Science and Research

The research is conducted in the following areas:

Literary criticism, with focus on 

• contemporary French and Quebec fiction
• contemporary literature written in French
• literary theory

Linguistics, with focus on

• comparative approach to selected linguistic phenomena
• lexicological differences between the French spoken in France and Quebec

Translation studies, with focus on

• literary and non-literary translation (technical, legal, administrative, general, business, etc.)
• reception theory
• translation criticism
• interpreting

Classical studies with focus on

• Greek Patristic literature.

 

Recent Grants under investigation

KEGA 025PU-4/2021, Inovation in teaching literature in the French language teacher’s training and translation studies, focusing on the practice of primary and secondary language skills

VEGA 1/0109/21 Poemata de se ipso of Gregory of Nazianzus

 

Recent Grants

KEGA 005PU-4/2020 Reálie z antickej kultúry ako súčasť prípravy študentov translatologických odborov.

VEGA 1/0114/17 Poemata de se ipso of Gregory of Nazianzus

KEGA 039PU-4/2017 Tvorba študijných materiálov pre výučbu odborného prekladu vo francúzštine a ich formálna a obsahová inovácia.

KEGA 027PU-4/2015: French culture and francophone cultures taught at the virtual University of Presov

KEGA 011PU-4/2013: E-learning courses of latin Language and of Classical Civilization as support for distance learning in the Hispanic Studies programs

APVV SK-FR0011-11: Family and the novel

031/2009/2.1/OPVaV-02/2010-01/2013: Retrofitting and Extension of the Center of Excellence for Linguaculturology, Translation and Interpreting supported by the Research & Development Operational Programme funded by the ERDF

VEGA 1/0666/11:  The image of the family in the contemporary novel written in French

VEGA 1/0237/09: Contemporary French-Canadian and Quebec fiction in actual inter-cultural context