Research

Current research

# Multimodal Pragmatics: language, gesture and communication; interactional dynamics; multimodal patterns; pragmatics of gesture; negation and disagreement; mediation; gesture and figurative language; interface language-gesture in public discourse; multimodal metaphor and metonymy. 

• Multimodal patterns for disagreement and mediation (project leader; MultiDeMe, 2023-2025, PID2022-143052NB-I00)

• Conflict communication and mediation in interaction (national research network leader; CoCoMInt, 2023-2025) 

• Multimodal patterns for negation and disagreement (project leader; MultiNeg, 2019-2022, PGC2018-095703-B-I00)

• Multimodal Pragmatics Lab (head; MuPra Lab, University of Navarra)

• Time in the Creative Mind (CREATIME; leading researcher with Cristóbal Pagán and Javier Valenzuela).

# Discourse Analysis dealing with language use in the public sphere: figurative language and phraseology; multimodal metaphor and metonymy; interaction between political and media communication; argumentation and persuasion. 

• See for instance: Olza et al. (2021) | Breeze & Olza (2017) | Olza (2014) | Olza (2012) | Olza (2009) | Olza (2008). 

Main areas of specialization in PhD and post-doc research

# Phraseology: idiom semantics; embodiment and figurative language; semantic motivation; use of idioms in pragmatic-discursive interaction. 

# Metalanguage and metapragmatics: reflexivity in language use; natural metalanguage. 

• See my PhD Thesis –available at DADUN (Digital Academic Repository of the University of Navarra): 

Aspectos de la semántica de las unidades fraseológicas. La fraseología somática metalingüística del español [Aspects of the semantics of phraseology. Spanish somatic metalinguistic idioms]. University of Navarra, 2009 (with European Doctorate and Annual Award of Excellence)

• See also –among others: Olza (2011, authored book) | Olza (2011, article) | Olza & Losada (2011) | Olza & Manero Richard (2013, edited book).