The Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development is a cross-disciplinary journal for researchers from diverse scholarly and geographical backgrounds. It is concerned with macro-level coverage of topics in the sociology and social psychology of language, and in language and cultural politics, policy, planning and practice. Authors are encouraged to reject a deficit view of multilingualism and hence avoid terms such as 'native speaker, non-native speaker' and use neutral terms such as 'L1 user, LX user' instead.

The journal welcomes submissions on the many ramifications of these broad themes:

Language planning and policy

Ethnicity and nationalism

Identity politics (with its linguistic, religious and other markers)

Languages and cultures in contact

Intertwinings among language, culture and religion

Language learning

Bilingual and multilingual accommodations

Translation

Programmes and policies of multiculturalism and pluralism

Language rights (group and individual)

“Popular” and folk sociolinguistics and usage

Reading and literacy

Contemporary religious and cultural debates

Collective identity and its “markers”

Minority-group dynamics

Educational provisions for languages and cultures

Endangered languages

Contributions that allow generalisation across settings are particularly welcome, as are those that embed the discussion in social and historical context.