Research Methodologies in European Modern Languages and Literatures

Recommended Prerequisites

NA

Teaching Methods

Online theoretical lectures, with pratical online and offline joint sessions and individual tutorials, including the autonomous development of tasks and one final essay, videocast or podcast project on a given topic of interest.

Learning Outcomes

Students will
a. acquire research methodologies to understand and analyse European languages and literatures both in their specific contexts and in comparison
b. apply and develop problem-solving skills in unfamiliar environments within multidisciplinary contexts related to linguistic and literary visions of Europe
c. deal with complex critical judgements based on limited information, understand decision-making processes and problems in Europe, including those associated with social and ethical responsibilities
d. communicate findings, underlying knowledges and rationales in unambiguous ways and develop autonomous learning skills
e. locate and manage specialised online/offline bibliographic sources and archives on linguistics and literary studies and correspondent technologies
f. develop advanced analytical methods for critical interpretation of linguistic processes and literary texts
g. apply research methodologies to analyse both linguistic and literary corpora.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

This course will be divided into four sections
1. it will introduce students to the main issues one has to bear in mind when doing philological research.
2. it will explore critical research methods and methodologies in distinct core (sound, grammar, meaning) and applied domains in linguistics.
3. it will examine different methods (distant vs close reading; language or cultural specific approaches vs comparative readings etc) as well as different theoretical (from wider sociological, linguistic and thematic approaches to feminist, neo-marxist, postcolonial or psychoanalytic or environmental) approaches).
4. it will introduce students to specific methodologies within the growing area of Digital Humanities.
Students will, thus, be introduced to a wide range of tools of research as well as methodological and theoretical approaches that will allow them to explore issues of citizenship, policy and politics, hospitality, mobility and migration, from an informed and critical standpoint.

Head Lecturer(s)

Professor a Definir - Faculdade de Letras

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Participation in class: 20.0%
Project: 80.0%

Bibliography

Bauman, Z. (2004). Europe: An Unfinished Adventure. Polity Press.
Hosseini, S. A. H., Goodman, J., Motta, S. C., & Gills, B. (Eds.). (2020). The Routledge Handbook of Transformative Global Studies. Routledge.
Drucker, J. (2021). The Digital Humanities Coursebook: An Introduction to Digital Methods for Research and Scholarship. Routledge.
Litosseliti, L. (Ed.). (2018). Research Methods in Linguistics (2nd edition). Bloomsbury Publishing.
Lüsebrink, H.J. (2007). Interkulturelle Romanistik. In J. Straub, A. Weidemann & D. Weidemann (Eds.), Handbuch Interkulturelle
Kommunikation und Kompetenz: Grundbegriffe – Theorien – Anwendungsfelder (pp. 163-170). J.B. Metzler Stuttgart.
Wodak, R. (2018). Discourse and European Integration, KFG Working Paper Series, No. 86, Kolleg- Forschergruppe (KFG) "The Transformative Power of Europe". Freie Universität Berlin.
Saldanha, G.; Brien, S. (2013). Research Methodologies in Translation Studies. Routledge.