Text & Talk

Text & Talk is published by Walter de Gruyter 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, Discourse, Communication Strategies, Discourse Analysis in Language Studies and Language, Metaphor, and Cognition, together about 55.4% of its articles. Its main subfields are Language and Linguistics. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

About this journal ObjectiveText & Talk (founded as TEXT in 1981) is an internationally recognized forum for interdisciplinary research in language, discourse, and communication studies, focusing, among other things, on the situational and historical nature of text/talk production; the cognitive and sociocultural processes of language practice/action; and participant-based structures of meaning negotiation and multimodal alignment. Text & Talk encourages critical debates on these and other relevant issues, spanning not only the theoretical and methodological dimensions of discourse but also their practical and socially relevant outcomes. Topics discourse analysis applied linguistics pragmatics sociolinguistics corpus linguistics multimodality genre analysis communication professional practice Article formatsFull Length Articles, Short Articles, Systematic Literature Reviews, Review Articles, Forum Discussions, Research Notes Your Benefits Your benefits: Access to high quality, original research outputs Interdisciplinary approaches to language, communication and discourse studies Methodological/analytical pluralism in engagement with empirical data Current theoretical advancements Special issues on highly seminal topics Different article formats inclusive of systematic literature reviews, review articles, research notes and forum discussions Internationally acclaimed scholars serving on editorial boards Complete Archive AccessAs of 2026, all De Gruyter journal subscriptions include access to every issue, from Volume 1, Issue 1 through to today, meaning subscribers can access even more research at no additional cost. History Text & Talk was founded in 1981 under the original title TEXT. The journal title was changed to TEXT & TALK in 2006 and Srikant Sarangi has been Editor since 1998. Other publications in the fieldJournals: Applied Linguistics Review Communications Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory European Journal of Applied Linguistics Humor International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching Journal of Politeness Research Language Learning in Higher Education Intercultural Pragmatics Multilingua Multimodal Communication Book series: Handbooks of Applied Linguistics [HAL] Trends in Applied Linguistics [TAL]

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Research area (LetPub): Multiple

Editor-in-chief Srikant SarangiPublisher website

CAS Journal Ranking

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Impact

Impact factor

0.94LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher)

0.9Publisher website · 2026-09-29

5-year impact factor (publisher)

1.1Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CiteScore 2026-06

2.5LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher)

2.5Publisher website · 2026-09-29

SJR 2026-06

0.53LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

1.07LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

87OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

643OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

0.98OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

0%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

32.93%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

33LetPub · 2026-09-13

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Publisher

Walter de Gruyter

ISSN

1860-7330

Electronic ISSN

1860-7349

Official links

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