Multilingua

Multilingua, Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal in linguistics, specializing in the sociolinguistics of multilingualism, language learning, intercultural communication, and translation and interpreting. The journal was established in 1982 and is published by de Gruyter Mouton.

Multilingua

Discipline	Language learning, linguistics, multilingualism
Language	English
Edited by	Ingrid Piller
Publication details
History	1982–present
Publisher	de Gruyter Mouton
Frequency	Bimonthly
Impact factor	1.339 (2020)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Multilingua
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
ISSN	0167-8507 (print) 1613-3684 (web)
LCCN	2011233809
OCLC no.	785798699
Links
Journal homepage Online access Online archive

Publication history

The journal was established in 1982 with the support of the Commission of the European Communities to "provide an interface between the Institutions and the members of the public who are interested in multilingualism, be they teachers, translators or interpreters, computer experts, publishers or librarians, businessmen or politicians."^[1]

The founding editor-in-chief was Juan Carlos Sager, who edited the journal until 1987.^[1] He was succeeded by Richard J. Watts who served in that position until 2013. His successor is Ingrid Piller.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

• Arts and Humanities Citation Index^[2]
• EBSCO databases^[3]
• FRANCIS^[3]
• Index Islamicus^[3]
• International Bibliography of Periodical Literature^[3]
• International Bibliography of the Social Sciences^[3]
• Linguistic Bibliography^[3]
• Modern Language Association Database^[3]
• ProQuest databases^[3]
• Social Sciences Citation Index^[2]
• Scopus^[4]

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 1.339.^[5]