Study of African-American and African-Canadian literature from a narrative,
stylistic, political and traductological point of view.
Study of the literary production written by authors from North American ethnic minorities, paying attention to their aesthetic, narrative, symbolic, historical, cultural, socio-political, ideological and pedagogical characteristics from an intercultural, ethical and committed perspective, in a global context.
Research by prioritising the use of corpus tools from a variety of genres and discourses in order to evaluate the effectiveness of corpus tools.
Study of the new words that enter the Catalan language, both through the mechanisms of word formation and through semantic change and borrowing from other languages.
Description of vowel and consonant phenomena in Catalan that show dialectal variation, both from a theoretical and experimental point of view.
Critical analysis of contemporary cultural productions in relation to contemporary politics and society.
Research into learners' interlanguage, contrastive studies through corpus analysis, and the use of corpus techniques in language teaching and linguistics in the classroom (data driven learning).
Cultural heritage, reading, literary, digital and media education and research as a way of understanding the world and forming critical, reflective citizens capable of dealing with any type of text, whether written or digital.
Description and analysis of Catalan morphology and syntax, with a diachronic perspective. It aims to describe and explain the processes of linguistic change that affect Catalan grammar, such as verbal morphology, demonstratives, quantifiers, subordination, etc.
Study of semantic change in the Catalan lexicon, how the different meanings are structured, how they arise and change. It is also interested in semantic change in constructions, such as verbal periphrases or phraseological units. Application of linguistic theories (cognitivism, constructionism...).
Didactics of written language (Spanish-Catalan-French-English) in multilingual contexts from the perspective of discursive genres (with attention to grammatical and pragmatic aspects and ICT) through the design and implementation of didactic sequences as a methodological device of didactic research.
One of the challenges currently facing education at all levels is how to deal with ethnic, cultural, linguistic, affective-sexual (...) diversity in our classrooms and how to do so with some signs of success. The line of research tries to do it from the literary training.
Development of a critical anti-colonial pedagogy in the teaching of Ethnic Literature that considers knowledge and methodologies different from and/or complementary to Western ones in the classroom.
The fall of the Berlin Wall and German reunification seem to have ushered in a new peaceful era. However, migration literature has redefined borders and certain parameters of violence, giving rise to new discursive forms and interdependencies.
The aim is to explore collective and individual memories of violence. It will analyse how memory is structured between victim and executioner, or the experience between the collective and the individual in relation to the phenomenon of violence in literary texts from 1945 to the present.
Study of the linguistics of the Greek language, from Proto-Greek to the present day.
Study of Greek rhetoric and stylistics, both at formal level and in terms of the studies surrounding both of them.
The relationship between literary language and violent phenomena will be explored. Based on theoretical proposals for the re-signification of hate speech, we will analyse the capacity of literary texts to problematize and make visible certain violent manifestations.
To investigate illustrated albums, comics, graphic novels, audiovisual and film discourse as fundamental tools for the reading, literary, linguistic and media training of the new generations..
Through the use of primary and secondary literature we will study the influence between American and British women's literature from the 17th century to the present day.
Education for the development of intercultural competence through literature.
Critical and social history of Latin American literary works in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Evaluation of corpus linguistics in the compilation and elaboration of monolingual, multilingual lexicography, including phraseological aspects, the writing of grammars based on actual language use and translation.
Study of the contribution of linguistics to the teaching-learning of Catalan, as a first or second language or as foreign language. Methodological applications in language teaching and learning (and the acquisition of language skills).
Social and identity transformations linked to migrations and their literary and cinematographic representations.
Research in the fields of medieval Catalan literature and digital humanities.
Social and identity transformations linked to migrations and their contemporary musical and theatrical representations.
Analysis of the literary and audiovisual practices of Native American and
indigenous authors in North America and their cultural representation from an epistemological, narrative, stylistic, political, eco-critical and traductological perspective.
Study of the reception of classical literatures to national literatures.
It will attempt to identify, decode and analyse those elements and mechanisms revealed by the various discourses on gender-based violence that depict, and often re-inscribe, gender-based violence in literature throughout history and, by extension, in society.
Work on the main lines of research and innovation being developed in literature and language didactics.
Study of the spread of the standard language in the Valencian Country (País Valencià) and related linguistic attitudes.
The aim is to study the reception of French literary texts, of any genre and period, in other linguistic and cultural spheres, as well as their mediating role with other languages or cultures, mainly Hispanic.
Study of classical Greco-Latin theatre in its different genres and its survival in the Western tradition. Creation of meeting spaces between academics and professionals in the performing arts. Bringing the results closer to society.
Diatopic and diaphasic variation and synchronic llinguistic change in the Catalan language. Elaboration of a dialectal and colloquial oral linguistic corpus of Catalan and study of the oral language in conversational and monologic texts.
Teaching and learning grammar. The configuration of school grammar from interlinguistic approaches and in relation to the mastery of the written language. Historiographical research on school grammar.
Study and research about French literary texts with the aim of translating them into Spanish. Translation of these texts and studies of the translations carried out, from the point of view of translatology and their reception and mediation within the Spanish-speaking world.
Social and identity transformations linked to migrations and their contemporary artistic representations.
