formerly L-OR/22 Languages and literatures of Japan and Korea

The field is concerned with scholarly and educational activity in relation to Japan and Korea. It includes, with specific reference for both areas to the primary sources of the respective languages, as well as in relation to written and oral production from the origins to the contemporary age, the following fields of study: linguistics, history and didactics of language, dialectology, translation, translation studies and interpretation, philology, paleography, epigraphy, literature, literary criticism, visual arts, discursive and expressive forms other, cultural studies. The methodologies adopted are particularly those of linguistic, philological and literary-critical research, with approaches that are also interdisciplinary in nature.