The Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, as a flagship publication in the field of linguistic anthropology, continually promotes in-depth research into the interplay between language and social structures, cultural practices, and identity. The magazine particularly emphasizes the ethnographic research method, which reveals the complexity and diversity of language use in different social contexts through detailed fieldwork and participant observation.

The journal encourages interdisciplinary research perspectives, integrating theories and methods from anthropology, linguistics, sociology, psychology, and other disciplines to comprehensively analyze the social functions and meanings of language. The articles published in the journal include not only theoretical discussions but also empirical research, which may involve a wide range of topics such as language policy, language variation, multilingual phenomena, language and gender, language and power, etc.