Intercultural Pragmatics

Manuscripts can only be considered if submitted online through ScholarOne:
https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/InPra

When you use the submission platform, you will be guided through the process. You can also check the status of your submission there.

Please read the guidelines below before submitting your manuscript.
Manuscripts not conforming to the key instructions will be returned to the authors.

Key Instructions

1. This journal follows a double-anonymized peer-review process.
   1. The (co)author’s previous publications should be quoted in the third person. We recommend using impersonal constructions (e.g. "It has been shown") or avoiding metadiscourse altogether and providing self-references in parentheses. In other words, each (co)author's name must not be suppressed in references (both in-text and in the bib liography), rather, it should be provided as it would be in a published paper with no identification (e.g. "in my previous work" should not be used). Please avoid citing manuscripts under preparation. 
   2. The authors are asked to remove any identifying information from their manuscripts before submission: (a) Files’ metadata must be clean, (b) and the (co)author’s institution and other identifying information (e.g., permission or grant numbers) must be suppressed in the manuscript.

2. Please provide a separate title page. 
   1. The title page must comprise six components
      1. the author’s name, 
      2. affiliation(s), 
      3. ORCID identifier (provided as a URL),
      4. email,
      5. address, as well as
      6. a short bio note.

       

   2. In the case of c o-authored papers:
   • the requirement above applies to all
   • co-authors should be listed on the title page in the order in which they are added in the relevant submission step in ScholarOne and in which they are to appear on the published paper. 
   • the first author's OrcID (in addition to the corresponding author's) must be provided in the relevant submission step in ScholarOne.

    

   3. The title page should also include the acknowledgments and funding information, if applicable.

    

   None of this information identifying any (co)author should be present in the anonymized manuscript. The exception is the (co-)author's surname featuring only in references cited in the third person (see point 1 above).

    

    

   3. Please prepare an abstract, in line with these criteria:
   1. 150–250 words, 
   2. a single, self-contained paragraph,
   3. without any references.
   4. The abstract should follow the paper's title in the manuscript file.

    

   4. Please prepare a list of 4–6 keywords. These must serve indexing purposes and will help place your work in the landscape of previous research in pragmatics. Please use existing notions representing the topic and methodology of your paper. Please avoid obscure acronyms, complex phrases (with "of" or "and"), as well as words that are not yet accepted linguistic terms.

    

   5. Authors may also attach a cover letter addressed to the handling editor, which will not be shared with reviewers.

    

   6. You will also be able to attach figures and supplementary files. However, figures and tables should also be placed in the body of the manuscript.

    

   7. Please prepare a list of 2–4 potential reviewers in line with COPE guidelines (i.e. no current or recent [within the past five years]: co-authors, collaborators or grant holders, colleagues employed at the same institution, supervisors/students, mentors/mentees, or scholars already familiar with a non-anonymized paper or the study it reports). You may also list a few reviewer candidates you would prefer not to be considered. Please note that reviewer selection is at the discretion of the handling editor.

     

Further instructions and submission information

• Manuscripts must be written in clear and concise English.
• Please see the De Gruyter Mouton journal style sheet for further information regarding the proper formatting of your manuscript.
• Before submitting your article, please have a look at our

• Publication Ethics Statement,
• AI policy guidelines, and
• Copyright agreement.

• Please note that your manuscript will be checked for plagiarism via Crossref Similarity Check.
• If you have any general questions, please visit our FAQ page for journal authors.
• For specific inquiries, please send an email to the Editor-in-Chief at InPra@degruyterbrill.com.

Special Issue proposals

Intercultural Pragmatics continues the tradition of Special Issues focused on topics of current interest in pragmatics. Prospective editors of special issues are invited to submit their proposals to the Editor-in-Chief (InPra@degruyterbrill.com). The proposals should include:

1. Special Issue title
2. Editors (names, affiliations, and bio notes)
3. Brief description/rationale (300–500 words)
4. Table of contents (author names, affiliations, bio notes of up to 100 words, abstracts of 150–250words with no references)
5. The due date for the delivery of manuscripts for review

Each Special Issue proposal should include 5–8 papers.

Ethical considerations

Kindly note that we can consider proposals that include:

• a maximum of one paper (co)authored by each (co-)Guest Editor (excluding the Special Issue Introduction, which provides an overview of the relevant topic and briefly introduces the submissions)
• a maximum of one paper from one (co)author
• a maximum of two (co)authors affiliated with one institution
• a maximum of three papers from (co)authors based in one country

Your benefits

• Short turnaround times with rapid ahead-of-print publication
• High-quality, double-anonymized peer review
• Personal distribution: Our repository policy allows you to distribute 30 PDF copies of your published article among colleagues (the PDF has to include the information that it is an author's copy)
• Discoverability of each paper thanks to SEO and comprehensive abstracting and indexing services
• Secure archiving by De Gruyter Brill and the independent archiving service Portico
• Free publication of color figures both in online and print editions and no page charges
• Two routes to publishing open access in hybrid journals:

• You have the option to publish your article as gold open access, making it immediately available to all readers.
• If you choose to publish your article in closed access, you can opt for open access through the green route: You may self-archive the version of record in an institutional repository or on your personal website after a 12-month embargo period.

Hybrid Open Access

Authors have the option to publish their article under an open-access license. The standard article processing charge for a hybrid open-access article is 2,000 Euro (plus VAT, if applicable). Please note that corresponding authors from institutions with which we have a transformative agreement can publish open access without paying the fee. More information on the eligible institutions and articles can be found here.

We look forward to receiving your manuscript!

Editor-in-Chief (as of 2026)
Prof. Marta Dynel
University of Lodz, Poland
InPra@degruyterbrill.com

Founding Editor
Prof. István Kecskés †

Interim Editor-in-Chief (2025)
Prof. Alessandro Capone
University of Messina, Italy

Editorial Board
Patricia Amaral (Indiana University, Bloomington, USA)
Mira Ariel (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Bruno Bara (University of Torino, Italy)
Anne Barron (Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany)
John W. Du Bois (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
Alessandro Capone (University of Messina, Italy)
Wayne Davis (Georgetown University, USA)
Victoria Escandell Vidal (Complutense, Madrid, Spain)
Roberta Facchinetti (University of Verona, Italy)
Fanny Forsberg Lundell (Stockholm University, Sweden)
Manuel García-Carpintero (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain)
Dirk Geeraerts (University of Leuven, Belgium)
Raymond Gibbs (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA)
Rachel Giora (University of Tel Aviv, Israel)
Michael Haugh (The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia)
Laurence Horn (Yale University, USA)
Kasia Jaszczolt (University of Cambridge, UK)
Julija Korostenskiene (Vilnius University, Lithuania)
Kepa Korta (Universidad del Pais Vasco, Spain)
Fabrizio Macagno (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal)
Jacob Mey (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark)
Jacques Moeschler (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
Kerry Mullan (RMIT, Melbourne, Australia)
Alejandro Parini (Universidad de Belgrano, Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Liu Ping (Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, China)
Wilfrid Rotgé (Sorbonne IV, Paris, France)
Yael Sharvit (UCLA, Los Angeles, USA)
Roberto B. Sileo (University of Cambridge, UK)
Isidora Stojanovic (Institut Jean-Nicod, Paris, France)
Andra Vasilescu (University of Bucharest, Romania)
Xu Wen (Southwest University, Chongqing, China)
Deirdre Wilson (University of London, UK)

Intercultural Pragmatics is covered by the following services:

• Baidu Scholar
• BLL Bibliographie Linguistischer Literatur
• Cabells Journalytics
• CNKI Scholar (China National Knowledge Infrastructure)
• CNPIEC - cnpLINKer
• Dimensions
• EBSCO (relevant databases)
• EBSCO Discovery Service
• ERIH PLUS (European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences)
• Genamics JournalSeek
• Google Scholar
• IBR (International Bibliography of Reviews of Scholarly Literature in the Humanities and Social Sciences)
• IBZ (International Bibliography of Periodical Literature in the Humanities and Social Sciences)
• Index Copernicus
• Ingenta Connect
• J-Gate
• Journal Citation Reports/Social Sciences Edition
• JournalGuide
• Linguistic Bibliography
• Linguistics Abstracts Online
• MLA International Bibliography
• Naver Academic
• Naviga (Softweco)
• Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals, Series and Publishers
• OLC Linguistik
• Primo Central (ExLibris)
• ProQuest (relevant databases)
• Publons
• QOAM (Quality Open Access Market)
• ReadCube
• ScienceON (Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information)
• Scilit
• SCImago (SJR)
• SCOPUS
• Semantic Scholar
• Sherpa/RoMEO
• Summon (ProQuest)
• TDNet
• Ulrich's Periodicals Directory/ulrichsweb
• WanFang Data
• Web of Science - Arts & Humanities Citation Index
• Web of Science - Social Sciences Citation Index
• WorldCat (OCLC)
• X-MOL
• Yewno Discover