Literator

Aims & Scope

Literator publishes research articles and essays on linguistics and literature in general, but focuses in particular on the (comparative) study of South African languages and literatures and other cultural phenomena across language, media and cultural boundaries (examples of topics would be: different manifestations of Post-Modernism, the interaction between visual arts and literature, the representation of the South African War in literature, language attitudes and language policy).

Metrics & Ranking

Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
• Web of Science

Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Arts and Humanities and Social Sciences, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

Licensing & Copyright

This journal operates under an Open Access model. Articles are freely accessible to the public immediately upon publication. The content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), allowing users to share and adapt the work with proper attribution.

Copyright remains with the author(s), and no permission is required for non-commercial use, provided the original source is cited.

Policy Links

This section provides access to essential policy documents, guidelines, and resources related to the journal’s publication and submission processes.

• Aims scope
• Homepage
• Oa statement
• Author instructions
• License terms
• Review url
• Board url
• Copyright url
• Plagiarism url
• Preservation url
• Apc url
• License

Plagiarism Policy

This journal follows a plagiarism policy. All submitted manuscripts are screened using reliable plagiarism detection software to ensure originality and academic integrity. Authors are responsible for proper citation and acknowledgment of all sources, and any form of plagiarism, including self-plagiarism, will not be tolerated.

For more details, please refer to our official: Plagiarism Policy.

APC Details

The journal’s Article Processing Charge (APC) policies support open access publishing in Arts and Humanities and Social Sciences, ensuring accessibility and quality in research dissemination.

This journal requires an Article Processing Charge (APC) to support open access publishing, covering peer review, editing, and distribution. The current APC is 15,760.00 ZAR. Learn more.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Three protagonists in B.W. Vilakazi’s “Ezinkomponi” (“On the mine compounds”)

  Citation: 20

  Authors: N.

• Innovation and reciprocity in applied linguistics

  Citation: 17

  Authors: Albert

• Introduction

  Citation: 15

  Authors: W.A.M.

• Shifts and continuities in Zulu personal naming practices

  Citation: 12

  Authors: Sihawukele, Nompumelelo

• Kaka country: An intertextual reading of national dysfunction in Bulawayo’s We Need New Names and Jinga’s One Foreigner’s Ordeal

  Citation: 12

  Authors: Esther, Muchativugwa L.

• Towards accountability: A point of orientation for post-modern applied linguistics in the third millennium

  Citation: 11

  Authors: A.

• Diversity, variation and fairness: Equivalence in national level language assessments

  Citation: 10

  Authors: Albert, Colleen, Sanet

• Some problems of writing historiography in Southern Africa

  Citation: 9

  Authors: S.

• The onomastic possibility of renaming the Sepedi and Sesotho sa Leboa (Northern Sotho) language names to restore peace, dignity and solidarity

  Citation: 9

  Authors: Tebogo J., Evangeline B.

• Subverting the pastoral: the transcendence of space and place in J.M. Coetzee’s <i>Disgrace</i>

  Citation: 9

  Authors: S., M.