About the Journal

 

About

ISSN 2057-1720 (Online)

The inspiration for Lifespans and Styles came from student work on the honours course, Sociolinguistics, as taught most years by Dr. Lauren Hall-Lew at the University of Edinburgh since 2011. The course is research based, guiding students in designing and carrying out novel empirical research in variationist sociolinguistics. Students on the course work individually or in small groups, designing and executing the entire project themselves: choosing the speaker(s) and the linguistic variable(s) for analysis and collecting all the data and running statistical analyses. The best of the projects to emerge from this course in those early years inspired the creation of this journal, in order to share students' results with the wider linguistics community. The journal is now open to submissions from anyone who conducted the submitted research as an undergraduate student.

Lifespans and Styles is a peer-reviewed, Open Access journal. All content is published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence, unless otherwise stated. There are no fees to access or publish in the journal.

 

Aims & Scope

Lifespans and Styles is devoted to innovative, empirical studies of sociolinguistics. It welcomes all articles written by authors at an undergraduate level based on original research.

 

Governance & Ownership

Lifespans and Styles is owned and governed by the journal editors. Copyright to papers published within the journal issues are owned by their respective authors under Creative Commons licenses. The journal is published by the University of Edinburgh – a charitable body. Edinburgh Diamond – a service based within the University of Edinburgh Library – acts as the Publishing Partner by providing publishing services.

 

Indexing

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Policies

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Publication Frequency

Lifespans and Styles publishes one to two issues per year, depending on amount of submissions received, in Spring and Autumn.