John Benjamins Publishing Company is an independent

academic publisher Academic publishing is the subfield of publishing which distributes academic research and scholarship. Most academic work is published in academic journal articles, books or theses. The part of academic written output that is not formally pub ...

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and

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with its head office in

Amsterdam Amsterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Amstel'') is the capital and most populous city of the Netherlands, with The Hague being the seat of government. It has a population of 907,976 within the city proper, 1,558,755 in the urban ar ...

Netherlands ) , anthem = ( en, "William of Nassau") , image_map = , map_caption = , subdivision_type = Sovereign state , subdivision_name = Kingdom of the Netherlands , established_title = Before independence , established_date = Spanish Netherl ...

. The company was founded in the 1960s by John and Claire Benjamins and is currently managed by their daughter Seline Benjamins. Its North American office is in

Philadelphia Philadelphia, often called Philly, is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the sixth-largest city in the U.S., the second-largest city in both the Northeast megalopolis and Mid-Atlantic regions after New York City. Since ...

.Philadelphia (North American office)
. John Benjamins Publishing Company. Retrieved on November 19, 2011. John Benjamins is especially noted for its publications in

language Language is a structured system of communication. The structure of a language is its grammar and the free components are its vocabulary. Languages are the primary means by which humans communicate, and may be conveyed through a variety of ...

linguistics Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. It is called a scientific study because it entails a comprehensive, systematic, objective, and precise analysis of all aspects of language, particularly its nature and structure. Ling ...

, political linguistics and literary studies. It publishes books, as well as a number of academic journals and yearbooks, including ''

Archiv Orientální The ''Archiv Orientální'' (''ArOr'') is a triannual peer-reviewed academic journal covering African, Asian, and Near Eastern studies. It is currently published by the Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences. The current editor-in- ...

'', ''

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics The ''International Journal of Corpus Linguistics'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes scholarly articles and book reviews on corpus linguistics, with a focus on applied linguistics. The journal is published by John Benjam ...

'', '' Language Problems and Language Planning'', ''

Studies in Language ''Studies in Language'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering research in linguistics as viewed from discourse-pragmatic, functional, and typological perspectives. It is published by John Benjamins Publishing Company and was established ...

'', '' Lingvisticae Investigationes'', ''Journal of Language and Politics'' and '' Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area''.

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