The editorial team 🔸 Publication Ethics 🔸 The peer review process 🔸 For authors 🇹🇩
Theoretical and Applied Linguistics@ro is an open access journal edited by the Department of Linguistics at the University of Bucharest, Faculty of Letters. It is designed as a comprehensive and dynamic platform aimed at sparking debates and facilitating dialogue among scholars in various linguistic disciplines. It promotes insightful analyses that delve into the intricacies of language structure, function, and usage, challenging commonly held assumptions and bridging theoretical models with empirical findings. We encourage innovative approaches and methodologies, while also integrating time-validated traditional findings. TAL@ro offers a venue for original research across a wide range of disciplines including, but not limited to, phonetics, morphology, syntax, lexicology, semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, and is open to interdisciplinarity.
Editor-in-chief: Andra Vasilescu
Asistant editor: Monica Vasileanu
Editorial secretary: Bianca-Maria Alecu
Contact: tal@litere.unibuc.ro
Periodicity: yearly
Our journal does not charge any publication fee.
🔶 The editorial team
Editor-in-chief: Andra Vasilescu
Assistant editor: Monica Vasileanu
Editorial board: Bianca Alecu (editorial secretary), Claudia Ene, Carmen Mîrzea Vasile, Cristian Moroianu, Isabela Nedelcu, Irina Paraschiv
National advisory board:
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- Gabriela Bîlbîie (University of Bucharest)
- Adina Dragomirescu (The “Iorgu Iordan – Alexandru Rosetti” Institute of Linguistics &
- University of Bucharest)
- Ion Giurgea (The “Iorgu Iordan – Alexandru Rosetti” Institute of Linguistics)
- Alexandru Nicolae (The “Iorgu Iordan – Alexandru Rosetti” Institute of Linguistics &
- University of Bucharest)
- Florin-Teodor Olariu (The “Alexandru Philippide” Institute for Romanian Philology, Iași)
- Elena Platon (“Babeș-Bolyai” University, Cluj-Napoca)
- Cecilia Mihaela Popescu (University of Craiova & The “Iorgu Iordan – Alexandru Rosetti” Institute of Linguistics)
- Răzvan Săftoiu (“Transilvania” University, Brașov)
- Emanuela Timotin (The “Iorgu Iordan – Alexandru Rosetti” Institute of Linguistics &
- University of Bucharest)
- Rodica Zafiu (University of Bucharest & Romanian Academy)
International advisory board:
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- Domnița Dumitrescu (California State University, Los Angeles, USA)
- Maria Grossmann (University of L’Aquila, Italy)
- Virginia Hill (University of New Brunswick, Canada)
- Pierre Larrivée (University of Caen Normandie, France)
- Nikolaos Lavidas (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece)
- Martin Maiden (University of Oxford, Regatul Unit & University of Bucharest)
- Elisa Mattiello (University of Pisa, Italy)
- Donca Steriade (Massachussetts Institute of Technology, USA)
- Salvador Valera (University of Granada, Spain)
- Francisco Yus (University of Alicante, Spain)
🔶 Publication Ethics
Theoretical and Applied Linguistics@ro adheres to COPE (Guidelines On Good Publication Practice) guidelines (https://publicationethics.org/files/u7141/1999pdf13.pdf).
🔶 The peer review process
Initial / Desk Evaluation
Upon receiving an article, the editorial board members determine whether it fits within the scope of the journal and meets the journal’s scientific standards. This initial evaluation considers:
(a) the content (the article should address topics in theoretical and applied linguistics; it should contain elements of originality; the topic should be approached scientifically); (b) the form (the article should include all the sections specified in the author guidelines, such as abstract, affiliation, references; the article should follow the style sheet of the journal).
Double blind peer review
Each article is reviewed by two experts in the field, members of the national or international advisory board. If the article does not fall within the expertise of the board members, it will be sent to specialists from the broader academic community. The two reviewers must be affiliated with institutions other than the authors of the article. The review process is anonymous, and authors are asked to avoid referring to themselves in the first person when citing works they have previously published.
Reviewers can choose to accept the article without corrections, with minor corrections, with major corrections (in this case, the article will undergo a second review after resubmission), or reject the article with justified reasons provided. If there is a major disagreement between the two reviewers, the article will be sent to a third reviewer.
🔗 Peer-Review Report
Upon acceptance of the article, authors will receive the reviewers’ suggestions and comments by e-mail. Authors are asked to consider these suggestions and comments and submit the revised version of the article within the deadline specified by the editors.
Contributions in foreign languages will be reviewed by native speakers, and authors are kindly asked to take these corrections into account.
The review process may take up to 6 months.
🔶 For authors
The journal Theoretical and Applied Linguistics@ro publishes original articles that have not been previously published and are not under consideration for publication elsewhere. Articles should be between 6,000 and 10,000 words (including references). Submissions should be in .doc or .docx format; if authors wish to include images, they are kindly asked to send them separately in .jpg or .png format with a minimum resolution of 300 dpi.
Articles must include:
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- Title;
- Names of authors;
- Affiliations of authors;
- ORCID number of each author (if available);
- Corresponding authors’ e-mail address;
- An abstract of 250-300 words in English, regardless of the language in which the article was written; the abstract should be preceded by the article’s title in English;
- A maximum of 5 keywords in English;
- References (at the end of the article).
Articles will be anonymized by the editorial board.
Guidelines for authors
Template
Copyright Agreement
Articles are published in open-access, in accordance with the CC BY-NC license.