Prasasti: Journal of Linguistics (PJL) is a peer-reviewed, open access journal published twice a year, in April and November, by the Doctoral Program in Linguistics, Universitas Sebelas Maret, Indonesia. PJL publishes original research that analyses language in use and advances linguistic theory or method. It particularly welcomes studies of Indonesian, Javanese and other languages of Southeast Asia, and studies of any language that speak to an international readership.
Core areas
- Descriptive and theoretical linguistics: phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and lexicology, including documentation of local and minority languages.
- Pragmatics and discourse: speech acts, politeness and impoliteness, implicature, systemic functional linguistics, (critical) discourse analysis, multimodal and digital discourse, forensic and institutional pragmatics.
- Translation and interpreting studies: translation techniques, quality and ideology; audiovisual, literary and specialised translation; machine and AI-assisted translation.
Interdisciplinary studies that join these areas with sociolinguistics, cognitive linguistics or corpus methods are welcome.
Outside scope
Literary criticism without linguistic analysis, language teaching and pedagogy studies, and community-service or training reports. Manuscripts that only list features of a single text, such as figures of speech in one song, with no theoretical, methodological or comparative contribution, are declined without review.
Before you submit
Full requirements, article types, the review process and desk-rejection criteria are in the Guide for Authors. The history of the journal is on the Journal History page.
