Focus & Scope

Jurnal Bahasa Arab (JBA) is an international peer-reviewed journal dedicated to advancing research in Arabic Linguistics, Textual Analysis, and Language Variation. The journal publishes theoretically informed and empirically grounded studies examining the structure, meaning, development, variation, and use of Arabic across classical and contemporary texts, speech communities, and digital environments.

JBA aims to foster scholarly dialogue between classical Arabic linguistic traditions and contemporary linguistic approaches. It particularly encourages research that combines rigorous linguistic analysis with contextual, comparative, corpus-based, and computational methods to generate new insights into Arabic as a dynamic linguistic system.

The journal welcomes original research articles, theoretical contributions, and critical reviews in the following areas:

  1. Arabic Theoretical and Descriptive Linguistics: Phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, grammar, derivation, and linguistic structure in classical and contemporary Arabic.

  2. Arabic Semantics, Pragmatics, and Discourse: Lexical and contextual meaning, speech acts, implicature, rhetorical structures, discourse organization, and pragmatic interpretation.

  3. Classical and Contemporary Arabic Textual Linguistics: Linguistic analysis of Qur'anic texts, classical Arabic scholarship, manuscripts, poetry, prose, and contemporary written and spoken texts.

  4. Arabic Sociolinguistics and Language Variation: Arabic dialects, diglossia, register variation, language contact, language change, linguistic identity, and Arabic language use in diverse communities.

  5. Arabic Corpus and Computational Linguistics: Corpus-based analysis, Arabic natural language processing, computational morphology, digital lexicography, language resources, and data-driven linguistic research.

  6. Arabic Historical and Comparative Linguistics: Historical language development, lexical change, grammatical variation, comparative linguistic analysis, and the relationship between classical and contemporary Arabic.

JBA welcomes contributions from researchers working in native and non-native Arabic-speaking contexts. Studies of Arabic literature, translation, religious texts, and cultural materials are considered when their central research questions and contributions are explicitly linguistic.

The journal particularly values methodological rigor, theoretical advancement, and original linguistic evidence that contribute to a deeper understanding of Arabic language structure, meaning, variation, and use.