Projects

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Between accessibility and aesthetics: the translator agency at work in multilingual, postdramatic theatre in Brussels

2020

Over the past decades, the theatrical landscape of Brussels has increasingly reflected its multicultural everyday reality on stage. Today's multilingual productions pose a heightened challenge to the contemporary theatre translator, ...read more
Communication
Contemporary
Interculturalism
Theatre and performing arts
Translation Studies
A mixed-method investigation of the potential of aikido, a Japanese martial art, as a means to improve intercultural encounters and communication

2019

In our fast-changing world that is ever-more characterised by global flows, systems and networks, intercultural communication is a dynamic field. The ubiquity of cultural and linguistic contact in a ‘flat’ ...read more
Communication
Comparative
Contemporary
Didactics
Embodied pedagogy
English
Field research
Intercultural business communication
Interculturalism
Intercultural training
Qualitative research
Language and legal counselling. A linguistic ethnography of multilingual support in the legal assistance to asylum seekers in Belgium

2019

Since the second half of 2015, Europe has faced a substantial increase in the number of refugees and asylum seekers in need of international protection (UNHCR, 2015). EU law requires ...read more
Communication
Interculturalism
Linguistics
A socio-semiotic approach to code-switching and bigraphism in late antique documentary papyri

2019

The PhD project "A Socio-semiotic Approach to Code-switching and Bigraphism in Late Antique Documentary Papyri" is part of the ERC-funded project "Everyday writing in Graeco-Roman and late antique Egypt (I ...read more
Communication
Interculturalism
Linguistics
MATCH-eN

2019

MATCH-eN is a TETRA research project funded by VLAIO. The aim of the project is to develop, test and evaluate an open, shared knowledge platform that allows Flemish social profit ...read more
Communication
Field research
Interculturalism
Language and text analysis
Linguistics
Surveys
Translation Studies
Syntax, semantics and discourse function of shell nouns in French and Romanian

2019

Shell nouns are a nominal category that has first been conceptualized by cognitive linguists such as Schmid (2000). This concept was later translated and further explored by French researchers (Legallois, 2006; ...read more
20th Century
Communication
Comparative
Construction grammar
Contemporary
Corpus-based
Corpus linguistics
Didactics
Eastern Europe
French
Language and text analysis
Language technology
Linguistics
Quantitative
Romanian
shell nouns
Western Europe
The discourse of e-commerce live-streamers in China and its influence on viewers’ post-feminist ideologies

2019

When it comes to video-mediated communication, existent research primarily focuses on camgirls (Senft, 2008) and most lately, gaming and ordinary life livestreaming (Hamilton, Garretson & Kerne, 2014; Tylor, 2018). However, livestreaming ...read more
Communication
Linguistics
Media
Pragmatic shifts in interpreter-mediated police interviews. The co-construction of a suspect's (extra)ordinariness

2019

In the Belgian judiciary, police interviews with suspects involve the complex discursive task of transforming a suspect’s oral narrative account into a written record. Although such statement is supposed to ...read more
Communication
Contemporary
Discourse analysis
Interpreting studies
Language and text analysis
Linguistics
Pragmatics
Translation Studies
Everyday writing in Graeco-Roman and late antique Egypt, I - VIII AD. A socio-semiotic study of communicative variation

2018

This five-year project aims to generate a paradigm shift in the understanding of Graeco-Roman and Late Antique communication. Non-literary, ‘documentary’ texts from Ancient Egypt such as letters, petitions and contracts ...read more
Communication
Linguistics
A respeaking and collaborative game-based approach to building a parsed corpus of European Spanish dialects

2018

The study of dialectal microvariation of Spanish spoken in Spain has until recently mainly focused on lexical and phonetic features. The morphosyntax of these dialects, on the contrary, remains largely ...read more
Communication
Language technology
Linguistics