Lantern of Humanities

About the Journal

Lantern of Humanities Journal is an open-access, peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to the dissemination of high-quality scholarly works in the humanities, language, literature, and applied linguistics. The journal serves as a platform for critical academic discourse, welcoming original empirical research, theoretical studies, and literature reviews.

The journal’s primary focus areas include, but are not limited to:

• English Literature: Literary criticism, comparative literature, postcolonial literature, and contemporary literary theory.

• Japanese Literature: Classical and modern Japanese literature, literary analysis, and cultural studies.

• English Applied Linguistics: Discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, pragmatics, and corpus linguistics.

• Language Teaching & Pedagogy: Second/foreign language acquisition, curriculum design, assessment, and innovative teaching methodologies.

• Translation Studies: Literary translation, audiovisual translation, translation theory, and machine translation evaluation.

• Cultural Studies: Intercultural communication, media studies, popular culture, and identity studies within humanistic contexts.