erotic, emotional, social, or spiritual feelings and behaviors. Because it is a broad term, which has varied ...
from
feminist
Feminism is a range of socio-political movements and ideology, ideologies that aim to define and establish the political, economic, personal, and social gender equality, equality of the sexes. Feminism holds the position that modern soci ...
,
queer
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, and
nonbinary perspectives. The journal features research on the social analytics of
gender
Gender is the range of social, psychological, cultural, and behavioral aspects of being a man (or boy), woman (or girl), or third gender. Although gender often corresponds to sex, a transgender person may identify with a gender other tha ...
in discourse domains that include institutions, media, politics and everyday interaction.
The journal is published four times annually by
Equinox Publishing on behalf of the
International Gender and Language Association. The journal's
editors-in-chief
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are Rodrigo Borba (
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro),
Kira Hall (
University of Colorado Boulder
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) and Mie Hiramoto (
National University of Singapore
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).
''Gender and Language'' encourages research on the implications of competing definitions of gender and sexuality, as well as different approaches for analyzing the production and interpretation of language.
The journal aims to foster
interdisciplinary dialogue on these subjects.
According to the ''
Journal Citation Reports
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'', the journal has a 2020
Journal Impact Factor (JIF) of .976, and a Journal Citation Indicator (JCI) of 0.76. The journal has a 2021 CiteScore of 2.9.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
According to
Scopus
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, the journal has a 2020 CiteScore of 1.2, an SJR of .413, and a SNIP of 1.166. According to the ''
Journal Citation Reports
''Journal Citation Reports'' (''JCR'') is an annual publication by Clarivate. It has been integrated with the Web of Science and is accessed from the Web of Science Core Collection. It provides information about academic journals in the natur ...
'', the journal has a 2019
impact factor
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The Impact Factor of a journa ...
of 0.619 and a five-year impact factor of 0.713.
See also
*
List of women's studies journals
This is a list of peer-reviewed, academic journals in the field of women's studies.
''Note'': there are many important academic magazines that are not true peer-reviewed journals. They are not listed here.
A
*''Affilia''
* ''Asian Journal ...
*
List of Linguistics journals
References
External links
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English-language journals
Equinox Publishing (Sheffield) academic journals
Grammatical gender
Linguistics journals
Academic journals established in 2007
Triannual journals
Women's studies journals
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