About the Journal
Presentation
As language is one of the main constituents of human cultures, the linguistic studies, either synchronic or diachronic, should be naturally associated not only to the knowledge of the several aspects of those cultures, such as their social organization, natural environment, material and technological culture, ludic and artistic practices, and historical traditions, but also to the biological and psychological factors of the speakers as well as to their physical and social environments.
It is this concept of language as involving this whole set of properties of human societies which motivate us to inaugurate the Revista Brasileira de Linguística Antropológica, as a forum to contributions not only by linguists, but also by anthropologists, archeologists, biologists, psychologists, and other scholars interested in the deepening of the knowledge on human beings, in this case, on American natives, the South American native peoples.
Aim and e Editorial Policy
Revista Brasileira de Linguística Antropológica (RBLA) is a Brazilian open access journal operating on a continuous publication basis and also publishing special issues, published by the Laboratório de Línguas Indígenas, University of Brasília. Founded in 2009 by Aryon Dall’Igna Rodrigues and Ana Suelly Arruda Câmara Cabral, the journal aims to contribute as a fruitful forum for scholarly studies on the languages and cultures of native peoples of the Americas, with special focus on the South American continent. Its main concerns are articles, research reports, and bibliographical essays and reviews of linguistic studies highlighting the interface between language and culture in descriptive or historical perspectives. It publishes studies on a variety of aspects of the native languages and cultures, among which lexicon, phonology, grammar, semantic systems and fields, cultural classifications of plants and animals, ethnogeography, ethnohistory, onomastics, kinship, linguistic and cultural prehistory, human genetics, language contact, language obsolescence and language revitalization processes, text and discourse analyses, verbal arts, ritual language, and linguistic expressions of gender distinctions. Studies on interpretations and discussion of archival material and edited historical documents, ethnohistorical studies and contributions to the history of the field are as well welcome.
Revista Brasileira de Linguística Antropológica consists of the following sections:
- Editors’s corner
- Articles
- Past and present (translations)
- Remembering
- Linguistic Data
- Reports
- Reviews
- News
Review system
RBLA adopts the double-blind peer review system. Authors remain anonymous throughout the analysis process of their articles, as well as reviewers during and after the evaluation. In case a manuscript receives disagreeing reviews, a third evaluator will take part in the evaluation process. Once reviews are available, copies of the evaluations are sent to the author(s), together with recommendations for adjustments indicated by the reviewers.
Periodicity
Annual publication.
Free access policy
This journal offers immediate free access to its content, following the principle that providing free scientific knowledge to the public provides greater global democratization of knowledge.
Filing
This journal uses the LOCKSS system to create a distributed file system between participating libraries and allows them to create permanent journal files for preservation and restoration See more!
Target audience
The RBLA is intended for teachers, students and researchers in the areas of Linguistics, Anthropology, Archeology, History, Botany, Human Genetics and other related fields.
Content
Scientific studies in the interface areas of synchronic and diachronic linguistics with research on present and past cultures of the peoples of the Americas, with research on genetic affinities between these peoples and the studies on the environment in which they are developed, for better understand the multiplicity of languages that characterize our continent.
