Editors
Fernando Ramallo,University of Vigo
Xoán Paulo Rodríguez-Yáñez, University of Vigo

Reviews Editor
Angela Bartens, University of Turku
Please send books for review to:
Angela Bartens
Laurinniityntie 5A3
FI-00440 Helsinki
Finlandia

Sociolinguistic Studies is the new title of Estudios de Sociolingüística, a journal founded in 2000 at the University of Vigo (Galicia, Spain) which offers a linguistic and cultural bridge between sociolinguistic research in the Romance world – especially the Spanish and Latino-American world – and the English-speaking research community.

All articles in Sociolinguistic Studies are peer-reviewed and may be in English, Spanish, Portuguese or French (75% of the contents are in English). It takes an ecumenical approach to the different schools, methodological principles or research orientations within sociolinguistic research and also accepts contributions from related fields such as pragmatics, discourse analysis, conversational analysis, interactional linguistics, language acquisition and socialization, linguistic anthropology, ethnomethodology and the ethnography of communication. Papers may examine any issue in sociolinguistic research including, but not limited to,styles and registers, communicative situations and speech events, politeness, bilingual conversation and code-switching, gender and discourse, language attitudes, language ideologies, the diversity of the worldwide linguistic situation, bilingualism and multilingualism, diglossia, pidgins and creoles, language and culture and language and identity.

Sociolinguistic Studies also pays special attention to minority language and cultures, language contact and change, language maintenance, shift and loss, language and social inequalities and language planning and policy.

The journal publishes substantial research papers, discussion notes, reviews and review articles and regularly publishes thematic issues.

Indexing and Abstracting Services
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
Latindex
Linguistic Abstracts
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts
MLA International Bibliography
EBSCO SocINDEX
Sociological Abstracts
Bibliographie Linguistique/Linguistic Bibliography
Elsevier Bibliographic Databases

Published three times a year : April, August, December
ISSN: 1750-8649 (print) (formerly 1576-7418)
ISSN: 1750-8657 (online)