該雜志發表了最高質量的經驗和理論研究的語言，因為它是用于互動。傳播學、語篇分析、會話分析、語言人類學和人種志的研究人員可能是最活躍的貢獻者，但我們歡迎來自廣泛的互動研究人員提交文章。發表的論文通常涉及對自然發生的相互作用的密切分析。該雜志也對理論論文和與自然觀察結果緊密相關的定量研究開放。

The journal publishes the highest quality empirical and theoretical research bearing on language as it is used in interaction.Researchers in communication, discourse analysis, conversation analysis, linguistic anthropology and ethnography are likely to be the most active contributors, but we welcome submission of articles from the broad range of interaction researchers.Published papers will normally involve the close analysis of naturally-occuring interaction.The journal is also open to theoretical essays, and to quantitative studies where these are tied closely to the results of naturalistic observation.