Key research themes
1. How does multilingualism affect cognitive and linguistic processing across languages?
This research area explores the impact of multilingual individuals' knowledge on the real-time processing of their multiple languages, focusing on lexical and morphosyntactic processing. Understanding how previously acquired languages influence the processing of new or additional languages informs theories of crosslinguistic influence, language representation in the brain, and the cognitive mechanisms underlying multilingual language use.
2. What are the sociolinguistic and educational implications of multilingualism in diverse community and institutional contexts?
This theme investigates how multilingualism shapes identity, social integration, education, and language policy practices. It covers issues of linguistic diversity and representation in research, challenges of language standardization, attitudes towards multilingual education, and the role of multilingualism in cultural belonging and pedagogy, revealing the interplay between language use, power, and institutional frameworks in multilingual societies.
3. How can linguistic categories and translational equivalences be reliably characterized and analyzed in multilingual contexts?
This theme focuses on the theoretical and methodological challenges of defining comparable linguistic categories across languages and evaluating translation quality, particularly in aphoristic and literary multilingual corpora. It engages with morphosyntactic typology, translation studies, and cross-language comparisons to refine the criteria for linguistic category identification and equivalence assessment in complex multilingual and multidisciplinary frameworks.