LANGUAGE SCIENCES AUTHOR INFORMATION PACK TABLE OF CONTENTS XXX . • Description p.1 • Audience p.1 • Impact Factor p.1 • Abstracting and Indexing p.2 • Editorial Board p.2 • Guide for Authors p.3 ISSN: 0388-0001 DESCRIPTION . Language Sciences seeks to provide an outlet for radical and innovative work that enlarges our view of language and languaging. It aspires to be the foremost forum for transdisciplinary research on linguistic behaviour and languaging. We encourage contributions that take a broad view of language and languaging as coordinative, affiliative, and integrational activities that enable human living. Language Sciences is likewise a forum for debates on metatheoretical, epistemological, and axiological issues in the study of language and languaging, broadly conceived. We encourage contributions that challenge the disciplinary boundaries with critical scrutiny of extant theories and methods in the language sciences, and with diversification of the manner in which the object of language studies is conceived and constructed. The vision of Language Sciences is to provide a fertile meeting ground for scholars from a host of disciplines, including (but not limited to) cognitive science, anthropology, biosemiotics, cultural studies, philosophy, psychology, sociology, and ecology. The editors particularly encourage empirical work that has the potential to interrogate and challenge well-established theories and methods in linguistics and its subdisciplines. For more information about the journal's vision, please read this editorial. AUDIENCE . Academics and practical specialists in linguistics. IMPACT FACTOR . 2020: 0.682 © Clarivate Analytics Journal Citation Reports 2021 AUTHOR INFORMATION PACK 30 Sep 2021 www.elsevier.com/locate/langsci 1 ABSTRACTING AND INDEXING . Current Contents Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts Linguistics Abstracts MLA International Bibliography Arts & Humanities Search PsycINFO Social SciSearch UnCover Arts and Humanities Citation Index Social Sciences Citation Index Communication and Mass Media Complete Education Research Index Humanities International Index Scopus Linguistic Bibliography (BLonline) EDITORIAL BOARD . Editor Sune Vork Steffensen, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark Associate Editors Fred Cummins, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland Anne Storch, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany Assistant Editor Matthew Harvey, University of Southern Denmark Institute of Language and Communication, Odense, Denmark Editorial Board Lynn Clark, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand Paul Cobley, Middlesex University Arts and creative industries facilities, London, United Kingdom S J Cowley, University of Southern Denmark - Campus Slagelse, Slagelse, Denmark Elena Cuffari, Worcester State University, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America Ana Deumert, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa Hannele Dufva, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland Dorthe Duncker, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark Nikolas Gisborne, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom Bernd Heine, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany Guowen Huang, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China Chris M Hutton, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China Peter E. Jones, Sheffield Hallam University Department of Humanities, Sheffield, United Kingdom John E. Joseph, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom Evan Kidd, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Netherlands Alex Kravchenko, Baikal State University, Irkutsk, Russian Federation Charles Lassiter, Gonzaga University, Spokane, Washington, United States of America Nigel Love, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa Felicity Meakins, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Adrian Pablé, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China Robert Port, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America Joanna Rączaszek-Leonardi, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa, Poland Talbot Taylor, William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, United States of America Paul Thibault Sarah Bro Trasmundi, University of Southern Denmark Institute of Language and Communication, Odense, Denmark Elizabeth A. Traugott, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America Graeme Trousdale, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom E. Velmezova, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland Li Wei, University College London Institute of Education, London, United Kingdom Xu Wen, Southwest University College of International Studies, Beibei Chongqing, China AUTHOR INFORMATION PACK 30 Sep 2021 www.elsevier.com/locate/langsci 2 GUIDE FOR AUTHORS . Your Paper Your Way We now differentiate between the requirements for new and revised submissions. You may choose to submit your manuscript as a single Word or PDF file to be used in the refereeing process. Only when your paper is at the revision stage, will you be requested to put your paper in to a 'correct format' for acceptance and provide the items required for the publication of your article. To find out more, please visit the Preparation section below. INTRODUCTION Authors are requested to submit their papers electronically by using the Language Sciences online submission and review web site (https://www.editorialmanager.com/LSC/default.aspx). This site will guide authors stepwise through the submission process. Authors are requested to submit the text, tables, and artwork in electronic form to this address. Authors who are unable to provide an electronic version or have other circumstances that prevent online submission must contact the Editor prior to submission to discuss alternative options; email: [email protected]. The Publisher and Editor regret that they are not able to consider submissions that do not follow these procedures. Submission checklist You can use this list to carry out a final check of your submission before you send it to the journal for review. Please check the relevant section in this Guide for Authors for more details. 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