The journal's establishment has been viewed as part of a trend towards a tighter integration between formal semantics and formal pragmatics.[8] Work published in the journal includes papers from the ongoing debate regarding whether implicatures are computed within the grammar or via post-compositional Gricean reasoning.[9]
^Janssen, Theo (2016), "Montague semantics", in Zalta, Edward N. (ed.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2016 ed.), Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University, retrieved 2024-08-08, The most important journals in the field are Linguistics and Philosophy, the Journal of Semantics, Natural Language Semantics, and Semantics and Pragmatics
^Phillips, Colin (2016). "Colin Phillips". Retrieved 2024-08-07. [S&P] is the most successful open access journal in linguistics... quickly attaining high prestige
^Eve, Martin Paul (2014). Open Access and the Humanities: Contexts, Controversies and the Future. Cambridge University Press. pp. 38–39. ISBN978-1-107-48401-6.