Register Studies
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Register Studies is a refereed journal devoted to the publication of high-quality research on register and its relationship to all aspects of language use, variation, change, and learning. This journal focuses primarily on empirical linguistic studies related to:
- spoken or written registers in any language or time period;
- language variation across registers and detailed analyses of single registers;
- diachronic linguistic change within or across registers;
- language for specific purposes and English for academic purposes;
- methodological approaches to the study of register;
- corpus design issues and new corpora for register studies;
- the application of register analysis in language learning, teaching, and assessment.
Register Studies is highly interdisciplinary, welcoming scholarship on register from areas such as corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, Systemic Functional Linguistics, language teaching, and computational linguistics. Research on English-language registers, analyses of registers in languages other than English, and cross-linguistic comparisons of registers are welcome. Register Studies regularly publishes reviews of books, corpora, and research tools focused on register research. All contributions undergo double-blind peer review.
Register Studies publishes its articles Online First.
Social media presence: https://bsky.app/profile/registerstudies.bsky.social
Register Studies offers authors the option to publish articles as Open Access, click here for more information on the John Benjamins Open Access policy.
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Issues
Online-first articlesVolume 7 (2025)
Volume 6 (2024)
Volume 5 (2023)
Volume 4 (2022)
Volume 3 (2021)
Volume 2 (2020)
Volume 1 (2019)
Editorial info
Subscription Info
General information about our electronic journals.
Subscription rates
All prices for print + online include postage/handling.
| Online-only | Print + online | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Volume 8 (2026): 2 issues; ca. 300 pp. | EUR | EUR | |
| Volume 7 (2025): 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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| Complete backset (Vols. 1‒6; 2019‒2024) | 12 issues; 1,800 pp. | EUR 1,081.00 | EUR 1,218.00 |
| Volume 6 (2024) | 2 issues; 300 pp. | EUR | EUR |
| Volume 5 (2023) | 2 issues; 300 pp. | EUR | EUR |
| Volumes 2‒4 (2020‒2022) | 2 issues; avg. 300 pp. | EUR | EUR |
| Volume 1 (2019) | 2 issues; 300 pp. | EUR | EUR |
Author info
Register Studies offers online submission .
Before submitting, please consult the guidelines and the Short Guide to EM for Authors .
If you are not able to submit online, or for any other editorial correspondence, please contact the editors via e-mail: Register.Studiesgmail.com
Articles under consideration are double-blind peer-reviewed and decisions on all published content are made by the editors.
Ethics
John Benjamins journals are committed to maintaining the highest standards of publication ethics and to supporting ethical research practices.
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.
Rights and Permissions
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
John Benjamins Publishing Company has an agreement in place with Portico for the archiving of all its online journals and e-books.