Journal of Politeness Research
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Editor-in-Chief:
About this journal
Starting 2025, Journal of Politeness Research will be transferred to Gold Open Access on a year-by-year basis. All articles will thus immediately appear under the Creative Commons license CC-BY. There will be no publication costs for the authors. The Open Access transformation is based on Subscribe-to-Open, an alternative model that enables the full Open Access transformation of journals through the continuation of existing subscriptions. The prerequisite for successful transformation is that subscriptions are continued to the same extent as before. The editors of Journal of Politeness Research and the publisher De Gruyter would therefore like to thank all subscribers for their support, which has made the transformation to Open Access possible.
Objective
Contributions to the Journal of Politeness Research focus on various aspects of politeness as a complex linguistic and non-linguistic phenomenon. The multidisciplinary journal broadens and sharpens the understanding of the nature of politeness by providing a much-needed forum for synergies to develop between researchers approaching politeness from different disciplinary angles. The journal also strengthens and widens the existing cross-cultural and intercultural body of politeness research by encouraging new contributions from lesser-studied cultures and languages. Journal of Politeness Research is associated with the work of the international Linguistic Politeness Research Group (LPRG).
- Impoliteness
- Politeness
- Pragmatics
- Sociolinguistics
Article formats
Research articles, Book reviews; Review articles; Response articles
Your Benefits
- Multidisciplinary forum for research into linguistic and non-linguistic politeness phenomena
- In-depth empirical reports across cultures, languages, and interactional contexts
- Fascinating new insights into theories and methodologies of politeness with contributions from researchers from different backgrounds
- Rigorous peer-review
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Issue 2
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Issue 1Special Issue: 20 years (further) on: whither politeness studies now? Opening up the binaries; Guest Editors: Michael Haugh and Jim O’Driscoll
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Issue 2
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Issue 1Special Issue: Alternative Approaches to Politeness and Impoliteness Guest Editors: Dániel Z. Kádár, Vahid Parvaresh and Rosina Márquez Reiter
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Issue 2Special Issue: (Im)Politeness in professional contexts, Issue Editors: Piotr Jagodziński, Dawn Archer, and Derek Bousfield
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Issue 1
| Journal Impact Factor | 1.1 | 2024, Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate, 2025) |
| 5-year Journal Impact Factor | 1.5 | 2024, Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate, 2025) |
| Journal Citation Indicator | 1.03 | 2024, Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate, 2025) |
| CiteScore | 2.6 | 2024, Scopus (Elsevier B.V., 2025) |
| SCImago Journal Rank | 0.99 | 2024, SJR (Scimago Lab, 2025; Data Source: Scopus) |
| Source Normalized Impact per Paper | 1.223 | 2024, CWTS Journal Indicators (CWTS B.V., 2025; Data Source: Scopus) |
| European Reference Index for the Humanities | 0 |
Submission
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Submission process
- Submission of your paper via our submission management tool
- Peer review process (you will be g uided through every step)
- Decision on your paper
- Publication online and in print
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Editor-in-Chief
Jim O'Driscoll
e-mail: Politeness.Research@degruyterbrill.com
Assistant Managing Editor
Elizabeth Marsden
Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland
Book Reviews Editor
Isabelle van der Bom
Technische Universität Chemnitz, Chemnitz, Germany
Editorial Assistant
Irene Inoue, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Editorial Board
Christine Christie (Loughborough University, UK)
Bethan Davies (Leeds University, UK)
Karen Grainger (Sheffield Hallam University, UK)
Andrew Merrison (York St John University, UK)
Sara Mills (Sheffield Hallam University, UK)
Louise Mullany (Nottingham University, UK)
Advisory Board
Robert Arundale (University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA)
Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA)
Penelope Brown (Max Planck In stitute for Psycholinguistics, the Netherlands)
Jonathan Culpeper (Lancaster University, UK)
Michael Haugh (University of Queensland, Australia)
Janet Holmes (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)
Thomas Holtgraves (Ball State University, Indiana, USA)
Juliane House (University of Hamburg, Germany)
Dániel Kádár (Dalian University of Foreign Languages, China)
Luanga Kasanga (University of Bahrain)
Gabriele Kasper (University of Hawai’i, USA)
Abdennour Kharraki (University Mohammed 1, Morocco)
Miriam Locher (University of Basel, Switzerland)
Sinfree Bullock Makoni (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
Rosina Márquez-Reiter (The Open University, UK)
Yoshiko Matsumoto (Stanford University, California, USA)
David Morand (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
Yuling Pan (United States Census Bureau, USA)
Barbara Pizziconi (SOAS, University of London, UK)
Maria Sifianou (University of Athens, Greece)
Helen Spencer Oatey (Uni versity of Warwick, UK)
Marina Terkourafi (Leiden University, Netherlands)
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