Center of Oral Literature Studies "Ataíde Oliveira" (CEAO)
a) Oral Literature Databases
a) Oral Literature Databases
The CRILLS carries out research and educational activities in the field of foreign languages, cultures, and literatures, particularly in the areas of (English and French):
- lexicology and lexicography;
- terminology and terminography;
- discourse analysis;
- corpus linguistics and stylistics;
- literary criticism and translation;
- cross-cultural and genre studies;
- new digital literacies, webwriting, and their multimodal/media dimension.
In the projected research field, discourses about the attitudes and evaluations of expected standard languages and their features are empirically analysed in a comparative way by using a multilingual corpus of discourses contributions.
Analysis of oral and written discourse in academic and professional contexts.
Needs analysis of language learning and use in academic and professional contexts.
Content and language integrated learning.
Issues of interculturality in academic and professional settings.
English as an international language for academic and professional communication.
Foreign languages with academic purposes.
Foreign languages with professional purposes.
Teaching methodologies of foreign languages for academic and professional purposes
SOCIAL CHANGE AND POLITICAL AND IDENTITY MOBILIZATIONS IN ARAB AND BERBER SOCIETIES.
DIALECTAL ARABIC IN WRITTEN TEXTS OF THE PRE-MODERN MAGHREB
HISTORY OF WESTERN ISLAM
NORTH AFRICAN IMMIGRATION
AMAZIGH LANGUAGE (BERBER)
LINGUISTIC NORMALIZATION, TOPONYMY AND BERBER SOCIOLINGUISTICS
BERBER IDENTITY CLAIMS IN NORTH AFRICA AND THE DIASPORA.
SYNCHRONY AND DIACHRONY OF DIALECTAL ARABIC
- Application of logical systems to parsing and to knowledge representation in non-monotone systems
- Spanish L2 methodology
- Formal models for scientific knowledge from a historical perspective
- Sentence syntax, paradigmatics, and morfology aimed at language learning and improving the computerized use of linguistic corpora
- Descriptive Spanish grammar
-Spanish pragmatic analysis
Pragmatics, Syntax, Semantics, Computational Linguistics, Corpus Linguistics, Contrastive Linguistics, Translation (Spanish, English, French), Language Learning and Language Teaching
Spanish for specific purposes
Diachronic Spanish Language [History of the Spanish Language, Dialectology and Spanish sociolinguistics]. Spanish in America. Spanish Grammar. Spanish as a foreign Language.
Diachronic Spanish Language [History of the Spanish Language, Dialectology and Spanish sociolinguistics]. Spanish in America. Synchronic Spanish Language. Spanish as a foreign Language.