APPLIED LINGUISTICS AND LANGUAGES HUM842

Description

This research group is comprised of researchers in English, French, German and Spanish Philology. At present they teach languages for special purposes, such as the language of journalism, tourism, advertising and audiovisual media, health and business. They also deal with aspects (mentoring and counselling) related to egalitarian, inclusive and non-discriminatory language. In addition, they carry out translations from and into different languages, as well as proofreading and editing.

Research Topics

Sociolinguistics. Psycholinguistics.
Language teaching and action research.
Translation and Lexicology.
Language and literature.
History of Linguistics. Synchronic and Diachronic Linguistics. Comparative and Applied Linguistics.
English, french, german and spanish for specific purposes.
Tourism Speech Analysis. Climate and climate change discourse analysis.
Language and image from the gender perspective.

Scientific-Technical Services

General and specialized English, French, German and Spanish translations.
Proofreaders and consultants to publishing houses, media, cultural foundations and international organisations.
Dictionaries, glossaries and data bases. Indexing bibliographic sources related to applied languages.
Gender studies.
General and specialized courses (both classroom and online education) in English, French, German and Spanish for language students and language teachers: Languages for general surposes and professional languages.
Interpreting: simultaneous and consecutive interpreting.
English, french and german in-service teacher training.