Semantics and Pragmatics

Academic journal

*Semantics and Pragmatics*
Publication details
Discipline	Semantics, Pragmatics
Language	English
Edited by	Louise McNally, Kjell Johan Sæbø
History	2007–present
Publisher	Linguistic Society of America via Public Knowledge Project
Open access	Yes
License	CC-BY 4.0
Impact factor	1.1^[1] (2023)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Semant. Pragmat.
Indexing CODEN (alt) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus
ISSN	1937-8912
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Semantics and Pragmatics (abbreviated S&P) is a peer-reviewed diamond open access academic journal covering research pertaining to meaning in natural language.^[2]^[3] A highly prestigious journal, it is one of the most important venues in formal semantics, alongside Natural Language Semantics, Linguistics and Philosophy, and the Journal of Semantics.^[4]^[5]^[6]

It was established by David Beaver and Kai von Fintel in 2007 and has been published by the Linguistic Society of America since 2013.^[2]^[3] The journal is funded by MIT and UT Austin, eliminating the need for article processing fees faced by many other open access initiatives.^[7] Its current editors-in-chief are Louise McNally and Kjell Johan Sæbø.^[2]^[3]

The journal's establishment has been viewed as part of a trend towards a tighter integration between formal semantics and formal pragmatics.^[8] Work published in the journal includes papers from the ongoing debate regarding whether implicatures are computed within the grammar or via post-compositional Gricean reasoning.^[9]

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, DOAJ, International Bibliography of Periodical Literature, Linguistic Bibliography, and the Modern Language Association Database.^[10]

References

^ "Semantics and Pragmatics". Journal Citation Reports. 2023. Retrieved 19 August 2024.
^ ^a ^b ^c Beaver, David; von Fintel, Kai (2007). "Semantics and Pragmatics: A New Journal". Semantics and Pragmatics: 1–15. doi:10.3765/sp.0.1.
^ ^a ^b ^c "About the journal". Semantics and Pragmatics. Retrieved 2024-07-27.
^ Janssen, Theo (2016), "Montague semantics", in Zalta, Edward N. (ed.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2016 ed.), Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University, retrieved 2024-08-08, The most important journals in the field are Linguistics and Philosophy, the Journal of Semantics, Natural Language Semantics, and Semantics and Pragmatics
^ Phillips, Colin (2016). "Colin Phillips". Retrieved 2024-08-07. [S&P] is the most successful open access journal in linguistics... quickly attaining high prestige
^ Haspelmath, Martin (2014). "The future of linguistics: Two trends and two hopes". 47th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea. doi:10.58079/nst7. the journal "Semantics & Pragmatics" is very prestigious
^ Eve, Martin Paul (2014). Open Access and the Humanities: Contexts, Controversies and the Future. Cambridge University Press. pp. 38–39. ISBN 978-1-107-48401-6.
^ Partee, Barbara (2016). "Formal semantics". In Aloni, Maria; Dekker, Paul (eds.). The Cambridge Handbook of Formal Semantics. Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9781139236157.002. ISBN 978-1-107-02839-5.
^ Potts, Christopher (2011). "Background on conversational implicature (LING7800-007 Computational Pragmatics)". Christopher Potts. Retrieved 2024-08-07.
^ "Semantics and Pragmatics". MIAR: Information Matrix for the Analysis of Journals. University of Barcelona. Retrieved 2024-07-27.