Aims:
Critical Language and Literary Studies (CLLS) introduces interdisciplinary research as its core dialectics vis-á-vis investigating literature, linguistics, and teaching foreign languages. The journal welcomes original research articles that create a progressive interdisciplinary dialogue between subjects in world literatures, literary theory and criticism, Comparative studies, linguistics, and teaching foreign languages. The submitted articles, therefore, will be assessed according to the following criteria: Literary submissions should not only adopt but also expand new tenets of literary theory and criticism in an educated and novel way in their analysis of literary texts; and, submissions pertaining to linguistics and teaching foreign languages should utilize technological approaches in their scholarly analysis.

Scope:

In literary studies, CLLS investigates literary texts as interdisciplinary fronts. To this end, the following approaches are particulary encouraged and prioritized:

World literatures and,

• Disability studies
• Continental contemporary philosophy
• Digital humanities and game studies
• Digital literary narratology
• Medical humanities
• Marginal modernism
• Ecocriticism: in particular Blue ecocriticism/humanities
• Comparative studies
• Literary Cinema
• Narratology
• Diasporic literature and marginal literature
• Cybersemiotics

In teaching and learning foreign languages the following topics are of particularly interest, emphasizing the significance of language learning as a technological, cultural prism:

• CALL: Computer Assisted Language Learning
• RALL: Robot Assisted Language Learning
• MALL: Mobile Assisted Language Learning
• Proficiency
• Tasked-based learning and teaching
• Cognitive linguistics

Linguistic explorations are encouraged and warmly welcome as long as they emphasize an interdisciplinary, international, and comparative approach.