The Journal of Global Sociolinguistics (JoGS) seeks to promote a genuinely global orientation in the field by prioritizing scholarship marginalized within mainstream Anglo-Western sociolinguistic discourse. This underrepresentation has deep historical roots and is sustained by a system dominated by commercial publishing houses, blind peer review, and rigid Anglo-Western norms of research and writing (Meyerhoff & Nagy, 2008; Coulmas, 2013; Smakman, 2015). Such structures place non-native speakers of English and scholars outside elite institutions at a significant disadvantage. These underrepresented contexts often yield distinctive and previously unexplored sociolinguistic insights that not only fail to inform mainstream theory but also challenge its foundational assumptions (Smakman & Heinrich, 2015). JoGS aims to redress this imbalance by publishing research from lesser-known regions, authored by leading local scholars.

• Volume 1, Issue 1

• Thematic issues
• Open access
• Published by Leiden University
• Peer-reviewed by authors within issues
• Issue Editors (one or two) manage the writing and peer-reviewing
• Issue Editors initiate publication
• The main text of the articles is in English
• Article and author information on the first page in English and another language
• Summaries or full translations from English into another language should be added at the author’s request

Articles should range between 1,500 and 4,000 words, excluding references. Submissions may present original research or adopt alternative scholarly formats, including critical discussions, historical analyses, or book reviews. All manuscripts must conform to APA referencing style or a similar style in which year of publication and author surname are visible.

Researchers may submit a proposal for a thematic JoGS issue. Drawing on their professional networks, they assemble a group of contributors from at least two different universities and submit an issue proposal to the Editorial Board via JoGS@hum.leidenuniv.nl. Each proposal must include a minimum of five articles. One or two contributors assume the role of Issue Editor and collaborate with the Editorial Board Collectively, the authors and editors are responsible for developing the issue and conducting peer review of each other’s manuscripts.

Coulmas, F. (2013). Sociolinguistics: The Study of Speakers’ Choices. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Meyerhoff, M., & Nagy, N. (2008). Social Lives in Language: Sociolinguistics and Multilingual Speech Communities Celebrating the Work of Gillian Sankoff. Amsterdam / Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Smakman, D. (2015). The westernising mechanisms in sociolinguistics. In D. Smakman & P. Heinrich (Eds.), Globalising Sociolinguistics: Challenging and Expanding Theory (pp. 16–35). London: Routledge.

Smakman, D., & Heinrich, P. (Eds.). (2015). Globalising Sociolinguistics: Challenging and Expanding Theory. London: Routledge.