Gender and Language

Gender and Language is an international peer-reviewed academic journal for language-based research on gender and sexuality from feminist, queer, and transgender perspectives. The journal features research on the social analytics of gender identity in discourse domains that include institutions, media, politics and everyday interaction.

The journal is published four times annually by Equinox Publishing on behalf of the International Gender and Language Association. The journal's editors-in-chief are Rodrigo Borba (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro), Kira Hall (University of Colorado Boulder) and Mie Hiramoto (National University of Singapore).

Gender and Language defines gender along two key dimensions. The first dimension is that gender identity is a key element of social relationships that are often loosely linked to perceived differences between women and men. Gender relations are ideologically encoded in linguistic and symbolic representations, normative concepts, institutions, social practices, and social identities. Second, gender identity is a primary arena for articulating power in complex interaction with other dimensions of social difference and identity, such as class, race, ability, age, and sexuality. Gender identity is understood as multidimensional, always changing, and often contested.

The journal features research employing a range of different approaches towards understanding what gender identity is, among them applied linguistics, conversation analysis, corpus linguistics, critical discourse analysis, discursive psychology, embodied sociolinguistics, ethnography of communication, interactional sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, linguistic landscapes, pragmatics, raciolinguistics, social semiotics, sociophonetics, stylistics, symbolic interactionism and variationist sociolinguistics.

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 Journal Impact Factor (JIF) of .976, and a Journal Citation Indicator (JCI) of 0.76. The journal has a 2020 CiteScore of 1.2, an SRJ of 0.413 and a SNIP of 1.166.

Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in: • Social Sciences Citation Index

• Arts and Humanities Citation Index

• Current Contents/Social and Behavioural Sciences

• Current Contents/Arts & Humanities

• Scopus

• Linguistics Abstracts

• Educational Research Abstracts Online

• MLA Bibliography

• Bibliography of Linguistic Literature

• SocINDEX

• Linguistics and Language Behaviour Abstracts

• Feminist Periodicals: A Current Listing of Contents According to Scopus, the journal has a 2020 CiteScore of 1.2, an SJR of .413, and a SNIP of 1.166. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2019 impact factor of 0.619 and a five-year impact factor of 0.713.