Palapala: a journal for Hawaiian language and literature

Palapala: he puke pai no ka ʻōlelo me ka moʻolelo Hawaiʻi

Palapala publishes scholarly, refereed articles on the full range of topics in the field of Hawaiian language:

• New research in Hawaiian language and literature
• Reviews of new work related to Hawaiian
• Critical reviews of older, standard works of reference
• Transcriptions and reprints of older materials
• Problems and guidelines in interpretation
• Analysis of Individual texts, genres, authors, schools, and periods
• Comparative Polynesian literature
• Education in Hawaiian Language and literature
• Use of Hawaiian texts in different fields

The journal will also include reviews of any significant technologies relating to research in Hawaiian language and literature as well as book reviews and reports on the state of Hawaiian literature publications, courses, personnel, projects and more.

All articles and reviews, whatever the language of composition, will be preceded by a brief summary in Hawaiian and English.

The journal will include reprints of important materials previously published in journals and Hawaiian language newspapers.

Articles in this journal are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. This journal does not charge Article Processing Fees.

Printed issues are available to purchase for $15 each.

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2017 to present

• Editorial Board

• Editor

  Jeffrey (Kapali) Lyon
  Dept. of Religion, University of Hawaiʻi, Mānoa

  Managing Editor

  Jane Au, University of Hawaiʻi, Mānoa

  Editorial Board

  Joseph (Keola) Donaghy, Ph.D.
  Music Studies, Department of Humanities, University of Hawaiʻi Maui College

  ku’ualoha ho’omanawanui, Ph.D.
  Hawaiian Literature, Department of English, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

  ʻŌiwi Parker Jones, Ph.D.
  Neuroscience and Linguistics, Wolfson College, University of Oxford

  Hiapokeikikāne K. Perreira, Ph.D.
  Hawaiian Language and Literature, Ka Haka ʻUla O Keʻelikōlani, University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo

• Recent Articles

• Nā Kūʻauhau a me nā Moʻokūʻauhau Kuʻuna: Hawaiian Genealogists and Traditional Hawaiian Genealogies
  Posted on Monday January 01, 2024

  Contributors
  Posted on Monday January 01, 2018

  Ke Kanawai (1902), hoʻoponopono ʻia e J. Mokuʻōhai Poepoe
  Posted on Monday January 01, 2018

  "Kau ka Iwa, he La Makani"
  Posted on Monday January 01, 2018

  "Nohea mai na Kanaka Hawaii"
  Posted on Monday January 01, 2018

  Ke Kanawai (1902): J. Mokuʻōhai Poepoe's Obscure Law Journal
  Posted on Monday January 01, 2018

  Some Thoughts on Demonstrative and Locative Nā
  Posted on Monday January 01, 2018

  Nā Kuhia ma Hawaiian Antiquities / The Notes to Hawaiian Antiquities
  Posted on Monday January 01, 2018

  Title Page, Table of Contents, Introduction
  Posted on Monday January 01, 2018

  Table-of-Contents
  Posted on Sunday January 01, 2017

• Single Issues
• • Volume 2, Number , 2018
    • Ke Kanawai (1902): J. Mokuʻōhai Poepoe's Obscure Law Journal
  • Volume 1, Number , 2017
    • No ka Baibala Hemolele: The Making of the Hawaiian Bible
• Pricing Guide

• This journal is an open-access and peer reviewed online-only journal. Read online here.

  Single print issues are available for purchase – $15.00.

  If you wish to purchase a print issue, please contact us.

• Author Guidelines

• Submissions (research articles and reviews) must be original works not scheduled for publication by another publisher or original work for which the contributor has received all necessary permissions to republish as open access. Reprints of important articles may also be submitted. Please send proposals or full-length articles for consideration to the editors at palapala@hawaii.edu.

  Manuscripts must be provided in Word doc format with all images and tables extracted as separate files. Please format all manuscript notes as endnotes and refer to the 16th edition of The Chicago Manual of Style for citations and style guidelines. Please see the University of Hawai‘i Press Manuscript Guidelines for more details.

  Upon acceptance, contributors will be asked to sign a publication agreement with University of Hawai‘i Press, and all content in Palapala is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

  This journal does not charge Article Processing Fees.

• Indexes

• This journal is indexed in the following sources:

  Gale–
  Academic OneFile, 2017-1 year ago

  Freely Accessible Arts & Humanities Journals, 2017-