About the Journal

The Journal of Linguistics and Language Studies (JLLS) is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal appearing under the JDONS imprint. The journal is dedicated to advancing critical and original research in linguistics and language studies, with particular attention to language structure, variation, history, documentation, acquisition, use, preservation, and computational transformation. It provides an international forum for examining how scholarship in this field develops knowledge, informs professional and public conversations, and responds to emerging questions.

Committed to intellectual rigor, methodological pluralism, and global scholarly dialogue, the Journal of Linguistics and Language Studies encourages research that crosses disciplinary boundaries, tests established assumptions, and brings diverse intellectual traditions into productive conversation. The journal seeks to cultivate innovative scholarship that clarifies major questions in linguistics and language studies, strengthens methodological exchange, and contributes to understanding contemporary conditions as well as future possibilities.

This journal is published by the JDONS, an organization, and serves as an international platform for advancing scholarship in linguistics and language studies and for fostering international collaboration among scholars, professionals, researchers, policymakers, educators, and knowledge practitioners. It fosters international collaboration among scholars, researchers, professionals, policymakers, educators, and independent investigators and supports rigorous peer exchange across disciplinary, geographic, institutional, and methodological boundaries.

The scope of JLLS extends across language structure, variation, history, documentation, acquisition, use, preservation, and computational transformation. Research may engage theoretical, empirical, comparative, historical, computational, experimental, interpretive, applied, or practice-based approaches, as appropriate to the subject. The journal welcomes scholarship that places specialized research within broader cultural, social, scientific, technological, environmental, institutional, or policy contexts and encourages meaningful connections with adjacent fields.

·         Phonetics

·         Phonology

·         Morphology

·         Syntax

·         Semantics

·         Pragmatics

·         Sociolinguistics

·         Historical Linguistics

·         Language Documentation

·         Language Revitalization

·         Computational Linguistics

·         Corpus Linguistics

The journal invites original research, conceptual essays, comparative inquiries, methodological contributions, policy analyses, scholarly reviews, and critical book reviews. Contributions are encouraged to engage one or more of the journal's stated foci while remaining open to emerging subjects, innovative methodologies, comparative perspectives, and questions not yet adequately represented in the literature. JLLS welcomes work from theoretical, empirical, historical, computational, applied, and practice-based traditions.

The journal particularly values comparative and transdisciplinary work with global reach that critically examines the major intellectual, practical, and societal questions associated with linguistics and language studies. Particular emphasis is placed on research that foregrounds diverse perspectives, including Indigenous, Global South, decolonial, comparative, community-based, and underrepresented knowledge traditions where relevant, while encouraging meaningful engagement across academic disciplines, geographic contexts, and forms of expertise.