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Lebende Sprachen

Zeitschrift für interlinguale und interkulturelle Kommunikation Journal of interlingual and intercultural communication
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Language: German
First published: January 1, 1956
Publication Frequency: 2 issues per year
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About this journal

Since 1956, Lebende Sprachen [Living Languages] has been the leading specialist journal for interlingual and intercultural communication in Germany. The journal operates at the interface of translation studies, (contrastive) linguistics, specialised communication studies, terminology studies, and related areas and contains cross-lingual as well as language- and culture-specific articles and reviews on relevant publications in these areas.

Lebende Sprachen appears biannually. Articles can be submitted in German, English, French, and Spanish and will be peer-reviewed.

Your Benefits

  • The leading specialist journal for interlingual and intercultural communication for over 60 years
  • Short publishing cycles through ahead-of-print online publishing
  • Hybrid open access publication model
  • Selected articles can be accessed for free for 6 months
  • High-quality ensured through peer review and article proofreading
  • Publication in print as well as online
  • Extensive reach through German, English, French, and Spanish as publication languages
  • Excellent research basis through online availability of all previous issues

Complete Archive Access

As of 2026, all De Gruyter journal subscriptions include access to every issue, from Volume 1, Issue 1 through to today, meaning subscribers can access even more research at no additional cost.

History

Lebende Sprachen was first published in 1956 by Langenscheidt, Berlin, and was edited by Alexander Lane and Günther Haensch.

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    „Einfache Sprache ... betreutes Denken. Viel Glück!“
    March 3, 2026
    Marco Agnetta
  • February 18, 2026
    Katrin Burkhalter, Bernadette Rieder
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    Deutsche und spanische Adjektive mit somatischen Elementen.
    February 16, 2026
    Valentina Vivaldi
  • February 16, 2026
    Juan Cuartero Otal, Christiane Limbach
  • February 12, 2026
    Alida Maria Silletti
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    Leichte und Einfache Sprache: Ein komplexer Diskurs
    February 12, 2026
    Paul Mayr, Christine Konecny, Verena Thaler
  • February 10, 2026
    Annarita Felici, Eugenia Portioli
  • February 10, 2026
    Fabian Merkel, Silke Gutermuth, Silvia Hansen-Schirra
  • February 9, 2026
    Giuliana Fiorentino, Marco Russodivito
  • February 2, 2026
    Julia Degenhardt
  • January 27, 2026
    Floriana C. Sciumbata
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    Janus-verbs: A proposal for formal-semantic representation
    January 15, 2026
    Elia Hernández Socas

Lebende Sprachen publishes special and thematic issues focussed on important and emerging topics in the field of study. The journal has established a rigorous process to ensure that any special issue manuscripts follow the same high-quality standards and peer review processes as regular manuscripts. For further information on the journal’s peer review policy please see the "Instructions for Authors".
Recent Special Issues

CiteScore 0.6 2024, Scopus (Elsevier B.V., 2025)
SCImago Journal Rank 0.179 2024, SJR (Scimago Lab, 2025; Data Source: Scopus)
Source Normalized Impact per Paper 0.655 2024, CWTS Journal Indicators (CWTS B.V., 2025; Data Source: Scopus)
European Reference Index for the Humanities 0

Submit 

Articles can be submitted at: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/les

Detailed information on the submission of manuscripts via ScholarOne Manuscripts can be found on the Author Support page. You can also contact the editors of Lebende Sprachen with any questions or problems. 

Please format your manuscript in accordance with the LES Submission Guidelines_EN prior to submission and use our LES Manuscript Template_EN.

Ahead of Print 

Articles that have been successfully peer-reviewed will be initially published online "ahead of print" and then later assigned to a forthcoming issue of Lebende Sprachen. This ahead-of-print process allows for a ver y short publishing cycle. 

Hybrid Open-Access 

Authors have the opportunity to publish their articles under an open access license in Lebende Sprachen. The publication fee for a hybrid open access article is 2,000 euros (not including potential VAT fees). Please note that authors belonging to institutions with which we have a transformation agreement can publish using open access without incurring any costs. You can find further information on these agreements here

Free Access 

Two articles will be selected by the editors each year and will be made available for 6 months free of charge. 

Repository Policy 

After an embargo period of 12 months after initial publication, De Gruyter allows authors to use the publishe d final version of their article (publisher’s pdf) for self-archiving (author’s personal webpage) and/or for archiving in an institutional directory (on a server operated without commercial interest). 

The source of the published texts must be made recognisable and a link to the homepage of the journal or to the DOI of the article is required. 

The authors may NOT archive their article in public and/or commercial thematic directories. 

Further information on the De Gruyter repository policy can be found here.

AI-Policy for Authors

Please read our AI-Policy for Authors.

Herausgeber
Prof. Dr. Ralph Krüger, TH Köln - University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Prof. Dr. Tinka Reichmann, Leipzig University, Germany
Prof. Dr. Ursula Wienen, TH Köln - University of Applied Sciences, Germany

Redaktion
Birgit Fischer, Köln
lebendesprachen@degruyter.com

Redaktionsrat 2022-2023
Marco Agnetta, Innsbruck University, Austria
Vahram Atayan, Heidelberg University, Germany
Ginette Castro, Temuco Catholic University, Chile
Nikolai K. Garbovskiy, Lomonosow Moscow State University, Russia
Thierry Grass, University of Strasbourg, France
Peter J. Holzer, Innsbruck University, Austria
Samuel Läubli, ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
Gina Abou Fadel Saad, Saint Joseph University, Beirut, Lebanon
Klaus Schubert, University of Hildesheim, Germany
Carsten Sinner, Leipzig University, Germany
Karolina Suchowolec, TH Köln - University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Tomás Svoboda, Charles University Prague, Czech Republic
Eva Wiesmann, Bologna University, Italy
Sue Ellen Wright, Kent State University, Ohio, USA
Ailing Zhang, Shanghai International Studies University, China

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Journal information
Additional information
eISSN:
1868-0267
ISSN:
0023-9909
Language:
German
Publisher:
De Gruyter
Additional information
First published:
January 1, 1956
Publication Frequency:
2 issues per year
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