About the Journal

Bakhtiniana. Revista de Estudos do Discurso [Bakhtiniana. Journal of Discourse Studies], in electronic format, is a bilingual journal with all its content published in Portuguese and English. It was created in 2008 by Programa de Estudos Pós-Graduados em Linguística Aplicada e Estudos da Linguagem [Applied Linguistics and Language Studies Graduate Program] from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo/LAEL-PUCSP and by the members of Linguagem, Identidade e Memória [Language, Identity and Memory] Research Group/CNPq (National Council for Scientific and Technological Development). The journal aims to promote and to publicize research on discourse.

Since 2019, it has published an issue every three months. Each issue is composed of original papers and book reviews written by professors and researchers from international and national universities.

It receives submissions on a continuous flow basis.

In 2023, the journal has adopted continuous publication, a format where its texts including presentations, editorials, articles, and reviews are published simultaneously on SciELO as they are approved and revised. These texts are distributed across the four annual issues of the periodical, remaining open until the end of its periodicity. After an issue is complete, it is also made available on Portal de Revistas da PUC-SP. The option for this type of publication is in line with Bakhtiniana's commitment in accelerating the communication process of quality research and, therefore, contributing to its availability for reading and citation.

In compliance with the current and good national and international scientific communication practices, Bakhtiniana has started in 2020 its process of adherence to Open Science.  

Open Science is a new way of formatting, projecting, managing, communicating and evaluating research and its dissemination, focusing on the transparency of processes and the availability of the elements that ground their divulging, such as methods, data and computer programs.

 Bakhtiniana’s adherence to Open Science comprises:

1)      Preprints as an authors’ option for the formal beginning of their research communication.

 Preprints are scientific texts ready for submission to a journal which are deposited by their authors in a public server prior too or during their submission to a specific journal.

Pre-publishing provides the speeding of research results dissemination, enables authors to receive comments from readers on their studies and to carry out changes deemed pertinent.

Authors who opt for preprints and further or simultaneous submission to Bakhtiniana must: a) have their manuscripts exclusively deposited at the SciELO Preprints server (https://preprints.scielo.org/index.php/scielo); and b) inform that the manuscript is deposited at the SciELO Preprints server , as well as provide their name and URL at the  “Open Science Compliance Form” (a document to the filled out and attached as supplementary file during submission. SUBMISSION WITHOUT THIS DOCUMENT CANNOT BE REVIEWED).

Bakhtiniana only accepts the submission of unpublished articles, whether print or electronic, except for those made available at the SciELO Preprints server, and the simultaneous submission to other journals, for evaluation purposes, is not accepted.

2)      Transparent management of research data and availability of computer program codes and other material underlying articles.

Bakhtiniana encourages authors to make available all the content underlying their manuscript (data, computer program codes and other material) prior to or during publication. Exceptions are allowed in case of legal or ethical issues. The objective is to facilitate the manuscript evaluation and, if it is accepted, to contribute to the preservation and reuse of contents and research.

 Information on the availability (or not) of contents underlying submitted papers must be informed at the “Open Science Compliance Form” (a document to the filled out and attached as supplementary file during submission. SUBMISSION WITHOUT THIS DOCUMENT CANNOT BE REVIEWED).

 3)      Option of peer-review process beginning which are acceptable for authors and/or reviewers.

Authors must opt between one or more means to opening the journal peer review process. Options are: a) the publication or not of the manuscript acceptance evaluation reviews, in case the submitted paper is accepted for publication; and b) the direct interaction or not with reviewers responsible for the manuscript evaluation.

Authors’ options must be informed at the “Open Science Compliance Form” (a document to the filled out and attached as supplementary file during submission. sUBMISSION WITHOUT THIS DOCUMENT CANNOT BE REVIEWED).

Reviewers may also opt between one or more means to opening the journal peer review process. Options are: a) the publication or not of the manuscript acceptance evaluation reviews, in case the submitted manuscript is accepted for publication; and b) the direct interaction or not with the authors of the paper under evaluation.

Reviewers must inform their options upon receiving a certain paper’s evaluation request.

 

Evaluated as Qualis A1 (the highest ranking available on the system) by CAPES (the Brazilian Federal Agency for the Support and Evaluation of Graduate/Post-Graduate Education) and indexed by SciELO (a major electronic library covering a selected collection of Brazilian scientific journals), Scopus and Web of Science.

 

Focus and Scope

Bakhtiniana. Revista de Estudos do Discurso [Bakhtiniana. Journal of Discourse Studies], in electronic format, was created in 2008 by Programa de Estudos Pós-Graduados em Linguística Aplicada e Estudos da Linguagem [Applied Linguistics and Language Studies Graduate Program] from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo/LAEL-PUCSP and by the members of Linguagem, identidade e memória [Language, Identity and Memory] Research Group/CNPq (National Council for Scientific and Technological Development). The journal's mission is to promote and to publicize research on discourse, mainly on dialogic studies. It publishes an issue every three months. Each issue is composed of original papers and book reviews. In 2020, in line with current and good national and international scientific communication practices, Bakhtiniana. Revista de Estudos do Discurso has started its process of adhering to Open Science. It is a new manner of formatting, designing, managing, communicating and evaluating research and its dissemination, focusing on the transparency of processes and the availability of the elements that ground their divulging, such as methods, data and computer programs.

This is the only journal that covers Bakhtinian studies per se and that dialogues with other areas of knowledge in Brazil and abroad. Papers should be written in Portuguese or English and follow Bakhtiniana’s style (see Submissions instructions at http://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/bakhtiniana).

Section Policies

Articles

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Reviews

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Translated papers

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Interview

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

 

Peer Review Process

 

All manuscripts in accordance to Bakhtiniana’s submission guidelines are peer-reviewed by two members of the Editorial Board, who will be assisted, when necessary, by two anonymous referees. If the judgments of the two referees are inconsistent, a third referee should be called in. Once the refereeing process is concluded, the review copies are sent to the author, or to the first author of co-authored papers, with appropriate instructions. The journal editor reserves the right to return a manuscript if it does not follow the style requirements available at http://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/bakhtiniana. Authors are responsible for the data and concepts worked out in the paper as well as for the correctness of references and bibliography.

Blinded Peer-Review is followed for all manuscripts submitted to Bakhtiniana, including preprints.

We only adopt an Open Peer-Review system when authors and reviewers explicitly declare to agree to interact directly with one another. Authors must make their option clear in the “Open Science Compliance Form.” (SUBMISSION WITHOUT THIS DOCUMENT CANNOT BE REVIEWED).  Reviewers must make their option clear when indicating their availability for reviewing the submission by email.

 

Publication Frequency

Four issues a year (from 2019 on) 

 

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that scientific knowledge freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

This means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author.

It also does not have any article processing or submission charges.

 

Intellectual Property

All content of Bakhtiniana. Revista de Estudos do Discurso is licensed under a Creative Commons attribution-type CC-BY 4.0

 

Archiving

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More...