Focus and Scope

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

CLAC is an exclusively electronic publication that publishes its content openly online.

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

- Acquisition.

- Applied linguistics.

- Cognitive linguistics.

- Computational linguistics.

- Conversation analysis.

- Dialectology.

- Discourse. We are only interested in the linguistic analysis of discourse, not in other types of discourse analysis. Therefore, any work of this kind that is to be submitted must focus on linguistic considerations. Moreover, the conclusions of such work must be linguistic in nature, not social, sociological, political, or of any other kind.

- Forensic linguistics.

- Historical linguistics.

- History of the language.

- Language alterations.

- Language variations.

- Lexicography.

- Lexicology.

- Linguistic historiography.

- Morphology.

- Neurolinguistics.

- Non-verbal communication.

- Philosophy of language.

- Phonetics.

- Phonology.

- Pragmatics.

- Psycholinguistics.

- Semantics.

- Sign language.

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

- Sociolinguistics.

- Syntax.

- Terminology.

- Theoretical linguistics.

- Typology.

- Rhetoric.

The work presented must fall within one of these lines. Additionally, it must be the name of the line (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.

The languages ​​in which CLAC accepts articles and reviews are Spanish and English.

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