https://so03.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/jletters/issue/feed Journal of Letters 2024-08-29T00:00:00+07:00 Waraporn Puangjunhaum jofletters@gmail.com Open Journal Systems <p>Journal of Letters is a semi-annual acedemic journal (January-June and July-December). The journal also accepts a proposal for special issue, supplementary issue, or the collection of selected articles from high-quality conferences. However, extra issues are limited to two volumes per year. Journal of Letters publishes peer-reviewed articles in the field of Humanities and Social science. Areas of special concern include language, linguistics, literary studies, history, philosophy, religious studies, folklore, anthropology, dramatic arts, library and information science, geography, and cultural studies. The Journal seeks to promote research in the humanities by providing a forum for discussion and exchange among researchers and a channel for publicizing academic works for the benefit of the general public. Journal of Letters welcomes contributions in all relevant areas indicated above in the form of research articles, non-research academic articles, review articles, and book reviews, either in Thai, English, or other languages. Submission can be made throughout the year. Articles previously published or under consideration by another journal cannot be accepted. Articles submitted will receive a double-blind review by two referees. Contributors should follow the guidelines for contributors at www.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/jletters. Copyright by the Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University. Photocopying is allowed for internal, non-commercial use only. Photocopying for other uses or for purposes other than indicated requires a written permission from the Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University. All ideas and opinions stated in the published articles are of the authors. The publisher and the editorial staffs do not necessarily share such views. ISSN&nbsp;: 0125-4820 (Print) from January 1969 onwards ISSN : 2586-9736 (Online)&nbsp;from July 2017 onwards</p> https://so03.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/jletters/article/view/272155 The Virtual Landscape of German Language Learning and Teaching in Social Media 2023-12-06T16:06:58+07:00 Akra Chowchong akra.c@chula.ac.th <p>This paper aims to study the linguistic landscape in the virtual domain of online language instruction. It analyzes the various semiotic forms used by language teaching Facebook pages in their materials and advertisements. The corpus of the study consists of 10 Thai Facebook pages that teach German as a foreign language. The analysis includes 36 profile pictures, 59 cover photos and a total of 1,879 posts. The findings indicate that the majority of these pages predominantly use semiotic elements that index Germany when teaching or discussing German, despite the fact that German is also an official language in Austria and Switzerland. The most frequently found semiotic elements are images and emojis of the German national flag, as well as the black-red-gold colors that appear on the flag. This phenomenon reflects a widely held language ideology, namely the concept of "one language, one nation."</p> 2024-08-27T00:00:00+07:00 Copyright (c) 2024