AMPERSAND An International Journal of General and Applied Linguistics AUTHOR INFORMATION PACK TABLE OF CONTENTS XXX . • Description p.1 • Abstracting and Indexing p.2 • Editorial Board p.2 • Guide for Authors p.4 ISSN: 2215-0390 DESCRIPTION . Serving the breadth of the general and applied linguistics communities, Ampersand offers a highly- visible, open-access home for authors. An international, peer-reviewed journal, Ampersand welcomes submissions in applied and historical linguistics, phonetics, phonology, pragmatics, semantics, sociolinguistics and syntax. Ampersand provides authors with an open-access venue to disseminate a wide range of linguistic research in an equally wide range of formats, prioritizing rapid peer review and publication so that researchers can share their work in its most current and innovative form. In response to the global thrust toward open source, open data and open access in science, Ampersand offers the opportunity for authors to make their research freely available to everyone, opening their work to a wider audience and increased readership. Ampersand caters to a comprehensive audience, ranging from language researchers, linguists, teachers, educationalists, practitioners to those with a general interest in language and linguistics. The journal aims to encourage the free exchange of information between researchers by being a forum for the constructive discussion and debate of issues in both theoretical and applied research. The journal welcomes all types of submission format: traditional 'full' research articles, short communications, opinion pieces, book reviews, case studies and literature reviews. Ampersand also offers the opportunity to publish special issues or sections to reflect current interest and research in topical or developing areas. 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AUTHOR INFORMATION PACK 2 Oct 2021 www.elsevier.com/locate/amper 1 ABSTRACTING AND INDEXING . Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) EDITORIAL BOARD . Editors Christopher Carignan, University College London, London, United Kingdom phonetics & phonology Astrid De Wit, University of Antwerp Department of Linguistics, Antwerpen, Belgium tense/aspect/modality, semantics, pragmatics, typology Elizabeth Peterson, University of Helsinki Department of Languages, Helsinki, Finland sociolinguistics, linguistic variation, pragmatic variation, discourse-pragmatic particles, language attitudes Fang Xu, Nanjing University, The English Department, 210023, China second language writing, language and identity, English for academic purposes, second language acquisition, language teacher development Editorial Board Dora Alexopoulou, University of Cambridge Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages, Cambridge, United Kingdom Gisle Andersen, Norwegian School of Economics, Bergen, Norway Stavros Assimakopoulos, University of Malta Institute of Linguistics, Msida, Malta Marissa S. Barlaz, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign School of Literatures Cultures and Linguistics, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America Tom Bartlett, Cardiff University, Department of English Language and Linguistics, Glasgow, United Kingdom Liselotte Brems, University of Liège Modern Languages and Literatures Department, Liège, Belgium Taehong Cho, Hanyang University, Institute for Phonetics and Cognitive Sciences of Language, Seoul, South Korea Urszula Clark, Aston University English Language Subject Group, Birmingham, United Kingdom Steve Disney, University of Saint Mark and Saint John School of Health & Wellbeing, Plymouth, United Kingdom Bronwen G. Evans, University College London Department of Speech Hearing & Phonetic Sciences, London, United Kingdom Jessica Gasiorek, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Department of Communicology, 96822, Hawaii, United States of America Kook-Hee Gil, The University of Sheffield School of English, Sheffield, United Kingdom Nicolas Guilliot, University of Bordeaux Montaigne, CLLE-ERSSàB Laboratory (CNRS UMR5263), Language Sciences Department, PESSAC, France Robert Hagiwara, University of Manitoba Faculty of Arts, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Johanna Isosävi, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland Sam Kirkham, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom Rachael-Anne Knight, City University of London Division of Language and Communication Science, London, United Kingdom Yongyan Li, The University of Hong Kong Faculty of Education, Kowloon, Hong Kong Christian Ludwig, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany Daniel van Olmen, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom Adeline Patard, University of Caen Normandy, Laboratory CRISCO EA 4255, Department of Linguistics, Cedex 5, France Ana Pellicer-Sánchez, University College London Department of Culture Communication and Media, London, United Kingdom Heike Pichler, Newcastle University School of English Literature Language and Linguistics, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom Leendert Plug, University of Leeds Department of Linguistics and Phonetics, Leeds, United Kingdom Bernadette Plunkett, University of York, York, United Kingdom Erik Schleef, University of Salzburg Department of English and American Studies, Salzburg, Austria Melani Schroeter, University of Reading Department of Modern Languages and European Studies, Reading, United Kingdom Linda Shockey, University of Reading Department of Modern Languages and European Studies, Reading, United Kingdom Anna Theakston, University of Manchester, Division of Human Communication, Development & Hearing, Manchester, United Kingdom Eva Van Lier, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands Dieter Vermandere, University of Antwerp Department of Linguistics, Antwerpen, Belgium Gareth Walker, The University of Sheffield School of English, Sheffield, United Kingdom Traci Walker, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom AUTHOR INFORMATION PACK 2 Oct 2021 www.elsevier.com/locate/amper 2 Dominic Watt, University of York, York, United Kingdom Albert Weideman, University of the Free State Faculty of Humanities, Bloemfontein, South Africa Yicheng Wu, Zhejiang University, Department of Linguistics and Translation, Hangzhou, China Malcah Yaeger-Dror, The University of Arizona Department of Linguistics, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America AUTHOR INFORMATION PACK 2 Oct 2021 www.elsevier.com/locate/amper 3 GUIDE FOR AUTHORS . 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