Text & Talk
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Edited by:
Srikant Sarangi
About this journal
Objective
Text & Talk (founded as TEXT in 1981) is an internationally recognized forum for interdisciplinary research in language, discourse, and communication studies, focusing, among other things, on the situational and historical nature of text/talk production; the cognitive and sociocultural processes of language practice/action; and participant-based structures of meaning negotiation and multimodal alignment. Text & Talk encourages critical debates on these and other relevant issues, spanning not only the theoretical and methodological dimensions of discourse but also their practical and socially relevant outcomes.
Topics
- discourse analysis
- applied linguistics
- pragmatics
- sociolinguistics
- corpus linguistics
- multimodality
- genre analysis
- communication
- professional practice
Full Length Articles, Short Articles, Systematic Literature Reviews, Review Articles, Forum Discussions, Research Notes
Your Benefits
- Access to high quality, original research outputs
- Interdisciplinary approaches to language, communication and discourse studies
- Methodological/analytical pluralism in engagement with empirical data
- Current theoretical advancements
- Special issues on highly seminal topics
- Different article formats inclusive of systematic literature reviews, review articles, research notes and forum discussions
- Internationally acclaimed scholars serving on editorial boards
History
Text & Talk was founded in 1981 under the original title TEXT. The journal title was changed to TEXT & TALK in 2006 and Srikant Sarangi has been Editor since 1998.
Other publications in the fieldJournals:
- Applied Linguistics Review
- Communications
- Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory
- European Journal of Applied Linguistics
- Humor
- International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching
- Journal of Politeness Research
- Language Learning in Higher Education
- Intercultural Pragmatics
- Multilingua
- Multimodal Communication
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Requires Authentication UnlicensedLexico-syntactic features of science and science popularization texts: an information-theoretic viewLicensedJune 18, 2025
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Requires Authentication UnlicensedRepresentation of the Fukushima nuclear disaster in media opinion piecesLicensedApril 2, 2025
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Requires Authentication UnlicensedThe functions of grammaticalized complement-taking-predicate clauses in interrogatives: a typologyLicensedMarch 28, 2025
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Requires Authentication UnlicensedExplaining the misconduct: Meaning-making of legitimation strategies in corporate apologies on WeiboLicensedMarch 26, 2025
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Requires Authentication UnlicensedIll, vulnerable and kind: a corpus-based study of the discourse representation of older adults on WeiboLicensedFebruary 28, 2025
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Requires Authentication UnlicensedShifting from a ‘just’ to a ‘fair’ transition in environmental discourse: a case of old wine in a new bottle?LicensedFebruary 18, 2025
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Requires Authentication UnlicensedEffects of writing topic, first language background, and second language proficiency on ‘V that’ clauses in argumentative writingLicensedFebruary 18, 2025
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Requires Authentication UnlicensedNarrative navigation in legal persuasion: a rhetorical analysis of lawyers’ affidavits and skeleton arguments for appellate relief in criminal cases in MalawiLicensedFebruary 14, 2025
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Open AccessPositive and negative risk in adventure tourism discourse: adrenaline hunting in “arctic Lapland”February 3, 2025
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Requires Authentication UnlicensedEmotion displays in “moments of conflict” in parent-child interactionLicensedJanuary 31, 2025
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Requires Authentication UnlicensedComparing the negotiation of attitudes in audience-sensitive art exhibition labels: how they engage visitors of different age groupsLicensedJanuary 17, 2025
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Issue 4Special Issue: Gunther Kress – Explorer of the Semiotic Landscape; Guest Editors: Jeff Bezemer and Theo van Leeuwen
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Issue 5Special Issue: Stancetaking in Motion: Grammar and Stance Activities in East and Southeast Asian Languages; Guest Editor: Shoichi Iwasaki
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Issue 4Special Issue: Environmental issues in the Anthropocene: ecolinguistic perspectives across media and genres; Guest Editors: Douglas Mark Ponton and Małgorzata Sokół
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Issue 5-6Special Issue: Corpus Linguistics across the Generations: In Memory of Geoffrey Leech; Guest Editors: Tony McEnery and Gavin Brookes
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Issue 5Special Issue: The Moral Character of Emotion Work in Adult-Child Interactions; Guest editors: Asta Cekaite and Ann-Carita Evaldsson
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Issue 4Special Issue: The dynamics of textual trajectories in professional and workplace practice, Guest editors: Theresa Lillis and Janet Maybin
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Issue 6Special Issue: Represented talk across activities and languages, Guest Editors: Matthew T. Prior and Gabriele Kasper
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Issue 3Special Issue: Multimodality, meaning-making, and the issue of “text”
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Editor-in-Chief
Srikant Sarangi (Aalborg University, Denmark & Cardiff University, UK)
Editorial Associate
Jean Pietrowicz
textandtalk@degruyter.com
Specialist Board
Paul Baker (Lancaster University, UK)
Malcolm Coulthard (University of Birmingham, UK)
Anna De Fina (Georgetown University, USA)
Anita Fetzer (University of Augsburg, Germany)
Nigel Harwood (The University of Sheffield, UK)
Jan-Ola Östman (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Honorary Board
John Swales (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA)
Advisory Board
Elisabetta Adami (University of Leeds)
Jannis Androutsopoulos (University of Hamburg, Germany)
Karin Aronsson (Stockholm University, Sweden)
Michael Bamberg (Clark University, USA)
John A. Bateman (University of Bremen, Germany)
Monika Bednarek (The University of Sydney, Australia)
Marina Bondi (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy)
Ruth Breeze (University of Navarra, Spain)
Richard Buttny (Syracuse University, USA)
Marta Dynel (University of Łódź, Poland)
Susan Ehrlich (York University, Toronto, Canada)
Stefan Th. Gries (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
Bethany Gray (Iowa State University, USA)
Helmut Gruber (Vienna University, Austria)
Pentti Haddington (University of Oulu, Finland)
Kira Hall (University of Colorado, Boulder, USA)
Richard Heyman (University of Calgary, Canada)
Guangwei Hu (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, SAR China)
Susan Hunston (University of Birmingham, UK)
Sylvia Jaworska (University of Reading, UK)
Daniel Kadar (Dalian University of Foreign Languages, China)
Helen Kelly-Holmes (University of Limerick, Ireland)
Inger Lassen (Aalborg University, Denmark)
Michelle M. Lazar (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Xiaoting Li (University of Alberta, Canada)
David Machin (Shanghai International Studies University, China)
Paul Kei Matsuda (Arizona State University, USA)
Gerlinde Mautner (Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria)
Paul McIlvenny (Aalborg University, Denmark)
Lorenza Mondada (University of Basel, Switzerland)
Cornelia Müller (European University Viadrina, Frankfurt, Germany)
Neal R. Norrick (Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany)
Sigrid Norris (Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand)
Gerard O’Grady (Cardiff University, UK)
Anne O'Keeffe (Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, Ireland)
Louise Ravelli (University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia)
Martin Reisigl (University of Vienna, Austria)
John E. Richardson (University of Liverpool, UK)
Kay Richardson (University of Liverpool, UK)
Betty Samraj (San Diego State University, USA)
Philip Seargeant (The Open University, UK)
Shi-xu (Hangzhou Normal University, China)
Melisa Stevanovic (Tampere University, Finland)
Maite Taboada (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
Deborah Tannen (Georgetown University, Washington, USA)
Hongyin Tao (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
Crispin Thurlow (University of Bern, Switzerland)
Karen Tracy (University of Colorado, Boulder, USA)
Theo van Leeuwen (University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark)
Ann Weatherall (University of Bedfordshire, UK)
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