The phenomenon of lobbyists attempting to influence the decisions of government is nothing new. While official, regulated lobbying is a modern institution, informal lobbying is much older. In Roman Antiquity, ...read more
What makes an online review impolite? And how do we emotionally respond to online (im)politeness? In this postdoc project, we investigate people’s reactions to different degrees of (im)politeness in reviews and ...read more
Logic is the discipline which studies reasoning. Logic has its roots in our argumentative practice,and was developed as a tool for the critical description and evaluation of natural languagearguments. These ...read more
Fellowship for Advanced Postdoc Mobility awarded to Dr. Thalia Brero (Université de Genève) by the Fonds National Suisse de la Recherche Scientifique - September 2018-February 2020.read more
This research project, a typology of passive constructions in Bantu, involves several fields of linguistics. It focuses on a particular language family, i.e. Bantu, and addresses the question of variation and micro-variation within ...read more
The Psalms, being an important corpus of biblical poetic texts, have influenced the entire history of European literature and religious culture. Early Christian and Byzantine readers recognized the poetical features of the ...read more
The project seeks to expand the histories of early modern art and science by recalibrating the definition and scope of Renaissance mathematical knowledge through the drawings, prints, and treatises that ...read more
In the mid-20th century, authors increasingly took to the new sonic medium of radio to expand their audience, experiment with new techniques, and express their cultural identity. If modernist scholars ...read more
Lusoga has a form of nouns and verbs involving duplication of the root. For example, there are two copies of the verb root -w- ‘give’ in the sentence a-lii-ku-w-a bu-w-e ...read more
This project explores commemorative responses to the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, seeking to building an understanding of the forms of commemoration taking place among Rwandan genocide survivors ...read more