IMPORTANT: this overview contains official and external activities. As of the academic year of 2024-2025, a UGent Outlook Calendar of MULTIPLES Activities is available to all the active members containing all the activities of our research centre, external and internal.
If you do not see the calendar in your UGent Outlook, ask a MULTIPLES member with editing rights to share it with you.
Upcoming events
2025
MULTIPLEtalkS followed by a reception - 27/03/2025; 14:00 - 16:30; Blandijn Avalon
Our speaker Hanne Verhaegen: How to measure mental gender representations elicited by the use of Dutch gender-inclusive pronouns?
Joining: Sara Vicente Balenciaga as the booster and Fien De Latte as discussant. Details and pictures on our MULTIPLES blog.
MULTIPLEtalkS - 27/03/2025; 12:30 - 14:00; Blandijn Midgard (1.15)
Our speaker Louiza-Maxine Derveaux: Multimodal and multilingual data analysis: where to begin?
Joining: Chloé Vincent as the booster and Geerts Jacobs as discussant. Details and registration on our MULTIPLES blog.
MULTIPLEtalkS - 21/02/2025; 12:30 - 14:00; Mercator A4.10
Our speaker, Frauke Vervaeke: Operationalizing measurements in language attitude research: Design standardization vs. community sensitive measurement
Joining: Laurence De Backer as the booster.
Guest Lecture - 11/02/2025; 12:00 - 13:00; Mercator A1.04
Lecture by Dr. Carolin Schneider, bio and abstract below!
This guest lecture is hosted by Irene Cenni. For more information, please use Irene.Cenni@ugent.be.
Registration through the link.
Short bio
Dr. Carolin Schneider is a post-doctoral researcher and lecturer in the field of pragmatics at the Department of Anglophone Studies at the University of Duisburg-Essen.
Her research interests include multimodality, digital health communication, social media discourses, digital communities of practice, on- and offline discourses related to dementia, and the intersection of multilingualism and dementia.
Her current project, “DigiHealthCoMM”, funded by UDE Seed Funding, examines how multimodal discursive practices shape digital communities of practice within the context of Tourette’s syndrome. Previously, Carolin studied the language use of bilingual individuals living with dementia. Her research was dedicated to understanding how these bilingual individuals, despite the challenges posed by dementia, use their linguistic repertoires in conversations with their primary caregivers. The significance of her work was underscored by the recognition it received, with her thesis achieving the distinction of 'summa cum laude’ and the reception of the Dissertation Award in 2023. Further, she is the co-founder of the LUMID working group (https://lumidworkshop.wordpress.com) and the founder of the quarterly digital roundtable ‘Intersections in Dementia Discourse’ (https://intersectionsroundtable.wordpress.com/), bringing together international and interdisciplinary perspectives from research and society. Recently, she initiated the longitudinal Dinner Time Project (https://thedinnertimeproject.wordpress.com), which aims to collect (mono- and multilingual) conversations over dinner of people living with dementia and their inner circle over time.
From Text to Video: Investigating (Re)positioning in (Multimodal) Health Discourses
Carolin Schneider (University of Duisburg-Essen)
From the early days of internet forums to the now omnipresent platforms such as Instagram, Reddit, YouTube, or TikTok, the ever-evolving landscape of digital communication has re-shaped the way individuals connect. One of the many affordances of these modes of communication is the emergence of digital communities (Angouri 2015) where individuals gather around shared interests or experiences, transcending geographical boundaries and traditional barriers to access (Jacquemet 2019, Leuckert 2020). Particularly in the field of health communication, these communities are crucial for exchanging information, providing support, rising awareness as well as collaborating on sense-making perspectivizing, conceptualizing, and coping. This talk focuses on how social actors position and reposition themselves (Buchholz & Hall 2010) within online health discourses, drawing on two distinct datatypes. The first comprises textual data from online forums, exploring the self- and other positioning practices of individuals living with dementia as well as those of their care partners, including instances of negotiation and repositioning (Bös & Schneider 2021, Bös & Schneider 2022). The second focuses on multimodal video data, examining how video affordances such as gesture, facial expression, and visual framing, enable dynamic forms of positioning in the context of Tourettes Syndrom. Users make efficient use of the technical affordances available to them, adapting these features to the specific contexts in which they communicate. Also considering generational differences and the role of platform-specific features, this talk addresses how these factors influence users' engagement in selfrepresentation and sense-making
Upcoming events
2024
17-18/12/2024 @ Mercator Campus, Room A1.04
LinGhentian Doctorials
Abstract submission until 08/11/2024 (LinGhentianDoctorials@UGent.be)
A PhD conference organised by and for PhD students of linguistics at Ghent University. The LinGhentian Doctorials are not only an opportunity to present your own research to your colleagues and get feedback, they also serve the purpose of getting to know your fellow PhD students from other Departments. Many MULTIPLES researchers are involved in the organizing committee and as presenters.
More information: www.linghentiandoctorials.ugent.be
28/11/2024, 15:00 @ Forum, Ledeganckstraat 35, 9000 Gent
Public PhD Defence
Greet Angèle De Baets (UGent): Embodied Learning With and From Aikido: A Mixed-Methods Investigation Into Teaching Intercultural Communication Skills for the Workplace | Supervisor Professor Ellen Van Praet | Co-supervisors Professor Sofie Decock and Professor Andreas Niehaus
26/11/2024, 16:00-17:30 @Technicum (UFO Campus) (Auditorium B - Walter De Soete)
Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41, 9000 Gent
TALK by Professor Steven Trenson (Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan)
Title - A Japanese Classical Martial Art in the Modern Age: Musō Jikiden Eishin-Ryū, Its History, Characteristics, and Spiritual Thought
Bio - Professor Steven Trenson is an alumnus of Ghent University. He moved to Japan in 1999 and is now an esteemed scholar of Japanese religions and culture, especially medieval Buddhism.
Meet the PhD Jury - Professor Steven Trenson is visiting Ghent University as a member of a PhD examination commission.
Abstract - This paper focuses on the martial art lineage of Musō Jikiden Eishin-ryū, a well-known school of the art of drawing the sword (iaidō /iaijutsu) established in the 17th century, which traces its origin to Hayashizaki Jinsuke Shigenobu, a swordsman who lived from around the middle of the sixteenth to the early seventeenth century. Eishin-ryū is one of the few classical martial art schools (koryū) that are still practiced and transmitted today, and dojos dedicated to the lineage are now found not only in Japan but in many other countries of the world as well. The techniques of this classical iaijutsu school concern various methods for quickly drawing the sword (katana) to strike down one or more opponents in different imagined situations from either a seated or a standing position. The techniques are violent, and yet the art is transmitted today not only for the purpose of preserving the old techniques but also as a way of self-cultivation or self-realization (shugyō). This aspect of self-cultivation is often emphasized in modern books on the art or in blogs or websites of schools that teach and pass on the lineage. Usually, those books or websites underscore the idea that the art develops character or builds ethically better persons (ningen keisei), or that its practice leads to a higher mental awareness.
In this talk, I will briefly introduce the history of Eishin-ryū as well as its major characteristics and proceed with a discussion of its spiritual thought. In this respect, the paper will highlight some of the religious—mostly Buddhist or Confucian—aspects that are recorded in the various premodern initiation documents (densho) related to the art and clarify their spiritual as well as practical significance to the techniques. In so doing, an attempt will be made to shed more light on the perceived nature of this classical martial art as having both a practical and a spiritual side.
The talk will take about seventy minutes, which will be followed by a twenty-minute Q&A session. During the talk, visual materials such as images and videos will be provided to illustrate some of the practical or technical aspects of the art, and occasionally reference will be made also to the speaker’s personal experience of the practice of the art in Japan, which spans a period of more than twenty years.
More information: greet.debaets@ugent.be
4/11/2024, 15:30-17:00 @ Mercator Campus, Room A1.04
"Meet the expert" Activity: Shiri Noy: Research Project Management
Registration: https://event.ugent.be/registration/RPMNoy until 28/10/2024
Learning how to organize and manage research is important for both the researcher and for advancing research. However, graduate students are often trained in theories, methods, and disciplines, but rarely in the organizational, administrative, and metacognitive skills required to manage research projects. Moreover, several disciplines are decrying a reproducibility crisis, with a concerted academic push toward open-access approaches. By clearly organizing research, graduate students and researchers can ensure that they are able to account for their methodological, theoretical, and other research decisions: to reviewers, to funding agencies, and to support the development of new ideas and exciting offshoots of projects. This workshop will discuss best practices and recommendations for developing a legible, reliable, and efficient research project management system
The event will be an open lecture to guide students through managing their research. The talk is open to any PhD students and candidates, and will include walking students through developing a research project management system that incorporates the phases of planning, research execution, and adjustment. This event has been funded by the Doctoral School.
Dr. Shiri Noy is a well-published scholar in the area of public perspectives on science and religion and health policy reform in Latin America and her work has been grant funded and published in leading journals. Dr. Noy has a forthcoming book (which will be published in Nov 2024) entitled Project Management for Researchers: A Practical, Stress-Free Guide to Getting Organized on how to manage research projects that guides readers, both advanced and beginning, on how to managed their work. This is her second book, and she draws on multi-disciplinary, cross-national, and mixed methods projects to guide researchers on managing their research projects: including data, communication, and workflow. She has taught advanced workshops for researchers in applied and academic settings on mixed methods research for several years via the ICPSR summer program, the Inter-University Consortium on Political and Social Research.
More information: Nausica.Marcosmiguel@UGent.be
04/10/2024, 17:00 @ Vandenhove Auditorium, Rozier 1
Public PhD Defence
Sofie Verkest (UGent): Collaboration and Participation in Science-Media Interactions. A Linguistic Ethnographic Analysis of a Citizen Science Project on Air Quality | supervisor professor Geert Jacobs.
04/10/2024, 12:00 @ Mercator Campus, Room A1.04
Meet The Expert workshop followed by Public PhD Defence
Workshop speakers: Dr. Anaïs Tack (KU Leuven) and Prof. Dr. Detmar Meurers (Universität Tübingen) | Full details on event: https://www.ugent.be/nl/agenda/intelligent-computer-assisted-language
PhD Jasper Degraeuwe (UGent): Intelligent Vocabulary and Example Selection for Spanish vocabulary learning | Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Patrick Goethals.
04/10/2024, 11:00 AM @Blandijn (Boekentoren Campus) (Room 2.25)
TALK by Dr Gilles Merminod (University of Lausanne)
How to study changing writing cultures: Preliminaries to a linguistic ethnographic approach to newsroom convergence in Switzerland
Abstract
In 2026, the French-speaking Swiss Public Broadcast Service will merge its three media-specific and geographically-separated newsrooms (radio, television and web) into a single multimedia production center. Previous studies on newsroom convergence have observed that bringing together different communities of practice impacts on professional identities, skills, work routines and organizational structures, leading to clashes of culture (e.g., Singer 2004; Larrondo et al. 2016); but, to date, little is known about how convergence modifies newswriting practices as such, and no study exists on how convergence affects the actual processes of text production. My talk will examine how such a phenomenon can be studied from a linguistic ethnographic perspective. With the assumption that each community of practice has its own way(s) of writing news stories, I will show how I combine the methods from the linguistics of news production (NT&T 2011; Jacobs 2017) with those from French text linguistics (Adam 2011; Mahrer & Merminod 2022) to study changing writing cultures.
References
Adam, Jean-Michel (2011). Les Textes: types et prototypes. Paris: Armand Colin.
Jacobs, Geert (2017). Organizations and corporate communication: linguistic ethnography in the newsroom. In Cotter, Colleen & Perrin, Daniel (ed.). The Routledge Handbook of Language and Media, pp. 178-189. London: Routlegde.
Mahrer, Rudolf & Merminod Gilles (2022). Pour une approche processuelle du texte: de la cohérence à la continuité. In Mettraux, Thibaud & Zufferey, Joël (ed.), La dis/continuité textuelle. Lausanne: Fabula.
NT&T (2011). Towards a linguistics of news production. Journal of Pragmatics, 43 (7), pp. 1843-1852.
More information: geert.jacobs@ugent.be
Weekly events
Writing/working group
Two or three times a week @ ONLINE (covid) or alternating @ Blandijn @ Mercator
Would you like to join? Subscribe to the list or send an e-mail to seppe.goddaert@ugent.be or greet.debaets@ugent.be
To cater to everyone's needs:
- We start the session by checking who will be focussing on either writing, working or if there is anyone in need of personal feedback
- Based on this we decide:
◦ the brief/debrief structure: in group or two-by-two
◦ the duration of the writing/working intervals
◦ if applicable, a time for feedback (during or after the session)
- We would calculate 5-10 mins for each brief/debrief and keep a break separate from the brief/debrief of 10 minutes before starting another round.
Suggestions are of course very welcome and highly appreciated :-).
Past events
2024
27/09/2024, 12:30-14:00 @ Blandijn Campus (room Avalon)
MULTIPLEtalkS
Our speaker, Nausica Marcos Miguel: Challenges in researching spoken language in instructional contexts
Joining: Laurence De Backer as the booster. Details and registration on our MULTIPLES blog.
04/09/2024, 15:30 @ Mercator Campus, A1.04
Public PhD Defence
Shauny Seynhaeve (UGent): Education following migration: outcomes and experiences of newly arrived migrant students | supervisor professor Bart Deygers and co-supervisor professor Ellen Simon.
31/05/2024, 12:30-14:00 @Mercator Campus (room A1.04)
MULTIPLEtalkS
Our speaker, Beatrijs Wille: Bilingual education: Flemish-Dutch sign language
Joining: Marie Jacobs as booster. Details and registration on our MULTIPLES blog.
26/04/2024, 12:30-14:00 @Blandijn Campus (room Camelot)
MULTIPLEtalkS
Our speaker, Sofie Decock: Gender and language in Dutch: state of the art and research desiderata
Joining: Seppe Goddaert as booster and Anne-Sophie Ghyselen as discussant. Details and registration on our MULTIPLES blog.
15/03/2024, 11:30-13:00 @Mercator Campus (A1.04)
MULTIPLEtalkS
Our speaker, Gil Verbeke: From research to reality: Exploring the role of authentic speech data in linguistic studies
Joining: Greet De Baets as booster and Dr Beatrijs Wille as discussant. Details and registration on our MULTIPLES blog.
26/01/2024, 11:30-13:00 @Blandijn Campus (Faculteitsraadzaal)
MULTIPLEtalkS
Our speaker, Dr Vanessa De Wilde: A long and winding road: investigating longitudinal research
Joining: Greet De Baets as booster and Dr Marie Jacobs as discussant. Details and registration on our MULTIPLES blog.
2023
24/11/2023, 12:30-14:00 @ Mercator Campus, A1.04
MULTIPLEtalkS
Our speaker, Geert Jacobs, organized a MULTIPLEtalkS data session: Whose questions? Ventriloquism in entrepreneurial podcasting
Joining this talk: Lotte Remue as booster and David Chan as discussant. Check out all the details on our Multiples blog.
Talk by Prof. Helen Fraser on Getting to the heart of problems in forensic linguistics
16/11/2023, 10:30-12:00
@ Department of Translation, Interpreting and Communication (room TBA)
Title: Getting to the heart of problems in forensic linguistics: How misconceptions about transcription, translation, and related topics create injustice in legal proceedings.
Registration link: https://event.ugent.be/registration/talkhelenfraser (please register before 14/11)
Bio: Professor Helen Fraser studied linguistics and phonetics at Macquarie University (Sydney) and The University of Edinburgh, then taught phonetics and related subjects for many years at The University of New England (NSW), where occasional case work led her to a research interest in forensic transcription. Following ten years as an independent researcher and consultant, Prof Fraser is now Director of the Research Hub for Language in Forensic Evidence at The University of Melbourne.
Abstract: Forensic linguists address a wide range of problems involving use language as evidence in legal proceedings, eg. fallible 'language tests' to determine the origin of asylum seekers, unreliable transcripts of covert recordings, inadequate use of interpreters to ensure witnesses from diverse backgrounds can participate fully in proceedings.
Often there is an urgent need to address the immediate risk of injustice caused by these practices, and clearly that must be the priority in any individual case. This presentation, however, takes a step back to consider: Are there deeper issues that systematically underlie these kinds of problems? If so, how can linguists identify the underlying issues clearly and address them effectively?
Using a series of current and historical case studies, it argues that many specific problems can be traced to general misconceptions about language that are deeply embedded in legal practice, especially in relation to fundamental concepts such as the nature of transcripts and translations. The aim is to open discussion about how linguists can show constructive leadership in overcoming these misconceptions.
19/10/2023, 11:30-13:00 @ Mercator Campus, A4.10
Guest Lecture Eva Codó (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Investigating language policy in institutions ethnographically: Opening the focus, changing the questions
19/10/2023, 15:00 @ Mercator Campus, A1.04
Public PhD Defence
Ella van Hest (UGent): Her body, her voice? A linguistic ethnography on language diversity and participation at an abortion clinic | supervisor: prof. dr. July De Wilde
20/10/2023, 11:30-13:00 @ Plateau Campus, Simon Stevin Room 0.1
MULTIPLEtalkS
Our speaker, Romeo De Timmerman, organized a MULTIPLEtalkS data session:
Processes of authentication in music: a MULTIPLEtalkS data session
Joining this talk: Sofie Verkest as booster and Sibo Kanobana as discussant. Check out all the details on our Multiples blog.
29/09/2023, 15:30 @ Faculteitsbibliotheek Letteren en Wijsbegeerte
19/09/2023 - 9u -18u
Seminar- Linguistic diversity in education
Centre of Diversity and Learning and MULTIPLES invite you to a seminar with four esteemed international experts on multilingualism—Jim Cummins (University of Toronto), Carolyn McKinney (University of Cape Town), Nathalie Auger (University of Montreal), and Robyn Tyler (University of the Western Cape). In the morning there will be a round table discussion with young researchers. In the afternoon there will be keynotes of these experts, followed by a panel discussion with policymakers and practioners (Sven Gatz (Brussels minister of multilingualism), Evita Willaert (Alderwoman of education in Ghent), Hannelore Goeman (Flemish member of parliament in the education commission), Birgid Decleyn (headmaster Pacheco, a primary school in Brussels) and Nell Foster (our newest doctor of the Centre of Diversity and Learning)).
The overall timeline
- 9h30: Start Ghent internal session
- 12h30: Lunch (on your own)
- 13h45: Welcome to the plenary part of the seminar
- 14h00: Keynotes
- 15h30: Panel discussion
- 17h00: Network reception
18-19 September 2023 @ Department of translation, interpreting and communication
InDialog 4 Conference | Multiplicity in public service interpreting and translation
ENPSIT welcomes you at Ghent University to explore current PSIT practices through the lens of multiplicity.
https://www.indialog-conference.com/
7/09/2023, 16:30 @ Sint-Pietersabdij, Kapittelzaal
5/09/2023, 16:00 @ Mercator Campus, A1.04
Public PhD Defence
Mathias Seghers (UGent): Normativity or creativity? The use and perception of non-standard language features in consumer feedback and webcare on corporate social media | supervisor: prof. dr. Bernard De Clerck and prof. dr. Chloé Lybaert
22/06/2023, 17:00 @ Vandenhove Auditorium, Rozier 1
Public PhD Defence
Aaricia Ponnet (UGent): Climbing the language tree: multiple case studies on the acquisition of Hindi as a Foreign Language | supervisor: prof. dr. Klaas Willems
26/05/2023, 12:30-14:00 @ Mercator Campus, Room B2.10
MULTIPLEtalkS
Our speaker was Greet De Baets: Analysing a surprising comparison group
Joining this talk was Seppe Goddaert as booster and Sofie Verkest as discussant. Check out all the details on our Multiples blog.
17/03/2023, 12:15-13:45 @ Blandijn Campus, Camelot (3rd floor)
MULTIPLEtalkS
Our speaker was Ellen Soens: On becoming employee ambassadors in academia
Joining this talk was Marie Jacobs as booster and Ludivine Crible as discussant. Check out all the details on our Multiples blog.
17/02/2023, 12:30-14:00 @ Mercator Campus, A1.04
MULTIPLEtalkS
Our speaker was Aaricia Ponnet: How to include our individual perspectives in research
Joining this talk was Seppe Goddaert as booster and Michael Meeuwis and Rafaël Verbuyst as discussants. Check out all the details on our Multiples blog.
2022
Postponed until further notice - 31/05/2022, 11:00 @ Blandijn (1.12):
Talk by Ana Pellicer Sanchez (University College London, Institute of Education): Developing second language vocabulary through reading: An examination of readers’ eye movements
Reading is an important source of second language (L2) vocabulary growth. Previous studies have shown that new vocabulary can be learnt incidentally from reading and that knowledge of different aspects of lexical knowledge can be developed. This presentation will first provide an overview of existing eye-tracking research on vocabulary learning from reading and will present results of recent studies exploring the effect of a variety of factors (e.g., frequency of exposure, instruction, spacing, coverage) on novel word learning from reading. It will then discuss the empirical evidence available exploring the relationship between eye movements and learning gains.
20-21/12/2022 @ Mercator, room A1.04
6th LinGhentian Doctorials
A PhD conference organised by and for PhD students of linguistics at Ghent University. The LinGhentian Doctorials are not only an opportunity to present your own research to your colleagues and get feedback, they also serve the purpose of getting to know your fellow PhD students from other Departments. Many MULTIPLES researchers are involved in the organizing committee and as presenters.
28/11/2022, 11:00-13:00 @ Auditorium M, Jozef Plateaustraat 22, 9000 Gent and @ online
Keynote in the seminar series on multilingualism: prof. Kristina Hultgren (The Open University) - The hidden drivers of English as an academic language in Europe: Retheorizing the rise of English as an outcome of higher education governance reforms
Information and registration page (deadline: 25/11/2022)
Organised in collaboration with the ENLIGHT partners. Your host will be prof. Stef Slembrouck
25/11/2022, 12:30 @ Mercator, A1.04
MULTIPLEtalkS
MULTIPLEtalkS is a monthly informal get-together in which a researcher discusses a piece of their own work with other Multiples researchers. During these events we kill multiple birds with one stone: the speaker gets valuable input and feedback on their work, junior and senior Multiples researchers get to exchange ideas, we cross the bridge between the two campuses, and we have lunch!
Every MULTIPLEtalkS speaker is joined by a booster who helps along and takes notes as well as a discussant who wraps up the discussion. Check out all the details on our Multiples blog.
Our speaker was Haiyan Huang: The struggles and skills of conducting ethnographic studies
Ethnography is a frequently used research method. It has many supporters but is also heavily criticized. As a doctoral student, I actively chose this method for my thesis. It has given me many advantages but, at the same time, triggers constant feelings of uncertainty and even guilt.
Do you use ethnography for your research, and why (not)? If so, what kind of fieldwork do you conduct and what difficulties have you encountered or are you expecting to face? How do you reflect on your positionality as an ethnographer? What skills (e.g. note-taking) do we need? What can we mean for our participants? These are some of the questions that we will explore together in my talk.
Based on my ethnographic work, I would like to discuss the (dis)advantages of, as well as the practical skills needed for, ethnographic studies.
Joining this talk were Laurence De Backer as booster and Sofie Decock as discussant.
17/11/2022, 16:00 @ Mercator, A1.04
Public PhD Defense
Sofie Verliefde (UGent): Interpreter-mediated police interviewing cum drafting: interpreters’ access to and handling of the written record | supervisor: prof. dr. Bart Defrancq
7/11/2022, 11:00 @ Mercator, A1.04
Public PhD Defense
Elisa De Cristofaro (UGent): Discourse markers in Italian: a multi-perspective approach in L1, L2 and heritage language | supervisor: prof. dr. Linda Badan
27/10/2022, 15:00 @ Mercator, A1.04
Public PhD Defense
Griet Boone (UGent): Eine harte Nuss? A longitudinal investigation of L2 learners’ phrasal development in German | supervisor: prof. dr. June Eyckmans, co-supervisor: prof. dr. Sofie Decock
17/10/2022, 12:30 @ Plateau-Rozier 0.1, room Simon Stevin
MULTIPLEtalkS
MULTIPLEtalkS is a monthly informal get-together in which a researcher discusses a piece of their own work with other Multiples researchers. During these events we kill multiple birds with one stone: the speaker gets valuable input and feedback on their work, junior and senior Multiples researchers get to exchange ideas, we cross the bridge between the two campuses, and we have lunch!
Every MULTIPLEtalkS speaker is joined by a booster who helps along and takes notes as well as a discussant who wraps up the discussion. Check out all the details on our Multiples blog.
Our speaker was Shauny Seynhaeve: Replication research in social sciences
Having spent most of 2022 on a study based on Piet Van Avermaet and his colleagues’ OKANS report, I would like to use this fourth session of the MULTIPLEtalkS to discuss the topic of replication research. After an introduction on replication research, I will introduce you to the OKANS report and its relation to my project. Then, I would like to have a reflection about replication studies in the context of social sciences: what are their strengths and weaknesses?
Joining this were Seppe Goddaert as booster and Piet Van Avermaet as discussant.
7/10/2022, 9.30AM – 12.30PM @ Mercator, B2.10
Talk by prof. Albert Weideman (University of the Free State) and Prof. Constant Leung (King’s College, London): applied linguistics theory and (multilingual) language assessment
Please register for free.
23/09/2022, 12:30 @ Mercator, A4.04
MULTIPLEtalkS
MULTIPLEtalkS is a monthly informal get-together in which a researcher discusses a piece of their own work with other Multiples researchers. During these events we kill multiple birds with one stone: the speaker gets valuable input and feedback on their work, junior and senior Multiples researchers get to exchange ideas, we cross the bridge between the two campuses, and we have lunch!
Every MULTIPLEtalkS speaker is joined by a booster who helps along and takes notes as well as a discussant who wraps up the discussion. Check out all the details on our Multiples blog.
Our speaker was Sophie Decroupet: Receiving and handling feedback as a researcher
In this third MultipleTalks, I invite you to join in in a collective reflection on how we receive and handle feedback. In any academic career, but especially during the PhD journey, being able to process feedback is a skill on its own. We receive feedback from our supervisors, DBC members, reviewers and editors of journals, and others. This allows us to better our research and writing.
But how do we handle feedback? How do we sort through and identify the feedback that is useful to us? What do we do when we receive contradictory advice? How do we keep a cohesive article or thesis while being receptive to the comments we receive? And what can you do when you need feedback, but are not getting any?
I will share examples from the feedback that I have recently received and invite you to share your own experiences. Through discussing these questions, I hope that we will be able to help each other.
Sofie Verkest was booster and Geert Jacobs joined as discussant.
26/08/2022, 12:30 @ Blandijn, Camelot
MULTIPLEtalkS
MULTIPLEtalkS is a monthly informal get-together in which a researcher discusses a piece of their own work with other Multiples researchers. During these events we kill multiple birds with one stone: the speaker gets valuable input and feedback on their work, junior and senior Multiples researchers get to exchange ideas, we cross the bridge between the two campuses, and we have lunch!
Every MULTIPLEtalkS speaker is joined by a booster who helps along and takes notes as well as a discussant who wraps up the discussion. Check out all the details on our Multiples blog.
Our speaker was Mari Alger: Uncovering and understanding the emotional journey of language learning
Following in the steps of Laurence De Backer, the speaker who presented at the first MULTIPLEtalkS, I too will walk you through (a series of) methodological obstacles I have recently stumbled across in the early stages of my third research paper. By sharing some illustrative examples from data on how students in my English Vocabulary class experienced a newly launched podcast project, I’d like to demonstrate just how tricky it can be to research the notoriously elusive topic of emotions in language learning. While we can never truly know what it is like to walk a mile in someone else’s shoes, a person’s account of their own journey can be invaluable in such an undertaking. However, sometimes one is not fully aware of the route they took, or they might not be able or willing to comprehensively describe it. What is more, the person listening to the story may (unintentionally) misinterpret it. Regarding this final point, as the teacher of the course I am undeniably involved in the research context, so I’ll also be exploring how my own emotions and experiences come into play when analysing the data.
Seppe Goddaert was the booster and Sarah Haas joined as the discussant.
13-16/07/2022 @ ghent, @ online
Sociolinguistics Symposium 24 | inside and beyond binaries
SS24 is organized by Ghent University in close collaboration with the Belgian sociolinguistic community. Many MULTIPLES researchers are involved in the organizing committee.
10/06/2022, 11.00-12.00, room 'Camelot' (third floor, Blandijnberg 2)
Talk by Hu Chen (Zhejiang Gongshang University, China): International intelligibility of Chinese English (and puzzles over the prosody of Mandarin Chinese)
As over 400 million people are learning and speaking English as a foreign language in China, Chinese English is known for its distinct Chinese accent. The present study empirically investigates the overall intelligibility of Chinese English to international listeners from Kachru's Three Circles. Meanwhile, the validity of Jenkins’ Lingua Franca Core (LFC) is examined. At the end of the talk, the speaker also wants to invite exchanges on some longstanding puzzles over the prosodic/metrical structure of Mandarin Chinese, which is a typical syllable-timed tonal language.
8/06/2022, 15:00 @ Ghent, Mercator A (1.04)
Public PhD defense
Ana Moreno Bruna (UGent): Language learning and intercultural learning abroad: the impact of pedagogical guidance during Erasmus+ stays | Supervisor: prof. dr. Patrick Goethals
31/05/2022, 16:00-18:00 @ Ghent, Vandenhove-paviljoen (Rozier 1)
Public PhD defense
Marie Jacobs (UGent): Language, legal counselling and asylum: A linguistic ethnography of immigration law firms in Belgium | supervisor: prof. dr. Katrijn Maryns
20/05/2022, 12:30 @ Mercator, A1.04
MULTIPLEtalkS
Every MULTIPLEtalkS speaker is joined by a booster who helps along and takes notes as well as a discussant who wraps up the discussion. Check out all the details on our Multiples blog.
Our speaker was Laurence De Backer: an emic take on news metaphors: how I turned a methodological obstacle into an opportunity.
To kick off our monthly MultipleTalkS, I will narrate the story of how I turned an unanticipated methodological obstacle into a research opportunity. My PhD project explores the persuasive function of metaphorical language and framing in news media communication, and uses the topic of Latin American migration in a Spanish language, US-based newspaper as its empirical case study. Innovatively, I tackle this subject using a holistic approach, combining a linguistic focus on news texts with careful attention to media production and reception. For this talk, I will hone in on discursive production, and my attempt to set up a method allowing me to explain the particular form, frequency and functions of news metaphors from the perspective of real media producers. My talk will focus on how, in the face of unforeseen circumstances, adopting an attitude of ‘improvisational flexibility’ (Cerwonka & Malkki, 2007, pp.24-25, 79) allowed me to reframe my original research design and prompted me to formulate innovate research questions.
Ella van Hest was booster and Sarah Van Hoof joined as discussant.
24/02/2022, 13:00 @ Teams
Research @ The Movies | Caroline Staquet (UGent): “Research as a battlefield. Tracing back the genealogy of CLIL scientific controversies in European institutional discourses.”
25/01/2022, 15:30 @ Mercator A @ ONLINE
Public PhD defense
Sibo Kanobana (UGent) : Serving the White Order. Making Bilingual Security Workers in Brussels. | supervisor: prof. dr. Sarah Van Hoof; co-supervisor: prof. dr. Alfonso Del Percio