Focus and Scope

Alterium: Journal of Language, Literature, and Culture is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes original research articles, theoretical studies, and critical essays in the fields of language, literature, and culture. The journal emphasizes interdisciplinary approaches and contemporary perspectives in addressing the dynamic transformation of linguistic practices, literary expressions, and cultural phenomena in global, digital, and multicultural contexts.

The scope of the journal includes, but is not limited to, the following areas:

  1. Contemporary Language and Linguistics
    • Applied linguistics (language teaching, language planning, and language policy)
    • Sociolinguistics and pragmatics in digital societies
    • Critical discourse analysis and media studies
    • Corpus linguistics and digital humanities
    • Language, identity, and globalization
  2. Literature and Modern Literary Studies
    • Contemporary literary criticism (postmodernism, postcolonialism, feminism, ecocriticism, prophetic literature)
    • Digital literature and cyber literature
    • Literary adaptation into new media (film, web series, social media)
    • Intertextuality and reader-response studies
    • Literature as a reflection of social, political, and humanitarian issues
  3. Cultural and Cultural Studies
    • Cultural studies and popular culture practices
    • Identity, ideology, and representation in contemporary culture
    • Digital culture and new media
    • Globalization, cultural hybridity, and locality
    • Local wisdom in modern cultural perspectives
  4. Interdisciplinary Approaches
    • Language, literature, and culture in relation to philosophy, anthropology, communication, and media studies
    • Digital humanities
    • Critical perspectives on contemporary issues such as ecology, gender, technological disruption, and humanitarian crises

This journal accepts manuscripts in English and Indonesian that contribute to the advancement of knowledge by offering originality, novelty, and critical insights into contemporary issues in language, literature, and cultural studies.