Subject Area and Category
Publication type
Journals
Scope
The Journal Forma y Función is attached to the Department of Linguistics of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota. Its objective is the dissemination of studies on language from a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives that correspond to the various fields of linguistics: descriptive, typological, historical and comparative linguistics, dialectology, semiotic, linguistic documentation, semiotics, psycholinguistics, ethnolinguistics, sociolinguistics, text linguistics, philosophy of language, lexicography, translation theory, pragmatics, semantics, ethnography of communication, applied linguistics and philology.
Forma y Función seeks to serve as a vehicle for the expression and dissemination of basic and applied research in a variety of topics, including: the structuring, functioning and change in linguistic and semiotic systems; the relationship between language, society, culture and thought; linguistic variability and diversity, multilingualism and bilingualism; discursive practices and textual constructions; acquisition processes, the learning of languages and of reading-writing; language policies; translator equivalence, the production and reception of the translated text, the relevance of the textual typology for the translation; the fixation of the text in the study of classical philology, the text in its context from the philological perspective, philology and interdisciplinary studies; ethics of human communication and automated information systems; communication from the semiotic contemporary perspective and the problem of the transition of communication mass media to the so-called «social networks».