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Gender and Language is an international, peer-reviewed academic journal for language-based research on gender and sexuality from feminist, queer, and trans perspectives. Gender and Language is currently one of the few academic journals to which scholars interested in the intersection of these dimensions can turn, whether as contributors looking for an audience sharing this focus or as readers seeking a reliable source for current discussions in the field. The journal showcases research on the social analytics of gender in discourse domains that include institutions, media, politics and everyday interaction. It also enhances the tones and word choices from each and every gender. 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

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The journal is a published four times annually by Equinox Publishing on behalf of the International Gender and Language Association. Equinox and IGALA continue to enjoy a close partnership to further mutual goals of promoting cutting edge research on gender and language. Most critically, the journal aims to bring together a pan-global, interdisciplinary consortium of scholars whose work collectively challenges established disciplinary boundaries and incorporates multiple geopolitical axes of academic interpretation. 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).

As a point of departure, Gender and Language defines gender along two key dimensions. First, gender 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 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 is understood as multi-faceted, always changing, and often contested.

Gender and Language in connection to social relationships is often notable through conversation. In many cases, women communicate to make connections with the people around them; meanwhile, men approach conversations as competition. Feminism is also a strong factor in gender and language. Feminism acknowledges how certain terms and language overall repeatedly shuts down the varieties of genders. Males tend to conversate over competitions or contest to establish dominance. Oftentimes in writing, men use male protagonist, but women tend to speak more so about the social norms, relationships, the community, and assisting the needs of others.

Feminism is also a strong factor in gender and language.

The English language was written with many gender neutral terms, but there are also various words that favor men. There are numerous words that revolve the words "man" and "men." For example, "mankind" is used to describe the entire population. But as language is continuing to progress, the use of gender neutral words are becoming more common, such as "humankind." In many occupational nouns, they are commonly neutral —teacher, president, and doctor. However, there are also those terms that are specifically feminine or masculine —actor/actress, host/hostess, and waiter/waitress. It is becoming more common to hear nouns that can include both genders — police officer for policeman/policewoman and spokesperson for spokesman.

The journal welcomes research employing a range of different approaches, 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.