Aims and Scope
Journal of Language, Discourse, and Communication (JLDC) is an international peer-reviewed scholarly journal that publishes original research examining the role of language and discourse in communication across social, political, cultural, media, and institutional contexts. The journal promotes interdisciplinary scholarship that connects linguistics, discourse studies, and communication research.
JLDC aims to advance theoretical and empirical understanding of how language and discourse shape meaning, identity, ideology, and power in contemporary societies. The journal welcomes contributions that investigate communication practices in both mediated and face-to-face settings, including digital communication environments and institutional discourse.
The journal encourages submissions that apply diverse theoretical and methodological approaches, including qualitative, quantitative, corpus-based, ethnographic, and multimodal research methods.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- discourse analysis and critical discourse analysis
- political discourse and political communication
- media discourse and digital communication
- sociolinguistics and language in society
- intercultural and global communication
- language and ideology
- institutional and organizational communication
- communication in law, governance, and public policy
- multimodal and visual communication
- rhetoric, narrative, and argumentation
- communication in international relations and diplomacy
- language, discourse, and social change
The journal publishes original research that contributes to scholarly debates on language, discourse, and communication in diverse social and institutional contexts.
