About the Journal

Polifónicxs (ISSN 3072-7324) 

Polifónicxs is a university student journal with open access, an electronic format, and a biannual publication schedule (January–June and July–December). It belongs to the Critical Discourse Studies area of the School of Letters, Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities, National University of Córdoba. Its main objective is to foster and promote the training of future researchers in the field of discourse studies.

This publication space has been conceived as a diverse and horizontal environment where undergraduate students can share knowledge, insights, and practices related to the field, shaped by the always-challenging intersection of theory, critique, and methodology.

The voices that fill the pages of this journal speak of the first steps in academic research, providing a space to explore the writing practices that take shape through the very exercise of essayistic thinking. At the same time, it acknowledges the rich field of mediatic, popular, and mass cultures as objects of study.

Observing the world through the lens of discourse means assuming a critical stance, recognizing its infinite semiosis, its constant transformation, and positioning ourselves ethically and politically in the face of our contemporary in-world, unraveling the mechanisms of power production, reproduction, and circulation.

How can a student journal address such complexity? First, we step away from perspectives that approach discursive objects merely through thematic lenses and instead embrace what we consider the greatest potential of our field: the plurality of theoretical, critical, and methodological frameworks that our academic program provides.

Thus, this project focuses on the vast network of theoretical enunciations that have shaped what we now understand as our field of study—a polyphony that defines our identity and gives our journal its name.

Our call for submissions is open year-round for the following sections:

• Open Theme
• Essay
• Teaching/Discourse
• Review

Submissions for the Dossier section follow a restricted call.

With the exception of the Teaching/Discourse and Review sections, all unpublished and original works in our journal undergo a double-blind peer review process.

Finally, we invite students, professors, professionals, and researchers from the scientific community, as well as the general public, to explore the academic articles, essays, and reviews that interweave within the polyphonic fabric of this journal—a vast constellation of meanings where language and social reality feed into one another or, as Mikhail Bakhtin would say, "illuminate each other."