The group's research activity focuses on the analysis of creative industries and cultural markets from a multidisciplinary and transversal perspective that combines theories, principles and tools from economics, sociology, management, marketing and finance. This approach addresses the main effects of technological change, both on supply and demand, in a scenario that has allowed the emergence of new cultural markets. Thus, digitalisation has meant a reduction in the fixed costs of production, distribution and promotion for industry, leading to innovations in processes or products and services. In reference to consumers, we find, among other things, a change in consumer habits, with the reduction of costs in the search for and discovery of new products and services, and the breaking down of barriers to participation.
Specifically, the aim is to analyse both qualitatively and quantitatively the impact that social changes (diversity and democratisation) and technological changes (acceleration of the digitalisation of content) have had on the different agents that intervene in the different cultural markets. In this sense, the scope of the study contemplates analysis both on a sectoral level (music, audiovisual, video games, performing and plastic arts) and from a more aggregated perspective.
The members of the group have extensive research experience in the field of economics and management of culture, creative industries and the arts. In this context, they have developed research focused on analysing the use of ICTs and cultural participation, the extension of audiences and the new business models that have emerged as a result of technological change. In addition, some members of the team are linked to different academic associations as members of their scientific committees: International Association of Arts and Cultural Management, AIMAC, Montreal; International Music Business Research Association, IMBRA, Vienna; Workshop on Cultural Economics and Management, WCEM, Seville. At the same time, they have actively participated in the transfer of research results through the signing of numerous agreements and contracts with entities linked to the creative, cultural and social sector. Finally, some of the members of this team belonged to a group already registered in the Office for the Transfer of Research Results (OTRI) of the Universitat de València.
The History and Historiography of the Spanish language in its diachrony (HISLEDIA) group at the UV has a long history. Its lines of research, History of the Spanish language and Historiography of the Spanish language, were initiated by Emilio Ridruejo in the early 1980s and included the creation of a Chair in History of Language and Dialectology, occupied by María Teresa Echenique Elizondo in 1987. After Emilio Ridruejo's transfer to the University of Valladolid in 1988, the group was led by María Teresa Echenique until her retirement in 2020, when the chair was handed over to María José Martínez Alcalde.
The HISLEDIA group has developed ten research projects funded in competitive calls in which researchers from various Spanish and foreign universities have participated, contributing to the international projection of the group and the consolidation of its research activity.
Since its creation, the group has tackled fundamental aspects of the study of the evolution of Spanish in historical and historiographical terms, without ever losing sight of the contrastive perspective in its relationship with the rest of the Hispanic languages and modalities, mainly Basque, Catalan and Portuguese. Particular attention has been paid to the following issues:
- History of the Castilian language throughout its diachronic evolution in contact with other peninsular linguistic modalities.
- Phraseology and phraseometry of the Castilian language in its diachrony.
- Philological study of the origins of the Castilian language.
- History of the pronunciation of Castilian.
- Grammatical, orthographic and lexicographic codification of the Castilian language.
- The standard of the Castilian language from a historiographical point of view: grammars, orthographies and dictionaries.
The members of the group have participated in leading national and international congresses in their speciality, as well as producing a significant number of high impact publications in their field (as a group and individually), and have a solid track record in the training of research personnel and the supervision of doctoral theses. It has extensive experience in organising congresses, symposia, conferences and specialist meetings. Among them, the 5th International Congress on the History of the Spanish Language (Universitat de València, 2000), the International Symposium "Lexicography, Grammatical Codification and Phraseology in honour to G. Haensch" (Universitat de València and Universität Augsburg, 2003), the exhibition "Rafael Lapesa's Legacy: Valencia 1908-Madrid 2002" (Valencian Library and Cervantes Institute, 2008), the 26th Congrès Internacional de Lingüística i Filologia Romàniques (Valencian for International Congress of Linguistics and Romanic Philology) (Valencia, 2010) with a section expressly related to the group's research, the Symposium on Grammatical Codification of Spanish: History and Historiography (Universitat de València, 2004), the International Conference on Historical Phraseology (first and second editions, Universitat de València, 2015 and 2016), the coordination of the Historical Phraseology Section of the Congress of German Hispanists (Munich, 2017), the International Scientific Meeting Contrastive History of the Spanish Language and its Historiography (Universitat de València, 2018) and the organisation of the 13th Congress of the Spanish Society of Linguistic Historiography (Universitat de València, 2022).
The group's research has resulted, among many other publications, in the following works: Phraseology in Spanish: diachrony and codification (CSIC, 2017), Phraseology through the history of the Spanish language and its historiography (Tirant Humanidades, 2017), How phraseological units are made: continuity and renewal in the diachrony of the Castilian space (Peter Lang, 2018) and DHISFRAES. Historical phraseological dictionary of Spanish. A lexicographical task for the 21st century. Combinations of prepositional and adverbial locutionary character. Archetypal sample (ed. by María Teresa Echenique and Francisco P. Pla based on the corpus compiled by the HISLEDIA group, Peter Lang, 2021).
