About the Journal
Focus and Scope
CASA: Cadernos de Semiótica Aplicada aims to disseminate and discuss analyses and theoretical reflections on language in order to promote scientific and institutional development of the different methodological trends that study text and discourse, especially those under current semiotic theories.
The journal publishes works written by researchers with a PhD degree or co-authored with them who are affiliated to national and/or international teaching and research institutions.
The journal receives original articles, book reviews, and interviews written in Portuguese, Spanish, French, Italian, or English in continuous flow, provided that they follow the guidelines set out by the journal’s Author Guidelines. Based on the process of assessment of papers, the Editorial Board reserves the right to publish approved works in the issue being prepared for publication (1 or 2).
The journal has been ranked category A2 (2013-2014) in the Qualis system (Brazilian official journal ranking system) from CAPES (the Brazilian Federal Agency for the Support and Evaluation of Graduate Education) and is indexed by Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek, ERIH PLUS, JURN, Latindex, LivRe!, REDIB and WorldCat. It is affiliated to the Associação Brasileira de Editores Científicos (ABEC) and to CrossRef, being identified by the DOI prefix (Digital Object Identifier).
Peer Review Process
The papers submitted to the journal are initially assessed regarding the suitability to the formatting standards and, afterwards, they are sent to two referees that can be members of the Editorial Board or ad hoc. When both reviews are positive, the author is informed that his/her paper is going to be published, and in case there are suggestions about changes in the paper, they are also going to be sent to the author. When one review is positive and the other is negative, the text is sent to a third referee that is going to decide for the publication or not of the submitted paper. During the whole process the anonymity of the authors of the submitted papers is assured, in order that the assessments do not experience any kind of external influence.
Publication Frequency
Periodicity of Publication: half-yearly
Open Access Policy
This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.
E-ISSN
1679-3404
Academic databases
ERIH PLUS - The European Reference Index for the Humanities and the Social Sciences
EZB - Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek
JURN - The directory of scholarly ejournals in the arts & humanities
Latindex - Sistema regional de información en línea para revistas científicas de América Latina, el Caribe, España y Portugal
LivRe! - Portal para periódicos de livre acesso na Internet
MLA Directory of Periodicals - MLA International Bibliography
REDIB - Red Iberoamericana de Innovación y Conocimiento Científico
WorldCat - World Library Catalog
Ethics in research and scientific publishing
CASA endorses the recommendations of the Code of Good Scientific Practice by the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP).
Our publishing practices are guided by the principles of transparency, impartiality, confidentiality, of respect to diversity and of combating falsification, piracy and plagiarism, as provided for in the Code of Conduct for Journal Editors, by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), and in the White Paper on Publication Ethics, by the Council of Science Editors (CSE).
Sources of Support
Journal History
CASA: Cadernos de Semiótica Aplicada was founded in 2003 on the initiative of Ana Cristina Fricke Matte, who was inspired by Ignacio Assis Silva’s (In Memoriam) pioneering project. Silva was the founder of the homonymous research group, CASA Group (cf. “O Desenho do Arquiteto", by Ude Baldan, in v. 1, n. 1), currently turned into GPS-UNESP. Maria Tereza de França Roland and Ana Cristina Fricke Matte developed the journal’s first editorial design project.
CASA was the first online journal devoted to semiotics in Brazil and most likely in Latin America. First founded by members of the CASA Group, the journal is currently edited by the Graduate Program in Linguistics and Portuguese from FCLAr/Unesp. It is financially supported by PROPe/Unesp.
The journal, which joined the SEER in 2008, had the following editors:
Ana Cristina Fricke Matte (2003);
Ana Cristina Fick Matte e Ivã Carlos Lopes (2004)
Renata Coelho Marchezan (2005 a 2006);
Arnaldo Cortina (2007 a 2008);
Renata Coelho Marchezan (2009 a 2010);
Renata Coelho Marchezan e Ude Baldan (edição especial de 2010);
Renata Coelho Marchezan e Diana Junkes Martha Toneto (edição temática de 2011);
Renata Coelho Marchezan (2012);
Jean Cristtus Portela (2013 a 2021);
Arnaldo Cortina (2022 a 2024).
