Interdisciplinary applications

Mastery of quantitative and qualitative methods opens the door to a wide range of applications in the world around us.

Languages play a vital role in every aspect of social life and are essential for addressing a wide range of challenges, from meeting the real needs of migrant families in their social environment to facilitating communication among professionals in different fields.

The Public discourse group is committed to promoting best practices in education. On the one hand, these include initiatives focused on training to combat hate speech and misinformation. On the other hand, they include efforts aimed at improving education and language teaching.

Other applications relate to improving communication among professionals and institutions. In this regard, there is growing interest in studying the discursive strategies used by public and legal entities to communicate with different audiences, to inform citizens of their rights and obligations, or to explain relevant procedures. Communication in crisis situations and conflict resolution are also becoming increasingly important. We also work to explore in depth the communication techniques used in the healthcare sector and in any professional practices related to language use.

Some recent theses supervised by members of our group focus on language teaching and bilingual education. We are open to interdisciplinary projects in which linguistic analysis techniques play a decisive role. For example, in recent years we have collaborated on research projects on the communication of climate risks, the diagnosis of psychological traits through the analysis of patient essays, the application of linguistic criteria to the legal analysis of defamation and hate speech, NGO communication during migration crises, and the analysis of the effects of AI on academic publishing.