Cognitive Linguistic Studies

Cognitive Linguistic Studies is published by John Benjamins Publishing Company and is in Zone 3 of Literature in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Language, Metaphor, and Cognition, Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies and Categorization, perception, and language, together about 49.5% of its articles. Its main subfields are Language and Linguistics. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Cognitive Linguistics has demonstrated the applicability of a conceptual approach to the understanding of political issues, cf. Lakoff (2008) and many others. From a different perspective, critical discourse analysis has approached political concepts with a focus on issues involving potentially divisive features such as race, class, gender and ethnic identity. Although discourses are not identical to conceptual models, conceptual models are typically manifested in discourse, and discourses are typically reflections of conceptualizations, a theme explored e.g. in Hart and Lukes (2007). As argued in Harder (2010), however, both the analytic stance of critical discourse analysis (based on the hermeneutics of suspicion), and the cognitivist stance of Lakoff (2008) are too narrow: The understanding of political language requires a wider framework of social cognitive linguistics. Essential features of such a framework are a basis in collaborative intersubjectivity and the inclusion of causal factors in the social domain that impinge on conceptualization. This enables politically salient conceptualizations to be understood in the light of different types of input to conceptualization, rather than solely in terms of conceptual models or discourses. This is especially important in cases that involve conflictive political issues such as national and ethnic identity. The article reports on a historical project with a linguistic dimension in my department (PI Stuart Ward, cf. Ward 2004), which aims to throw light on the interplay between conceptual, geopolitical and social factors in shaping the ongoing change in the role and nature of ‘Britishness’. A key question for this article is: What are relations between conceptual models and macro-social, causal factors in shaping the intersubjective status of Britishness? Add to my favourites Email this

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CiteScore 2026-06

0.8LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR 2026-06

0.25LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

0.5LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

17OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

32OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

0.97OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

0%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

2.04%LetPub · 2026-09-13

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Articles per year

15LetPub · 2026-09-13

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Publisher

John Benjamins Publishing Company

ISSN

2213-8722

Electronic ISSN

2213-8730

Latest issue on the website

Volume 1, Issue 1 (2014)

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