European Journal of Applied Linguistics

About this journal

Starting 2025, European Journal of Applied Linguistics will be transferred to Gold Open Access on a year-by-year basis. All articles will thus immediately appear under the Creative Commons license CC-BY. There will be no publication costs for the authors. The Open Access transformation is based on Subscribe-to-Open , an alternative model that enables the full Open Access transformation of journals through the continuation of existing subscriptions. The prerequisite for successful transformation is that subscriptions are continued to the same extent as before. The editors of European Journal of Applied Linguistics and the publisher De Gruyter would therefore like to thank all subscribers for their support, which has made the transformation to Open Access possible.

Objective
The European Journal of Applied Linguistics (EuJAL) focuses on the particular concerns of applied linguistics in European contexts, both by addressing problems that are typically relevant for the linguistic situation in Europe, from those on the level of the EU as a pan-national body down to the level of the individual, and by examining topics broached by or discussed in European applied linguistics in particular. In addition to resulting from an epistemological stance, EuJAL is a logical outcome of the regionalization policy of the Association Internationale de Linguistique Appliquée (AILA), supporting the societies' commitment to regionalization by focusing on the European language space and by giving applied linguists from this regional context an adequate forum. EuJAL is part of the joint activities of the European AILA affiliates.

Grounded on the psychology of language and corpus discourse analysis, this article explores the linguistic patterns in Amy Winehouse’s original compositions (2003–2011) and her tendency to commit self-harm. Voyant Tools (Sinclair & Rockwell 2016), a web-based application, was utilised to generate keywords in context, collocates graph, and visualise word trends across the corpus; sentiment analysis was also conducted to determine if the emotional tone of the message (text) is positive, neutral, or negative sentiment. The findings showed an upward trend in frequencies of keywords in negative contexts; lexicogrammatical phrases conveyed self-deprecating attitude ( I’m nothing, I’m no good ) and self-destructive intentions ( dying, hurt, and losing) , and the impact of male figures in her life associating the word man with war and fighting . Changes in syntax structures revealed contextual clues of low self-esteem, negative emotions, and loneliness. Self-disclosure of pain was associated with tears, and her response to infidelity alluded to the toxic relationships that triggered her self-destructive behaviour. The overall text expressed negative sentiment of 0.70. This article argues that the lexical choices and semantic shifts are language devices Winehouse used to express her views on love and loss, awareness of her thoughts and feelings, sense of agency to (re-)assess the men around her, and her identity as a rebellious and headstrong woman who chose her own path to love which eventually had been detrimental.

European Journal of Applied Linguistics publishes special and thematic issues focussed on important and emerging topics in the field of study. The journal has established a rigorous process to ensure that any special issue manuscripts follow the same high-quality standards and peer review processes as regular manuscripts. For further information on the journal’s peer review policy please see the "Instructions for Authors".

Please submit your manuscript online to: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/eujal .

Personal data: Authors should not mention their names in the manuscript and make sure that authorship is kept anonymous.

The journal operates a blind peer review that takes approximately 3-4 months via the online submission system.

Form of manuscripts : Scholarly articles published in EuJAL will usually have a length of about 60,000 characters, including references, spacing and punctuation. Authors should follow the De Gruyter Mouton journal style sheet but with one change: While the standard style sheet stipulates, under "Special attention", that authors should have their "contribution carefully checked by a native speaker", EuJAL simply expects authors to submit manuscripts written in an English which is intelligible to a wide international academic audience, but it need not conform to native English norms.

Abstracts and keywords : Submitted articles should include at least three abstracts of about 200 words / 1,600 characters (including spacing and punctuation) each: one in English, one in German, and one in Spanish. To underline the Europeaness of EuJAL , authors who are native speakers in another European language other than these three may also add a fourth abstract in their mother tongue. The total number of words for all abstracts should not exceed 800. At minimum of 3 keywords should also be provided in the respective languages.

Please note

Before submitting your article please have a look at our Publication Ethics Statement and our copyright agreement

Once your article is accepted you have the option to publish it open access .

Our repository policy allows you to distribute 30 PDF copies of your published article to colleagues (the PDF has to include the information that it is an author's copy). Please also feel free to distribute the link to the online abstract

If you have any general questions please visit our FAQ page for authors

Editors
Kristin Bührig
University of Hamburg, Germany

Stephanie Risse
Libera Università di Bolzano, Italy

Jan D. ten Thije
Utrecht University, The Netherlands

Founding Editor
Karlfried Knapp
University of Erfurt, Germany

Editorial Board
Peter Auer (University of Freiburg, Germany)
Gualtiero Boaglio (University of Vienna, Austria)
Kees de Bot (University of Groningen, The Netherlands)
Jasone Cenoz (University of the Basque Country, Spain)
Jereon Darquennes (Université de Namur, Belgium)
Annick De Houwer (University of Erfurt, Germany)
Rita Franceschini (University of Bolzano, Italy)
Maria del Pilar Garcia Mayo (University of the Basque Country, Spain)
Li Wei (University College London, UK)
Daniel Perrin (Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland)
Barbara Seidlhofer (University of Vienna, Austria)
Johannes Wagner (University of Odense, Denmark)

Advisory Board
To represent the interests and involvement of the European AILA affiliates in the journal, it has an Advisory Board with the AILA Europe Coordinator as chair and one representative nominated by the AILA affiliates from each European region that actively participate in AILA Europe.

AILA Europe Coordinator:
Grégory Miras (Université de Lorraine)

Austria - Verband für Angewandte Linguistik (VERBAL):
Ulrike Jessner (University of Innsbruck)
Belgium - Association Belge de Linguistique Appliquée (ABLA):
Laurent Rasier (Université de Liège)
Estonia - Estonian Association of Applied Linguistics (EAAL):
Martin Ehala (University of Tartu)
Finland - Association Finlandaise de Linguistique Appliquée (AFinLA):
Hannele Dufva (University of Jyväskylä)
France - Association Française de Linguistique Appliquée (AFLA):
Marie-Françoise Narcy-Combes (Université de Nantes)
Germany - Gesellschaft für Angewandte Linguistik (GAL):
Bernd Rüschoff (University of Essen)
Greece - Greek Applied Linguistics Association (GALA):
Marina Matthaioudaki (Aristoteles University Thessaloniki)
Ireland - Irish Association for Applied Linguistics (IRAAL):
Lorna Carson (Trinity College Dublin)
Italy - Associazione Italiana di Linguistica Applicata (AItLA):
Laura Gavioli (University of di Modena and Reggio Emilia)
Netherlands - Association Néerlandaise de Linguistique Appliquée (ANéLA):
Ad Backus (Tilburg University)
Spain - Asociación Española de Lingüística Aplicada (AESLA):
Javier Pérez Guerra (Universidad de Vigo)
Sweden - Association Suédoise de Linguistique Appliquée (ASLA):
Camila Bardel (Stockholm University)
Switzerland - Association Suisse de Linguistique Appliquée (VALS/ASLA):
Martin Luginbühl (University of Zurich)
United Kingdom - British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL):
Zhu Hua (University College London)

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