Institute of Slovak and Media Studies conducts research in the fields of general linguistics, phonetics, Slovak language, literary theory, literary history, literary criticism (with emphasis on Slovak literature) and media studies and cultural studies. More specific areas of our research interests include:

1. linguistics:

• general-linguistic, communication, semiotic and contrastive analysis of the speech signal
• computer methods for speech recognition (identification and authentication) and recognition of speaker
• communication status of the Slovak language’s sound phenomena
• theory of syllable
• valence and morphemic structure of lexical units
• morphosyntactic analysis of the Slovak National Corpus
• expressive and semantic structure of motivated words
• theoretical and practical stylistics of Slovak language
• sociolinguistic research of Slovak language
• development of child speech
• dialectology
• history of Slovak language

2. literary studies:

• history of Slovak literature
• theory of the literary work (author, substance, topic, problem, text, composition, intentionality, developmental and aesthetic value)
• other-nation’s literatures in the Slovak context
• theory and history of children’s literature
• author and text
• literary criticism
• theory and practice of comics

3. media studies:

• research on media texts in an electronic and print media
• production, distribution and reception of printed and electronic media texts
• semiotics of media texts, theory of communication and media
• social and cultural contexts of media texts
• pop culture – the origin and reflection of popular culture
• language in the media (with emphasis on acoustic plane of Slovak language)
• journalistic genres in print and electronic media
• representations of identities (gender, sexuality) in the media
• media representations of food
• media sports
• discourse analysis in media research