<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:center;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:13.33px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:transparent"><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:center;font-family:georgia,serif"><font color="#000000" size="4">Pakistan Journal of Language Studies (PJLS)<br>Department of Applied Linguistics<br>Government College University, Faisalabad, Pakistan</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:center;font-family:georgia,serif"><font color="#000000" size="4"> Submission Deadline: January 10th, 2018.</font><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:center;font-family:georgia,serif"><font face="georgia,serif" size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="margin:0px"><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font><strong><span style="margin:0px;font-weight:400"></span></strong></span></span></font></div></div><div class="gmail-m_-9058705088385742988gmail-m_-4716852433461238686gmail-m_6928778806585495075gmail_signature" style="font:400 13.33px/19.99px Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;text-align:left;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;overflow:visible;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:100%;background-color:transparent" dir="ltr"><font face="georgia,serif" size="4" style="font:400 18.06px/27.09px georgia,serif;overflow:visible;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:100%"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><div dir="ltr">

</div><p style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;line-height:normal" dir="ltr"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:16px"><span style="text-align:center;text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;display:inline;white-space:normal;float:none;background-color:transparent"><font color="#000000">Dear
Researchers,</font></span></span></p><p style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;line-height:normal" dir="ltr"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:16px"><font color="#000000">We
welcome the authors across the globe to publish their research papers,
empirical reports and reviews on the following emergent and challenging issues
in the area of Applied Linguistics in <b>Pakistan Journal of Language Studies
(PJLS). </b><span style="margin:0px">PJLS is<b> </b></span>an
annual peer reviewed journal. All the submitted papers are acknowledged quickly
and reviewed as rapidly as possible. They are initially scrutinized by the
editors who decide whether they meet certain basic standards with respect to their
length, presentation, clarity and level of scholarship. The papers that pass
through this initial scrutiny are sent out to referees for final selection. We
follow double blind peer-review system, every paper is sent for review to
national as well as international experts. The reviewers' and authors'
identities remain anonymous. </font></span></p><div dir="ltr">

</div><p style="margin:16px 0px 13.33px;line-height:normal" dir="ltr"><font color="#000000"><b>Topics of interest</b></font></p><div dir="ltr">

</div><p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 48px" dir="ltr"><font color="#000000"><span style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">a)</font><span style="margin:0px;line-height:normal;font-size:9.33px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:100%">      </span></span></span><span style="margin:0px" dir="LTR"></span><span style="margin:0px"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Corpus Linguistics</font></span></font></p><div dir="ltr">

</div><p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 48px" dir="ltr"><font color="#000000"><span style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px"><font size="3">b)</font><span style="margin:0px;line-height:normal;font-size:9.33px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:100%">     
</span></span></span><span style="margin:0px" dir="LTR"></span><span style="margin:0px"><font size="3">World Englishes</font></span></font></p><div dir="ltr">

</div><p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 48px" dir="ltr"><font color="#000000"><span style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px"><font size="3">c)</font><span style="margin:0px;line-height:normal;font-size:9.33px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:100%">     
</span></span></span><span style="margin:0px" dir="LTR"></span><span style="margin:0px"><font size="3">Pakistani English</font></span></font></p><div dir="ltr">

</div><p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 48px" dir="ltr"><font color="#000000"><span style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px"><font size="3">d)</font><span style="margin:0px;line-height:normal;font-size:9.33px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:100%">    
</span></span></span><span style="margin:0px" dir="LTR"></span><span style="margin:0px"><font size="3">Language Testing & Evaluation</font></span></font></p><div dir="ltr">

</div><p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 48px" dir="ltr"><font color="#000000"><span style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px"><font size="3">e)</font><span style="margin:0px;line-height:normal;font-size:9.33px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:100%">     
</span></span></span><span style="margin:0px" dir="LTR"></span><span style="margin:0px"><font size="3">Syntax </font></span></font></p><div dir="ltr">

</div><p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 48px" dir="ltr"><font color="#000000"><span style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px"><font size="3">f)</font><span style="margin:0px;line-height:normal;font-size:9.33px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:100%">      
</span></span></span><span style="margin:0px" dir="LTR"></span><span style="margin:0px"><font size="3">Morphology</font></span></font></p><div dir="ltr">

</div><p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 48px" dir="ltr"><font color="#000000"><span style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px"><font size="3">g)</font><span style="margin:0px;line-height:normal;font-size:9.33px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:100%">     
</span></span></span><span style="margin:0px" dir="LTR"></span><span style="margin:0px"><font size="3">Systemic Functional Linguistics</font></span></font></p><div dir="ltr">

</div><p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 48px" dir="ltr"><font color="#000000"><span style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px"><font size="3">h)</font><span style="margin:0px;line-height:normal;font-size:9.33px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:100%">     
</span></span></span><span style="margin:0px" dir="LTR"></span><span style="margin:0px"><font size="3">Phonetics and Phonology </font></span></font></p><div dir="ltr">

</div><p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 48px" dir="ltr"><font color="#000000"><span style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px"><font size="3">i)</font><span style="margin:0px;line-height:normal;font-size:9.33px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:100%">       
</span></span></span><span style="margin:0px" dir="LTR"></span><span style="margin:0px"><font size="3">Lexicology and Lexicography </font></span></font></p><div dir="ltr">

</div><p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 48px" dir="ltr"><font color="#000000"><span style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px"><font size="3">j)</font><span style="margin:0px;line-height:normal;font-size:9.33px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:100%">       
</span></span></span><span style="margin:0px" dir="LTR"></span><span style="margin:0px"><font size="3">Discourse Analysis </font></span></font></p><div dir="ltr">

</div><p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 48px" dir="ltr"><font color="#000000"><span style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px"><font size="3">k)</font><span style="margin:0px;line-height:normal;font-size:9.33px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:100%">     
</span></span></span><span style="margin:0px" dir="LTR"></span><span style="margin:0px"><font size="3">Semantics</font></span></font></p><div dir="ltr">

</div><p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 48px" dir="ltr"><font color="#000000"><span style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px"><font size="3">l)</font><span style="margin:0px;line-height:normal;font-size:9.33px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:100%">       
</span></span></span><span style="margin:0px" dir="LTR"></span><span style="margin:0px"><font size="3">Stylistics </font></span></font></p><div dir="ltr">

</div><p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 48px" dir="ltr"><font color="#000000"><span style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px"><font size="3">m)</font><span style="margin:0px;line-height:normal;font-size:9.33px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:100%">   
</span></span></span><span style="margin:0px" dir="LTR"></span><span style="margin:0px"><font size="3">Pragmatics </font></span></font></p><div dir="ltr">

</div><p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 48px" dir="ltr"><font color="#000000"><span style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px"><font size="3">n)</font><span style="margin:0px;line-height:normal;font-size:9.33px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:100%">     
</span></span></span><span style="margin:0px" dir="LTR"></span><span style="margin:0px"><font size="3">Anthropological Linguistics </font></span></font></p><div dir="ltr">

</div><p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 48px" dir="ltr"><font color="#000000"><span style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px"><font size="3">o)</font><span style="margin:0px;line-height:normal;font-size:9.33px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:100%">     
</span></span></span><span style="margin:0px" dir="LTR"></span><span style="margin:0px"><font size="3">Cognitive Linguistics </font></span></font></p><div dir="ltr">

</div><p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 48px" dir="ltr"><font color="#000000"><span style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px"><font size="3">p)</font><span style="margin:0px;line-height:normal;font-size:9.33px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:100%">     
</span></span></span><span style="margin:0px" dir="LTR"></span><span style="margin:0px"><font size="3">Corpus Linguistics </font></span></font></p><div dir="ltr">

</div><p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 48px" dir="ltr"><font color="#000000"><span style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px"><font size="3">q)</font><span style="margin:0px;line-height:normal;font-size:9.33px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:100%">     
</span></span></span><span style="margin:0px" dir="LTR"></span><span style="margin:0px"><font size="3">Computational Linguistics </font></span></font></p><div dir="ltr">

</div><p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 48px" dir="ltr"><font color="#000000"><span style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px"><font size="3">r)</font><span style="margin:0px;line-height:normal;font-size:9.33px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:100%">      
</span></span></span><span style="margin:0px" dir="LTR"></span><span style="margin:0px"><font size="3">Psycholinguistics </font></span></font></p><div dir="ltr">

</div><p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 48px" dir="ltr"><font color="#000000"><span style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px"><font size="3">s)</font><span style="margin:0px;line-height:normal;font-size:9.33px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:100%">      
</span></span></span><span style="margin:0px" dir="LTR"></span><span style="margin:0px"><font size="3">Sociolinguistics </font></span></font></p><div dir="ltr">

</div><p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 48px" dir="ltr"><font color="#000000"><span style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px"><font size="3">t)</font><span style="margin:0px;line-height:normal;font-size:9.33px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:100%">      
</span></span></span><span style="margin:0px" dir="LTR"></span><span style="margin:0px"><font size="3">Language Planning </font></span></font></p><div dir="ltr">

</div><p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 48px" dir="ltr"><font color="#000000"><span style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px"><font size="3">u)</font><span style="margin:0px;line-height:normal;font-size:9.33px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:100%">     
</span></span></span><span style="margin:0px" dir="LTR"></span><span style="margin:0px"><font size="3">Language Teaching </font></span></font></p><div dir="ltr">

</div><p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 48px" dir="ltr"><font color="#000000"><span style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px"><font size="3">v)</font><span style="margin:0px;line-height:normal;font-size:9.33px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:100%">     
</span></span></span><span style="margin:0px" dir="LTR"></span><span style="margin:0px"><font size="3">Language Contact and Language Change </font></span></font></p><div dir="ltr">

</div><p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 48px" dir="ltr"><font color="#000000"><span style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px"><font size="3">w)</font><span style="margin:0px;line-height:normal;font-size:9.33px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:100%">   
</span></span></span><span style="margin:0px" dir="LTR"></span><span style="margin:0px"><font size="3">Language Documentation </font></span></font></p><div dir="ltr">

</div><p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 48px" dir="ltr"><font color="#000000"><span style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px"><font size="3">x)</font><span style="margin:0px;line-height:normal;font-size:9.33px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:100%">     
</span></span></span><span style="margin:0px" dir="LTR"></span><span style="margin:0px"><font size="3">Language Endangerment </font></span></font></p><div dir="ltr">

</div><p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 48px" dir="ltr"><font color="#000000"><span style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px"><font size="3">y)</font><span style="margin:0px;line-height:normal;font-size:9.33px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:100%">     
</span></span></span><span style="margin:0px" dir="LTR"></span><span style="margin:0px"><font size="3">Translation Studies</font></span></font></p><div dir="ltr">

</div><p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 48px" dir="ltr"><font color="#000000"><span style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px"><font size="3">z)</font><span style="margin:0px;line-height:normal;font-size:9.33px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:100%">     
</span></span></span><span style="margin:0px" dir="LTR"></span><span style="margin:0px"><font size="3">Language and Gender</font></span></font></p><div dir="ltr">

</div><p style="margin:16px 0px" dir="ltr"><b><span style="margin:0px"><font color="#000000" size="3">Guidelines
for authors</font></span></b></p><div dir="ltr">

</div><p style="margin:16px 0px" dir="ltr"><span style="margin:0px"><font color="#000000" size="3">The
authors should submit their papers according to the following guidelines:</font></span></p><div dir="ltr">

</div><div dir="ltr"><ul type="disc">
 <li style="margin:0px 0px 13.33px;line-height:normal;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:16px"><font color="#000000">The submitted articles must be
     original and should not be under consideration for any other publication
     at the same time.</font></span></li>
 <li style="margin:0px 0px 13.33px;line-height:normal;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:16px"><font color="#000000">The manuscripts should be free from
     grammatical errors.</font></span></li>
 <li style="margin:0px 0px 13.33px;line-height:normal;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:16px"><font color="#000000">The manuscripts should be composed
     according to APA (American Psychological Association 6th edition) format
     for writing text and referencing.</font></span></li><li style="margin:0px 0px 13.33px;line-height:normal;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400"><font size="3" style="margin-left:0px"><font color="#000000" style="margin-left:0px"><b style="margin-left:0px"><span style="margin:0px">Plagiarism
is not acceptable. </span></b><span style="margin:0px">If plagiarism is detected during the peer review process, the
manuscript may be rejected. If plagiarism is detected after publication, we may
publish a correction or retract the paper.</span></font></font></li></ul></div>

<p style="margin:0px"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><font color="#000000"><span style="margin:0px">To
submit your paper, please click on the following link: </span><a style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="margin:0px">pjls@gcuf.edu.pk</span></a></font></font></font><span style="margin:0px"></span></p>

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<p style="margin:0px"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><font color="#000000"><span style="margin:0px">For
any inquiry regarding the paper, please contact:  </span><a style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="margin:0px">pjls@gcuf.edu.pk</span></a><span style="margin:0px">. We look forward to seeing your paper at <b><span style="margin:0px">Pakistan
Journal of Language Studies<span style="margin:0px"> (<a style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" href="https://pjls.gcuf.edu.pk/" target="_blank">https://pjls.gcuf.edu.pk/</a>).</span></span></b></span></font></font></font></p></span></font></div><b></b><i></i><u></u><strike></strike><br clear="all"></div><div><div class="gmail_signature" dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="georgia,serif" size="4">Regards,</font></div><div><font face="georgia,serif" size="4">Editor</font></div><div><font face="georgia,serif" size="4">Pakistan Journal of Language Studies (PJLS)</font></div></div></div></div></div></div>