《世界语言学刊》是一本同行评议的多学科、跨学科期刊，探讨世界自然语言的角色、功能和结构，主要关注生态语言学、系统功能语言学、话语分析、社会语言学、语言类型学、语言哲学等领域的研究。

Journal of World Languages is an international, peer-reviewed multidisciplinary journal that explores the roles, functions and structures of languages in the world. Special attention is given to studies of languages in the fields of ecolinguistics (including the Haugenian Tradition and the Hallidayan Tradition), systemic functional linguistics, critical/positive/multimodal/ecological discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, cognitive linguistics, corpus linguistics, pragmatics, linguistic typology, linguistic anthropology and philosophy of language.