Letras is an academic journal published twice yearly by the School of Literature and Language Sciences. Its main objective is the dissemination of relevant intellectual production generated within the School of Literature and Language Sciences, although it is not limited only to that production.

Letras publishes articles related to various fields of linguistics, literature, and culture of different countries; language teaching, learning and acquisition; semantics, semiotics and pragmatics; discourse analysis and textual linguistics; translation and interpretation; terminology; indigenous languages ​​and cultures; and the languages ​​of Costa Rica. Thus, its readership consists mainly of members of the national and international academic community who specialize in these subject areas. However, the contents of the journal are also of particular interest to specialists in training (undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate students) as well as to the occasional reader interested in such topics.

Papers may be written in Spanish, English or French. In all cases, the document(s) must be presented in a recent version of Microsoft Word® and comply strictly with the instructions for authors and template that the journal has provided for writing and submitting articles. Proponents should send their articles to the email address revistaletras@una.ac.cr. Every manuscript sent to Letrasas an article proposal is submitted to a review process that involves both the Editorial Committees and external specialist reviewers. This process is carried out anonymously; that is, the evaluators do not know the identity of the authors, and the authors do not know the identity of the evaluators.

All the issues and articles that make up the journal’s collection—since its first issue was published in 1979—can be consulted and downloaded free of charge from its website.

Letras is backed by the seal of the EUNA university press, with its respective ISSN number for its print version and EISSN for its electronic version, with a statistics system and a Creative Commons license. Likewise, the journal is associated to various international indexes and databases (such as Actualidad Iberoamericana, CCUCCIRC, Dialnet, DOAJ, ERIHPlus, ESJI, EZB, Genamics, J4F, Journal TOCS, LATINDEX, MIAR, MLA, OCLC World-Cat, REAO, REDIBREBIUN, RETI, SHERPA / RoMEO, SUDOC, Ulrich's and ZBD) and assigns DOI identifiers to each of its articles. All these attributes improve the diffusion of its articles internationally.

Authors should register on the ORCID platform (https://orcid.org). ORCID is a digital medium that offers authors worldwide, free of charge, the possibility of obtaining a personal identification number to link authors with their intellectual production.

 

Email: revistaletras@una.ac.cr

ISSN: 1409-424X | EISSN: 2215-4094

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Update: Letras is currently receiving articles for issues 75 and 76.

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Current Issue

No. 79 (2026): Letras. January-June

Presentación

(Preface)

En esta entrega de Letras se reúnen sendos análisis de narraciones de tres escritoras en lengua española. Sus contenidos y lenguaje narrativo ponen en entredicho ciertos tópicos, asociados a las relaciones interpersonales, a la dinámica del poder y a los lenguajes con que se elabora la ficción. El espacio de la narración se adopta como lugar de tensiones en el orden social e ideológico; al mismo tiempo se atienden los procedimientos de construcción de un mundo, de parte de quien escribe y de quien analiza.

En el área de la lingüística, mediante contrastes y comparaciones, se ofrecen estudios sociolingüísticos (contacto de variantes del español) y sobre la concurrencia entre lenguas, desde acercamientos etimológicos y en cuanto al ejercicio de la traducción. A ellos se suman nuevos estudios de lingüística indigenista y sobre problemas en la enseñanza de lenguas extranjeras.

Las proyecciones de Letras apuntan a afrontar la oportunidad de nuevas epistemes que en su momento se habrán de adscribir a los campos del saber que la definen. Coincide la publicación de esta entrega con el quincuagésimo aniversario de la Editorial Universidad Nacional, que la acogió desde su fundación.

Sherry E. Gapper, directora

Published: 2026-01-02

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