Program Overview

PhD Program: ADVANCED ENGLISH STUDIES: LANGUAGES AND CULTURES IN CONTACT (R.D. 99/2011)

Effective since 2013, the PhD program in ADVANCED ENGLISH STUDIES: LANGUAGES AND CULTURES IN CONTACT (R.D. 99/2011) offers a comprehensive curriculum that explores various aspects of linguistics, literature, and cultural studies.

Research Areas

The program focuses on the following research areas:

• Speech analysis
• Advertising speech
• Grammatical comparison between languages
• Study of different linguistic aspects related to bilingualism and its acquisition
• Grammatical study of bilingual acquisition, both simultaneous (L1 + L1) and sequential (L1 + L2)
• Contrastive English/Spanish grammar
• English for Specific Purposes
• Specialty languages
• Language crossing (language identity)
• Specialized lexicography
• Diachronic Linguistics
• Diachronic English dialectology
• Applied linguistics
• ICTs applied to the teaching of the English language
• Intercultural competence and contrastive studies
• Linguistics applied to English teaching
• Cognitive linguistics, pragmatics, languages for specific purposes, translation, sociolinguistics, gender studies
• Corpus linguistics
• Canadian literature
• English literature
• North American literature
• Immigration and diaspora literatures
• Literatures and borders
• North American ethnic literatures
• Popular narratives in English
• North American poetry
• Politeness, Pedagogical discourse
• Historical-literary relations between Spain and English-speaking countries
• Representation of space in American literature and cinema
• Theater in English language
• Literary Theory and Criticism
• Terminology and morphosyntax
• Translation
• Intersemiotic translation

Director

The program is directed by Francisco Javier Ruano García.

Prevailing Specialties

The top 10 prevailing specialties in the program, obtained from publications, are:

• Literature and Literary Theory (Arts and Humanities)
• Linguistics and Language (Social Sciences)
• Language and Linguistics (Arts and Humanities)
• Education (Social Sciences)
• Cultural Studies (Social Sciences)
• Communication (Social Sciences)
• General Social Sciences (Social Sciences)
• History (Arts and Humanities)
• Anthropology (Social Sciences)
• Experimental and Cognitive Psychology (Psychology)