Languages and literature

Main research interests:



• nature of language behaviour in various social situations ;



• relationship between language changes and social changes, between language varieties and social groups;



•  types of linguistic behaviour in various communicative situations  depending on age, gender, social roles, profession, etc .;



• communication pragmatics;

The group's work is focused on multiple, interdisciplinary approaches to investigation of iconotexts - predominantly picturebooks.

Cahiers ERTA is a platform for scientific exchange on modern and contemporary French literature. Cahiers ERTA was first designed as a series of “Around…” monographs, published as part of the activities of the scientific research group ERTA (research team in applied theory), founded in 2006 by Ewa Wierzbowska, Tomasz Swoboda and Olga Wronska. Two monographs were published in 2008 and 2011.

The HCTI laboratory, Heritage & Creation in Text & Image (UR 4249), is an interdisciplinary research unit. It consists of a team of fifty-six permanent members in Brest and Lorient, around forty doctoral students and fifty associates, researchers in the fields of Arts, Literature and Languages, who explore the modalities of heritage and creation in textual, digital, iconographic and filmic corpora, from Antiquity to the present day.

The Centre de recherche bretonne et celtique (CRBC) is a multidisciplinary research laboratory whose 43 members (historians, linguists, Anglicists and Celticists, enthnologists, sociologists...) explore topics and areas of research within Breton and Celtic cultural domains. They also lead individual or collective research in other fields, across Europe, the Atlantic and beyond.