On the whole, at ECPC we approach an ample variety of research questions from a corpus-based viewpoint. Amongst our primary fields of work, the following are to be noted:
- Descriptive Translation Studies: regularities, norms and universals
- Critical Discourse Analysis and Translation
- Translation training
- Lexicography
- Genre Analysis
- Translator style
- Gender studies
ECPC is particularly keen on monitoring contextual developments regarding:
- European Union politics
- European Union integration
- European Union identity-related issues
In order to pursue this contextual examination, ECPC draws inspiration from a Hallidayan theoretical platform and from an instrumental view of language. Some of us, start our research from microestructural features such as lexis, transitivity, mood, modality, nominalization, thematization, etc.