Text and Talk

Aims & Scope

Text & Talk (founded as TEXT in 1981) is an internationally recognized forum for interdisciplinary research in language, discourse, and communication studies, focusing, among other things, on the situational and historical nature of text/talk production; the cognitive and sociocultural processes of language practice/action; and participant-based structures of meaning negotiation and multimodal alignment.

Text & Talk encourages critical debates on these and other relevant issues, spanning not only the theoretical and methodological dimensions of discourse but also their practical and socially relevant outcomes.

Topics discourse analysis applied linguistics pragmatics sociolinguistics corpus linguistics multimodality genre analysis communication professional practice.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	0.9
2024	0.80

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.433

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	55

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	13036

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	156

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Abstracting & Indexing

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

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

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

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Small stories as a new perspective in narrative and identity analysis

  Citation: 717

  Authors: Michael, Alexandra

• Stance taking in conversation: From subjectivity to intersubjectivity

  Citation: 180

  Authors: Elise

• Participation, affect, and trajectory in family directive/response sequences

  Citation: 159

  Authors: Marjorie Harness

• Taking a stance on emotion: affect, sequence, and intersubjectivity in dialogic interaction

  Citation: 133

  Authors: John W., Elise

• Shepherding the child: embodied directive sequences in parent–child interactions

  Citation: 127

  Authors: Asta

• Introduction. Public transcripts: entextualization and linguistic representation in institutional contexts

  Citation: 119

  Authors: Joseph Sung-Yul, Mary

• Doing actions with identity categories: complaints and denials in neighbor disputes

  Citation: 91

  Authors: Elizabeth

• Epistemological positioning and evidentiality in English news discourse: A text-driven approach

  Citation: 88

  Authors: Monika

• The linguistic accuracy of chatbots: usability from an ESL perspective

  Citation: 81

  Authors: David

• Who are we and who are you? The strategic use of forms of address in political interviews

  Citation: 73

  Authors: Peter, Anita

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