The editorial team ♦ Publication Ethics ♦ AI Policy ♦ The peer review process ♦ For authors ♦ Issues 🇹🇩
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 Alecu
Contact: tal@litere.unibuc.ro
TAL@ro is indexed in CEEOL
Periodicity: 2 issues per year
e-ISSN 3120-1288; ISSN-L 3119-8716
Our journal does not charge any publication fee.
Articles should be written in Romanian, English or French.
♦ 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)
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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)
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♦ Publication Ethics
Theoretical and Applied Linguistics@ro adheres to COPE (Guidelines On Good Publication Practice) guidelines (https://publicationethics.org/files/u7141/1999pdf13.pdf).
♦ AI Policy
Manuscripts submitted for publication must be the result of the authors’ original intellectual work. The use of artificial intelligence (AI) must comply with the COPE guidelines for publication ethics (Authorship and AI tools | COPE: Committee on Publication Ethics). Please carefully read the guidelines before using AI tools for your research. Authors retain full responsibility for the accuracy, originality, and integrity of all AI-assisted content. AI systems cannot be listed as author(s) or co-author(s).
All use of AI needs to be disclosed in detail at the time of submission. Please, add a disclosure note at the end of your paper. Failure to disclose the use of AI constitutes a breach of the journal’s publication ethics.
Authors must not upload any part of their research to AI tools or systems for automated processing. Reviewers and editors must not upload manuscripts or unpublished documents to AI systems. AI tools must not be used in the peer-review process.
The journal reserves the right to request additional information regarding the use of AI tools and to take appropriate editorial action where such use has not been adequately disclosed or is found to be inconsistent with the journal’s ethical standards.
Model for the AI disclosure note:
AI DISCLOSURE
The author(s) did not use artificial intelligence (AI) in the conception, drafting, or writing of this article.
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The author(s) used artificial intelligence (AI), i.e., ChatGPT 5/Microsoft Copilot/Gemini/etc. for [detailed description of the activity]. The author(s) reviewed and verified all AI-generated suggestions and take(s) full responsibility for the content of the article.
♦ The peer review process
Editor’s Assessment
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 4,000 and 10,000 words (including references). Book reviews should be between 1,000 and 2,000 words (inclulding 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 the authors;
- The affiliation of the 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).
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Articles will be anonymized by the editorial board.
Please follow the editorial norms provided below. We recommend using the template files provided, which already contain all the necessary formatting.
Articles are published in open-access, in accordance with the CC BY-NC license.