About the Journal

Journal of Narrative and Language Studies, NALANS (ISSN: 2148-4066), is a peer-reviewed international academic journal welcoming manuscripts from the fields of Literature, Narrative and Language studies. Established in 2013, the journal is published biannually. The primary aim of the journal is to provide an avenue for scholars and researchers in order to publish and share their studies through an open-access environment.

Announcements

CFP Special Issue of NALANS (2026): Narrative, Education and Learning in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

2026-03-07

Narrative, Education and Learning in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

This special issue of NALANS seeks to explore education and learning in the age of artificial intelligence, with particular attention to language, knowledge construction and technology use in narrative and educational contexts.

Issue Editor: Mustafa Caner  

Important Dates

  • Initial manuscript submission (via email): 5 March - 10 April 2026
  • Notification after editorial screening: 15 April 2026
  • Peer review process: 16 April – 16 May 2026
  • Final decisions: 30 May 2026
  • Publication of the Special Issue
Read more about CFP Special Issue of NALANS (2026): Narrative, Education and Learning in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Current Issue

Vol. 13 No. 28 (2025): NALANS ISSUE DECEMBER 2025
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The articles in this issue collectively highlight the interdisciplinary strength of narrative and language studies, emphasising the ongoing importance of literary and linguistic inquiry in tackling contemporary cultural, ethical, and epistemological challenges. The present collection of studies on narrative, language, ethics, and the construction of cultural meaning in literary, philosophical, and linguistic contexts. The contributions address issues of space, morality, storytelling, and discourse as fields of resistance, interpretation, and transformation. The articles highlight narrative as a significant ethical, political, and performative practice, exploring how literary texts represent crises related to modernity, identity, displacement, self-reflexivity, and responsibility. 

Issue Editors: Nimetullah Aldemir, Soner Kaya, Ali Şükrü Özbay

Published: 2025-12-30

Articles

  • Literary Constructions of the City and Immigrant Characters in Contemporary European Fiction

    Marijana Mandić, Sonja Novak (Author)
    135-146
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.59045/nalans.2025.82

  • Not a Waste Land?: A Freudo-Nietzschean Reinterpretation of T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land

    Debabrata Modak (Author)
    147–158
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.59045/nalans.2025.83

  • Darwish’s act of Naming: Dehumanization and Subjectivity

    Nizar Milhem (Author)
    159–173
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.59045/nalans.2025.84

  • Storytelling Motif, Self-Reflexive Tone and Metanarrative Mode in the Translations of Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar’s The Time Regulation Institute

    Mustafa Zeki Çıraklı (Author)
    174-204
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.59045/nalans.2025.85

  • Storytelling as an Act of Self-Forgiveness in Age of Iron by J. M. Coetzee

    Nağme Aras (Author)
    205-216
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.59045/nalans.2025.86

  • Navigating Readability Assessment: Exploring the Dynamics of Classical Formulas

    Rodrigo Tovar Viera, Jonathan Vélez Moreira, Jhon Acurio Chimba (Author)
    217-235
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.59045/nalans.2025.87

Review Articles

  • Narrative of Dispute in Kazakh Folklore: Litigation as a Cultural Concept in Oral and Epic Traditions

    Yerzhan Aryn, Zhanalik Baltabayeva, Yerlan Kassen, Zharkynbike Suleimenova (Author)
    236-249
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.59045/nalans.2025.88

  • Literature and Religion as Intergeneric Narratives

    Ahmet Kayıntu (Author)
    250-259
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.59045/nalans.2025.89
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