Slovo a slovesnost is a refereed scholarly journal devoted to the theory of language and language cultivation. It was founded in 1935 as a periodical of the Prague Linguistic Circle. It features original articles in the areas of grammar, semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, stylistics, discourse analysis, conversation analysis, text linguistics, psycholinguistics, semiotics, translation theory, literary theory and the like, with a focus on languages used in the European space.

Slovo a slovesnost publishes research and discussion articles, book reviews and reports on conferences and other events in the linguistics community. The languages of publication are Czech, Slovak, English, German, French and Russian.

Slovo a slovesnost is abstracted & indexed in the following databases:

Web of Science: Arts and Humanities Citation Index (Clarivate Analytics)
Web of Science: Social Sciences Citation Index (Clarivate Analytics)
Web of Science: Journal Citation Reports, Social Sciences Edition (Clarivate Analytics)
Scopus (Elsevier)
Central and Eastern European Academic Source (EBSCO)
Central and Eastern European Online Library (CEEOL GmbH)
Linguistic Bibliography / Bibliographie Linguistique (Brill)
MLA International Bibliography (Modern Language Association of America)
The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies (Modern Humanities Research Association)
Central European Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences and Slovak Academy of Sciences)
Bibliografia Językoznawstwa Slawistycznego (Instytut Slawistyki Polskiej Akademii Nauk i Towarzystwo Naukowe Warszawskie)
Bibliografie české lingvistiky (Ústav pro jazyk český AV ČR)

Journal metrics:

Journal Impact Factor (Journal Citation Reports 2023): 0.4
5-Year Impact Factor (Journal Citation Reports 2023): 0.3