Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie occidentale

     topic: cultures of eurasia and the americas   literatures   languages and linguistics  
  • e-ISSN 2499-1562
  • Periodicity annual
  • Permalink doi.org
  • Language es, pt, fr, en, de, ru, it, nl, ca
  • Anvur class A 10F4,10/L1,10M1,10M2
Aims & Scope

The online journal continues the tradition of the Annali di Ca’ Foscari which was founded in 1962. It is an expression of the Department of Linguistics and Comparative Cultural Studies of Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, and its aim is to represent the different disciplinary areas of the Department, which range from literary and philological studies to linguistics, language teaching, and historical studies. The geographical area covered extends from Europe to the Americas and the postcolonial world. Contributions can be made in any of the languages relating to this area, as well as in Italian and English. All contributions are subject to a double-blind peer review. The new version of the Annals welcomes essays and reviews by Italian and foreign academics, as well as by qualified young scholars, and is particularly interested in the work of new and young scholars as well as by established academics. Combining the interdisciplinary with attention to the specificities of the cultural areas which fall within its remit, the Annali occidentali – which is published annually – offers a lively and enriching space for discussion and dialogue.

General info

Boards
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    Editor-in-Chief
    Giuliana Giusti, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia    
    Stefania Sbarra, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia    
    Michela Vanon Alliata, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia    

    Literature, Culture, History Section | Advisory Board
    Malcolm Andrews, University of Kent, UK    
    Stephen Arata, University of Virginia, USA    
    Anna Paola Bonola, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italia    
    Stefan Brandt, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Österreich    
    Iain Chambers, Università degli Studi di Napoli «L'Orientale», Italia    
    Marina Ciccarini, Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata, Italia    
    Luca Crescenzi, Università degli Studi di Trento, Italia    
    Mario del Pero, Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris SciencesPo, France    
    Heinrich Detering, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Deutschland    
    Evgeny Dobrenko, The University of Sheffield, UK    
    Maria Giulia Fabi, Università degli Studi di Ferrara, Italia    
    Antonio Fernández Ferrer, Universidad de Alcalá - UAH, España    
    Francesco Fiorentino, Università degli Studi di Bari «Aldo Moro», Italia    
    Cristina Giorcelli, Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Italia    
    Luis Gómez Canseco, Universidat de Huelva, España    
    Stephen Greenblatt, Harvard University, USA    
    Sandra Guardini Teixeira Vasconcelos, Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil    
    Gunilla Hermansson, Göteborgs Universitet, Sweden    
    Fátima Marinho, Universidade do Porto, Portugal    
    Jean-Pierre Naugrette, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3, France    
    Ryszard Nycz, Uniwersytet Jagielloński Kraków, Polska    
    Luca Pietromarchi, Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Italia    
    Paolo Tortonese, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3, France    

    Literature, Culture, History Section | Editorial Board
    Magda Campanini, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia    
    Vanessa Castagna, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia    
    Massimo Ciaravolo, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia    
    Simone Francescato, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia    
    David Newbold, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia    
    Adrián J. Sáez García, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia    
    Massimo Stella, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia    
    Gerardo Tocchini, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia    
    Raffaella Vassena, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italia    
    Daniele Vecchiato, Università degli Studi di Padova, Italia    
    Rotraud von Kulessa, Universität Augsburg, Deutschland    

    Linguistics Section | Advisory Board
    Adriana Belletti, Università degli Studi di Siena, Italia    
    Davide Bertocci, Università degli Studi di Padova, Italia    
    Carlo Cecchetto, Università di Milano Bicocca, Italia    
    Guglielmo Cinque, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia    
    Francesco Costantini, Università degli Studi di Udine, Italia    
    Roberta D’Alessandro, Universiteit Utrecht, Nederland    
    Mariapia D’Angelo, Università degli Studi «G. d’Annunzio» Chieti-Pescara, Italia    
    Anna Maria Di Sciullo, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada    
    Caterina Donati, Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7, France    
    Odd Einar Haugen, Universitetet i Bergen, Kongeriket Norge    
    Maria Teresa Guasti, Università di Milano Bicocca, Italia    
    Adam Ledgeway, University of Cambridge, UK    
    Carla Marello, Università degli Studi di Torino, Italia    
    Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, University of Arizona, USA    
    Luigi Rizzi, Università di Siena, Italia    
    Sergio Scalise, Università di Bologna, Italia    
    Antonella Sorace, University of Edinburgh, UK    
    Avellina Suñer, Universitat de Girona, España    

    Linguistics | Editoral board
    Chiara Branchini, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia    
    Laura Brugè, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia    
    Marina Buzzoni, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia    
    Alessandra Giorgi, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia    
    Marie-Christine Jamet, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia    
    Nicola Munaro, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia    
    Sílvia Perpiñán Hinarejos, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Espanya    
    Lori Repetti, Stony Brook University, New York, USA    
    Graziano Serragiotto, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia    

    Direttore responsabile
    Giuseppe Sofo, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia    

Proposal / Submission

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APCs

The article processing charges are regulated by the Publisher. For more information please visit: Publish with us.

Peer review

Every article published by ECF was accepted for publication by no less than two qualified reviewers as a result of a process of anonymous reviewing (double-blind peer review). The reviewers are independent of the authors and not affiliated with the same institution.

The Journal’s Editor-in-Chief guarantees the proper execution of the peer review process for every article published in the Journal.

Revision policies for the different sections:

  • Complete volume/issue: subject to peer review
  • Monographs/essays/articles: subject to peer review
  • Introductions, prefaces: no peer review
  • Reviews: no peer review
  • Editorials: no peer review
For a complete description of the process, please visit: Scientific certification.

Archive
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Editorial Guidelines
  • listEditorial Guidelines

    To be published all manuscripts must comply with the following guidelines. In case of blatant violation of the guidelines, the editor (ECF) can suspend at any time the manuscript’s publication.

    The instructions for the preparation of your manuscript, its abstract and its bibliography, are an integral part of the requirements for the manuscript submission. They are downloadable from the menu ‘Publish with us’ at the item ‘Editorial Guidelines’.

    • Manuscript Preparation
    • Document Basic Structure
    • Document Composition
    • Source Citation System
    • General Bibliography


    To find out more, please contact Edizioni Ca’ Foscari’s editorial staff at ecf@unive.it.

Call
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    Call for Submissions for Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie occidentale (no. 57/2023)

    Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie occidentale is an open-access annual online journal of double blind peer-reviewed academic articles, which was first published in 1962. It is international in outlook, and accepts contributions from established Italian and foreign academics. It’s indexed in DOAJ, ERIH Plus, MLA e Worldcat. 

    The Literature and History Section of the journal welcomes contributions on European, North and South American, and Russian and Postcolonial literature, culture and history in English, French, Portuguese, German, Spanish, and Russian that engage with broad questions of literature, history, and culture across Europe, North and South America. The journal also welcomes articles on Postcolonial Studies. Editors will evaluate whether to accept contributions in other languages on the grounds of their scientific and international importance.

    The Linguistic Section of the journal welcomes contributions addressing language as a biological and social phenomenon in the synchronic and diachronic, as well as theoretical, experimental, textual, and educational perspectives. Contributions may be in Italian or English. Editors will consider contributions in other languages of high scientific and international relevance.

    All articles (max. 40,000 strokes) should be accompanied by an abstract in English (1,500 strokes, including spaces). All abstracts should be followed by 5 keywords and a short biographical note in English (1,000 strokes, including spaces).

    In addition to full-length articles, the journal also publishes reviews of significant recent or forthcoming works, in Italian or in English (maximum two pages per review).
    Each image must have a caption with essential information. You need to obtain copyright permission to publish. You should write: “use is made for non commercial research purposes”.

    Proposals will be evaluated by the Editors on the basis of their pertinence to the research areas covered by the Department.

    Submission Information
    Your final manuscript should adhere to our formatting and Style Guide which can be found at this link: https://edizionicafoscari.unive.it/media/pdf/pubblicare-con-noi/ecf_norme_en.pdf.

    The deadline for abstracts, 5 keywords and a short biography is January 15th 2023.
    The deadline for the articles is March 31st 2023.

    The Editors
    Giuliana Giusti
    Stefania Sbarra 
    Michela Vanon Alliata

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    https://ecfpeerflow.unive.it/abstracts/form/journal/14/257   

     

Policy
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    Ethical Code of Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie occidentale

    Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie occidentale is a peer-reviewed scientific journal whose policy is inspired by the COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) Ethical Code. See the Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors.

    Publisher’s responsibilities  

    The Publisher must provide the Journal with adequate resources and the guidance of experts, in order to carry out its role in the most professional way, aiming at the highest quality standard.

    The Publisher must have a written agreement that defines the relationship with the owner of the Journal and/or the Editor-in-Chief. The agreement must comply with the Code of Behavior for Publishers of Scientific Journals, as established by COPE.

    The relationship among the Editor-in-Chief, the Advisory Board and the Publisher is based on the principle of publishing independence. 

    Editors’ responsibilities 

    The Editor-in-Chief and the Advisory Board of Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie occidentale alone are responsible for the decision to publish the articles submitted.

    Submitted articles, after having been checked for plagiarism by means of the anti-plagiarism software Compilatio that is used by the University and is made available to us, will be sent to at least two reviewers. Final acceptance presumes the implementation of possible amendments, as required by the reviewers and under the supervision of the Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie occidentale Editor-in-Chief.

    The Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie occidentale Editor-in-Chief and Advisory Board must evaluate each submitted paper in compliance with the Journalʼs policy, i.e. exclusively on the basis of its scientific content, without discrimination of race, sex, gender, creed, ethnic origin, citizenship, or the scientific, academic and political position of the Authors. 

    Allegations of misconduct

    If the Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie occidentale Editor-in-Chief and Advisory Board notice (or receive notifications of) mistakes or inaccuracies, conflict of interest or plagiarism in a published article, they will immediately warn the Author and the Publisher and will undertake the necessary actions to resolve the issue. They will do their best to correct the published content whenever they are informed that it contains scientific errors or that the authors have committed unethical or illegal acts in connection with their published work. If necessary, they will withdraw the article or publish a recantation.

    All complaints are handled in accordance with the guidelines published by the COPE.

    Concerns and complaints must be addressed to the following e-mail ecf_support@unive.it. The letter should contain the following information:

    • complainant’s personal information;
    • title, author(s), publication date, DOI;
    • complaint(s);
    • declaration that the complainant has no conflict of interest, or declaration of an actual or potential conflict of interest.

    Authors’ responsibilities

    Stylesheet

    Authors must follow the Guidelines for Authors to be downloaded from the Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie occidentale website.

    No multiple submissions

    Authors must explicitly state that their work is original in all its parts and that the submitted paper has not been previously published, nor submitted to other journals, until the entire evaluation process is completed. Since no paper gets published without significant revision, earlier dissemination in conference proceedings or working papers does not preclude consideration for publication, but Authors are expected to fully disclose publication/dissemination of the material in other closely related publications, so that the overlap can be evaluated by the Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie occidentale Editor-in-Chief. 

    Authorship

    Authors are strongly encouraged to use their ORCID iD when submitting a manuscript. This will ensure the authors’ visibility and correct citation of their work.

    Authorship must be correctly attributed; all those who have given a substantial contribution to the design, organisation and accomplishment of the research the article is based on, must be indicated as Co-Authors. Please ensure that: the order of the author names is correct; the names of all authors are present and correctly spelled, and that affiliations are up-to-date.

    The respective roles of each co-author should be described in a footnote. The statement that all authors have approved the final version should be included in the disclosure.

    Conflicts of interest and financing

    Authors, under their own responsibility, must avoid any conflict of interest affecting the results obtained or the interpretations suggested. The Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie occidentale Editor-in-Chief will give serious and careful consideration to suggestions of cases in which, due to possible conflict of interest, an Author’s work should not be reviewed by a specific scholar. Authors should indicate any financing agency or the project the article stems from. 

    Quotations

    Authors must see to it that all works consulted be properly quoted. If works or words of others are used, they have to be properly paraphrased or duly quoted. Quotations between “double quotes” (or «angled quotation marks» if the text is written in a language other than English) must reproduce the exact wording of the source; under their own responsibility, Authors should carefully refrain from disguising a restyling of the source’s wording, as though it was the original formulation. 

    Any form of excessive, inappropriate or unnecessary self-citation, as well as any other form of citation manipulation, are strongly discouraged.

    Ethical Committee

    Whenever required, the research protocols must be authorised in advance by the Ethical Committee of Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. 

    Emendations

    When Authors find a mistake or an inaccuracy in their own article, they must immediately warn the Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie occidentale Editor-in-Chief, providing all the information needed to make the due adjustments. 

    Reviewers’ responsibilities

    Goal

    By means of the peer-review procedure, reviewers assist the Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie occidentale Editor-in-Chief and Advisory Board in taking decisions on the articles submitted. They are expected to offer the Authors suggestions as to possible adjustments aimed at improving their contribution submission. 

    Timing and conflicts of interest

    If a reviewer does not feel up to the task of doing a given review, or if she/he is unable to read the work within the agreed schedule, she/he should notify the Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie occidentale Editor-in-Chief. Reviewers must not accept articles for which there is a conflict of interest due to previous contributions or to a competition with a disclosed author (or with an author they believe to have identified). 

    Confidentiality

    The content of the reviewed work must be considered confidential and must not be used without explicit authorisation by the Author, who is to be contacted via the editor-in-chief. Any confidential information obtained during the peer review process should not be used for other purposes.

    Collaborative attitude

    Reviewers should see themselves not as adversaries but as advocates for the field. Any comment must be done in a collaborative way and from an objective point of view. Reviewers should clearly motivate their comments and keep in mind the Golden Rule of Reviewing: “Review for others as you would have others review for you”. 

    Plagiarism

    Reviewers should report any similarity or overlapping of the work under analysis with other works known to them.