The project traced the historical development of the ‘conditional’ use of modal verbs in the West Germanic (WG) languages, seen in 'If there should be a problem/Should there be a problem, don’t ...read more
This research project looks at consumer representation in the postwar period. It investigates how social movements put their grievances on behalf of the consumer on the table, in the context ...read more
This project aims to undertake a cultural historical approach to the perception and performance of social identity in the nascent urban societies of Northern France and the Southern Low Countries ...read more
This dissertation tells the story of the collections of artists and artisans in early seventeenth-century Antwerp. Based on archival research of probate inventories, it turns out that many artists and ...read more
Throughout Hindu imagery, we are confronted with demons dying at the hands of merciless goddesses. From the pan-Indian to the local level, this battle of the eternal adversaries endures, albeit ...read more
Seemingly paradoxical, nineteenth-century society and culture are characterized by both an increased internationalization of cultural and artistic practices, and a growing importance of nationality. The role of national administrations and ...read more
The main objective of this project is a comparative study of the traditional way of translating and translation on the basis of machine translations to translate general (non-technical) texts for ...read more
Explicitation and implicitation are two translatological concepts that translation researchers have been investigating ever since their first mention by Vinay/Darbelnet (1958/1977), but especially after Blum-Kulka (1986) formulated her explicitation ...read more
