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| Discipline | Linguistics |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Edited by | Andries Coetzee |
| Publication details | |
| History | 1925–present |
| Publisher | |
| Frequency | Quarterly |
| Delayed, 1-year[1] | |
| 1.5 (2024) | |
| Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt  ) | |
| ISO 4 | Language |
| Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L | |
| ISSN | 0097-8507 (print) 1535-0665 (web) |
| LCCN | 27011255 |
| JSTOR | 00978507 |
| OCLC no. | 50709582 |
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Language is apeer-reviewed quarterlyacademic journal published by theLinguistic Society of America since 1925. It covers all aspects oflinguistics, focusing on the area oftheoretical linguistics. Its currenteditor-in-chief isAndries Coetzee (University of Michigan).
Under the editorship ofYale linguistBernard Bloch,Language was the vehicle for publication of many of the important articles of Americanstructural linguistics during the second quarter of the 20th century, and was the journal in which many of the most important subsequent developments in linguistics played themselves out.[citation needed]
One of the most famous articles to appear inLanguage was the youngNoam Chomsky's scathing 1959 review of the bookVerbal Behavior by thebehavioristcognitive psychologistB. F. Skinner.[2] This article argued that behaviorist psychology, then a dominant paradigm in linguistics (as in psychology at large), had no hope of explaining complex phenomena like language. It was followed two years later by another book review that is almost as famous—Robert B. Lees's glowingly positive assessment of Chomsky's own 1957 bookSyntactic Structures, which put Chomsky and hisgenerative grammar on the intellectual map as the successor to American structuralism.
By far the most cited article inLanguage[3] is the 1974 description on theturn-taking system of ordinary conversation by the founders ofconversation analysis—Harvey Sacks,Emanuel Schegloff, andGail Jefferson. This article describes the socially normative system of rules that accounts for the complex turn-taking behaviour of participants in conversation, demonstrating the system in detail using recordings of actual conversation.
Language continues to be an influential journal in the field of linguistics: it is ranked twenty-fourth out of 184 in the "linguistics" category in the 2018Journal Citation Reports, with an impact factor of 1.899.
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