Low-educated learners make up a large, yet vulnerable population in the world today (Unesco, 2004). Little is known about the second language acquisition process of this group of learners, but there ...read more
This project explores the process of transnational identity construction among Latin American migrants in transit through Mexico. Facing significant challenges in an increasingly hostile political climate towards migration, migrants actively ...read more
Many trans and non-binary foreign-language persons rely on an interpreter to express themselves across the language barrier in accordance with their identity. However, there are challenges, both for the social ...read more
Emotions have attracted a lot of attention in psychology, socio- and psycholinguistics and communication science, but since the past decade also in the fields of computational linguistics and natural language ...read more
This project examines interpreting practices in marriage fraud investigations conducted by Belgian authorities, in which a complex chain of interviews and reports results in the decision whether a transnational couple's ...read more
Between 1948 and 1994, the National Party installed the apartheid regime in South Africa, based on the communicating vessels of racism and sexism, which permeated the entire country and its ...read more
Project launched to drive awareness of new terrorist content online regulation amongst hosting service providers. Ghent University will be part of a consortium to drive greater awareness of and compliance ...read more
By exploring the ways in which ´being’ and ´being made´ are legitimized by the state and produced through the experiences in the on/off line nexus of those seeking asylum in ...read more
Although gender-neutral 3rd person pronouns (3PPs) are increasingly appearing in media discourse, studies of how readers interpret and evaluate them are currently still scarce. This project therefore aims at conducting ...read more
This study is part of the 'Translations and Open Science' project, which explores the possibility of using machine translation (MT) to disseminate research results in different languages. In 2020, the ...read more