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Language and text analysis
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  • Ptolemaic state monopolies. Predation or prosperity?

    2017

    A striking feature of Ptolemaic rule in Egypt (305–30 BC) is the apparent extent of state controland intervention in industry and trade. A multitude of state-imposed rules and regulations can ...read more

    • Africa
    • Antiquity
    • Area studies
    • Comparative
    • English
    • Greek
    • History
    • Language and text analysis
    • Quantitative

  • Narrating the mesh. Ecology and the nonhuman in contemporary fiction and oral storytelling

    2017

    Today’s ecological crisis prompts us to rethink our attitude towards physical and natural realities that have traditionally been seen as opposed to human subjectivity and agency. What emerges from this ...read more

    • Comparative
    • Contemporary
    • English
    • Language and text analysis
    • Literary studies
    • North America
    • Quantitative
    • Western Europe

  • Paint on rolls? Belgian modernists, household experts and residents on the use of wallpaper as an interior finish during the interwar period

    2017

    Although wallpaper defines the living environment of so many people, this type of wall finish is often criticised. During the interwar period, when ‘the art of living’ became an important ...read more

    • 20th Century
    • Art
    • Belgium
    • Comparative
    • Dutch
    • English
    • Field research
    • French
    • Geographic and map based
    • History
    • Iconography and analysis of images
    • Language and text analysis
    • Quantitative

  • PRAP. Research on ethical issues of assisted death and patient care from the perspective of Buddhist vinaya

    2017

    The Postdoctoral Research Abroad Program, sponsored by Ministry of Science and Technology, is intended to subsidize Taiwanese postdoctoral researchers to conduct research at an accredited educational institute abroad. The goal ...read more

    • Asia
    • Belgium
    • Buddhism
    • Buddhist chaplain
    • Chinese
    • Contemporary
    • Ethics and morality
    • Euthanasia
    • Field research
    • Language and text analysis
    • Philosophy
    • Religion
    • Taiwan
    • Vinaya

  • A diatopic and sociolinguistic study of verbal constructions with possessive pronouns in Spanish varieties

    2017

    In recent years, the study of the use of possessive complements instead of prepositional ones in the adverbial domain, as in encima mío/a vs. encima de mí ‘above me’, has ...read more

    • Communication
    • Comparative
    • Contemporary
    • Field research
    • Geographic and map based
    • Language and text analysis
    • Language technology
    • Linguistics
    • Portuguese
    • Quantitative
    • South America
    • Spanish
    • Surveys
    • Western Europe

  • EXTRACT. Extracting terminology automatically from comparable texts

    2017

    Specialised, domain-specific vocabulary, i.e. terminology, has always been difficult and time-consuming to understand and translate well. Nonetheless, terms often contain essential information and a good comprehension is imperative in many ...read more

    • Comparative
    • Dutch
    • English
    • French
    • Language and text analysis
    • Language technology
    • Quantitative

  • The depiction of foster families in Icelandic and Old Norse sagas

    2017

    This project aims to analyse the depiction of foster families in Old Norse and Icelandic sagas. This research focuses on relationships between foster families and the emotions that surround the ...read more

    • Language and text analysis
    • Literary studies
    • Middle Ages
    • Northern Europe

  • Tianzhu global network

    2017

    This network funding will increase opportunities for scholarly engagement in a number of ways. Postdoctoral fellows will be employed to increase the offerings of courses related to Buddhism, and eminent ...read more

    • 15th Century
    • 16th Century
    • 17th Century
    • 18th Century
    • 19th Century
    • 20th Century
    • Asia
    • Buddhism
    • Chinese
    • Chán Buddhism
    • Contemporary
    • Field research
    • Language and text analysis
    • Middle Ages
    • Oriental languages
    • Religion

  • Saint Thecla in medieval slavic hagiography. The premetaphrastic martyr act

    2017

    To answer the questions that I am posing (who was Thekla in the Slavic tradition? How important was her cult within this tradition?) I intend to gather the whole hagiographical ...read more

    • 15th Century
    • 16th Century
    • 17th Century
    • Eastern Europe
    • Eastern European languages
    • Greek
    • Language and text analysis
    • Linguistics
    • Middle Ages
    • Russian
    • Translation Studies

  • History, gender and Gikuyu oral narratives

    2017

    In 1992 I carried out fieldwork in Central Kenya, collecting Gikuyu oral narratives and discussing their historical relations to gender-identity and morality with the performers. Eventually this resulted in my ...read more

    • 20th Century
    • Africa
    • African languages
    • History
    • Language and text analysis
    • Literary studies