Journal of Language and Pop Culture
This journal is peer reviewed and indexed in: Bibliography of Pragmatics Online (BoP ) ; CNKI Scholar ; Dimensions ; IBR/IBZ ; Linguistic Bibliography/Bibliographie Linguistique ; Linguistics Abstracts Online ; Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA ) ; MLA International Bibliography
The Journal of Language and Pop Culture (JLPop) provides the prime outlet for the growing amount of research in pop cultural linguistics, the study of language use in pop culture data. Pop culture here is conceptualized in a broad sense to include artifacts with a commercial, entertainment-based purpose that are mediated and represent largely fictional, scripted/performed content. This includes pop music, television, comics and cartoons, video games, social media, as well as other forms of entertainment and trends that are widely accessible in mainstream society.
The journal is open to contributions from all linguistic subfields that engage with pop culture and performed language, including sociolinguistics, pragmatics, stylistics, corpus linguistics, conversation analysis, (critical) discourse analysis, media linguistics, and applied linguistics/language education. Multimodal and interdisciplinary approaches are especially encouraged and, while English is typically seen as the primary language of pop culture, studies are invited on all languages.
JLPop also produces special issues and publishes its articles Online First.
Social media presence: https://bsky.app/profile/jlpopculture.bsky.social
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General information about our electronic journals.
Subscription rates
All prices for print + online include postage/handling.
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| Volume 2 (2026): 2 issues; ca. 300 pp. | EUR | EUR |
Individuals may apply for a special online-only subscription rate of EUR
Private subscriptions are for personal use only, and must be pre-paid and ordered directly from the publisher.
Available back-volumes
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| Volume 1 (2025) | 2 issues; 300 pp. | EUR | EUR |
Author info
Authors wishing to submit articles for publication in JLPop are requested to do so through the journal’s online submission and manuscript tracking site. Please consult the Short Guide to EM for Authors before you submit your paper.
Submissions should be prepared in line with the journal guidelines.
The length (all-inclusive) of the manuscripts should be as follows:
Regular article: 7,500-8,500 words
Book reviews: 1,500-2,000 words
Please do not submit unsolicited book reviews. Please contact the book review editor at journaloflanguageandpopculturegmail.com in case you are interested in writing a review.
JLPop welcomes special issues on any topic within the remit of the journal. Please contact the editors to discuss your proposal.
In case of problems with the submission site, please contact the editors at journaloflanguageandpopculturegmail.com
Ethics
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Authors and reviewers are kindly requested to read this Ethics Statement.
Please also note the guidance on (the declaration of) the use of Artificial Intelligence.
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Authors must ensure that they have permission to use any third-party material in their contribution; the permission should include perpetual (not time-limited) world-wide distribution in print and electronic format.
For information on authors' rights, please consult the rights information page.
Open Access
Articles accepted for this journal can be made Open Access through payment of an Article Publication Charge (APC) of EUR 1800 (excl. tax). To arrange this, please contact openaccessbenjamins.nl as soon as your paper has been accepted for publication. More information can be found on the publisher's Open Access Policy page.
Corresponding authors from institutions with which John Benjamins has a Read & Publish arrangement can publish Open Access without paying a fee. Please consult this list of institutions for up-to-date information on which articles qualify.
For information about permission to post a version of your article online or in an institutional repository ('green' open access or self-archiving), please consult the rights information page.
If the article is not (to be made) Open Access, there is no fee for the author to publish in this journal.
Archiving
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