Department

The Department of Studies on Language and Culture (DSLC) is characterized by dialogue and mediation between different disciplinary areas in the study of the variety of languages, literary and cultural expressions in the dynamic and multifaceted context of contemporary societies.

The teaching and research that the DSLC promotes stems from the interconnections between linguistics, translation studies, literature, history, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, economics and law, with a focus on digital communication.

Education, Research and Third mission

The most important areas of Education, Research and Third mission involve:

forms of communication (texts, forms of discourse, institutional interaction and linguistic-cultural mediation), including from the creation and study of corpora;
The translation and circulation of specialized texts;
historical studies on ideologies, nationalisms, identity constructions, and cultural movements;
The historical-artistic-literary heritage;
The history of philosophical and scientific ideas and problems in the philosophy of language;
anthropological and ethnographic studies of contemporary society;
studies on religions, with a focus on Christianity and Islam.

Humanities Library

Biblioteca Universitaria Umanistica
Largo Sant'Eufemia, 19 - 41121 Modena
phone +39 059 2055915-5920-5987
fax + 39 059 2055937

info: bumanistica@unimore.it

Department

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