In line with recent claims that media research should not only chart the professional cultures of “privileged” full-time reporters and hence marginalize other news workers (Wahl-Jorgenson 2009), the project investigates ...read more
This project proposes a diachronic comparative research, based on a varied corpus of narratives and treatises, into the establishment, evolution and effectiveness of medieval ideals of masculinity in monastic and ...read more
The significance of coastal and estuarine areas for understanding former human life and palaeolandscapes is nowadays recognized internationally. The large preservation potential of these sites, on the transition of the ...read more
This project’s aim is to gain insights into the various linguistic devices of Chilean speakers when addressing each other in conversation. For instance, usted is generally known as an expression ...read more
During the transition of the Late Middle Ages into the Early Modern Times, the ownership structures of the European countryside underwent significant changes. On the one hand, there was ...read more
This research is a corpus-based study of information structure and its interaction with syntax and prosody in Kirundi, a Great Lakes Bantu language spoken in Burundi.read more
The PhD studies the idea of 'good' rulership as discussed in one of the earliest treatises in Chinese history, the Chunqiu Fanlu, compiled in the Early Han period (221-9 BC). ...read more
The TExSIS project aims at the automatic extraction of mono‐ and multilingual company specific terminology on the basis of a company’s document streams. These term lists are crucial in every ...read more
The Second World War in Belgium still haunts the public and political debate. The failure of anyunifying patriotic memory is due to the Flemish collaborators who have succeeded in depicting ...read more
This project aims to analyse the image construction of Belgium (resp. Flanders and Wallonia) in Nazi Germany. Starting from the assumption that Nazi propaganda institutions used different media in a ...read more