ISSN: 1013-1752 (paper)
Publication Frequency: 2 issues per year
Subjects: Critical studies of literature, language and education; creative writing and book reviews/review articles; lectures and proceedings

Distribution

Copies of EAR are included in the annual membership subscription fee for full/institutional members of the Academy and are available to associate members and to non-members from the Administrative Officer, The English Academy of Southern Africa, P. O. Box 124, Wits 2050, South Africa (e-mail englishacademy@societies.wits.ac.za) for sub-Saharan countries, or from Taylor and Francis for North Africa and the rest of the world.  Annual subscription fees for the journal for associate and non-members are R80 X 2; and for non-member institutions, R100 X 2. Correspondence about subscriptions should be addressed to the Administrative Officer, at the address above.

Call for papers

EAR26(2) 2009 and EAR27(1) 2010 will comprise peer review articles from the June 2008 International Conference on the Humanities in Southern Africa entitled “Language, the arts and the media”.
The call for papers for EAR 27(2) 2010 and EAR28(1) 2011 will appear in EAR26 (1), which is due to appear in May 2009.

Aims and Scope

The English Academy Review: Southern African Journal of English Studies (EAR) is the journal of the English Academy of Southern Africa, accredited since 1985.  In line with the Academy’s vision of promoting effective English as a vital resource and of respecting Africa’s diverse linguistic ecology, it welcomes submissions on language as well as educational, philosophical and literary topics from Southern Africa and across the globe. In addition to refereed academic articles, it publishes creative writing and book reviews of significant new publications (from South Africa and across the globe) as well as Academy lectures and proceedings.

EAR is an accredited journal that is published biannually [twice a year] by the English Academy of Southern Africa and Taylor & Francis (New York, London, Oxford, India and Australia).  All academic submissions are subject to anonymous peer review by at least two referees. Its editorial policy is governed by the Council of the English Academy of Southern Africa who also appoint the Editor-in-Chief for a three-year term of office. Guest editors are appointed from time to time on an ad hoc basis. Publishing decisions are made by the journal’s Editor-in-Chief or Guest Editor(s) in consultation with its international Editorial Board.

Presentation of manuscripts

Articles may be up to 5 000 words in length. They should be accompanied by a declaration that the article in question is an original contribution, that it has not been published elsewhere previously, and that submission of the article constitutes a licence to publish in the journal and online. Three hard copies of the manuscript should be submitted as well as an electronic version using software that is compatible with MS Word. Manuscripts should be typed, double-spaced, and on one side of standard A4 paper.
The name, address, telephone number(s) and e-mail address of the author should be typed on a separate sheet. Include a stamped and addressed envelope should you expect your contribution to be returned in the event that it is not published.

A structured abstract of 200 words in length, covering the main factual points and a statement of objective or problem, method, results and conclusions, should accompany the article plus a list of at least six keywords for abstracting and indexing services.

Where to send articles

Contributions (in electronic format – preferably as an MS word attachment) should be sent to the Administrative Officer. Books for review should likewise be sent to the Administrative Officer, at the English Academy Office P. O. Box 124 Wits 2050. Tel./fax. +27 11 717 9339; englishacademy@societies.wits.ac.za.

Page fees

The English Academy requires the institution where an author is employed to pay a R100 per page (or its equivalent) page fee to the Academy’s account for all articles published in the Academy Review. As EAR is accredited by the Department of Education, South Africa, this amount may be met by the research subsidy earned by tertiary institutions in South Africa for articles published in the journal. Accounts will be sent to the managements of the institutions concerned, with copies to each of the authors whose articles are featured.

References

The Chicago Manual of Style author-date system should be used. All references should be specified in parentheses in the text (and in the text of notes) by surname(s) of the author(s), the year of the publication and page number(s), for example (Dworkin 1986, 45--52). The complete citation should appear at the end of the manuscript (after the notes, if any) under the caption ‘References’. Such citations should be listed alphabetically by surname of author; for authors cited more than once, by year of publication, with the most recent references first. It is Academy policy to follow etymological guidelines for the s/z convention. Please consult the latest edition of the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary or a recent edition of the Oxford Dictionary. Single inverted commas are used and so double within single. An indented quotation (for 60 words or more) constitutes single inverted commas i.e. double inverted commas are used within the indented quotation.  Shorter quotations should be incorporated into the text in single inverted commas.

 Please note the use of capital letters, punctuation marks and italics in the following examples:
In text:
(Chambers 1983, 110--112) book
(Marsdon, Hudson and Roberts 2004) three-author book
(Van Wyk Smith et al. 2005, 234)  multiple-author book
(Anon. 1120, n.p.) anonymous author
(Butler 1988, vol. 2) book volume
(Bhabha and Fanon 1996, 45) journal
(P. J. H. Titlestad, pers. comm.) personal communication
(Sowetan 14 July 2006) newspaper article
(Swart 2003, 14) unpublished thesis/dissertation
Chennells 2000, 2:16--24) journal volume number with page reference
Weasels and Mampuru 1999, 101n2) note

In reference list:
Bean, Philip and Joy Melville. 1989. Lost Children of the Empire. London: Unwin Hyman.
Black, M. 1979. More about metaphor. ed. A. Ortony, 19--43.
Hrushovski, B. 1984. Poetic metaphor and frames of reference. Poetics Today 5 (1): 5--43.
Ortony, A. ed. 1979. Metaphor and Thought. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Webster, C. P. 2006. Rewriting identities. In Perspectives on Selfhood, ed. D. Klopper and F. R. Frazer, 355—367. Cape Town: David Philip.

Notes should be numbered serially throughout the text by superscript numbers (without parentheses and inserted manually) to the right of any punctuation marks. The notes themselves should appear at the end of the manuscript but before the references, under the caption ‘Notes’. Do not use electronic reference insertion.