Ce centre regroupe un ensemble de linguistes et de spécialistes des langues, qui représentent les principaux courants de la linguistique contemporaine. Le centre couvre une grande partie des développements théoriques et pratiques des sciences du langage dans leur ensemble (phonétique, phonologie, syntaxe, sémantique, lexique, linguistique de l’énonciation, linguistique cognitive, neurolinguistique, linguistique appliquée, didactique des langues, linguistique générale, linguistique française, linguistique anglaise, linguistique romane, linguistique du texte et du discours).


This Center groups linguists and language specialists representing the main trends in contemporary linguistics. The Center as a whole covers most of the theoretical and practical developments of language sciences (phonetics, phonology, syntax, semantics, lexical studies, discourse linguistics, cognitive linguistics, neurolinguistics, applied linguistics, language teaching, general linguistics, French linguistics, English linguistics, Romance linguistics, text and speech linguistics).

The main axes of research which federate the different research sub-groups are: 1) Treatment and analysis of oral and electronic corpora, 2) Speech analysis, rhetoric and argumentative dimension of languages, 3) Sentence and text  linguistics,  4) Interaction between semantics, syntax and pragmatics, 5)  Sociolinguistics, contacts between languages and  didactics of the languages taught in the department, 6) Phonetics, phonology and description of unwritten languages.

The Center seeks to promote research in linguistics through the meeting of internal and international research teams and by the construction of common research programs around the research themes mentioned above.