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Research areas

The Doctoral Programme in Human Sciences offers four curricula:

  • Linguistics and Literature studies;
  • Historical, philosophical and social studies;
  • Theories and methods of intercultural education
  • Digital humanities and Digital Communication

 

The main research areas are:

  • Discourse analysis (in academic, corporate, legal, political, museum, medical field) 
  • Pragmatics and conversation analysis 
  • Corpus Linguistics
  • Intercultural Communication
  • Studies in Language Mediation
  • English as lingua franca
  • Intra- and inter-linguistic translation
  • Specialized Translation
  • Lexicology and terminology
  • Narratology
  • Reinterpretation and rewriting of the literary canon
  • Postcolonial and migration literature
  • Digital Communication
  • Communication Studies
  • Society, culture, people
  • Religious and historical-political sciences 
  • Cultural and historical studies
  • Religious History
  • History of Ideas
  • Language, mind and knowledge
  • Philosophical Anthropology, Life and Human Sciences
  • Theories and methods in Education and Evaluation
  • Project development of digital-learning platforms
  • Psychology of persuasion
  • Clinical Psychology (study of clinical/neuropsychological cognitive and behavioural processes on population with both a typical and atypical development)