Focus and Scope
PAPÉIS: Journal of the Graduate Program in Language Studies aims to disseminate original essays, reviews, extended abstracts, and interviews produced by professors, researchers, and graduate students. These contributions should be aligned with the broad fields of Literature, Linguistics, and Arts—more specifically, with the research lines of the Program—and should provide relevant contributions to the expansion and deepening of theoretical debate and the analysis of aesthetic and cultural issues.
Submissions that align with the journal’s editorial guidelines are reviewed by two ad hoc referees through an anonymous peer review process.
Since 2006, the year the master’s program in Language Studies was established, PAPÉIS has accepted contributions under the following structure: issues with odd numbers are dedicated to linguistic and semiotic studies, while even-numbered issues are focused on literary studies.
For linguistic and semiotic studies, the journal accepts articles on:
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Description and Linguistic Analysis: studies related to various dimensions of linguistic knowledge, considering language as a complex phenomenon of sociocultural and historical nature.
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Semiotic Practices and Objects: studies on the procedures of textual organization, socio-historical variables, or production conditions that shape the meaning of discourse in relation to context.
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Languages, Identities, and Teaching: studies of language and its relationship with different technological mediations, issues related to language and literature teaching and learning, as well as cultural and identity matters.
For literary studies, the journal accepts articles on:
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Representation, Culture, and Literature: investigations with a transrelational focus, based on both culture and literature as means of translating empirical and symbolic realities. This translation occurs through representation and its capacity to confer on words, objects, subjects, and actions meanings that are not reflective but rather diverse modes of exposing different human experiences through individual choices, from writing to literary form. Addressing regional needs, this line also considers the place of literature in basic education through literary literacy, emphasizing diverse approaches to the artistic-literary text.
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Transdisciplinary Studies: Beginning with the prefix trans, understood as “beyond” in contexts of dialogue and (re)conciliation, this line includes investigations that (re)visit classical and modern theoretical situations and conditions in the fields of art, literature, and culture. These investigations necessarily imply shared knowledge in constant (re)evaluation, not only under the influence of science but also of intuition, sensitivity, and mentalities.
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Languages, Identities, and Teaching: studies of language and its relationship with different technological mediations, issues related to the teaching and learning of language, literature, and other forms of expression, along with cultural and identity issues.
Peer Review Process
All submitted articles are reviewed by two members of our Editorial Board or by ad hoc reviewers under a double-blind evaluation system: authors are not identified in the manuscripts sent for review, and reviewers are not identified in the evaluation returned to authors. Reviewers are selected based on their field of expertise, academic output, or specific knowledge of the article's topic.
Publication Frequency
Semmestral
Open Access Policy
This journal provides immediate open access to its content, following the principle that making scientific knowledge freely available to the public fosters a greater global democratization of knowledge.
Journal History
Founded in 1997, PAPÉIS: Journal of the Graduate Program in Language Studies at the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul transitioned from print to digital in 2013. In 2019, it adopted a new editorial team and structure to meet national and international quality standards, aiming to improve its qualification in CAPES' journal evaluations.
