Research activities School of Applied Linguistics
The latest publications and projects from the School of Applied Linguistics.
Publications
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2019.
Quality assurance in translation and corporate communications
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In:
Huertas-Barros, Elsa; ed., Vandepitte, Sonia; ed., Iglesias-Fernández, Emilia, ed.,
Quality Assurance and Assessment Practices in Translation and Interpreting.
Hershey, PA:
IGI Global.
pp. 57-87.
Advances in Linguistics and Communication Studies.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-5225-3.ch003
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Liste Lamas, Elsa; Lübke, Barbara,
2018.
[paper].
In:
XVI Encuentros Complutenses en torno a la traducción / International symposium on parallel corpora (ECETT / PaCor 2018) : libro de resúmenes / book of abstracts.
PaCor 2018 : International Symposium on Parallel Corpora, Madrid, Spain, 5 - 7 November 2018.
Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
pp. 76-77.
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2018.
Financial literacy : a key to understand the language of numbers
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In:
1st Literacy Summit, Porto, Portugal, 1 - 3 November 2018.
University of Porto.
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Hoefele, Joachim; Konstantinidou, Triantafyllia Liana; Liste Lamas, Elsa; Rickert, Alex; Rodriguez, Brittany,
2018.
Literacy for entrepreneurship: modelling reading and writing skills for entrepreneurship
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In:
1st Literacy Summit, Porto, Portugal, 1 - 3 November 2018.
University of Porto.
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2018.
Research agenda for a contemporary higher education for media professions
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In:
ECREA 2018 - 7th European Communication Conference (ECC), 31 October - 3 November 2018.
USI Università della Svizzera italiana.
Projects
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Health Communication
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Indo-Swiss Translation and Interpreting Professionalization (ISTIP)
India and Switzerland share as an inherent characteristic their widely practiced and officially recognized multilingualism. In the management of multilingualism, English (as a second language) has played a much more prominent role in India than translation and interpreting (T&I), whereas, in Switzerland, English (as a lingua franca or ELF) has ...
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CLINT
English has become the first truly global lingua franca. Even in multilingual Switzerland, English as a lingua franca (ELF) is replacing the four Swiss languages not only in international but also in intra-national communication. What appears at first glance to be a practical solution to communication problems in business, science and education can ...
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Discourse analysis on the strategy Antibiotic Resistance (StAR) of the Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH) (French linguistic usage)
Due to the increase in antimicrobial resistance in Switzerland and in the light of the health policy priorities "Health 2020", the Confederation has launched a national strategy against antibiotic resistance (StAR strategy) in cooperation with the Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH), Food Safety and Veterinary Office (FSVO), Agriculture (FOAG) ...
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Energy Discourses in Switzerland: How and whether multilingual sources (mis)represent monolingual discourses
The phenomenon of various areas of Switzerland exhibiting contrasting patterns of voting on societal issues has been linked to urbanization, to cultural diversity, to geographical proximity to other countries’ discourses, and to linguistic differences. For example, the results of a popular initiative relevant to Swiss energy discourses (i.e. about ...