The ''Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development'' is a peer-reviewed

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covering the study of topics in the

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and

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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 ...

, in language and cultural politics, policy, planning, and practice. The

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is John Robert Edwards. It was established in 1980 and is published in 7 issues per year by

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Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in

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, and Social Sciences Citation Index. According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2016

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of 0.943, ranking it 67th of 182 journals in the Linguistics category.

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* Taylor & Francis academic journals Linguistics journals Sociolinguistics journals Publications established in 1980 English-language journals Multiculturalism 7 times per year journals {{sociolinguistics-stub