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Advanced Research Projects in the Humanities: New Trends on Literature, Languages, and Linguistics Studies



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Carlos Ceia

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DOI:10.17265/1539-8072/2013.12.001

New University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

Following the author’s own experiencing in supervising Ph.D. theses in literature, languages, linguistics, and teacher education, the author will focus on new trends of advanced research projects that have been contributing to reinforce the importance of research in these areas in a time of crisis in the humanities. The organization and funding of science and scholarship in Europe has been promoting anything else but social sciences research, including educational areas. The author will follow the recent call from the Board of Trustees da Academia Europaea to redirect policies toward the organization of multidisciplinary research projects. Among these so-called “small subjects”, we will find original, inspired, and valuable research projects in the humanities. It is worth mentioning that the crisis that has been diminishing this type of scholarship strangely cohabits with several policies promoted by the European Commission and the Council of Europe to develop programs for plurilingual education and linguistic diversity, new framework strategies for multilingualism, and the use of new technologies for language teaching and learning. A strong emphasis on research projects leading to interdisciplinary studies involving literature and pure sciences, plus the development of outreach research projects will be proposed.

literature, languages, linguistics, research projects, multilingualism, bibliometrics, humanities