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.