2026
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İnce Memed 4’te Halk İnancı Karşısında Otorite, İttifak ve Gerilim
Ljudskanov’un Makine Çevirisine Yönelik Yaklaşımı ve Alanyazındaki İzdüşümleri
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Mind, Body, and Perceptual Modernity in Virginia Woolf’s “Kew Gardens” and “Street Haunting”
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Student Opinions of Group Work in Translation Courses: An Examination within the Department of English Language and Literature (ELL)
Semantik Prozodi Üzerine Bir İnceleme: Türkçede /+lIk/ Türetim Biçimbiriminin Anlamsal Görünümleri
Epistemic Injustice and the Credibility Deficit of Women’s War Testimony: Pat Barker’s The Women of Troy and Kristin Hannah’s The Women
Whiteness and Allyship in Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely’s All American Boys
Eros’un Ölümü ve Ötekinin Tasfiyesi: Zebercet ve Kemal’in Ontolojik Krizi Üzerine Bir Byung-Chul Han Okuması
Vita Sackville-West’s All Passion Spent as an Example of the Reifungsroman
Weber’in Meşruiyet Tipolojisi Çerçevesinde Mihri Hatun’un “Saltanat” Redifli Kasidelerinde İktidarın Meşruiyet Temsili
The Rise of the Woman Poet: The Anxiety of Authorship in Thomas Hardy’s “An Imaginative Woman”
Geleneksel Türk Motiflerinin Deri Ürün Tasarımında Kullanımı ve Göstergebilimsel Çözümlemesi
On the Threshold of Feminism: Gender, Autonomy, and the Limits of Resistance in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre
Türkçede Konuşma İlkeleri İhlâlleri: İş Birliği İlkesi Çözümlemesi
Mes’ûd-i Sa’d-i Selmân’ın Şiirlerinde Mihrican ve Nevruz
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The Plight of Women in Alexander Kuprin’s Yama (The Pit): Social Decay and Personal Despair
Siyasal Söylem Üretiminde Göstergeler, Anlam ve İdeolojik Temsil
Orwell’in Antiarşivcisi: 1984’te Kayıt Tahrifi, Tanıklık ve Bilgi ile Eylem Arasındaki Ayrışma
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Shifting Meanings, Shifting Borders: The Evolution, Current Uses and Translation of Migration Terms in Türkiye
Fabricating the Docile Subject: A Foucaultian Analysis of the Pedagogical Panopticon in La lengua de las mariposas
Kutsal Ailenin Tekinsiz Dehlizleri: Aile Çay Bahçesi Romanının Psikanalitik Bir Okuması
Şiir, Deneyim ve Kurmaca: Cemal Süreya'nın "Sizin Hiç Babanız Öldü mü?" Şiiri Üzerine
María Bonete Escoto’nun “Lunes” Öyküsüne Eko-Gotik Bir Yaklaşım
Codex Cumanicus’ta Kişi Adları Üzerine Bir İnceleme
Tevfik Fikret’in Sühâ ve Pervîn Şiirinin Göstergebilim ve Kavramsal Sanat Perspektifinden Yeniden Okunması
“Susuyorum Öyleyse Var’ım”: Özdemir Asaf’ın Şiirlerinde Biliş, Benlik ve Özgür İrade
Anti-Kahramanın Gri Bilgeye Dönüşümü Ve Sinema: Baba Filmi
Houellebecq’in Soumission Romani Üzerine Psiko-Sosyolojik Bir Okuma
Placement Verbs in Southern Altai: Lexical Boundaries and a Denominal Locatum Verb
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Publication Ethics
• The publication processes of Söylem Journal of Philology are based on the unbiased production and sharing of information. In the realization of scientific production, all publication stakeholders (publisher, editors, authors, referees and readers) must comply with ethical principles. In this context, the publication ethics and open access policy of the journal are in accordance with the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and related policies (For example, "Code of Conduct for Journal Editors”).
• If any irregularities are detected in the article, this situation will be officially notified to the institution where the article writer works and the article will be rejected. The journal has the right to ask authors to expose the analysis results, according to reports issued by editors or referees.
Publisher's Ethical Responsibilities
• The publisher only carries out legal proceedings and does not interfere with the evaluation and publication process. The relationship between the publisher and the editorial board is based on editorial independence.
Ethical Responsibilities of the Editorial Board
• The editorial board of the journal is responsible for every article submitted to the journal. This responsibility requires making decisions independently without considering personal gain. Only purpose is to consider the public interest.
All decisions taken by the editors are independent of the publisher and other persons and organizations.
• The work done by the editorial board of our journal is as follows:
• To ensure the determination and implementation of journal policies such as publication, blind review, evaluation process, ethical principles.
• To protect the copyright of authors.
• To take precautions regarding intellectual property rights, unscientific-unethical behaviors, plagiarism, “citation gangs” during the publishing process.
• To prepare a referee guide that includes the information that the referees will need in the evaluation phase.
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• They ensure the required information of referees, authors, researchers, practitioners and readers. They try to act according to the principles of clarity in matters that require correction and explanation during the publication process.
• While making positive or negative decisions about the articles, they consider the original value of the articles, their contribution to the field, the validity and reliability of the research method, the clarity of the expression and the journal's purpose and scope.
• They apply the policies of blind review and evaluation process, keep the identity information of the referees and authors confidential, and ensure that each article is evaluated objectively and in time.
• They take into account the expertise of field editors and referees in article reviews.
• They consider whether there is a conflict of interest or a common interest between editors, referees and authors.
• They take care to keep the referee pool large and up-to-date.
• They ensure that the journal publishing processes are operated in accordance with the publication policies and guidelines.
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• They pay attention to the protection of human and animal rights in the articles. They care about documenting the express consent of the participants of the article. If there is no ethics committee approval regarding the participants of the article and if the permission is not obtained in experimental research, they reject the article.
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• Editors protect the intellectual property rights of the published articles and defend the rights of the journal and authors in case of violation. They take the necessary measures to ensure that the content of the published articles does not infringe the intellectual property rights of other publications. They check them for originality-similarity.
• They take into account the consistent criticism of the articles published in the journal, and give the right to reply to the authors of the criticized articles.
• They also consider the studies involving negative results.
• They examine the complaints submitted to the journal and make the necessary explanations.
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• During the article evaluation process of the journal, the principle of double-blind refereeing is applied, in which the authors do not know the referees. Referees cannot communicate directly with authors. Article evaluation forms and correction requests with the notes specified on the text are forwarded to the authors by the editors through the journal management system.
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• Söylem Journal of Philology is a scientific-peer-reviewed electronic journal that is published as open access on the DergiPark platform offered by TUBITAK in three-month periods in Martch, June, September and December, every four issues per year. Special issues can be published with the decision of the editorial board.
• In the journal, original scientific studies in the fields of linguistics, philosophy of language, literary research, literary theory, comparative literature, literary criticism, semiotics, narrative science, translation studies, philosophy of literature, sociology of literature and scientific book reviews can be published.
• In order to draw attention to the studies in the fields of language, linguistics and literature research / analysis, our journal gives a “Discourse Philology Award” to the author of a study every year by the decision of the jury.
• Our journal publishes articles written in Turkish or English. English abstract is necessary for Turkish articles and Turkish abstract for English articles.
• Any responsibility regarding the content of the studies published in our journal belongs to the authors.
• Editorial board has the right not to publish the submitted works. They can make corrections in published works.
• Our journal supports the open access policy. It allows its readers to read, download, copy and distribute the published articles with the condition that it is not commercial.
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