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Click it! A multilingual health aid for foreign-speaking parents with young children

2022

The project focuses on sustainable economic valorisation of the multilingual app CLICK IT! and explores the potential for marketing by license in the Flemish care sector. CLICK IT! allows care ...read more
Language and guardianship. A sociolinguistic ethnography of the multilingual resources and strategies used in the guidance trajectory of unaccompanied refugee minors

2022

Language and multilingualism play a critical role in asylum and refugee encounters. Sociolinguistic and interpreting research on multilingual service provision has demonstrated how issues of voice and linguistic-narrative inequality are ...read more
Course cluster critical perspectives on culture

2022

This project concerns the development of an English-taught course cluster titled Critical Perspectives on Culture. It will bring together existing courses and create new courses:

1. Intellectual History
2. Comparative Study ...read more
Fictions of bio-messiness. Interspecies ambiguity in the experimental forms and spaces of post-1945 novels

2022

Beginning with the premise that literature offers a space for negotiating the kinds of complexity that often attend sensitive socio-cultural issues, this project explores moments of human-animal, or interspecies, ambiguity ...read more
Narrative, Metaphor and Metamorphosis: The Ecological Potential of Contemporary Children's Literature

2022

Situated at the intersection of the study of children’s literature, ecocriticism and cognitive literary criticism, this project revisits the question of the transformational potential of children’s literature in light of ...read more
Albert Lautman: from mathematical philosophy to metaphysics?

2022

The work of the philosopher-mathematician, Albert Lautman (1908-1944), situated within the French historical epistemological landscape of the 20th-century, is characterized by a fascinating an unique interplay between metaphysics, mathematics and ...read more
20th Century
Philosophy
Effects of second language acquisition on cognitive development: A longitudinal study

2022

A plethora of previous research has shown early beneficial effects of bilingualism and second language acquisition (SLA) on cognitive control (CC) (e.g. Crivello et al., 2016), working memory (WM), and ...read more
Belgium
Contemporary
Dutch
English
French
Linguistics
Quantitative
Listening to accents. Intelligibility of casual and accented spoken English to Flemish learners of English as a Foreign Language

2022

The proposed project sets out to examine how regional and non-native accents in spoken English affect the intelligibility for English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners. Listening to a second ...read more
English
Linguistics
Omsloten werelden: Gezondheid en welzijn in de prostitutiekwartieren (kuruwa) van de Edoperiode (1603-1868)

2022

Prostitution in Japan has been a much studied subject in recent years. The state-sanctioned, highly regulated prostitution practised in the so-called enclosed quarters (kuruwa) of the Edo period (1600-1868) in ...read more
Performing the ethical body in early modern health discourses

2022

The proposed project aims to deepen our understanding of the influence of Neo-Confucian ethics on the perception of the human body, particularly as seen in early modern Japanese popular vernacular ...read more

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