The journal WORD, with over 60 years of history, was first published in 1945 by the
International Linguistic Association (ILA)
under the editorship of Pauline Taylor. It has served as a leading source of new ideas in
contemporary linguistics.
WORD is a scholarly journal of linguistics now issued four times a year by the
ILA and published by Routledge, Taylor & Francis starting with Volume 61 (2015).