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What we publish

We accept original specialised articles on research in the following fields:

  • Literatures in English in both contemporary and historical perspectives;
  • Literary Theories and Criticism;
  • Cultural Studies including Cinema and Media Studies;
  • Linguistics including theoretical, empirical, historical and applied;
  • Cognitive and functional approaches;
  • Discourse and pragmatic studies;
  • Multimodal Discourse Analysis.

We particularly welcome interdisciplinary approaches between fields, such as:

  • Linguistic tools applied to literary analysis;
  • The interplay between language and culture;
  • Language and the analysis of cultural phenomena such as diaspora in different contextual settings;
  • Literature, language and gender theories / gender theories and literary works.

These are but a few of the many possibilities that an interdisciplinary stance suggests.

Submissions should be in the form of articles, book reviews or interviews, and they should meet the following criteria:

  • Suitability for the aim and scope of the journal.
  • Originality and interest in relation to subject matter, method, data or findings.
  • Relevance to current research in the field.
  • Revision of previously published work on the topic.
  • Logical rigour in argumentation and in the analysis of data.
  • Adequate use of concepts and research methodology.
  • Discussion of theoretical implications and/or practical applications.
  • Command of recent bibliography.
  • Linguistic appropriateness, textual organisation and satisfactory presentation.
  • Readability and conciseness of expression.