PhD Program on Multilingual Communication.

The PhD, doctoral program on Multilingual communication: studies in translation, literature, linguistics and multilngualism of the Departament of Translation and Philology of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain) aims to train researchers in the field of multilingual communication from one of the following specialities: translation studies, literary studies, and linguistics.

Students can follow any of the five lines of research in which the program is structured, and they will only need to choose those courses that are necessary for their specific training:

• Literature (comparative literature, reception, literary translation)
• Translation (translation studies, translation and discourse, literary translation)
• Discourse (oral and written communication, social and specialized discourses, translation and discourse)
• Acquisition and learning (second language acquisition, language learning)
• Formal linguistics (linguistic theory, language description and contrast, computer processing of language)

The whole PhD program encompasses a period of two clearly diferentiated academic years:

• The first year (2005-2006) aims to provide a basic postgraduate training: conceptual and instrumental foundations for research in the line that has been chosen.
• The second year (2006-2007) aims to introduce students into research activities, while strengthening the fundamental contents and methodological tools already acquired.

The PhD program is largely staffed by professors involved in officially recognized research groups. After having obtained a number of credits in different courses of their choice, students will be able to undertake introductory research projects in any of these groups' subjects: in this way they will acquire their experience in the setting of projects in which research is carried out in a collaborative manner.

Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) is located in Barcelona, Catalonia (Spain).