In the face of planetary-wide anthropogenic change, new knowledge and methods are required to better grasp how human and nonhuman actors have contributed to global socio-environmental transformations of rural landscapes. ...read more
This project contributes to a better understanding of the grammar underlying Spanish-English(-Kriol) codeswitching (CS). Its objective is threefold. First, at an empirical level, it provides insight into the way the conflict ...read more
This dissertation will interrogate the possibilities of blending literary trauma theory with ecocriticism to arrive at a new hermeneutics for reading, where human and environmental trauma are not viewed as ...read more
"Moving with Architecture" examines an ecology of architecture and choreography by approaching their relationality in a horizontal way. The project takes the metaphor of weaving to explore how this ecology ...read more
A plethora of previous research has shown early beneficial effects of bilingualism and second language acquisition (SLA) on cognitive control (CC) (e.g. Crivello et al., 2016), working memory (WM), and ...read more
This research project aims at analysing Oromo oral narratives from econarratological perspectives. Econarratlogy is often viewed as a new approach in literary and cultural studies in relation to the other ...read more
This project focuses on ‘Oral Literature for Development’ (OL4D) as a new line of thinking. We introduce OL4D firmly based on the belief that culture and creativity are central for ...read more
The primary research objective of this project is to use machine learning techniques to enable automatic writing evaluation. Besides providing an overall holistic evaluation of the writing product, various modules ...read more
Regional pronunciations can result from the phonological contact between a standard language and its dialectal substrate. Such pronunciations might be less diversified compared to their substrate dialects, since regional varieties ...read more
Literary criticism plays an important role in the way literary works are perceived and what value is ascribed to them: it has a gatekeeping function, attributing cultural legitimacy through its ...read more