About the Journal

World of Semantics: Journal of Philosophy and Linguistics - aims to be the premier journal in semantics. It covers all areas in the study of philosophy, linguistics with a focus on formal and experimental methods.

World of Semantics: Journal of Philosophy and Linguistics focuses on issues related to structure and meaning in natural language, as addressed in the semantics, philosophy of language, pragmatics, and related disciplines, in particular the following areas: philosophical theories of meaning and truth, reference, description, entailment, presupposition, implicatures, context-dependence, and speech acts; linguistic theories of semantic interpretation in relation to syntactic structure and prosody, of discourse structure, lexical semantics, and semantic change; psycholinguistic theories of semantic interpretation and issues of the processing and acquisition of natural language, and the relation of semantic interpretation to other cognitive faculties; mathematical and logical properties of natural language and general aspects of computational linguistics; philosophical questions raised by linguistics as a science.

We ask reviewers for papers submitted to the Journal of Semantics to take the journal's high standards into account when preparing a review report. A copy of the standard invitation letter we send to referees is available to download.

For Short Contributions, we provide separate instructions. We remind referees of Short Contributions that the aims of shorts could be quite different from that of longer contributions. In particular, shorts need not provide a fully elaborate theory or model of a phenomenon. Yet such manuscripts are to be refereed in accordance to the same high standards as regular contributions, and we additionally ask referees (i) to judge whether the short format is suitable, given the paper's aims and (ii) to judge whether these aims provide a significant stimulus to the field. We also point out that revisions to shorts should be manageable in a relatively short time frame. Referees are asked to consider recommending a different (longer) format if the necessary revisions go beyond that.

Authors may include their names on their manuscripts, but they need not do so. If authors want to remain anonymous, it is their own responsibility to remove any information contained in the manuscript that may reveal their identity.

To avoid conflicts of interest, the managing editor handles any manuscript submitted by one of the Editors, in collaboration with one anonymous associate editor. Together, they are responsible for selecting referees and making editorial decisions. The head of the Advisory Board may act as an editor in case a submission is authored by an associate of the Managing Editor.

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