Focus and Scope

Círculo de Lingüística aplicada a la Comunicación (ISSN-e 1576-4737) proposes to disseminate in different languages knowledge on communication provided by linguistic theory applied to actual use. Its four annual issues (February, May, September, November) include articles and reviews.

The scope of the journal covers different areas of theoretical and applied linguistics. Below is a list of the specialties of interest:

- Acquisition

- Language alterations.

- Non-verbal communication.

- Dialectology.

- Discourse. (These types of studies should focus on linguistic considerations).

- Spanish/English/etc. as a foreign language and/or as a second language.

- Philosophy of language.

- Phonetics.

- Phonology.

- Linguistic historiography.

- History of the language.

- Sign language.

- Lexicography.

- Lexicology.

- Applied linguistics.

- Cognitive linguistics.

- Computational linguistics.

- Corpus linguistics.

- Forensic linguistics.

- Historical linguistics.

- Theoretical linguistics.

- Morphology.

- Neurolinguistics.

- Pragmatics.

- Psycholinguistics.

- Rhetoric.

- Semantics.

- Syntax.

- Sociolinguistics.

- Terminology.

- Typology.

- Language variations.

The work presented must fall within one of these lines. Additionally, we recommend that the line name (as listed here) be at the top of your proposal's keyword list.

If you have done work on other topics, such as teaching or translation, we recommend that you turn to another publication.

History

The journal Círculo de Lingüística Aplicada a la Comunicación (CLAC) was founded in 2000 by Professor Joaquín C. Garrido Medina, who served as its director for years. The journal was born in the old Departamento de Filología Española III of the Facultad de Ciencias de la Información de la UCM. Currently, it has been integrated into the Departamento de Lengua Española y T.ª de la Literatura.



Publication Frequency

Quarterly.

 

Interoperability protocols

Círculo de Lingüística Aplicada a la Comunicación provides an interface OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative – Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) that enables interoperability between different platforms and repositories through the exchange of metadata.
Protocol: OAI-PMH Version 2.0
Metadata formats: Dublin Core Metadata; MARC; MARC21; RFC1807
URL for harvesters: https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/CLAC/oai