About the Journal

  • Focus and Scope
  • Open Access Policy
  • Statement on Publishing cost
  • Review Process
  • Plagiarism and Scientific Fraud
  • Post-publication updates
  • Archiving
  • Languages
  • Publisher
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    Focus and Scope

    The Zeitschrift für Kulturlinguistik – Revue de linguistique culturelle – Rivista di linguistica culturale – Journal of Cultural Linguistics is an international linguistic open access journal with double-blind peer review. It publishes innovative high-quality research articles in cultural linguistics (Kulturlinguistik, kulturanalytische Linguistik, linguistische Kulturanalyse). It also publishes articles at the interface between cultural linguistics and literary studies. The journal is published twice a year online only.

    Open Access Policy

    The Zeitschrift für Kulturlinguistik – Revue de linguistique culturelle – Rivista di linguistica culturale – Journal of Cultural Linguistics is a fully open access journal. All published articles are freely available to readers worldwide freely accessible online immediately upon publication without subscription fees or paywalls.

    All articles are published under the Creative Commens license Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International.

    Statement on Publishing Cost

    Submitting and publishing in Zeitschrift für Kulturlinguistik – Revue de linguistique culturelle – Rivista di linguistica culturale – Journal of Cultural Linguistics is entirely free of charge.

    Review Process

    All submitted articles first go through a preliminary review. They are checked against three criteria:

    • Do they fit the journal's scope and focus, i.e., do they fall within the field of cultural linguistics or are they at the interface of cultural linguistics and literary studies?
    • Do they meet the basic textual criteria of comprehensibility, coherence, formal correctness, etc.?
    • Do they fulfill the other requirements (see checklist)?

    Texts that do not meet these criteria will be rejected.
    Texts that do meet these criteria will be double-blind peer reviewed. Two anonymous external reviewers are asked to evaluate the anonymized manuscript according to defined evaluation criteria. Depending on the outcome of the review, the manuscript can then be rejected, published with more extensive, minor changes or published directly.

    An article can only be accepted for publication if both

    have been implemented.

    The article is then finally proofread in terms of content and form. The author receives a pre-print for final publication approval.

    As the journal is published twice a year, the publication process usually takes three to five months.

    Plagiarism and Fraud

    Guided by the European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity, the editorial team of the Zeitschrift für Kulturlinguistik – Revue de linguistique culturelle – Rivista di linguistica culturale – Journal of Cultural Linguistics is independently responsible for deciding which submissions the journal shall publish. ZfKL strongly upholds and promotes good research practices. It ensures the quality of research by examining the methodology, the analysis and the bibliography of submissions. ZfKL’s editors are also committed to communicating research in a transparent, fair and unbiased way. Unacceptable research practices include fabrication, falsification and plagiarism.

    After publication, contributions can – in justified exceptional cases – be corrected, withdrawn or removed.

    If made aware of concerns with published content, ZfKL’s editorial team can issue Editor’s Notes as interim notifications for its readers.

    Archiving

    The Zeitschrift für Kulturlinguistik – Revue de linguistique culturelle – Rivista di linguistica culturale – Journal of Cultural Linguistics ensures the long-term availability of its contents. Articles published in the journal are automatically preserved through the PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN) service.

    In addition, ZfKL supports and encourages self-archiving of the accepted and published versions by authors in open-access repositories of their choice without any embargo period.

    Languages

    Publication languages are German, English, French, and Italian.

    Publisher

    The Zeitschrift für Kulturlinguistik – Revue de linguistique culturelle – Rivista di linguistica culturale – Journal of Cultural Linguistics is published by the Library of the University of Geneva using a customized version of the Open Journal Systems (OJS) software by The Public Knowledge Project (PKP).