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Intonation and rhythm of dialects and Italian. The case of Campania

2022

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
Contemporary
Field research
Italian
Italo-Romance dialects
Laboratory phonetics and speech science
Linguistics
Neapolitan
Quantitative
Southern Europe
Practicing Odin Teatret's archive. Training transmission, interaction and creativity

2021

The progress made in the fields of technology, information theory, computational modeling, and immersive multisensory displays put the notion of the body as archive in a new perspective, especially as ...read more
20th Century
Actor training
Art
Body as archive
Central Europe
Contemporary
Eastern Europe
Embodied Heritage
Embodied knowledge
Embodied pedagogy
English
Interculturalism
Northern Europe
Philosophy
Portuguese
South America
Southern Europe
Theatre and performing arts
Theatre Anthropology
Translation Studies
Virtual archive
Western Europe
Group fitness instructors and professional identity in transition. An ethnographic study

2021

This project investigates how healthism, belonging, and empowerment are articulated and embodied by Les Mills instructors. The study also explores how current normative societal ideologies are mirrored, reproduced, and contested ...read more
Communication
Comparative
Contemporary
digital sociology
Field research
Language and text analysis
Linguistics
Quantitative
sport science
Surveys
Later-in-life intimacy. 50+ women's subversive use of space and place

2021

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Belgium
Contemporary
Field research
Gender
A study of BIYO, an endangered Chinese ethnic minority language of the Lolo-Burmese family. Language documentation and an analytical approach to the system of discourse markers in contact with Southwestern Mandarin

2021

This project aims at documenting the endangered BIYO language (Hani group of the Lolo-Burmese language family), spoken by ethnic minorities in scattered locations of Southwestern Yunnan Province of China. Nowadays, ...read more
Area studies
Asia
Biyo language
Cartographic approach
Contemporary
Discourse markers
Endangered languages
Field research
Hani language
Language and text analysis
Linguistics
Lolo-Burmese
modal markers
Oriental languages
Southwestern China
Surveys
Yunnan
Gender and monsters in Oromo oral narratives

2021

This project will study gender relations and monsters in Oromo oral narratives, both as a way to map the gender-stereotypical discourse inherent in the narratives as well as the potentiality ...read more
19th Century
20th Century
Africa
African languages
Contemporary
Field research
Gender
Language and text analysis
Literary studies
Ogres
Oromo
Non-resumptive left dislocation in French Flemish

2021

Left dislocation (LD) patterns consist of a topic and a comment which says something about the topic. The comment usually contains a resumptive element ('they' in (1), referring to 'the ...read more
16th Century
17th Century
18th Century
19th Century
20th Century
Comparative
Contemporary
Dialect syntax
Dutch
Field research
French
French Flemish
Language and text analysis
Linguistics
Microvariation
Quantitative
Southern Dutch dialects
Surveys
Western Europe
Publishing between profit and prestige. An empirical analysis of the Swedish literary publishing field in today’s age of digital production and globalisation

2021

In recent years, the publishing landscape has experienced significant changes that have shaped the way books are now produced, mediated and consumed. Market constraints have given rise to large publishing ...read more
Contemporary
Field research
Language and text analysis
Literary studies
Northern Europe
Quantitative
Swedish
Nihilism on a troubled earth. Friedrich Nietzsche and the nihilisms of the anthropocene

2021

This project uses the critical philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche to develop a comprehensive understanding of the meaning and function of the nihilism(s) confronting us in today’s ecological crises. Despite increased ...read more
19th Century
20th Century
Contemporary
Dutch
English
German
Philosophy
Transcendental materialism and its disciplinary concern. On the systematization, history and practice of a philosophy after the Žižekian synthesis

2021

This project aims to systematize the contemporary, increasingly influential movement named ‘Transcendental Materialism’ (‘TM’) by philosopher Adrian Johnston. Associated with, among others, Slavoj Žižek and Alain Badiou, this philosophy eclectically ...read more
19th Century
20th Century
Contemporary
German Idealism
Historicism
Interdisciplinarity
Philosophy
Psychoanalysis
Žižek

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