Mersin University Journal of Linguistics and Literature (MJLL) is an academic journal that has been bi-annually published since 2004. MJLL is an open-access, scientific journal that publishes the scientific outputs of the studies mostly in Turkish linguistics and literature, and the main scope of the journal is to provide various aspects of language that would be of interest to a broad range of readers. The articles are preferred to be written in English and Turkish, and what we mostly pay attention is the originality and scientific contribution of the studies. MJLL is a fully refereed, international, electronic, Open Access journal, and it uses double-blind review. MJLL is indexed/included in EBSCO, MLA, Brill Linguistic Bibliography, WorldCat and Google Scholar databases.