Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali

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Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali (QULSO), is an open-access peer-reviewed journal providing a forum for scholarly debate for Linguistics and Oriental Studies researchers in Italy and abroad. The journal publishes articles relating to the analysis of natural language in its various aspects, paying special attention to the following fields of inquiry: theoretical models of language; the description of linguistic systems; the linguistic continuum in historical, typological and sociolinguistic perspectives; linguistic structures of languages of the Orient and their historical evolution; experimental linguistics (psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics) and applied linguistics; pragmatics and semantics; communication. The journal publishes contributions concerning the analysis of the various aspects of language, with specific reference to the following thematic areas: Analyses and models of natural languages. The structure of natural languages and the analysis and description of linguistic systems: linguistic models and the methodological bases of linguistic research. Linguistic subsystems: phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, lexicon, semantics, pragmatics, also with reference to specific linguistic areas (Romance varieties, Germanic languages, Slavic languages, the Balkan Sprachbund, Semitic languages, Indo-Aryan languages, Far Eastern languages). The linguistic continuum. Historical linguistics: analyses and theories of linguistic change and the historical evolution of languages: models and methodological basis of reconstruction. Typological and functionalist models in linguistics. Linguistic typology and classification of languages. Models of linguistic change. Sociolinguistics, Ethnolinguistics. The structure of Oriental languages and their historical evolution. The comparative method and the description of linguistic systems with reference to oriental languages, ancient and modern. Methodological aspects, with reference to relations between languages and dialects and to the use of sources, including onomastic and toponomastic ones. The problem of literary languages both at-tested in inscriptions and currently documented. The historical evolution of oriental languages both in their geographical distribution and in their various levels of use. Issues related to the edition of texts. Languages and texts. The analysis and interpretation of texts in modern and ancient languages, with particular attention to textual genres and specialist languages. The literary text; the stylistic levels of language in their sociocultural context of production and fruition. Stylistic, discourse and pragmatic analysis for the purposes of translation. Corpus linguistics. Construction, filing and analysis of linguistic corpora. Electronic lexicons and corpora. Psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics and language education. Language acquisition and linguistic disorders. Second languages and Italian as L2. Aphasias, linguistic deficits. Linguistic education. Language teaching. Language policies. Linguistic communication: its processes and working. Social semiotics. Mass communication: con-cepts and models.

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