MISSIONS

• To generate research, innovate, share and transfer knowledge, in time and space, in a holistic way, between sciences, cultures and different social sectors.

• To provide a forum for exchange between established researchers and research groups interested in innovation and the transfer of knowledge in the field of language and communication sciences to the social, educational, cultural, technological, biological, economic, political and media sectors. All of this from a multidisciplinary point of view; in this sense, we consider interdisciplinarity possible between the sciences of language, communication and cognition, linguistics, history, sociology, psychology, biology and engineering and, of course, we work in an international and multicultural sphere, mainly with exchanges in French-, Spanish- and English-speaking areas; in European, American and Mediterranean education and research areas, without this necessarily being restrictive. In particular, the laboratory is seeking to establish a close link between the European Higher Education Area and the European Research Area, thereby helping to build the European Knowledge Area.

•  To create a meeting place for scientific exchange that can promote new talents and young researchers within the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities and the Autonomous University of Madrid, and/or associated Centres, with national and international projection.

GOALS

• To generate and promote theories about langage, langue and communication, mainly based on contemporary Semantics and Pragmatics, in particular on theories of argumentation and enunciation.

• To raise awareness of the meaning and importance of language in culture and society, individually and collectively, personally and publicly, in order to promote, facilitate and improve the quality of life.

• To disseminate the development of knowledge about language and communication within the scientific community and society.

• To develop methodological processes for the manual, computer-assisted or automatic analysis of language and/or communication (digital corpora of texts or other types of data) involving, on the one hand, computer engineering and, on the other, mathematical techniques derived mainly from Statistical Physics and Topology, which have laid the foundations for tackling complex and dynamic problems. We propose to confront their application to language, taking into account the complex mechanism of the oscillating Belopusov-Zhabotinski reaction, as a non-linear theory of chaos, in order to identify possible chains of dynamic semantic reactions, capable of participating in the management and selective design of the discursive configuration and, if necessary, establishing knowledge scripts on which to base their development, in intention and extension, according to possible semantic reactants or products involved in the process.

• Participating in the creation of knowledge tools and the development of IT tools for this purpose.

• Transferring knowledge from these tools to applications that are useful to society. Understanding the underlying workings of discourse has immediate application in the fields of language acquisition, translation, mediation, psychology, psychiatry, neurology, law, computer science and, among others, robotics, not to mention the important world of communication.

• Establishing a multilingual perspective : the working languages are mainly French, Spanish and English and, where appropriate, other languages will be considered in collaboration with other specialists.