This study is about changing culture. It deals with the acquisition of a mobile phone by young people in Yaoundé (Cameroon), its level of usage or of social connectivity, and ...read more
Based on eight chapters, half of which have been published as research papers, this thesis demonstrates the role of cultural factors such as urbanity in response styles of survey data. ...read more
This PhD research examined contemporary perceptions of Female Genital Cutting (FGC) through the lens of competing authoritative discourses. It maintained a particular focus on conceptualizations of the relation between FGC and religion, ...read more
The goal of this study is to examine whether there is passive voice in Ancient Chinese by analyzing the origin and development of all the constructions conventionally referred to as ...read more
The Belgian Dutch language is characterized by an impressive amount of variation. Not only the wide array of dialect variants accounts for this, but also the variation within the substandard ...read more
Between 2010 and 2016, Steven Delarue studied the language use, language perceptions and language ideologies of Flemish teachers in primary and secondary schools. Which (Dutch) language features do teachers use? Is there ...read more
This project fits within the research into the possibly universal polysemy of perception verbs, but concentrates especially on a very complex but neglected element. More particularly, the project aims at ...read more
According to international literature, disabled people were relatively well integrated within their communities until the mid-nineteenth century, when as result of the industrial revolution and the medicalization process, they became ...read more