Presentation

Abstract

The present monograph of Quaderns de Filologia: Estudis Lingüístics aims to gain insights into the applied study of the different and distinct aspects related to the phonetic description of language: in the current state-of-the-art in research in humanities, researchers are well aware of the need of scientific investigations that are projected onto practical manifestations of the transfer of knowledge. With these premises, the editors deemed that phonetics as a discipline provided the grounds on which to illustrate such interdisciplinary approach.

Indeed, the practical applications that phonetics can favour are manyfold: from a strict linguistic point of view (e.g. the treatment of its relations with pragmatics and discourse analysis) to a wider perspective, dealing with didactic approaches to the teaching of L1, or L2, the teaching of oral performance and correct pronunciation, Clinical Linguistics, or the much-needed technologies of speech, among others.