Canadian Studies
Research subjectCanadian Studies is an interdisciplinary field that deals with all social and cultural phenomena related to Canada.
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Classical Languages
Research subjectResearch in Classics at Stockholm University chiefly concerns language, textual criticism and philological studies.
Democracy in Latin America
Research subjectSince the onset of the so-called Third Wave of Democracy, research on democracy in Latin America has shifted focus from the transition and consolidation of democracy to the quality of present democratic regimes.
Development Studies in Latin America
Research subjectThe research area addresses the central elements of different generations of development thought and their political implications in Latin America, from modernization theory and the dependency school, to sustainable development and more critical thoughts on development.
Environmental Humanities with a focus on Latin America
Research subjectResearch within this area uses theories and approaches from the social sciences and humanities to understand past, present, and future environmental issues in Latin America.
Francophone Cultural Studies
Research subjectFrancophone Cultural Studies is, above all, an epistemology of social-historical contexts related to the French language.
French
Research subjectFrench is a language with a long history, which developed from the spoken Latin. Spoken language changes all the time. The reasons for this are social, demographic, geographic and/or political, factors that are also valid on modern language change.
French and Francophone Literature
Research subjectThis research area deals with literature from France and the French-speaking world.
French Discourse Analysis
Research subjectDiscourse analysis is the study of how language, when used in communication, acquires meaning, purpose and becomes coherent. The meaning of linguistic expressions derive not only from linguistic forms and propositional content, but from the interplay between the text, the situation and the cultural context in which the utterance is produced.
French Historical Linguistics
Research subjectIn historical linguistics research are being made on phonetic change. French has in fact undergone radical change concerning sounds.
French Linguistics
Research subjectOur research group encompasses diachronic and historical linguistics, semantics, pragmatics, and discourse analysis.
French Philology
Research subjectThe focus on research in French has been editing texts in Old French. The number of texts is very high and there are several genres and periods, from the 12th century to the 16th, where the period of Modern French begins. These texts are a good base for linguistic studies.
French Second Language Acquisition
Research subjectAn interdisciplinary field of research, drawing on linguistics, as well as psychology, education and other social sciences. Research in second language acquisition aims primarily to understand development in an additional language that one learns as a teenager or adult and how second language acquisition differs from first language acquisition.
Gender studies with a focus on Latin America
Research subjectThis research area investigates gender, sexuality and corporeality in a variety of Latin American contexts including public spaces, the home, formal and informal workplaces, media and consumption practices, as well as diverse forms of sociopolitical mobilization for or against sexual and reproductive rights.
Global Latin American Studies
Research subjectLatin America is not an isolated region in the world. Since colonization, the region has been strongly interlinked with global economic, political, social and cultural systems.
Greek linguistics
Research subjectResearch in Ancient Greek linguistics at Stockholm University includes the history of language and grammar as well as specialized studies applying modern linguistic methods to Greek negations, interjections and particles.
Greek literature
Research subjectResearch in ancient Greek literature at Stockholm University covers the whole period from Classical and Hellenistic Greek to Late Antiquity and the later Byzantine era.
Hispanic Literature
Research subjectResearch on literature in the Hispanic World at Stockholm University is carried out over a broad range of topics, with particular focus on the Golden Age writing as well as modern literature from the twentieth and twenty-first, but also on the cradle of that Golden Age, that is Spanish medieval literature from the thiteenth to the fifteenth centuries.
Italian
Research subjectItalian Studies at Stockholm university consist of five main areas: Italian Literature, Italian Linguistics, Italian Second Language Acquisition, Italian Historical Linguistics and Italian Philology. Both experienced researchers and doctoral students are active in this research field, in collaboration with national and international research networks.
Italian Historical Linguistics
Research subjectItalian historical linguistics is concerned with the evolution of linguistic structures from Latin to Italian and their development from the Middle Ages to the Nineteenth century.
