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We are pleased to announce the call for submissions for the next regular issue of the journal Dialogue and Discourse. Submissions are invited on all topics in the formal, computational, or psycholinguistic study of dialogue and discourse.

Submissions received by September 1st, 2025 will be considered for the next regular issue. Later submissions will be slated for the next available issue.

About the journal

Dialogue and Discourse (D&D http://www.dialogue-and-discourse.org) is the first peer-reviewed free open access journal dedicated exclusively to work that deals with language "beyond the sentence". The journal adopts an interdisciplinary perspective, accepting work from Linguistics, Computer Science, Psychology, Sociology, Philosophy, and other associated fields with an interest in formally, technically, empirically or experimentally rigorous approaches. Descriptive papers should make a substantial theoretical contribution to be considered. We are committed to ensuring the highest editorial standards and rigorous peer-review of all submissions, while granting open access to all interested readers. D&D has published regular issues every year since 2010, and occasionally special issues on common topics.

As of August 2025, D&D has published 119 papers, and the journal's h-index is 31. D&D is endorsed by ACL SIGdial, SemDial, and AMLaP. D&D is indexed by DBPL Bibliography, the Directory of Open Access Journals, the European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Linguistics and Language Behavious Abstracts, Linguistics Abstracts Online, Linguistic Bibliography Online, the MLA International Bibliography, Scopus.

Submissions

Submissions should be made via the online submission system at http://www.dialogue-and-discourse.org/submission.shtml

Authors are required to indicate if a submission is an extended version of one or more previously published conference papers (to which we would expect substantial additions); simultaneous submission to another venue is prohibited. Submissions will undergo rigorous peer-review. Once accepted and finalized, papers will appear online immediately, as part of the current issue.

Selected papers will furthermore be offered the opportunity to present a poster at the following SIGDIAL Conference (https://www.sigdial.org).

Dialogue and Discourse Editors

Issue Editors:

Manfred Stede (Volume 16, Issue 2) Casey Kennington (Volume 16, Issue 1) Massimo Poesio (Volume 15, Issue 2) Pat Healey (Volume 15, Issue 1)

Editor In Chief:

David R. Traum, University of Southern California, United States

Associate Editors: Rebecca Clift, University of Essex, United Kingdom Barbara Di Eugenio, University of Illinois Chicago, United States Kallirroi Georgila, University of Southern California, United States Jonathan Ginzburg, Université Paris-Cité, France Pat Healey, Queen Mary University London, United Kingdom Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Nagoya University, Japan Casey Kennington, Boise State University, United States Pierre Lison, Norwegian Computing Center, Norway Massimo Poesio, Queen Mary University London and University of Utrecht Manfred Stede, University of Potsdam, Germany Amir Zeldes, Georgetown University, United States