Master's Program in Discourse Studies: Communication, Society and Learning

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Faculty UPF:

Department of Translation and Language Sciences

Name Group Lines of research

Alsina, Àlex, Ph. D.

GLIF - URLING

Formal and descriptive linguistics

Atienza, Encarna, Ph. D.

GR@EL

Discourse analysis, applied linguistics, language learing, lexicograpy, pedagogy and learning assessment

Bach, Carme, Ph. D.

GR@EL

Discourse analysis, language teaching and learning, applied linguistics

Bel, Núria, Ph. D.

IULATERM - IULA

Natural language processing and machine translation
Bisiada, Mario, Dr. GEDIT Discourse analysis and translation studies

Cañada, M. Dolors, Ph. D.

GR@EL

Language learning

Cassany, Daniel, Ph. D.

GR@EL

Literacy, reading and writing, language learning, discourse analysis, TIC and education
Freixa, Judit, Ph. D. IULATERM - IULA Lexis, terminology, specialized discourse and linguistic engineering

González, Montserrat, Ph. D.

GEDIT

Pragmatics, text lingüístics, epistemicity, evidentiality

López, Carmen, Ph. D.

GR@EL

Discourse studies, text lingüístics, language learning, assessment, feedback literacy
Mayol, Laia, Ph. D. GLIF - URLING Semantics and pragmatics

McNally, Louise, Ph. D.

GLIF - URLING

Semantics, pragmatics, computational semantics
Miche, Elisabeth, Ph. D. GEDIT Enunciation, argumentative semantics, discourse analysis
Milà, Alba, Ph. D. INFOLEX-IULA Pragmatics (speech acts, politeness, face), conversation analysis, discourse analysis and neology

Perpiñán, Sílvia, Ph. D.

ALLENCAM - URLING

Bilingualism, multilingualism, second language acquisition, language contact, minority language maintenance, heritage languages, morphology and syntax



Department of Communication

Name Group Lines of research

Feixa, Carles, Dr.

JOVIS.com Research Group

Youth, youth gangs, social moviments, migrations, cybercultures
Miquel Rodrigo, Dr. Critical Communication Research Group (CritiCC)

Interculturality

Roca, Carles, Dr.

Critical Communication Research Group (CritiCC)

Interpersonal and mediated communication, communication theory, scientific research methodology,  ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, analysis of political interviewing

Ruiz Collantes, Xavier, Dr.

UNICA (Unitat d'investigació en Comunicació Audiovisual)

Discourse studies, methodology of advertising creativity and analysis of persuasive messages

Gómez, Lorena, Dra.

UNICA (Unitat d'investigació en Comunicació Audiovisual) y CAS (Communication, Advertising and Society)

Social values and the media (especially in television fiction), public opinion, citizenship and the media (including gender issues, children and youth, and immigration), political communication (especially in rhetorical analysis of persuasive discourse)
Mauri, Marcel, Dr. POLCOM-GRP

Journalistic ethics and deontology, history of journalism

Medina, Pilar, Dra.

Critical Communication Research Group (CritiCC)

Gender perspective with a special focus on intersectionality

Perales, Cristina, Dr. 

POLCOM-GRP

Political discourse analysis, gender studies within the framework of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA)

Almiron, Núria, Dra.

Critical Communication Research Group (CritiCC)

Communication of the environment and climate change, critical discourse analysis, interest groups and communication of influence, animal critical and media studies, political economy of communication, ethics of communication
Castelo Heymann, Santiago, Dr. POLCOM-GRP

Journalistic ethics and deontology, history of journalism

 

Faculty UAB:

Department of Media, Communication and Culture

Name

Research group

Main lines of research

Chillon, Albert, Ph. Dr.

Institut de la Comunicació (incom-UAB)

Literary journalism, journalistic literature, testimonial prose, anthropology, philosophy of communication and language, rhetoric
Martín, Enric, Ph. Dr. Institut de la Comunicació (incom-UAB) History of communication and journalism, communication and audiovisual policies, social change and communicative change
Muntané, Isabel, Dra. Observatori sobre la Cobertura de Conflictes Gender and communication

Soriano, Jaume, Ph. Dr.

Observatori sobre la Cobertura de Conflictes

Gender and communication, critical analysis of news coverage, sociology of the journalistic profession, critical Internet studies

 

Department of Didactics of Language, Literature and Social Sciences

Name

Research group

Main lines of research

Birello, Marilisa, Ph. Dr.

ELBEC

Teaching and learning of written composition

Salas, Naymé, Ph. Dr.

ELBEC

Teaching and learning of written composition

Dooly, Melinda, Ph Dr.

GREIP

Plurilingual teaching and interaction
Masats, Dolors, Ph. Dr. GREIP

Plurilingualism and language learning, uses of languages in contexts of linguistic and cultural diversity

Llompart, Júlia, Ph. Dr.

 GREIP

Plurilingual teaching and interaction
Claudia Vallejo, Dra. GREIP

Plurilingual teaching and interaction

 

Department of Musical, Artistic and Corporal Expression

Name

Research group

Main lines of research

Rifà, Montserrat, Ph. Dr.

EMIGRA

Construction of identity and difference

 

Department of Applied Education

Name

Research group

Main lines of research

Olmos, Patrícia, Ph. Dr.

CRiEDO

Educational, social and employment inclusion

Sánchez, Rocío, Ph. Dr.

CRiEDO

Educational, social and employment inclusion

 

Department of Theories of Education and Social Pedagogy

Name

Research group

Main lines of research
Arnau, Laura, Dra. IARS

The construction of narratives around children in care

Bertrán, Marta, Dra.

EMIGRA

Education, gender and diversity

Mèlich, Joan Carles, Dr.

Grup de recerca Cos i Textualitat

Anthropology of education

 

Department of Social Psychology

Name

Research Group

Main lines of research

Pujol, Joan, Dr.

Grupo de investigación AFIN

Health professionals' discourse, discourse on parenting people with disabilities


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