French language and culture

The main focus areas of the research include textual analysis and discourse studies, contrastive linguistics, translation and interpretation studies, stylistics, as well as the study of the spoken language, interaction and prosody. Research topics include both written and spoken language, not forgetting the language of the Internet. Literary studies are focused on French literature in the 20^th and 21^st century. In recent years, teaching French as a foreign language has also become a popular field of research.