About the Journal
Focus and Scope
The Latin American Journal of Discourse Studies was created to publicize the research of ALED members. The main objective since then was to give visibility to the research groups of the different universities in the region and to contribute to the discussion of problems such as poverty and social injustices in Latin American countries, in its relation to discourse.
The journal was created as one of the most important projects of ALED because, in addition to serving dissemination of research carried out in Spanish and Portuguese, fulfills the purpose of integrating networks of Latin American researchers, and draw attention on the fundamental importance of language in the construction of identities, the construction of knowledge, and power relations.
Section Policies
Articles
 Open Submissions |
 Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
Reviews
| Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
Peer Review Process
The Latin American Journal of Discourse Studies publishes original and unpublished papers. The papers received, preferably research articles, will be submitted to peer review by specialists of recognized prestige, through the double-blind system. As a consequence, the Editorial Committee reserves the right to suggest to the authors’ formal modifications to the articles that are accepted, as well as to publish them in the number that they consider most convenient.
Open Access Policy
RALED Journal offers free access to its content, following the principle that providing free access to scientific knowledge contributes to greater world-wide democratization of the knowledge. Thus, no fee is to be applied either to readers or to authors.
Archiving
This magazine uses the LOCKSS system to create a distributed file among the participating libraries, allowing these libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for preservation and restoration purposes.
Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement
This statement is based on the guidelines and standards developed by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)
In order to publish a manuscript in Latin American Journal of Discourse Studies, it is necessary to conform to the standards of ethical behavior expected by all parties involved in the publication act: the authors, the journal editors and the referees. This statement is based on COPE's "Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors". It details these standards for publication purposes in our journal.
I. Duties of Editors
A. Publication decisions
The editors-in-chief of RALED are responsible for deciding which articles submitted to the journal should be published. Editors may follow the journal's editorial board policies and take legal requirements into account in matters such as defamation, copyright infringement, and plagiarism. Editors can also consult with peers to assist in their decision making.
B. Fair play
Editors evaluate manuscripts for their intellectual content, regardless of race, sex, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, ethnicity, nationality, or political philosophy.
C. Confidentiality
Editors and any member of the Editorial Team shall not disclose any information about a manuscript submitted to any person other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers or other editorial counselors, as the case may be.
D. Disclosure and conflicts of interest
Unpublished material disclosed in a submitted article should not be used in the editor's own research without the express written consent of the authors.
II. Duties of reviewers or evaluators
A. Contribution to editorial decisions
Reviewers assist editors in making editorial decisions, by communicating with editors and the corresponding author. They can also assist the authors in improving manuscripts.
B. Punctuality
Any guest evaluator who feels disqualified to review the research presented in a manuscript or who knows that their immediate review will be impossible should immediately notify the editors and withdraw from the review process.
C. Confidentiality
Papers received for analysis should be treated by reviewers as confidential documents. They should not be shown or discussed with others unless authorized by the editors.
D. Standards of objectivity
Reviews and opinions should be conducted and written in an objective manner. Personal criticism of the authors is inadequate. Evaluators should express their opinions clearly, using arguments that support their assessment.
E. Recognition of sources
Reviewers should identify relevant published works that have not been cited by the authors. Any statement that an observation, derivation or argument has been published before must be accompanied by a citation from the relevant source. A reviewer should also draw the editors' attention to any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript in question and any other published work of which they are personally acquainted.
F. Disclosure and conflict of interest
Insider information or ideas obtained through the reading of the manuscripts must be kept confidential and should not be used for the personal benefit of the reviewers. Reviewers should not consider manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competition, collaboration, or other relationships or links with any of the authors, companies or institutions attached to the manuscripts.
III. Duties of authors
A. Report of norms and procedures
Authors of original texts should present an accurate report of their research work, as well as objective analysis of their meaning.
B. Underlying data must be presented accurately in the manuscript. An article should contain enough details and references to allow others to replicate the work. Fraudulent or intentionally inaccurate statements constitute unethical behavior and are unacceptable.
C. Access and data retention
Authors may be required to provide the raw data related to the submitted manuscript for the purpose of editorial review. They should be prepared to provide public access to such data (in accordance with the joint statement on data and database of the Association of Learned and Professional Society Editors and The International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Editors) if possible, and shall in any case be prepared to store such data for a reasonable period of time after publication.
D. Originality and plagiarism
Authors must ensure that they have written entirely original works; if the authors used the work and/or words of others, they should ensure that they are duly cited or referenced.
E. Multiple, redundant, or concurrent publication
Authors should not publish manuscripts that essentially describe the same research in more than one journal or primary publication. In addition, submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal simultaneously constitutes unethical behavior and is unacceptable.
F. Recognition of sources
Proper recognition of the work of other researchers should always be done. Authors should cite all publications that have been influential in determining the nature and results of reported work.
G. Article Authorship
Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study. All those who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors. If there are others who participated in certain substantive aspects of the research project, they should be credited or listed only as contributors.
The corresponding author must ensure that all appropriate co-authors are included in the paper, and inappropriate co-authors are not included; should also ensure that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the document and have agreed to submit it for publication.
In the act of submission, the e-mail addresses of all co-authors must be provided, even though major communication will be done with the corresponding author.
H. Hazards to humans or animals
If the research work involved chemicals, procedures or equipment that present any unusual risks to humans or animals, they should be clearly identified in the manuscript.
I. Disclosure and conflicts of interest
All authors should disclose in the manuscript any conflict of financial, professional or other substantive nature that could be interpreted as influencing the results of the research or the interpretation of those results. In addition, all sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed.
J. Fundamental errors in published work
When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his own published work, it is his obligation to immediately notify the Editorial Staff of the journal and collaborate with them to portray or correct the article.
Plagiarism detection policy
Before being sent to the evaluation of reviewers, the articles submitted to the Latin American Journal of Discourse Studies will be verified by software for identification of plagiarism.
We use CopySpider software to detect plagiarism in text files. The authors must guarantee the originality of the manuscripts and if they use articles by other authors that are duly cited. In this way, it is possible that the authors receive possible questions during the evaluation process of the submitted work, referring to indications by the software used. If the plagiarism is really proven, the manuscript will be returned to the author.
Monographic Numbers
Since 2006, RALED has also published monographic issues. To submit the coordination of a monographic issue, contact the editors. The monographic number proposal should contain, at least, the following information: title of the monograph, name(s) of coordinator(s), general abstract. The editor or editors of the monographic issue undertake to fulfill the following tasks:
1. Call for articles for the monograph and collect seven articles from at least three institutions and two different countries that meet the requirements of the journal.
2. Have the articles that make up the number peer-reviewed.
3. Make sure that each article complies with the formal requirements of the ALED journal (dating conventions, bibliographical references, location of the notes, mini-curriculum, and address of the authors, as well as their emails, etc.).
4. Commit to obtaining at least two book reviews on the subject of the monograph.
5. After the articles and reviews have been sent to the journal, make sure that the authors make the final revisions, if necessary.
6. Consult with the editors any questions regarding translations, reviews, etc.
7. Write the introduction of the special number.
8. Respect the style and identity of the magazine.
Instructions for book reviews
Reviews must be mainly of books written in Spanish or Portuguese by members of the ALED. Books written in other languages that are of interest for discourse studies in general and in Latin America, in particular, can also be reviewed.
The review will be headed by the bibliographic reference of the book reviewed (author/editor, year, title, number of pages, city, publishing house and ISBN).
The review will not be divided into topics.
In the introduction, theme and central problems will be identified.
The structure of the book will be described (in chapters, and parts, the existence of glossaries, appendices, etc.) and complete synthesis of the content will be made.
The potential readers of the book reviewed will be identified.
The text of the review will be evaluative and will express the position of the author towards the book reviewed.
The reviewed book will be related to other works on the same subject and/or the same author and will be placed in the context of the time and place where it is published.
The dating conventions indicated for the rest of the contributions to the ALED journal will be followed. Reviews will not include more than five references.
The text of the review will have a maximum limit of 2,000 words.
Instructions for articles
Researchers interested in their work in the Latin American Journal of Speech Studies should be followed as follows:
1. Papers should be sent in attachmente to these e-mails as follows:
abolivar_2000@yahoo.com
revistaaled2004@yahoo.es
shiromartha@gmail.com
Researchers interested in publishing their work in the Latin American Journal of Discourse Studies should follow the following instructions:
1. Articles must be written in Word format, 1.5 spaced in Times New Roman 12. The maximum length is 7500 words, including notes and bibliography. Both the images, graphics or tables must be attached in their original format (preferably jpg, tif, gif) and with very good resolution.
2. The title, in italics, should summarize the content of the article in a very concise manner. The translation of the title into English (or into Spanish or Portuguese, if the original is submitted in English) must be included, below the original title. It is followed by the name of the author(s) and the institution to which s/he belongs.
3. The text of the article must be preceded by a summary in Spanish, Portuguese and English - no more than 150 words in each language. Up to six keywords will be included, which should be in italics. The terms RESUMEN, RESUMO, and ABSTRACT, as well as PALABRAS CLAVE, PALAVRAS-CHAVE, and KEYWORDS should go in small caps.
4. The general and section titles should be brief and explicit. The title of the first section is Introduction and it has no numbering, the other titles and subtitles are numbered according to the hierarchy in the text. The Conclusions section and the Bibliographic References do not have numbering.
5. The images, graphs, and tables must be numbered, their content must be clear and must have an explanatory title. Each image, graph, and table must be explained/ mentioned in the text of the article.
6. Every article (full version) must be accompanied by a brief biographical and academic information written in an extension between 50 and 100 words. Additionally, the full name of the author(s), email address, the institution where s/he works and telephone must be clearly indicated. This full version must be submitted as a supplementary document.
7. The main document to be submitted must be identical to the full (supplementary) but without any identification of authorship. Do not use names of authors, and any reference capable of identifying it must be replaced by "SUPPRESSED FOR BLIND REVISION".
8. Every textual citation should give the corresponding source in parentheses (author date: page). If the quote has less than 40 words, it goes inside the paragraph in double quotes. If it has more than 40 words, you should have a 1cm indentation on each side and an interline spacing to a single space, followed by the source in parentheses (author year: page). Example: (Romano and Sousa 2018: 17), (Silva 2018: 25). If different authors are mentioned within a parenthesis, they must be separated by semicolons (;). If several authors are mentioned, they must be ordered in chronological order.
9. If it is not a textual quotation, but the content requires giving the source of the information, the name of the author and the year of publication are placed in parentheses (Silva 2018, Romano and Sousa 2018).
10. The notes should be numbered consecutively and placed at the bottom of the page, exactly where the author wishes them to be included. The indication numbers of the footnotes go after the period, semicolon or comma.
11. Words of foreign origin are written in italics, as well as the concepts and words that are taken from the corpus of analysis and incorporated into the writing.
12. All bibliographical references must be ordered alphabetically after the conclusions. All references included in the bibliographic list must be mentioned in the text and any reference mentioned in the text must appear in the bibliographic list.
The formats are shown below:
Books:
RUIZ ÁVILA, D. 2003. Tejiendo discursos se tejen sombreros. Identidad y práctica discursiva. México: Fomento Editorial.
CHILTON, P. y SCHAFFNER, C. (eds.). 2011. Politics as text and talk. Analytic approaches to political discourse. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
Chapters in books:
DONAIRE, M. L. 2004. La polifonía, una relación binaria. En E. Arnoux y M. M. García Negroni (eds.). Homenaje a Oswald Ducrot, pp. 117-133. Buenos Aires: Eudeba.
Papers in journals:
CHUMACEIRO, I. 2004. Las metáforas políticas en el discurso de dos líderes venezolanos. Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios del Discurso, 4(2): 91-112.
ARIAS, M. 2011. Neurología de la risa y del humor: risa y llanto patológicos. Revista de Neurología, 53: 415-21.
Text consulted on the web:
CHARAUDEAU, P. 2011. [Available online at www.patrick-charaudeau.com]. Que vaut la parole dún chroniqueur á la télevision? L'affaire Zemour, comme symptôme d´une dérive de la parole médiatique. Réseaux, 6: 135-161 [Query: August 26, 2014].
The letters a, b, c, … appended to the date of publication must be used to reference works by the same author published in the same year. Example: (van Dijk 2010a, 2010b).Â
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