CROS — Crossing the Border between English and Spanish

CROS

Tabgroup

Researchers

Members

Simon Claassen

• Department of Linguistics

• Codeswitching
• Comparative
• Contemporary
• creole
• English
• Field research
• Intensification
• Language and text analysis
• language description
• Latin America
• Linguistics
• North America
• Quantitative
• South America
• Spanish
• Surveys

Laurence De Backer

• Department of Linguistics

• Communication
• Comparative
• Contemporary
• English
• Field research
• Framing
• Interculturalism
• Language and text analysis
• Latin American migration
• Linguistics
• Media
• Media linguistics
• Metaphors
• North America
• Quantitative
• South America
• Spanish
• US written press

Renata Enghels

• Department of Linguistics

• Comparative
• Language and text analysis
• Linguistics
• Portuguese
• Quantitative
• Spanish

Margot Vanhaverbeke

• Department of Linguistics

• Bilingualism
• Comparative
• Contemporary
• Diminutive
• English
• Language and text analysis
• Linguistics
• North America
• Quantitative
• South America
• Spanish

Projects

PhD research

• On the (not so) persuasive potential of metaphorical language in news media communication. Framing the Latin-American migration debate through metaphor (2021 - 2025)

Research project

• An integrative account of codeswitching. Reconciling structural, sociolinguistic and cognitive factors (2023 - 2027)