LingPoet: Journal of Linguistics and Literary Research is an international peer-reviewed journal published by TALENTA Publisher, Universitas Sumatera Utara and managed by English Department, Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Universitas Sumatera Utara. It has aims to provide the platform for the scholars to publish their work in the field of, but not limited to, linguistics (phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics), applied linguistics (sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, translation studies, semiotics, discourse analysis, critical discourse analysis, multimodal analysis, stylistics, corpus linguistics, forensic linguistics, language teaching, classroom discourse, and others) and literature (modern and contemporary literature, comparative literature). As our commitment to the advancement of science and technology, LingPoet: Journal of Linguistics and Literary Research follows the open access policy that allows the published articles freely available online without any subscription.