Journal of East Asian Linguistics
The Journal of East Asian Linguistics (JEAL) is an international forum for the analysis of East and Southeast Asian languages and formal linguistic theory, edited by C.-T. James Huang, Mamoru Saito, Andrew Simpson, with the support of Harvard University, Nanzan University, and University of Southern California. Its main goals are to bridge the gap between traditional description and current theoretical research, and to encourage research that allows these languages to play a significant role in shaping general linguistic theory.
Description:
The study of East Asian languages, especially of Chinese, Japanese and Korean, has existed for a long time as a field, as demonstrated by the existence of programs in most institutions of higher learning and research that include these languages as a major component. Speakers of these three languages have shared a great deal of linguistic heritage during the development of their languages through cultural contacts, in addition to possible genealogical linkage. These languages accordingly possess various common features. Another important factor that ties them together as a field is that they have shared a common tradition of linguistic scholarship, a tradition that distinguishes itself from the study of western languages.
Against this tradition, much recent work has approached these languages from a broader perspective beyond the area, considering them within contexts of general theoretical research, bringing new lights to old problems in the area and contributing to current issues in linguistic theory. But there continues to be good reason for scholars working in this approach to hold a special interest in each other's work. Especially with the amount of most recent theoretical work on these languages, the field of theoretical East Asian linguistics has been fast growing. The purpose of the Journal of East Asian Linguistics is to provide a common forum for such scholarly activities, and to foster further growth that will allow the field to benefit more from linguistic theory of today, and enable the languages to play a more important role in shaping linguistic theory of tomorrow.
JEAL publishes high-quality research papers that are selected on the basis of rigorous, double-blind peer review. The editors welcome submission of work carried out in any theoretical framework. An Editorial Statement specifying the Journal's aims and scope, and information about the editorial team can be found at the following links:
- Editors, Editorial Staff and Editorial Board
- Editorial Statement and Call for Papers
- Style Sheet and Instructions for Authors
Abstracting and Indices:
The Journal is abstracted and/or indexed in: Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Current Contents/Arts and Humanities, Current Index to Journals in Education, ISI Alerting Services, Journal Citation Reports-Science, Linguistics Abstracts, MLA International Bibliography, SCOPUS, Social Science Citation Index (SSCI), Social SciSearch, and Sociological Abstracts.
Publisher:
Launched in 1992, the Journal of East Asian Linguistics is published quarterly by Springer. For further up-to-date details about the journal including subscription information and additional instructions for authors, please access the following link:
Contact us:
For further information please contact the Editorial Office at JEAL@fas.harvard.edu
