Faculty of Communications and philology

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Research group

Spanish

Language, Culture and Society

Academic Unit: Faculty of Communications and philology

Colombian Ministry of Science

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Call

N/A

GrupLAC

OECD

Area

Humanities

Subarea

Languages and literature

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Strategic Focus

Contribute to the development of society and culture at regional, national and international levels through research associated with language, culture and society studies.

Research Lines and/or Areas

Bilingualism and language contact
Dialectology
Sociocultural pragmatics
Socio-cultural courtesy
Cross cultural studies
T–V distinction
Sociolinguistics
Interactional sociolinguistics
Didactics of the first language and foreign languages

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Group Coordinator

Ji Son JANG

Ph.D. in Language and Culture Studies, Kansai Gaidai University Master's degree in Linguistics, Universidad de Antioquia

Coordinator's Email

jison.jang@udea.edu.co

Scientific Cooperation

Collaborative Relationships

Autonomous University of Madrid
The University of Valencia
Sorbonne Nouvelle University

The University of Potsdam
Johns Hopkins University
Kyoto University

Highlighted Projects

COREC (by its Spanish acronym): Oral Corpus of Reference of Spanish in Contact. Phase I: minority languages. International project with funding, Autonomous University of Madrid / Universidad de Antioquia.
Spanish in contact with Mayan languages in Guatemala: analysis of the grammatical variation of Spanish in contact with Tzutujil. International project with funding, Universidad de Antioquia /Autonomous University of Madrid.
Intercultural pragmatics: courtesy in Colombia and Japan. Project with funding, Committee for the Development of Research (CODI by its Spanish acronym), Universidad de Antioquia.
Pronominal treatment formulas in Antioquia (Colombia): Third Phase. Project funded in kind, Universidad de Antioquia.

Key Research Findings

Jang, J. & García, A. (2023). Contact-induced grammaticalization in Spanish in contact with the tzutujil mayan language: the third-person unstressed pronominal system. Rilce 39 (1), 260 - 284. DOI https://doi.org/10.15581/008.39.1.260-84
Jang, J. & García, A. (2023). Sociocultural pragmatics of tuteo in the Spanish spoken in Medellín (Colombia): refined, affectionate and effeminate characters. Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 100 (6), 583 - 600. DOI https://doi.org/10.3828/bhs.2023.37
García, A. (2022). The discourse marker ya también in Andean Spanish. Philology Bulletin of the University of Chile, 57(1), 77-96. DOI https://boletinfilologia.uchile.cl/index.php/BDF/article/view/67527
García, A. & Jang, J. (2022). Considerations on solidarity ‘usted’ in the Spanish spoken in Medellín (Colombia). Signs 55 (108), 212 - 234. DOI https://revistasignos.cl/index.php/signos/article/view/702

Services and/or Products Portfolio

Analysis and comparison of pragmatic phenomena observed in different cultures and societies in interactions of everyday life.
Conducting research on intercultural studies to offer new perspectives that allow a better understanding of other cultures and societies.
Study of linguistic variation phenomena and their relationship with the social and cultural context.
Advice and accompaniment to students at the undergraduate and graduate levels of Universidad de Antioquia.
Promotion of national and international networks on the lines of research offered in the group.