About the Journal

This journal, Cahiers Africaine de rhétorique, is a journal of the Faculty of Letters, Arts and Humanities (FLASH) of Marien Ngouabi University in the Republic of Congo. It is a journal with a scientific committee. It publishes two annual issues devoted to a special theme or to the different themes corresponding to the fields of linguistics, speech analysis, stylistics, literature and communication. Published texts must be original. It publishesthe work dedicated to African researchers in the fields mentioned, it accepts contributions from the work of researchers from other continents. The journal scope, African Rhetoric Cahiers is inter-African, international, francophone.

This newspaper, Cahiers Africaine de rhétorique, evaluates the articles. It reserves the right to accept or refuse articles without scientific basis. It fights plagiarism. it publishes the articles in accordance with the guidelines of the Code of Ethics of the African and Malagasy Council for Higher Education (CAMES) in the field of research publication, which apply to authors, peer reviewers, the editorial line as a whole. 

In summary, authors must combat scientific fraud and must not commit it or violate the ethics of scientific publication. If these guidelines are not followed, anyone has the right to report them to the editor by sending anemail to cahiersafricainsderhetorique@gmail.com. Thus, after verification, the editor takes an immediate decisionto exclude the article in its broadcast media and blacklists the author. The journal respects copyright, which is the legal right of each contributor, but it only holds publishing and broadcasting rights. It has chosen a free access license to allow any reader to benefit from knowledge without payment. Our code is based on the following points: 

 

The journal, Cahiers Africaine de rhétorique, is a publication of the Faculty of Letters, Arts and Humanities(FLASH) of Marien Ngouabi University, Republic of Congo.

The journal, Cahiers Africaine de rhétorique, publishes articles in French and accepts articles in English. However, the title, summary and keywords must be given in both languages. Thus, any article submitted in French must contain, necessarily, "a title, an abstract and keywords"; also for any article in English must have a title, a summary and keywords. Thus, the review limits the receipt of articles in the fields of Arts and Humanities:

 

The journal, African Rhetoric Papers sets several objectives in the process of publishing scientific articles. Its objective is to scrupulously respect all current practices of good scientific production, including therecommendations of scientific articles in space African and Malagasy Council for Higher Education(CAMES)recorded in Standards for the education of journals of Letters and Humanities in the system CAMES (17 July 2016) on the good practice of scientific production, in particular, the criteria for the introduction, the structure of the scientific article, the citations and the results and the respect of this ethical code, hence in such a charter, our review applies this recommendation: 

"The editorial team of a journal should avoid publishing any article without having subjected it to anti-plagiarism software. The CAMES will co-lead any journal that publishes an article produced on the basis of plagiarism "(NORCAMES/LSH, 2016:1).

The objective of the Journal is to promote rhetorical themes developing linguistic, literary, stylistic, discursive, literary and communicational aspects from the societies of the African and Malagasy Council for Higher Education space without excluding other contributions from researchers from all over the world. The Journal invites authors to submit their articles for its regular publications, but is ready to publish issues of the special themes in the areas indicated above relating to major or emerging topics relating to linguistics, speech analysis, stylistics, literature and communication. We apply the standard that comes from model COPE like:

These ten criteria of ethics of publication are considered in the policy of the journal, although it is not yet includedin the list of this organization issuing a reliable and model ethical guide on the good practices of the publication of scientific articles. Thus, based on this guide, the journal Cahiers Africaine de rhétorique applies the following objectives as the basis of its editorial policy:

Other objectives of La revue, Cahiers Africaine de rhétorique are:

The copyright of this article is retained by the author or authors, the rights of first publication are granted to the magazine. It is an open access article distributed according to the terms and conditions of the licenceAttribution-Non-Commercial 4.0 International

 

The journal, Cahiers Africaine de rhetorique works with members of the Scientific Editorial Board and seeks the advice of two reviewers to accept or reject a proposed article. It shall apply the following method of assessment:

In the evaluation process, the journal, Cahiers Africaine de rhetorique, accepts scientific articles relating to the sub-areas mentioned above without taking into account any distinction not related to scientific research, such as nationality and belief. Furthermore, the author states that his article submitted to the Journal does not present a conflict of interest, that it is an original manuscript and that it is not submitted or published in another journal. 

The journal, Cahiers Africaine de rhétorique respects the code of confidentiality, it does not disseminateinformation of the authors nor their texts being evaluated. Selected reviewers are required not to disseminate thevarious processes of the articles under review until the end of the publication. As we have said in Copyrights, articles and their content are the intellectual property of their authors. Thus, La revue, Cahiers Africaine de rhétorique holds exclusively the rights of publication and dissemination.

The evaluators shall be chosen from among members of the Scientific Committee in accordance with their expertise with the proposal of the Article proposed by the contributor. They must be lecturers-researchers with the rank of lecturer or professor in the African and Malagasy Council for Higher Education (CAMES). Thus, the evaluator selected meets the deadlines indicated (two weeks), he completes the evaluation grid of African rhetoric Cahiers, he explains his decision to the Editor in Chief of the Journal. It must report a scientific contribution with a conflict of interest or a plagiarism rate above the 20% threshold. He is bound by confidentiality when reviewing his assessment of a scientific article, expressing his opinion and making recommendations,arguing them, documenting them and illustrating them with strict respect for professional secrecy. In addition, they will avoid formulating them in a hurtful way. If he notices plagiarized passages, he has a duty to inform the editor of the Journal. It is based on respect for objectivity, professionalism and discretion in its assessment. Consequently, the information contained in the article evaluated is confidential and cannot be further exploited. The revised articles are treated confidentially by the members of the editorial board, the members of the international scientific committee and the evaluators.

The journal, African Rhetoric Notebooks, requires potential evaluators to have required scientific expertise or experience in a relevant area of their specialty. They must have recently carried out research and acquired expertise recognized by their peers. Potential evaluators should provide accurate information on their expertise.

6.Obligations to the authors

Authors must guarantee the originality of their contributions, their non-submission during the evaluation and revision phase in another journal. They respect to report citations by technique to indicate the exact sources of references. They must declare that their submitted texts are original and that they have not been published in other journals or in collectibles. If the scientific article is accepted, the author retains the intellectual property of his contribution, but he grants to the journal rights of publication, dissemination and online access without financial payment. In the event that authors note spelling and grammar errors, they must inform the editor to correct them and proceed with the proposed contribution. In addition, the author of an article must specify his or her institution in which he or she works, his or her e-mail address and ORCID ID, a biographical record of his or her rank, institution, status and publication. From this perspective, knowingly giving false or fraudulent affiliation information is a form of misconduct and may lead to the withdrawal of the article.

All the authors mentioned in the articles submitted to Cahiers Africaine de rhetorique must agree that theyare all considered authors according to disciplinary standards. In the event of a dispute or request for a change of position, at any stage of the publication process, African Rhetoric Papers will be guided by the relevant organizational chart of the COPE to decide on the appropriate action or actions. To this end, the corresponding author is responsible for communicating with the co-authors. The specific responsibilities of the corresponding author are:

As well, the editor encourages authors to share data in support of research publications. Research data refers to the results of observations or experiments that validate the results of the research. It encourages them to indicate the availability of their data in a data declaration attached to the article submitted. With the data, the authors guarantee the transparency of the data used in the article.

7.Conflit of interests

The Editor-in-Chief, members of the Editorial and Scientific Committees and reviewers must withdraw from the selection process in the event of a conflict of interest involving one or more authors or the content of a manuscript to be evaluated. The journal, Cahiers Africaine de rhétorique, will avoid any conflict of interest between authors, reviewers and members of the editorial and international scientific committees.

8.Plagiarism 

African rhetoric notebooks adhere to the principles set by the African and Malagasy Council for Higher Education (CAMES) in the field of plagiarism. This journal adheres to the definition of plagiarism of CAMES (2024, p. 16) according to which:

"Several definitions are given to plagiarism according to various sources of documentation:

• taking on its own the ideas or work of an author;

• subtly and illegally reproducing the work or ideas of an author without quoting it;

• infringement of the intellectual property of others;

• everything that is borrowed, copied, demarcated;

• fraudulent copying of an existing work in part or in its entirety in order to appropriate it without the prior consent of the author. "

. Plagiarism is the use of ideas, words, data or texts, "illustrations, musical quotations, extended mathematical derivations, computer codes." We reject plagiarism in our publications and we check all submissions using appropriate tools to control plagiarism. Indeed, bids exceeding the threshold of 20% plagiarism, will be rejected. We expect our readers, reviewers and editors to inform us of any suspicions of plagiarism, either by contacting the editor concerned or by sending an email.

9.APC: publication rates: 83.84 euro 

The journal does not benefit from institutional funding, from which it sets a contribution to the author to carry out the process of enactment and evaluation. To this end, the sending of any contribution must be accompanied by the sending of training fees (30. 49 euro). The address and means of sending the fees will be communicated to the author upon receipt of his article. Publication fee: After the instruction of your article, if accepted, a sum of 53.35 euro will be charged to the author for the publication fee.

10.Use rights and copyright 

The journal, Cahiers Africaine de Rhétorique, publishes scientific articles in the fields of linguistics, of literature and communication, it respects copyright insofar as each published article is attached to its author, the fact that the author enjoys all his fixed rights in respect of an intellectual work and that he is responsible for the content of his publication. The author receives, after publication, the extract of his article in electronic version in PDF format. He may receive, on request, a copy of the magazine by paying the shipping costs. Articles are the property of the authors and may be posted online with the author's consent. The authors concede to the review of free online broadcasting rights.

The journal-Cahiers Africaine de la rhétorique allows contributors to own the copyright and copyright of their contributions. In this perspective, contributors retain copyright, but grant publishing or publication and distribution rights to the African Book of Rhetoric. Thus, by retaining its intellectual property, each contributor grants broadcasting and onlinerights and authorizes a non-commercial license applied when broadcasting its article.

11. Access, licensing and archiving

The journal Cahiers Africaine de la rhétorique offers "free access" to its publications. It uses the Open Access: Attribution-Non Commercial 4.0 International license. All users may read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or link to the complete texts of these articles, explore them for indexing, transmit them as data to the software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal or technical barriers other than those inseparable from access to the Internet itself. Articles are published in open access. No subscription or visual payment fees are required. All material published by Cahiers Africaine de rhétorique is made available under the terms of the international lice Commons Attribution - No Commercial Use - No Modification 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). The archive of the review is done in the archive city of https ://hal.science/user/submissions

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