Linha D'Água

Linha D’Água is an academic journal in the fields of Linguistics and Literature, published since 1980 by the Graduate Program in Philology and Portuguese Language (FLP) at the University of São Paulo (USP).

The journal adopts the Diamond Open Access (OA) model and is supported and certified by the Agency of Libraries and Digital Collections at the University of São Paulo (ABCD-USP). It accepts submissions in response to thematic calls for papers, each with a specific submission and publication schedule, detailed below.

Published every four months (quarterly), Linha D’Água features thematic issues comprising articles, reviews, translations, and interviews in Portuguese, English, French, and Spanish. Submissions must follow the journal’s guidelines, available at: https://www.revistas.usp.br/linhadagua/about/submissions.

Linha D’Água is indexed in major databases, including Web of Science, Journal Citation Reports (JCR), MLA, Latindex, DOAJ, MIAR, Linguistic Bibliography, and others.

eISSN: 2236-4242

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CALL FOR PAPERS

Thematic issue 39/2 (2026): Rethinking language education of the Global South in the age of Artificial Intelligence, to be published in August 2026. Deadline for submission: December 19, 2025. For more information, click here.

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ISSUES IN PROGRESS

Thematic issue 38/3 (2025): Chronotopic dimensions of women's life writings, to be published in December 2025. Deadline for submission: closed. For more information, click here.

Thematic issue 39/1 (2026): Digital Discourse – Contemporary Challenges and Problems, to be published in April 2026. Deadline for submission: closed. For more information, click here.