About the Journal

Focus and Scope

Alphabet publishes articles on language, literary and cultural studies. The journal accepts manuscripts on fields of studies (not limited to) as

  • language
  • literature
  • cultural studies
  • post-colonialism
  • popular culture
  • diaspora, multiculturalism, linguistics
  • discourse analysis, media studies, corpus analysis, digital humanities, sociolinguistics
  • language and gender
  • semantics; syntax
  • pragmatics
  • media studies
  • film studies
  • digital culture
  • phonology
  • morphology
  • anthropolinguistics
  • linguistic landscape
  • fandom
  • semiotics
  • folklore
  • diaspora

Peer Review Process

All manuscripts submitted to this journal must follow focus and scope, and author guidelines of this journal. The submitted manuscripts must address scientific merit or novelty appropriate to the focus and scope. All manuscripts must be free from plagiarism contents. All authors are suggested to use plagiarism detection software to do the similarity checking. Editors check the plagiarism detection of articles in this journal by using a Turnitin software.

The research article submitted to this journal will be single blind reviewed at least 2 (two) or more expert reviewers. The reviewers give scientific valuable comments improving the contents of the manuscript.

Final decision of articles acceptance will be made by Editors according to reviewers comments. Publication of accepted articles including the sequence of published articles will be made by Editor in Chief by considering sequence of accepted date and geographical distribution of authors as well as thematic issue.

Publication Frequency

Alphabet is published biannually in April and October with six articles per issue.

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

This journal is open access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to users or / institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to full text articles in this journal without asking prior permission from the publisher or author. This is in accordance with Budapest Open Access Initiative

Alphabet: A Biannual Academic Journal on Language, Literary, and Cultural Studies

A Biannual Academic Journal on Language, Literary, and Cultural Studies


p-ISSN: 2615-630X | e-ISSN: 2615-6296

Alphabet is an open-access, biannual journal aimed at advancing and disseminating the state-of-the-art knowledge on language, literary and cultural studies. It instills the etymological spirit of the word alphabetos, which means learning or lore acquired through reading. Reading, in this context, shall be understood as a process of critically examining or questioning the existing ideas and issues to offer alternative answers. In choosing articles for publication, Alphabet prefers manuscripts that present new ideas in the disciplines, originated from empirical, theoretical, and methodological research within both a single discipline and those that sub- or multi-disciplines. It encourages a high standard of scholarship, written in clear and straightforward organization.

Policy of Screening for Plagiarism

All manuscripts must be free from plagiarism contents. All authors are suggested to use plagiarism detection software to do the similarity checking. Editors check the plagiarism detection of articles in this journal by using a Turnitin software.

Journal History

Alphabet aims at advancing and disseminating the state-of-the-art knowledge on language, literary and cultural studies. It instills the etymological spirit of the word alphabetos, which means learning or lore acquired through reading. Reading, in this context, shall be understood as a process of critically examining or questioning the existing ideas and issues to offer alternative answers. In choosing articles for publication, Alphabet prefers manuscripts that present new ideas in the disciplines, originated from empirical, theoretical, and methodological research within both a single discipline and those that sub- or multi-disciplines. It encourages a high standard of scholarship, written in clear and straightforward organization. This journal is abstracted and indexed by Crossref, Sinta, Google Scholar, Garuda, Moraref, Dimensions, and Indonesia One Search (IOS) and has been accredited by National Journal Accreditation (ARJUNA) Managed by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology, The Republic of Indonesia in the Fourth Grade of SINTA (SINTA 4).