This project uses methods from Discourse analysis (DA) and Conversation Analysis (CA) to investigate interpreter-mediated communication (IMC) in neuropsychological assessments (tests of cognitive performance) and doctor-patient consultations targeting neurological and ...read more
Due to current political and demographic developments, multilingual psychotherapy for refugees and migrants is becoming increasingly relevant. Interpreters are often indispensable in bridging the language barrier between patient and therapist. ...read more
The Middle Mesolithic of the RMS area (Rhine – Meuse – Scheldt) is characterized by the sudden emergence around ca. 9,350 cal BP of completely new microlith types. The typical ...read more
My role as co-investigator in the project “Cross-Cultural Conceptions of the Self: South Asia, Africa and East Asia” at Ghent University as part of the small project grants awarded by ...read more
Schedography is a Byzantine method of teaching Greek grammar, especially orthography and syntax. This method was used for more than five hundred years, from the eleventh century to the early ...read more
Despite their status as null subject languages, several southern Italian dialects feature expletive subject pronouns. These do not serve as a ‘dummy subject pronoun’ like typical expletives, but rather have ...read more
This project is intended to examine why people believe in a bullshit assumption or theory at the expense of reason and evidence focusing on Ethiopian experiences. Due to lack of ...read more
One of the universal properties of human language is that it changes over time. Understanding the mechanisms of language change is therefore key to understanding the properties of natural language ...read more
Memory scholars have been criticizing the state of collective memory in the West arguing that efforts made to commemorate the crimes of the twentieth century have neither reduced racism nor ...read more