About the Journal

Aims & Scope

The Journal for Media Linguistics (jfml) is an open access journal. In the spirit of an open, interactive, and independent scientific culture, the quality control of the jfml is ensured by an open peer review and the media-linguistic expertise of the editorial board. The jfml publishes articles, reviews, and conference reports in German and English on an ongoing basis.

Media linguistics has two main areas of inquiry, which form the thematic cornerstones of the jfml:

1) The theoretical and empirical scrutiny of the relationship between mediality and linguisticity: this relationship is fundamental for communication, culture and cognition. In this respect, media linguistics is proving to be a fundamental field of linguistic research.
2) The exploration of language and communication under the influence of media changes. These changes have had and continue to have an impact on social life: on everyday life, professional contexts and, of course, the public at large. Therefore, media–linguistic analyses are necessary at both the micro and macro level.

The jfml invites contributors to work on theoretical, empirical, and methodological questions and submit corresponding work as articles. Furthermore, reviews and conference reports of media–linguistic publications and events are welcome.

All contributions appear under a Creative Commons license (CC BY-SA 4.0 international).

Open Access Statement

The jfml stands for an open, interactive, and independent scientific culture. The jfml contributions are freely accessible to all immediately after publication and, unless otherwise noted, appear under a Creative Commons license CC BY-SA 4.0 international. The jfml does not charge any fees for the retrieval of contributions by readers or authors for the publication of contributions (also known as: Diamond Open Access). Authors are allowed to publish their publications in repositories or on personal homepages in order to achieve a higher reach.

Evaluation Criteria

Submissions will be evaluated according to the following common criteria: Originality and innovation, appropriateness and implementation of methodology, plausibility and stringency of the argumentation as well as contribution structure and linguistic form. The evaluators have the following options for a decision: (1) acceptance without revisions or with minor revisions, (2) major revisions, (3) return and recommend new submission in jfml, (4) return and recommend new submission in another journal or (5) rejection.

Dealing with plagiarism: Contributions are checked for plagiarism by the reviewers and by the use of software.

Transparency note: In the case of submissions by authors who are involved in the review and publication processes of the jfml (e.g. as editors or as members of the editorial board), these authors are of course excluded from the respective review and publication process. The same applies to reviews.

Blogstract

During the open-peer review process of the jfml, submitted manuscripts are publicly commented on and discussed as discussion papers. Each discussion paper is preceded by a blogstract. A blogstract is a specific abstract form in which the relevance of the study and the essential contents of the discussion paper are summarised in a generally understandable way and made comprehensible for both interdisciplinary and non-academic discourse. All users are invited to read the blogstracts at dp.jfml.org and to comment on them. This enables an interactive discussion immediately following a contribution. The authors are encouraged to participate in the moderated discussion.

In view of increasing scientific scepticism, the editors of the jfml consider it vital to make transparent the central process of scientific quality control in scientific research. The blogstracts offer a suitable introduction.

Licensing

Unless otherwise noted, all contributions appear under a Creative Commons license CC BY-SA 4.0 international. The copyright remains with the authors.

Indexation

The jfml is indexed in the databases ZDB, EZB, KVK and BASE as well as the Bibliography of Linguistic Literature (BLL), Sherpa Romeo and the Linguistik-Portal (linguistik.de) and endeavours to be included in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). In accordance with the principles of an independent scientific culture, the jfml does not participate in commercial indices such as the Impact Factor.

Long-term Archiving

The jfml contributions are archived by the University Library of Frankfurt am Main. All contributions receive a DOI and are delivered to the German National Library.

Financing & Funding

The jfml is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), hosted by the University Library Johann Christian Senckenberg Frankfurt, and is published in cooperation with the Leibniz-Institute for the German Language (IDS).

jfml-Community

The media–linguistic community has the opportunity to participate in the open peer review and production (proofreading, typesetting) of the contributions. Please feel free to contact us.