About the Journal

Lexis. Athener Zeitschrift für Germanistik (ISSN 2654-2129) is the electronic journal of the Department of German Language and Literature at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA). The journal and its monograph series are registered in the Global Index for Continuing Resources under the above ISSN.

The journal publishes scholarly articles and other forms of contributions related to the academic fields represented within the Department. It aims to serve as a platform for theoretical reflection, fruitful academic dialogue, and the exchange of ideas. It hosts interdisciplinary, comparative, and theoretically grounded approaches across a broad range of fields (such as Literary Theory and Criticism, Culture, Translation, Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, Language Didactics, etc.).

The journal publishes original articles, interviews, book reviews, and more in German, English, and Greek. The Call for Papers is usually published in the autumn (see Call for Papers). Its content is freely available through Open Access.

The journal also publishes thematic special issues. The respective Calls for Papers are announced without a fixed schedule.

All submitted papers undergo a double-blind peer review process by independent reviewers: manuscripts are first anonymized by the editorial team and then evaluated by two reviewers. Based on the reviews, a decision is made regarding acceptance, revision, or rejection.

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content, supporting the principle of promoting the global exchange of knowledge by making the results of scholarly research freely available to the public.

Aims and Scope

Lexis offers a platform for contributions with interdisciplinary, comparative, or theoretically grounded approaches in various areas of German Studies, particularly in the following:

Literary Studies

  • Literary theory
  • Genre theory and narratology
  • Intertextuality and intermediality
  • Literature and philosophy
  • Literature and society
  • Comparative literature (especially German-language literature in the Greek and international context)
  • Literature didactics

Theoretical and Applied Linguistics

  • Grammatical theory and language description
  • Semantics, pragmatics, lexicology, phonetics / phonology
  • Text, conversation, and discourse analysis
  • Sociolinguistics (language varieties, language ideologies)
  • Language contact and multilingualism
  • Language policy
  • Corpus linguistics
  • Psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics
  • Language acquisition
  • Foreign language teaching and assessment

Translation Studies and Language Mediation

  • Translation theories and methodologies
  • Translation of literary and specialized texts
  • Processes of cultural transfer in translation
  • Machine / computational translation
  • Terminology and specialized communication
  • Intercultural communication

The journal is addressed to researchers who engage theoretically and academically with the above-mentioned fields of German Studies.

Terms and Copyright

  • Lexis is an Open Access journal. This means that all content is freely accessible without charge to readers and their institutions. Users are allowed to read, store, copy, reproduce, print, search, and link to the articles, as well as use them for any lawful purpose, without prior permission from the publishers or the authors.
  • Submissions that have already been published or are under consideration elsewhere will not be accepted.
  • By submitting an article, authors agree to grant the journal the necessary rights (license or consent) to publish the material in the electronic publishing system (e-Pub). Upon submission, authors are required to provide a declaration of consent for publication in e-Pub. In the case of co-authorship, an additional declaration signed by all co-authors is required, explicitly confirming their joint consent for publication in e-Pub.
  • Authors retain the right to reproduce and distribute their articles in any form without prior permission, provided that the original publication in Lexis is clearly acknowledged.
  • Authors are explicitly encouraged to archive their articles online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on personal websites), provided that a reference to the original publication in Lexis and a link to the journal’s website are included.
  • The journal does not charge authors any processing or publication fees.

All issues of the journal are hosted and disseminated through the electronic publishing system (e-Pub) of the Library and Information Center of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and are accessible via standard search engines.