Languages and literature

-  Literary myths and national imaginaries of the 18th and 19th centuries, with special attention to the construction of the Andalusian imaginary (banditry, Flemishism, costumbrism).

-  Andalusian printing during the time of the Cortes de Cádiz and the "Trienio Liberal".

- Spanish literature and visual culture in the 18th and 19th centuries.

- Spanish Literature, women and power.

- Meta-criticism of the Enlightenment and Romanticism.

IMAGE LITERATURE AND TRANSLATION

LITERATURE AND IMAGE. COMPARATIVE LITERATURE. - LITERARY ICONOGRAPHY. - TRANSLATION. - END OF THE CENTURY LITERATURE. - RECEPTION FRENCH LITERATURE IN SPAIN. TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETATION

- CLIL at university/Integrating Content and Language in Higher Education (ICLHE)/English as a Medium of instruction (EMI).

- Mobile-assisted and computer-assisted foreign language learning (MALL and CALL).

- English as a lingua franca (EFL), English as an international language (EIL), English for specific purposes (ESP) and English for academic purposes (EAP).

- English in the international context.

- The use of technology for second language teaching and assessment.

- Innovative teaching methodologies and second language testing tools.

- Taxonimy of communication strategies

- Relationship between communication and learning strategies

- Non-verbal communication in respect to communication skills improvement

- Time in intercultural communication

- Croatian higher education market discourse; 

- Advertising material of public and private higher education institutions presenting their educational activities;

 - Advertising material of public and private higher education institutions used with students for persuasive purposes; 

- public and private higher education institutions advertising job vacancies.

Our research deals with topics linked to the acquisition and use of pragmatic features of language (primarily English) by foreign language learners, as well as breakdown, speed and repair fluency . We have dealt with young language learners, university students and adults, as well as foreign language teachers, focusing on issues such as discourse marker use, fillers, task planning, classroom talk and similar. Another aspect of our research interest is related to interculturalism in SLA, the role of L1 culture in particular.

The Centre for the Study of Correspondence and Diaries (CECJI - EA7289) is a laboratory at the University of Bretagne Occidentale specialising in the publication and study of correspondence, diaries and texts relating to personal literature. Its territorial anchorage also means that it is dedicated to the study of Breton writers in the French language.

Research on Scandinavian drama and theatrical traditions in Scandinavia, combining insights from theatre, literature, culture, and translation studies; especially:

Research on colour vocabulary, especially

- colour lexicons of various languages, including, inter alia, Polish, Kashubian, Russian, Croatian, English, Spanish and Chinese;

- fixed expressions with colour terms;

- colour symbolism;

- use of colour terms in various texts, including literature;

- colours from the psycholinguistic and psychological perspectives.

Polish and German literature (from nineteenth century to the present time) related to the so-called Tri-City (Gdańsk, Sopot, Gdynia) and the Pomerania Region.