Discourse, Communication and Society

Affiliated Research areas

• Pragmatics, sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, discourse analysis
• Texts and Concepts

Scientific Areas

• Not available

Keywords

• Applied languages
• stylistics
• rhetorical argumentation
• women's studies
• discourse analysis
• Applied languages
• Corpus linguistics
• text genres
• text types
• discourse strategies
• Pragmatics
• discourse analysis
• semantics
• meaning
• language use

Summary

- Discourse and pragmatic analysis of the language: This research line includes studies related to the interpretation of texts and the goals of communicative events from all periods of languages. Texts are studied from a social and a structural perspective
- The language of tourism: This line focuses on the role of languages in the development of touristic information, including the development of the textual genres associated to the discipline.
- Prosodic discourse analysis: This line assesses issues of prosody in communicative events and the impact it manifests in the interpretation of the messages.
- Women's Studies: This line researches on women's works from various periods and includes both real and fictional characters. The investigation is conducted through discourse analysis, and includes disciplines like stylistics and rhetorical argumentation with the aim of assessing the effect of women¿s words and works upon the audience.
- Linguistics and applied languages: Specialized languages are analysed in order to identify text-type, register and genre variables. Corpora may include texts from all periods of a language.
- Teaching languages, academic discourse and pedagogical strategies in global contexts: This research line encompasses theoretical and empirical studies on methodologies and didactic approaches applied to the teaching and learning of foreign languages. It includes works that critically examine the epistemological foundations, pedagogical models, and acquisition processes in diverse educational settings. The line also addresses studies on the development of communicative competence in academic contexts, with particular emphasis on language use and academic discourse in higher education environments. Additionally, it considers research focused on the design and evaluation of methodological practices from an interdisciplinary perspective, with attention to the linguistic, cognitive, cultural, and contextual factors involved in language teaching.