Aims & Scope

Multilingua is an international interdisciplinary journal aimed at the enhancement of cross-cultural understanding through the study of interlanguage communication. To this end it publishes articles in fields as diverse as:

• cross-cultural differences in linguistic politeness phenomena
• variety in what is traditionally regarded as one culture
• conversational style
• linguistic description of nonstandard oral varieties of language
• strategies for the organization of verbal interaction
• intracultural linguistic variety
• communication breakdown
• translation and interpretation
• information technology
• methods of managing and using multilingual tools.

Multilingua further publishes research notes, reports, review articles, short reviews, and announcements of upcoming events.

Multilingua occasionally appears as a special issue, covering a specific topic in one of its fields.

Multilingua is a peer-reviewed journal of international scope.