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Decision processes in late antiquity. Networking, persuasion, presentation and governance in the Council Acts of Chalcedon (451)

2019

The Roman empire in Late Antiquity (c. 300-600 A.D.) was long seen as an autocratic state where the emperor took all decisions. Recent studies have emphasized that many imperial laws ...read more
History
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
Interculturalism
Leopard men in Congo. Myths and realities

2019

Au Musée royal de l'Afrique centrale, aujourd’hui Africamuseum à Tervuren en Belgique qui se réorganise et redéfinie sa mission se trouve une sculpture « infamante » présentant un anioto, un ...read more
Prosodic cues to syntactic reanalysis. Experimentally tracking Jespersen's cycle in progress

2019

This project explores how prosody interacts with syntactic structure at different stages of an ongoing syntactic change. Innovatively, it will do so using experimental methods, studying the interaction of syntax and prosody. ...read more
Linguistics
Orthographic variation and social semiotics in the Greek papyri

2019

Greek spelling was standardised in the fifth century BC, but as the language underwent drastic changes on the phonological level (among other levels) in later periods, spelling and pronunciation grew ...read more
Extractive violence and eco-cultural perspectives in 21st century literature from Ecuador, Peru and Colombia

2019

The focus of this research project lies on 21st century literature from the Andean countries, especially Ecuador, Peru and Colombia, which draws upon and bears witness to the region´s high geographical ...read more
Participatory and creative music-making in digitally-augmented musical environments using reinforcement learning methods

2019

This project (BOF19/STA/035) investigates how new technologies in the domain of augmented reality, in particular immersive, three-dimensional sound playback, can enrich participatory, social musicmaking. Central is fundamental research on the relationship between ...read more
Music
The development of standard Chinese education and its impact on the Hani minority in Yunnan, Southwest China

2019

The PhD project studies the development of Standard Chinese education and its impact on the Hani minority in Pu'er (Yunnan), with the following questions as key issues: (1) What is ...read more
Akha
Area studies
Asia
Chinese
Chinese education
Contemporary
Didactics
English
Far East
Field research
Hani culture
Hani dialects
Hani language
Hani minority
Hani standard language
Interculturalism
Language and text analysis
Linguistics
Minority education in China
Oriental languages
Surveys
Tibeto-Burman languages
A linguistics-based protocol for teaching foreign language prosody

2019

The project aims at defining an didactic protocol based on lingusitic evidence for the explicit teaching of prosody in Italian as a Foreign Language (LS). The study aims at (a) ...read more
Linguistics
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

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