CERLIS JOURNAL

CERLIS Journal was founded in 2025 by members of the CERLIS research centre (Centre for Research on Specialised Languages) within the Department of Foreign Languages, Literatures and Cultures at the University of Bergamo (including Stefania Maci, Luisa Chierichetti, Giovanni Garofalo, Dorothee Heller, Valentina Adami, Patrizia Anesa, Gabriella Carobbio, Stefania Consonni, Larissa D'Angelo, Liana Goletiani, Danio Maldussi, Manuela Caterina Moroni, Andrés Ortega Garrido, Tiziana Roncoroni, Michele Sala, Cinzia Spinzi, Michela Tonti).

Currently, the journal is published once a year and is sponsored by the Department of Foreign Languages, Literatures and Cultures of the University of Bergamo in cooperation with the University of Bergamo.

CERLIS Journal publishes original contributions by Italian and foreign scholars and researchers, hosting works in the field of specialised languages, linguistics and discourse analysis - from a range of theoretical and methodological approaches. Specifically, CERLIS Journal publishes research on languages for specific purposes (e.g. academic discourse, business and corporation discourse, institutional discourse, tourism discourse, legal discourse, scientific discourse, medical discourse, political discourse, media discourse, social sciences discourse, and the discourse of digitalization and popularization) that addresses real-world problems both synchronically and diachronically. Within this framework the journal welcomes contributions in various areas of current inquiry as bilingualism and multilingualism, computer-mediated communication, conversation analysis, corpus linguistics, critical discourse analysis, deaf linguistics, discourse analysis and pragmatics, first and additional language learning, teaching, and use, forensic linguistics, language assessment, language planning and policies, language for special purposes, lexicography, literacies, multimodal communication, rhetoric, stylistics, and translation.

All contributions submitted to the journal for publication are assessed by the Scientific Committee, and undergo anonymous evaluation by two reviewers (at least one of whom must be external to the journal) chosen by the Scientific Committee. A list of the reviewers who contributed to the evaluation of the contributions is published every two years.

CERLIS Journal is an open access journal, and articles are published under CC BY-NCND 4.0 International license

CERLIS Journal adheres to the BOAI declaration: all users have the right to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles. This journal allows the Author(s) to hold the copyright and to retain publishing rights without restrictions and it does not charge APCs or submission charges. The PDF version of all the accepted articles and contributions can be accessed on-line and downloaded free of charge. The free on-line access to all contributions has been introduced to encourage a wider and more effective circulation of the ideas and findings originating from academic and scientific research. 

Type: double-blind peer-reviewed journal of international scope

Frequency: published once a year

Language of contributions: French, English, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish

ISSN: to be assigned

Licensed under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 International License

Volume 1 / 2025

Volume 2 / 2025

Stefania M. Maci (University of Bergamo, Italy) - Editor in Chief

Paul Baker (University of Lancaster, UK) - Deputy Editor

José Santaemilia (Universitat de València, Spain)  - Deputy Editor

Jan Engberg (Aarhus University, Denmark)  - Deputy Editor

Giuseppe Balirano (University of Napoli l'Orientale, Italy); Begoña Bellés Fortuño (Universitat Jaume I, Castellón, Spain); Samuel Bennet (Uniwersytet im Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu, Poland); Silvia Bernardini (University of Bologna, Italy); Vijay Bhatia (City University of Hong Kong, HK); Ana Bocanegra-Valle (Universidad de Cádiz, Spain); Marina Bondi (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy); Silvia Bruti (University of Pisa, Italy); Piotr Cap (University of Lodz, Poland); Gabriella Carobbio (University of Bergamo, Italy); Paola Catenaccio (University of Milan, Italy); Larissa D’Angelo (University of Bergamo, Italy); Massimiliano Demata (University of Turin, Italy); Cécile Desoutter (University of Bergamo, Italy); Elena Di Giovanni (University of Macerata, Italy); Luisanna Fodde (University of Cagliari, Italy); Miguel Fuster-Márquez (Universitat de València, Spain); Giovanni Garofalo (University of Bergamo, Italy); Maurizio Gotti (Emeritus Professor University of Bergamo, Italy); Maria Grazia Guido (University of Salento, Italy); Cristina Hanganu-Bresch (Saint Joseph's University, Philadelphia, USA); Dorothee Heller (University of Bergamo, Italy); Violeta Jurkovic (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia); Marek Łukasik (Akademia Pomorska w Slupsku, Poland); Antonio Moreno Ortiz (Universidad de Málaga, Spain); Mark McGlashan (Birmingham City University, UK); Michele Sala (University of Bergamo, Italy); Elena Semino (University of Lancaster, UK); Maria Grazia Sindoni (University of Messina, Italy); Charlotte Taylor (University of Sussex, UK); Jerome Tessuto (University of Naples, Italy); Michael J. Zerbe (York College of Pennsylvania, USA) 

Valentina Adami (University of Bergamo, Italy); Annelie Ädel (Dalarna University, Sweden); Patrizia Anesa (University of Bergamo, Italy); Ismael Arinas Pellón (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain); William Bromwich (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy); Maria Vittoria Calvi (University of Milan, Italy); Elena Carpi (University of Pisa, Italy); Daniela Cesiri (Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy); Luisa Chierichetti (University of Bergamo, Italy); Isobelle Clarke (University of Lancaster, UK); Stefania Consonni (University of Bergamo, Italy); Gabriel Cutrufello (York College of Pennsylvania, USA); Roberta Facchinetti (University of Verona, Italy); Eleonora Federici (University of Ferrara, Italy); Costas Gabrielatos (Edge Hill University, UK); Giuliana Garzone (IULM, Italy); Éva Jakusné Harnos (National University of Public Service, Budapest, Hungary); Karl-Gerhard Hempel (University of Salento, Italy); Sylvia Jaworska (University of Reading, UK); David Katan (University of Salento, Italy); Maria Kuteeva (Stockholm University, Sweden); Alessandra Lombardi (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Brescia, Italy); Danio Maldussi (University of Bergamo, Italy); Giovanna Mapelli (University of Milan, Italy); Sergio Maruenda-Bataller (Universitat de València, Spain); Anna Mauranen (University of Helsinki, Finland); Manuela Caterina Moroni (University of Bergamo, Italy); Giulia Adriana Pennisi (University of Palermo, Italy); Gina Poncini (Zayed University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates); Gianluca Pontrandolfo (University of Trieste, Italy); Ignazia Posadinu (University of Essex, UK); Chiara Preite (University of Milan, Italy); Sandrine Reboul-Touré (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, France); Alessandra Rizzo (University of Palermo, Italy), Goranka Rocco (University of Ferrara, Italy); Tiziana Roncoroni (University of Bergamo, Italy); Elisa Rossi (Université Lumière Lyon2, France); Carmen Sancho Guinda (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain); Mike Scott (Aston University, UK); Lorella Sini (Università di Pisa, Italy); Cinzia Spinzi (University of Bergamo, Italy); Massimo Sturiale (University of Catania, Italy); Michela Tonti (University of Bergamo, Italy); Félix San Vicente (University of Bologna, Italy); Elodie Vargas (Université Grenoble Alpes); Sara Vecchiato (University of Udine, Italy) 

Michele Sala

Elena Mattei

All submitted manuscripts will be subject to a double-blind review process. 

Step 1: 

The Editor-in-Chief acknowledges the receipt of the manuscript within a week of receipt. Each manuscript is first screened by the Editor-in-Chief and by the Editorial Board to determine their appropriateness to proceed to a full peer review. Manuscripts will be declined without a peer review if:

- do not comply with the CERLIS Journal scope, 

- do not meet other requirements of CERLIS Journal, or 

- there is evidence of duplication of content/ plagiarism/ fraud.

Step 2: 

All submitted manuscripts that meet the requirements for publication defined in Step 1 are assigned to one Editor of the Editorial Board and sent out for double-blind review to two reviewers who are specialists in the field. CERLIS Journal possesses its own reviewers’ database. However, potential reviewers may be suggested by the authors. The reviewers are provided with assessment instructions and a manuscript review form. The quality of reviewers’ reports is carefully controlled by the Editor-in-Chief and the Editorial Board. The reviewers are asked to complete the review process within six weeks.

If the manuscript is sent back to the author for revision and subsequent resubmission, the assigned Editor forwards the reviews to the author and provides further comments, if necessary, about what areas of the manuscript need revision. The revised and resubmitted manuscript is sent back to the reviewers for re-assessment. If there is no consensus between the reviewers on the quality of the submitted manuscript, the evaluation of a third reviewer may be sought.

The final decision to accept or reject the manuscript is based on the reviews and made by the Editor-in-Chief and the assigned Editors, normally within ten weeks from the manuscript receipt date.

A proof of the final version of the manuscript is sent to the author for revision.

CERLIS Journal expects all parties involved in the act of publishing commit to these publication ethics. Our Editorial Board will remove any work that does not meet these standards. Our ethic statements are based on COPE’s Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors.

Authors of CERLIS Journal must undertake the following responsibilities

• Originality and Plagiarism: The authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works, and if the authors have used the work and/or words of others that this has been appropriately cited or quoted.

• Multiple, Redundant or Concurrent Publication: An author should not in general publish manuscripts describing essentially the same research in more than one journal or primary publication. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable.

• Acknowledgement of Sources: Proper acknowledgment of the work of others must always be given. Authors should cite publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the reported work.

• Authorship of the Paper: Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study. All those who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors. Where there are others who have participated in certain substantive aspects of the research project, they should be acknowledged or listed as contributors. The corresponding author should ensure that all appropriate co-authors and no inappropriate co-authors are included on the paper, and that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the paper and have agreed to its submission for publication.

• Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest: All authors should disclose in their manuscript any financial or other substantive conflict of interest that might be construed to influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript. All sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed.

• Fundamental errors in published works: When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published work, it is the author’s obligation to promptly notify the journal editor or publisher and cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the paper.

Reviewers of CERLIS Journal must undertake the following responsibilities

• Contribution to Editorial Decisions: Peer review assists the editor in making editorial decisions and through the editorial communications with the author may also assist the author in improving the paper.

• Promptness: Any selected referee who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows that its prompt review will be impossible should notify the editor and excuse himself from the review process.

• Confidentiality: Any manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents. They must not be shown to or discussed with others except as authorized by the editor.

• Standards of Objectivity: Reviews should be conducted objectively. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate. Referees should express their views clearly with supporting arguments.

• Acknowledgement of Sources: Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors. Any statement that an observation, derivation, or argument had been previously reported should be accompanied by the relevant citation. A reviewer should also call to the editor's attention any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper of which they have personal knowledge.

• Disclosure and Conflict of Interest: Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage. Reviewers should not consider manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers.

Editors of CERLIS Journal must undertake the following responsibilities

• Fair play: An editor at any time evaluate manuscripts for their intellectual content without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors.

• Confidentiality: The editor and any editorial staff must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate.

• Disclosure and conflicts of interest: Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in an editor's own research without the express written consent of the author.

Archiving and Self-archiving

Authors may self-archive the post-print (ie the final draft post-refereeing) and the final published files in their institutional repositories.

See Copyright Notice - For Authors.

The files included in Cerlis Journal are freely available: no registration or subscription required to read, print, download and share the full-text of articles.

For Authors:

The Journal does not require the transfer of copyright, that is authors retain any and all rights on the content of their papers.

The Authors authorize the Publisher to issue their articles under a Creative Commons “Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND)” license.

The editorial format and the graphical layout of the texts published in print and/or online in the Cerlis journal remain the exclusive property of the Publisher. 

It is consequently forbidden, also in order not to damage the journal statistics, to upload the final published files to commercial websites, or such academic social network sites as Academia, Research Gate and the like, where the DOI code and/or the link to the issue homepage has to be inserted instead.

Self-archiving:

Authors may self-archive the post-print (ie the final draft post-refereeing) and the final published files in institutional officially recognised repositories, established and operated by universities and governments.

For Readers:

The works included in the Journal are licensed under a Creative Commons “Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND)” license.

The Journal provides immediate open access to its content. Nevertheless you may not use the material for commercial purposes or in commercial websites.

Any reference to material included in CERLIS Journal has to include the citation of the author and the source.  

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The Publisher is not responsible and shall not be held liable for improper or incorrect use of the works published in this website.

Francesca Bianchi (University of Salento, Italy)

Felisa Bermejo Calleja (University of Turin, Italy)

Gloria Cappelli (University of Pisa, Italy)

Maria Vita Cambria (University of Palermo, Italy)

Carmen Castillo Peña (University of Padua, Italy)

Ingrid Cobos López (University of Cordoba, Spain)

Dario Del Fante (University of Ferrara)

Olga Denti (University of Cagliari, Italy)

Roxanne Barbara Doerr (University of Brescia)

Javier Fernández Cruz (Universidad de Málaga, Spain)

Sabrina Francesconi (University of Trento, Italy)

Kim Grego  (University of Milan, Italy)

Carmen Gregori-Signes (University of Valencia, Italy)

John Humbley (professeur émérite à l'Université de Paris, France)

Pietro Iaia (University of Salento, Italy)

Elisabetta Lonati (University of Milan, Italy)

Rosita Maglie (University of Bari, Italy)

Elena Manca (University of Salento, Italy)

Elena Mattei (University of Bergamo)

Denise Milizia (University of Bari, Italy)

Roxanne H. Padley (Pegaso University)

María Eugenia Sainz González (University Ca' Foscari of Venice, Italy)

Laura Tommaso (University of Piemonte Orientale)

Alessandra Vicentini (University of Insubria, Italy)

Annalisa Zanola (University of Brescia)

Sole Alba Zollo (University of Napoli Federico II)

Marianna Lya Zummo (University of Palermo, Italy)