Journal of Language and Sexuality

Editor
ORCiD logo with linkHeiko Motschenbacher | Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norway | heim at hvl.no
Associate Editor
ORCiD logo with linkMie Hiramoto | National University of Singapore, Singapore
Book Review Editor
ORCiD logo with linkAngela Zottola | University of Turin, Italy
Editorial Assistant
Katie Gillow-Kloster

Journal metrics

Impact Factor: 2.1
Journal Citation Indicator: 1.42
CiteScore: 4.5
SNIP: 1.478 SJR: 0.854

This journal is peer reviewed and indexed in: CNKI Scholar ; Dimensions ; Glottolog ; IBR/IBZ ; Linguistic Bibliography/Bibliographie Linguistique ; Linguistics Abstracts Online ; Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA ) ; MLA International Bibliography ; Scopus ; WoS Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI )

The Journal of Language and Sexuality aims to present research on the discursive formations of sexuality, including sexual desire, sexual identities, sexual politics and sexuality in diaspora. Of interest is linguistic work in the widest possible sense, including work in sociolinguistics, anthropological linguistics, pragmatics, semantics, discourse analysis, applied linguistics, and other modes of language-centered inquiry that will contribute to the investigation of discourses of sexuality and their linguistic and social consequences. On a theoretical level, the journal is indebted to Queer Linguistics as its major influence.

JLS publishes its articles Online First.

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ISSN: 2211-3770 | E-ISSN: 2211‑3789
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Latest articles

13 January 2026

  • Sex/gender labels in EU directives in English: A queer linguistics approach
    C. Serena Santonocito | JLS 15:1 (2026) p. 73

    • 5 January 2026

  • Labeling gender across and beyond the binary: Introduction of the gender-neutral pronoun hen in Norwegian standard language
    Edit Bugge, Trude Bukve & Hege Myklebust | JLS 15:1 (2026) pp. 50–72
  • In their own words: Exploring the linguistic strategies of queer women in Lebanon
    Dana El Sammak | JLS 15:1 (2026) pp. 23–49
  • “I like girls”: Coming out in contemporary queer middle-grade fiction
    Brianne Jaquette | JLS 15:1 (2026) pp. 105–126
  • Labeling theory in language and sexuality studies
    Heiko Motschenbacher | JLS 15:1 (2026) pp. 1–22
  • Marni Brown, Baker A. Rogers & Martha Caldwell. 2022. Gender and Sexuality in the Classroom: An Educator’s Guide
    Reviewed by Mohsen Shahrokhi | JLS 15:1 (2026) pp. 127–131

    • 19 December 2025

  • Georgia Carr. 2025. The Language of Sex Education: With Respect to Consent
    Reviewed by Zheng Wang | JLS 15:1 (2026) pp. 132–136

    • 18 August 2025

  • Flirting with categories: Pursuing intimacy by invoking and negotiating gendered sexual scripts
    Elisabeth Muth Andersen | JLS 14:2 (2025) pp. 149–177
  • Attitudes toward gender-neutral language in Spanish: Evidence from L1 Spanish speakers
    Maria Andrea Hurtado Morales & Shelia M. Kennison | JLS 14:2 (2025) pp. 262–285
  • Analyzing acoustic correlates of gender presentation in the lesbian community
    Elizabeth Sulkin | JLS 14:2 (2025) pp. 228–261

    • 14 July 2025

  • Making maricones into bitches : Multimodal, multi-lingual representation of reclaimed slurs in Drag Race España
    Brittney O’Neill & Katie Slemp | JLS 14:2 (2025) pp. 200–227

    • 11 July 2025

  • Sally Hunt. 2025. Linguistic Representations of Gender in Children’s Literature: Feeling, Thinking and Doing
    Reviewed by Alba Roldán-García | JLS 14:2 (2025) pp. 286–291

    • 7 July 2025

  • The afterlives of Margaret Rany: Tracing the trial of an intersex person in early modern Scotland
    Stephen Turton | JLS 14:2 (2025) pp. 178–199
  • Brian James Baer & Serena Bassi (eds). 2024. The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Sexuality
    Reviewed by Mengyao Qi & Jianwen Liu | JLS 14:2 (2025) pp. 292–295

    • 3 February 2025

  • A double-edged sword: Inclusive religious discourse and LGBTQIA+ prescriptivism in a Brazilian contemporary Christian church
    Eduardo Alves Vieira | JLS 14:1 (2025) p. 92
  • “That 3-word-ultimatum”: The relationship escalator and normative romance in metalinguistic commentary about I love you
    Aris Keshav & Lal Zimman | JLS 14:1 (2025) pp. 1–30
  • Centering the margins: Queer sexuality, identity construction and rights advocacy in Jude Dibia’s Walking with Shadows
    Olarotimi Ogungbemi | JLS 14:1 (2025) pp. 116–137
  • Thai transgender people’s English articulation in intercultural communication
    Zhaoyi Pan | JLS 14:1 (2025) pp. 68–91
  • The case of Pete Buttigieg: A corpus-based discourse analytic study of gay identity construction in political speech
    Mikhail Zaikovskii | JLS 14:1 (2025) pp. 31–67
  • Kris Aric Knisely & Eric Luis Russell (eds). 2024. Redoing Linguistic Worlds: Unmaking Gender Binaries, Remaking Gender Pluralities
    Reviewed by Alessia Battista | JLS 14:1 (2025) pp. 138–142
  • Tyler Everett Kibbey (ed). 2024. Linguistics Out of the Closet: The Interdisciplinarity of Gender and Sexuality in Language Studies
    Reviewed by Raffaele Pizzo | JLS 14:1 (2025) pp. 143–148
    • IssuesOnline-first articles

    Volume 15 (2026)

    Issue 1
    Labeling in Language, Gender and Sexuality Studies

    Volume 14 (2025)

    Issue 2
    Issue 1

    Volume 13 (2024)

    Issue 2
    Issue 1

    Volume 12 (2023)

    Issue 2
    Issue 1

    Volume 11 (2022)

    Issue 2
    Nonbinary pronouns as a site of advocacy in research and teaching
    Issue 1

    Volume 10 (2021)

    Issue 2
    Pink Dot: Discursive Formations, Constructions, and Contestations
    Issue 1
    10th Anniversary Issue: Reflections on the Field of Language and Sexuality Studies

    Volume 9 (2020)

    Issue 2
    Issue 1
    Sexuality and the discursive construction of the digital self in the Global South

    Volume 8 (2019)

    Issue 2
    Issue 1

    Volume 7 (2018)

    Issue 2
    Corpus Linguistics in Language and Sexuality Studies: Developments and Prospects
    Issue 1
    Language/Sexuality/Affect

    Volume 6 (2017)

    Issue 2
    Issue 1

    Volume 5 (2016)

    Issue 2
    Transnational discourses of peripheral sexualities in the Hispanic world
    Issue 1

    Volume 4 (2015)

    Issue 2
    Who’s really normal? Language and sexuality in public space
    Issue 1

    Volume 3 (2014)

    Issue 2
    Issue 1
    Queering borders: Language, sexuality and migration

    Volume 2 (2013)

    Issue 2
    Issue 1

    Volume 1 (2012)

    Issue 2
    Issue 1
    Editorial info
    Editor
    ORCiD logo with linkHeiko Motschenbacher | Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norway | heim at hvl.no
    Associate Editor
    ORCiD logo with linkMie Hiramoto | National University of Singapore, Singapore
    Book Review Editor
    ORCiD logo with linkAngela Zottola | University of Turin, Italy
    Editorial Assistant
    Katie Gillow-Kloster
    Editorial Board
    ORCiD logo with linkPaul Baker | Lancaster University, UK
    Holly R. Cashman | University of New Hampshire, USA
    ORCiD logo with linkDeborah Chirrey | Edge Hill University, UK
    ORCiD logo with linkSusan Ehrlich | York University, Canada
    ORCiD logo with linkKira Hall | University of Colorado, USA
    E. Patrick Johnson | Northwestern University, USA
    ORCiD logo with linkScott F. Kiesling | University of Pittsburgh, USA
    ORCiD logo with linkBrian W. King | University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
    ORCiD logo with linkVeronika Koller | Lancaster University, UK
    William L. Leap | Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton FL, USA
    ORCiD logo with linkErez Levon | University of Bern, Switzerland
    ORCiD logo with linkAnthony J. Liddicoat | University of Warwick, UK
    Georg Marko | Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Austria
    ORCiD logo with linkTommaso M. Milani | Pennsylvania State University, USA
    ORCiD logo with linkLiz Morrish | Nottingham Trent University, UK
    ORCiD logo with linkSharif Mowlabocus | University of Sussex, UK
    Cynthia D. Nelson | University of Sydney, Australia
    David Peterson | University of Nebraska, Omaha, USA
    Denis M. Provencher | University of Arizona, USA
    ORCiD logo with linkRobin Queen | University of Michigan, USA
    ORCiD logo with linkHelen Sauntson | University of Birmingham, UK
    ORCiD logo with linkRainer Schulze | Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University of Hanover, Germany
    Susan Speer | University of Manchester, UK
    Martin Stegu | Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria
    ORCiD logo with linkCrispin Thurlow | University of Bern, Switzerland
    ORCiD logo with linkLexi Webster | University of Southampton
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