John Benjamins
Encyclopedia
John Benjamins Publishing Company is an independent academic publisher in social sciences
and humanities
with its head office in Amsterdam
. Its North American office is in Philadelphia, United States
It is especially noted for its publications in linguistics
. The company was founded in the 1960s by spouses John and Claire Benjamins and is currently managed by their daughter Seline Benjamins. Electronic access to many of its books is provided via ebrary
. As of 2007, John Benjamins publishes 45 academic journals and yearbooks, including International Journal of Corpus Linguistics
, Language Problems and Language Planning
and Studies in Language
.
Social sciences
Social science is the field of study concerned with society. "Social science" is commonly used as an umbrella term to refer to a plurality of fields outside of the natural sciences usually exclusive of the administrative or managerial sciences...
and humanities
Humanities
The humanities are academic disciplines that study the human condition, using methods that are primarily analytical, critical, or speculative, as distinguished from the mainly empirical approaches of the natural sciences....
with its head office in Amsterdam
Amsterdam
Amsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population...
. Its North American office is in Philadelphia, United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
It is especially noted for its publications in linguistics
Linguistics
Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. Linguistics can be broadly broken into three categories or subfields of study: language form, language meaning, and language in context....
. The company was founded in the 1960s by spouses John and Claire Benjamins and is currently managed by their daughter Seline Benjamins. Electronic access to many of its books is provided via ebrary
Ebrary
Ebrary is an online digital library of full texts of over 70,000 scholarly e-books. It is available at many academic libraries and provides a set of online database collections that combine scholarly books from over 435 academic, trade, and professional publishers. It also includes sheet music ...
. As of 2007, John Benjamins publishes 45 academic journals and yearbooks, including International Journal of Corpus Linguistics
International Journal of Corpus Linguistics
The International Journal of Corpus Linguistics is a quarterly peer-reviewed linguistic academic journal that publishes scholarly articles and book reviews on corpus linguistics, with a focus on applied linguistics....
, Language Problems and Language Planning
Language Problems and Language Planning
Language Problems and Language Planning is a peer-reviewed linguistic academic journal published by John Benjamins Publishing Company in cooperation with the Center for Research and Documentation on World Language Problems. Its core topics are issues of language policy as well as economic and...
and Studies in Language
Studies in Language
Studies in Language is an international peer-reviewed journal of linguistics as viewed from discourse-pragmatic, functional, and typological perspectives. It has been published by John Benjamins since 1977...
.