<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:center;font-family:georgia,serif"><img width="115" height="115" alt="Logo.png" src="cid:ii_k2ua84qa1"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:center;font-family:georgia,serif"><strong><span style="color:windowtext;font-weight:normal"><font size="4">Pakistan Journal
of Language Studies (PJLS)</font></span></strong></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif" dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:center">

</div><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:center"><span style="color:windowtext"><font size="4">Department of Applied Linguistics</font><strong><span style="font-weight:normal"></span></strong></span></p><div style="text-align:center">

</div><p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:center"><font size="4"><strong><span style="color:windowtext;font-weight:normal">Government College
University, Faisalabad, </span></strong><span style="color:windowtext">Pakistan</span></font></p><div style="text-align:center">

</div><p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:center;line-height:115%"><span style="color:windowtext;line-height:115%"><font size="4">Submission
Deadline: November 20^th, 2019</font></span></p><div style="text-align:center">

</div><p style="line-height:115%;margin-top:0in"><span style="color:windowtext">Dear Researchers,
<strong><span style="font-weight:normal"></span></strong></span></p><div style="text-align:center">

</div><p style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">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>PJLS is<b> </b>an
annual peer reviewed journal. It is indexed in International Scientific Indexing
(ISI), Academia, and ResearchGate databases. 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 the referees
for the final selection. We follow a double blind peer-review system, every
paper is sent for review to the national as well as international experts. The
reviewers' and authors' identities remain anonymous. </span></p><p style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:12pt"><strong>Areas of Interest</strong></p><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><p style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:windowtext">a)<span style="line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal">      </span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="color:windowtext">Corpus Linguistics</span></p><p style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">b)<span style="line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal">     
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">World Englishes</span></p><p style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">c)<span style="line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal">     
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Pakistani English</span></p><p style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">d)<span style="line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal">    
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Language Testing & Evaluation</span></p><p style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">e)<span style="line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal">     
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Syntax </span></p><p style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">f)<span style="line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal">      
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Morphology</span></p><p style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">g)<span style="line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal">     
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Systemic Functional Linguistics</span></p><p style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">h)<span style="line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal">     
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Phonetics and Phonology </span></p><p style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">i)<span style="line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal">       
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Lexicology and Lexicography </span></p><p style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">j)<span style="line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal">       
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Discourse Analysis </span></p><p style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">k)<span style="line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal">     
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Semantics</span></p><p style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">l)<span style="line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal">       
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Stylistics </span></p><p style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">m)<span style="line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal">   
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Pragmatics </span></p><p style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">n)<span style="line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal">     
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Anthropological Linguistics </span></p><p style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">o)<span style="line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal">     
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Cognitive Linguistics </span></p><p style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">p)<span style="line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal">     
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Corpus Linguistics </span></p><p style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">q)<span style="line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal">     
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Computational Linguistics </span></p><p style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">r)<span style="line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal">      
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Psycholinguistics </span></p><p style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">s)<span style="line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal">      
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Sociolinguistics </span></p><p style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">t)<span style="line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal">      
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Language Planning </span></p><p style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">u)<span style="line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal">     
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Language Teaching </span></p><p style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">v)<span style="line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal">     
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Language Contact and Language Change </span></p><p style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">w)<span style="line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal">   
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Language Documentation </span></p><p style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">x)<span style="line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal">     
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Language Endangerment </span></p><p style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">y)<span style="line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal">     
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Translation Studies</span></p><p style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">z)<span style="line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal">     
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Language and Gender</span></p></span><p style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:12pt"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Guidelines
for authors</span></b></p><p style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The
authors should submit their papers according to the following guidelines:</span></p><ul><li><div style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-family:"\000026quot",serif">The submitted articles must be original and should not be under consideration for any other publication at the same time.</span></div></li><li><div style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-family:"\000026quot",serif">The manuscripts should be free from the grammatical errors.</span></div></li><li><div style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-family:"\000026quot",serif">The manuscripts should be composed according to APA (American Psychological Association 6th edition) format for writing text and referencing.</span></div></li><li><div style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:12pt"><b><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Plagiarism is not acceptable. </span></b><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">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></div></li></ul><p style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:windowtext">To
submit your paper, please click on the following link: </span><a><span style="color:windowtext">pjls@gcuf.edu.pk</span></a><span style="color:windowtext"></span></p><div style="text-align:center">

</div><p style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;margin-top:0in"><span style="color:windowtext">For any inquiry regarding the paper, please
contact:  </span><a><span style="color:windowtext">pjls@gcuf.edu.pk</span></a><span style="color:windowtext">. We look
forward to seeing your paper at <b>Pakistan Journal of Language Studies (<a href="https://pjls.gcuf.edu.pk/">https://pjls.gcuf.edu.pk/</a>).</b></span></p><div style="text-align:center">

</div><p style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;margin-top:0in"><span style="color:windowtext">Sincerely,</span></p><div style="text-align:center"><table width="0" style="width:490.3pt;border-collapse:collapse" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr style="height:6.95pt"><td width="457" style="background:white;padding:0in 5.4pt;width:342.9pt;height:6.95pt"><p style="text-align:left;line-height:normal;margin-bottom:0pt"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Patron</span></b></p><div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Prof. Dr. Shahid Kamal</span></div><div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><i>Vice Chancellor, </i></span></div><div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><i>Government College University, Faisalabad</i></span></div><div style="text-align:left"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Editor:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></div><div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Prof. Dr. Muhammad Asim Mahmood</span></div><div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><i>Dean, </i></span></div><div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><i>Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences</i></span></div><div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><i>Chairperson, </i></span></div><div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><i>Department of Applied Linguistics</i></span></div><div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Call:
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