The Linguistics, Discourse and Cognition Research Group, LINDICO, assumes cognitive approaches to combine at all times strictly theoretical linguistic reflection with the necessary promotion of various applied fields, from the conviction that the ultimate goal of the (necessary) grammatical and pragmatic theory is to serve as a basis for subsequent applications and actions of scientific transferability to society.

Although the research caarried out by the members of the group in the different competitive R&D projects covers many fields, the most consolidated studies refer mainly to two lines of work: the field of clinical linguistics and the analysis of political and media discourse. Throughout its trajectory, the group has been consolidating its own theoretical model, with a pragmatic-functionalist orientation, which is framed within the framework of Cognitive Linguistics. Thus, the theoretical areas addressed include all the disciplines of linguistics: phonology, morphosyntax, semantics, pragmatics, typology and universals, psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics. The applied fields include, among others:

• Analysis of discourse in the public sphere, according to different variables and context (politcal discourse, media discourse, digital discourse), with special attention to the argumentation and persuasion that pragmatically characterise the registers of the media and political issuers (parties and leaders) in the different media and communication channels (written press, social media, television, advertising and propaganda, etc.). 
• Clinical linguistics: description of language (grammar and pragmatics) in different pathological situations based on ecological data. This line of research has resulted in initiatives such as 
  • the elaboration of specific corpora of child language and deficient language based on ecological data;
  • the description of the language of pathological situations such as aphasia, Williams syndrome, ADHD, Alzheimer's type dementias, or right hemisphere lesions;
  • the development of various language assessment tests and profiles, and of communication guides for interlocutors of speakers with deficits.

All these lines of research are complemented by the appropriate R&D&I dissemination and management activities, such as conferences, seminars, etc.

Contributor/s

• Elena Carpi - Università di PISA (Italy).
• Rosa María García Jiménez - Università di PISA (Italy).
• Sonia Madrid Cánovas - University of Murcia.
• Ana Mancera Rueda - Universidad de Sevilla.

• Research and experimental development on social sciences and humanities
• Other human health activities
• Other education n.e.c.
• Archives activities
• Library activities
• Computer programming activities