Research on Language and Social Interaction (RLSI)

The journal has an intriguing pre-history as Papers in Linguistics (first published 1969), edited by Tony Vanek, which published adventurous and often unconventional essays. (Curious readers can still read such papers as "Organismic communicology: a second prologue - Reflection, shadow, and illusion", in volume 14 via on the publishers' webpages.) The journal as we know now it started when Stuart Sigman took over Papers in Linguistics on the death of Tony Vanek in 1987. He renamed it Research on Language in Social Interaction, putting out a double issue on multi-channel codes. Thereafter Robert Sanders took on the responsibilities of Editor (with Sigman staying on as Associate Editor), and widened the network of reviewers and contributors to better capture the field of work implied in the title of the journal. It didn't take long after the move to publishing interactional research before the success of the journal attracted the interest of an ambitious publisher, and the firm of Lawrence Erlbaum bought the title in 1993. That gave the journal the professional support to publish quarterly. The journal prospered under the continued editorship of Bob Sanders, and thereafter Karen Tracy, Don Zimmerman and Kristine Fitch, with an average editorial reign of about five years. While Fitch was editor, Erlbaum was taken over by Taylor and Francis, who are now our publishers.

Research on Language and Social Interaction (RLSI) is :-

• International, Peer-Reviewed, Open Access, Refereed, Organismic communicology, communication, discourse analysis, conversation analysis, linguistic anthropology, ethnography , Online or Print , Monthly Journal

• UGC Approved, ISSN Approved: P-ISSN P-ISSN: 0835-1813, E-ISSN: 1532-7973, Established: 1969, Impact Factor: 3.0
• Provides Crossref DOI

• Not indexed in Scopus, WoS, DOAJ, PubMed, UGC CARE