PRECOBIAS is a user-centred counter-narrative campaign project that centres around the mental processes and cognitive biases at stake when youngsters, especially the ones either vulnerable to radicalisation or already radicalized, ...read more
The coverage of migration in the media is considered partly to blame for the Brexit vote. While all published studies focus on broadsheets and tabloids, our project will involve content ...read more
The PhD project "Visual Multilingualism: A Socio-semiotic Approach to Script Choice in Late Antique Documentary Papyri" is part of the ERC-funded project "Everyday writing in Graeco-Roman and late antique Egypt ...read more
This doctoral research investigates how the Japanese martial art of aikido can be used as an embodied pedagogy to enhance intercultural business communication training. The project aims to determine ...read more
On the one hand, the past decade has witnessed a massively growing interest in Chinese LGBTQ studies from queer feminists, artists as well as scholars. While on the other hand, ...read more
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
In recent years several forms of collaboration between journalists, scientific experts, scientific institutions (and their PR staff) and citizen groups have become more frequent (Houston, 2010; Spangenberg & Heise, 2016). ...read more
Via corpus-based analysis and experimental research we investigate the presence and impact of non-standard language features (old and new vernacular) in public consumer comments and company responses on social media.
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
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