A. GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF LANGUAGE

• The nature of language: Language and history
• The genesis of language
• Language acquisition
• Child development and language
• Psychic state and language
• Language change
• Linguistic borrowing
• Language and dialect
• Language variety
• Oral and written language
• Prosody
• Language and writing

B. LANGUAGE AND SOCIETY

• Language and nation
• Attitudes towards language
• Linguistic contraction
• Language and standardization
• Bilingualism
• Language and immigration
• Language and immigration: psychological dimensions
• Language and gender
• The language of young people
• Mass media: communicative context and discourse

C. LANGUAGE POLICIES

• Multilingualism in the E.U.
• Language-languages and European integration
• Language policy in the E.U.
• Minority languages in the E.U.
• Minority languages protection
• Minority languages in Greece

D. THE GREEK LANGUAGE

• Modern Greek and its history
• The language question
• Modern Greek after diglossia
• Ancient and Modern Greek: The autonomy of demotic
• The Greek language and its dialects
• Dialectal enclaves of Modern Greek
• Greek language in Cyprus
• Grammars of Modern Greek
• Dictionaries of Modern Greek
• Language and spelling
• Language error
• Translation of foreign terms

E. LANGUAGE TEACHING

• Literacy
• Multiliteracies
• The teaching of mother tongue
• Language and language awareness
• Text-based approach and language as teaching subject
• The teaching of Ancient Greek language and literature in Secondary Education
• The use of language in non-linguistic subjects: the discourse of science
• Foreign language teaching
• The teaching of Modern Greek as foreign/second language
• Cultural elements in teaching a foreign language
• Language education and linguistic exclusion
• The language of icons and education
• Language education and new technologies
• Language and new technologies: political and social dimensions

F. LANGUAGE AND TRANSLATION

• Translation
• Intra-linguistic inequality

G. LANGUAGE DISORDERS

• Learning difficulties and school failure
• Pathology of language
• Speech therapy

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