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Prof. Dr. Geert Jacobs
Prof. Dr. Geert Jacobs
geert.jacobs@ugent.be
Contact details
Department
Department of Linguistics
Research group(s)
MULTIPLES - Research Centre for Multilingual Practices and Language Learning in Society
Research Focus
Communication
Linguistics
Media
Research Language
Dutch
English
French
Research Methodology
Field research
Language and text analysis
Tabgroup
Projects
Projects as supervisor
A linguistic ethnographic analysis of the interaction between science, media and politics
(
2018
-
2024
)
(De)constructing health news. A transdisciplinary investigation of elderly-related health news
(
2014
-
2018
)
A linguistic-ethnographic investigation into the role of sub-editing at a broadsheet newspaper
(
2011
-
2017
)
Publications
Most recent publications
Kowal, Eliza, and Geert Jacobs. “Does Addiction Belong in Modernity? Discursive Strategies of Exclusion in Polish Public Awareness Campaigns.”
DISCOURSE CONTEXT & MEDIA
, vol. 28, 2019, pp. 27–34.
Declercq, Jana, and Geert Jacobs. “‘It’s Such a Great Story It Sells Itself?’ Narratives of Vicarious Experience in a European Pharmaceutical Company.”
JOURNAL OF PRAGMATICS
, vol. 152, 2019, pp. 89–102.
Verkest, Sofie, and Geert Jacobs. “Blurred Boundaries in the Production of Science News : Analysis of a Large Scale Citizen Science Project on Air Quality.”
16th International Pragmatics Conference (IPRA), Abstracts
, 2019.
Valeiras-Jurado, Julia, et al. “Revisiting Persuasion in Oral Academic and Professional Genres : Towards a Methodological Framework for Multimodal Discourse Analysis of Research Dissemination Talks.”
IBERICA
, vol. 35, 2018, pp. 93–118.
Jacobs, Geert. “Organizations and Corporate Communication : Linguistic Ethnography in the Newsroom.”
The Routledge Handbook of Language and Media
, edited by Colleen Cotter and Daniel Perrin, Routledge, 2018, pp. 178–89.
Full bibliography
Teaching
Practical Business Communication
Master's Dissertation
Business Communication in English
English Language Acquisition
Academic English
Advanced Academic English
English for Criminologists
Scientific Communication in English
Economic English III
Economic Dutch for Non Native Speakers II
Economic English I
Economic English II
Economic Dutch for Non-Native Speakers I
Academic English for Communication Science Students