Language and Health

Aims & Scope

Language and Health aims to illustrate the complex relationship between language and health.

Based on the social context of "the Enlarged Health", which consists of physiological health, psychological health, good social adaptability, etc., and with the main purpose of disseminating cutting-edge research related to the intersection between language and health, this journal is interdisciplinary, pioneering, and scientific in nature, and welcomes and encourages novel original research and review research related to language and health, especially interdisciplinary linguistic studies.

Language and Health covers studies on human language in the field of health and medicine, and explorations of health and medicine from the perspective of language, with topics including language and physical health, language and mental health, language and social adaptability, ranging from children, adults to elder people.

Coverage includes the following topics: Mechanism of language production and comprehension: language and brain, language and psychology, language and physiology, language and neuroscience Language acquisition, degeneration and disorders: clinical linguistics, speech &language pathology, language therapy, voice disorders, fluency disorder, child language acquisition, language disorders of all ages, aphasia, assessment, diagnosis, intervention and rehabilitation of language disorders, linguistic and interactional features of person with autism, Alzheimer, dementia, etc Language and psychological health: language and mental diseases, language and emotion, language and intelligence, language and suicide prevention, language and psychotherapy Language and the diagnosis of diseases: linguistic analysis and the diagnosis of neurological disorders, mental disorders and communication disorders.

Language and interaction in medical settings: health communication, doctor-patient interaction, nurse-patient interaction, interaction among medical professionals.

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Social Sciences, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

Licensing & Copyright

This journal operates under an Open Access model. Articles are freely accessible to the public immediately upon publication. The content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), allowing users to share and adapt the work with proper attribution.

Copyright remains with the author(s), and no permission is required for non-commercial use, provided the original source is cited.

Policy Links

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• Review url
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• Copyright url
• Plagiarism url
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• License

Plagiarism Policy

This journal follows a plagiarism policy. All submitted manuscripts are screened using reliable plagiarism detection software to ensure originality and academic integrity. Authors are responsible for proper citation and acknowledgment of all sources, and any form of plagiarism, including self-plagiarism, will not be tolerated.

For more details, please refer to our official: Plagiarism Policy.

APC Details

The journal’s Article Processing Charge (APC) policies support open access publishing in Social Sciences, ensuring accessibility and quality in research dissemination.

This journal requires an Article Processing Charge (APC) to support open access publishing, covering peer review, editing, and distribution. The current APC is 1,600.00 USD. Learn more.

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