Spanish language and linguistics

The Spanish language and linguistics group deals with metalinguistic analyses of the Spanish language in its diatopic, diastratic/diamesic, synchronic/diachronic, phonetic, phonological, morphological, syntactical, lexical, textual and pragmatic varieties at different levels and registers of oral and written communication. It is also involved in studies on translation in its multiple forms. The group’s research areas centre around: semantic, lexical and phraseological elements; the history of the language; technical and scientific texts (16th-19th centuries); the history of translation and the study of translations into and out of Spanish; linguistic aspects related to migration; tourism communication; the phonetic and phonological aspects of Spanish varieties and phonic interference in the acquisition of Spanish as a foreign language. These areas are examined from different perspectives, especially through lexicology and lexicography tools, cognitive linguistics, translation studies, speech analysis, phonetics and phonology.