Cult1 - Research projects

The expert panel welcomes applications within all disciplines of and approaches to linguistics (applied, theoretical and historical; formal, functional and cognitive). The panel’s scope includes its recognized interdisciplinary subdisciplines (sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, computational linguistics and language technology, translation studies, interpreting studies, linguistic anthropology, language acquisition and learning (L1/L2), philosophy of language and the history of linguistics). Applications may pertain to the study of one or more spoken/sign language(s), as defined geographically, socially, typologically, genealogically. This includes contrastive studies and the study of bi/multilingualism. Applications may cover any aspect of language use (phonology and phonetics, morphology, syntax, lexicon, semantics, pragmatics and discourse) and rely on a range of relevant methodologies for linguistic enquiry (quantitative methods, text and corpus analysis, language documentation, linguistic ethnography, survey and interviewing, experimental methods, etc.). Applicants in neurolinguistics are advised to submit to the Med5 panel, while applicants for psycholinguistics need to consider whether their main focus is on linguistic research questions or, alternatively on the cognitive psychology of language use. In the latter case, they submit to panel G&M3. The inclusion of interpreting and translation studies in Cult1 presupposes a focus on utilitarian forms and processes of language mediation, as different from the literary and artistic uses of translation covered by panel Cult2.