Manuscripts must be original and unpublished. Texts received are anonymously peer-reviewed by two experts in the field before publication. Our refereeing system uses national and international external reviewers.

Focus and objective

Lengua y Sociedad is a journal of theoretical and applied Peruvian, Latin American and international research in Linguistics, as well as its related areas, which aims to publish the results that favor the development of linguistic research for the benefit of society and the academic community.

Subject matter and scope

Lengua y Sociedad is a journal specializing in theoretical and applied linguistics.

The journal publishes theoretical and applied research focused on the study of language, language and speakers, in areas such as phonetics, phonology, semantics, syntax, lexicon, discourse, discourse analysis, applied linguistics, literacy, reading and writing, reading comprehension, academic writing, literacy, digital literacy, multimodality, philology, sociolinguistics, bilingualism, intercultural bilingual education, language teaching, language teacher training, language promotion, language materials, scientific production in linguistics, language learning, language activism, language extinction, language and technology, psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, language and brain, language therapy, speech therapy, speech therapy, language and gender, language and inclusion, ethnolinguistics, language and identity, language and economics, linguistic ecology, linguistic landscapes, linguistic ideology, language planning, language policy, translation, terminology, terminography, lexicology, lexicography, linguistic theory, linguistic paradigms, philosophy of language, linguistic methodologies, historical linguistics, linguistic typology, language and interdisciplinarity, Peruvian languages, sign languages, indigenous languages and foreign languages. 

Manuscripts submitted to Lengua y Sociedad should address current and cutting-edge topics in theoretical and applied linguistics, meet the highest standards of academic excellence, advance theoretical and applied knowledge, and contribute to or stimulate current debate and scientific, humanistic, and social progress by offering new and original interpretations of the topics stated in the focus, objective, subject matter, and scope of the journal.

Languages 

The journal accepts contributions mainly in Spanish. We also accept articles in native languages and foreign languages (English, Portuguese, French, German). 

Shipping guidelines

Submissions follow the section policies. Article writers and reviewers must register in the OJS platform with their user name and password. To submit a manuscript, you must log in at  https://revistasinvestigacion.unmsm.edu.pe/index.php/lenguaysociedad/about/submissions. Beforehand, authors review the Submission Preparation Checklist and the Guidelines for Authors.

Sections and section policies

The journal accepts two types of contributions: articles and reviews.

1. ARTÍCULOS
   Papers devoted, mainly, to linguistics, as well as related areas. Papers must be unpublished and not pending evaluation in other journals, including electronic editions. The texts will be reviewed by external reviewers using the double-blind system.
   
   STRUCTURAL ASPECTS OF THE ARTICLE
   1. Título del artículo (conciso e informativo)
   2. Author's name: names by which he/she will be known for his/her publication (can be one name and one surname only), institutional affiliation, ORCID, institutional e-mail address.
   3. Abstracts in three languages: Spanish, English, Portuguese (including, after each abstract, key words in the respective languages). Texts written in native languages will write the second language in Spanish and then in English. Texts written in English will present their abstracts in the following order: English, Spanish, Portuguese.
   4. Text of the paper. The manuscript should be submitted in a minimum of 15 and a maximum of 25 pages. If this number is exceeded, please inform the journal because it justifies the number of pages.
   5. Bibliographic references (corresponding to explicit citations in the text, with a minimum of 20 and a maximum of 30, including sources from Scopus, WoS and the journal Lengua y Sociedad).
   
   General considerations:
   • Contribute with topics related to linguistic research responding to the diversity of lines both in the theoretical and applied fields.
   • Be unpublished.
   • It is possible to write in modern or Amerindian languages.
   • The text should be received in Microsoft Word, Times New Roman, font size 12, single and half spaced.
   • The articles received will be evaluated before publication.
   
   Review the template for articles empirical or experimental : https://docs.google.com/document/d/1z1tacg1UVDnrdc3kuhbRUQBAw3amWhJi/edit
   
   Review the template for theoretical articles: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nvbn15sCPKxVEfUln0QuKDDX3oowb3Kk/edit
   
   When submitting your participation to the journal, you must submit the following 4 files through the platform: 1. send the originality statement (https://acortar.link/wUTeF7), 2. the article without names and any mention of the authors (anonymized version, delete trajectory, acknowledgements, contribution), 3. the article with names and any identification (ORCID, contribution, acknowledgements, conflict of interest, trajectory), 4. the open science statement ((https://acortar.link/ewXSZJ). The anonymized version is the one that will be sent to blinded peers.
   
   
2. REVIEWS
   Annotated reviews of books in linguistics and related areas. Reviews must be unpublished and not pending evaluation in other journals, including electronic editions. The text is received in Microsoft Word, Times New Roman, font size 12, single-spaced. The reviews must be of recent texts, no more than two years prior to the publication of the current year. 
   
   Review the template for review: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1f8EAgzXiQeDGoR3Qi2Dg6PbI-UztS4kU/edit

Guidelines for bibliographical references

The journal requests that manuscripts be submitted in APA 7 format. The set of bibliographical references appears at the end of the contribution and should be arranged alphabetically. It should correspond only to explicit citations in the text. Within the text, such citations should appear in the text in abbreviated form: the main surname, the date of publication, the page indication, i.e. (Chomsky, 2002, p. 55). The author is responsible for ensuring that all abbreviated citations have the respective bibliographic reference at the end. In case the reference has to do with a book or article not yet published, this should be indicated with the phrase "in preparation". A "personal communication" should not be cited unless it provides essential information that cannot be obtained from a printed source.

Editorial ethics

Lengua y Sociedad assumes and promotes the best practices of editorial ethics. Provides guidelines on conflict of interest, ethical commitment, similarity detection.

Conflict of interest

The Editorial Board, authors and reviewers declare to respect the ethical principles of research and to be free of any conflict of interest. Authors will provide the indication of funding related to their research work if applicable. The authors indicate the contribution of each author (full names) in the submitted work.

CRediT (Collaboration Roles)

The journal Lengua y Sociedad adheres to the taxonomy of roles of academic collaboration (CRediT) that allows to recognize and differentiate the contribution of each co-author in a scientific article. This taxonomy is used to show and represent the responsibilities that each of the co-authors played in the scientific academic production of a research paper. Its main objective is to provide the corresponding credit to all those responsible for the research and publication process. The delimitation of the participation of each individual guarantees that his or her work will be recognized during the communication of the results; these actions comply with the authorship criteria defined by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors. By detailing the role of each author in the research, all receive the fairest recognition for their personal contribution to the research and to the final product, which is the publication of the results. This taxonomy distributes the roles of participation in 14 typologies through which an author can be recognized in the publication, as detailed in Language and Society: https://revistasinvestigacion.unmsm.edu.pe/index.php/lenguaysociedad/credit

The article has the following peer review system:

• Article accepted without modifications.
• Article conditionally accepted, adjusting the aspects indicated in the evaluation.
• Article rejected, but the author is offered the opportunity to re-evaluate it if he/she modifies it according to the guidelines suggested in the evaluation.
• Article rejected for the reasons indicated in the evaluation and cannot be resubmitted to the journal.