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AIMS AND SCOPE
B.A.S. - British and American Studies is
an open access, yearly, peer-reviewed* academic journal, whose main aim
is to promote new scholarship, to facilitate the exchange of information
related to research findings in the general fields of literatures in
English, English language as well as culture in the English speaking
countries.
The journal welcomes both theoretical and applied contributions that
advance the understanding of established and new approaches and issues,
significant to the academic community interested in the English-speaking
world, in domains like, but not limited to:
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the theory and history of literature,
literary criticism,
comparative literary studies, narrative and memory, literature and
film, stylistics
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the theory and history of linguistics, applied linguistics,
cognitive linguistics, corpus linguistics, comparative linguistics,
psycholinguistics,
sociolinguistics,
pragmatics,
text and discourse analysis, world Englishes, English as a lingua
franca, EFL and ESP,
translation studies
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cultural phenomena, hegemony of English speaking countries cultural
models, manifestations of ethnicity, media and communication
B.A.S. - British and American Studies
also aims to promote interdisciplinary studies, cross-disciplinary
topics being welcomed, as long as that their relevance is clear.
Since the journal appears in both print
and online format, published contributions offer their authors high
visibility and rapid access to a broad readership.
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details on the peer-reviewing process see the Peer Review section. |