This study investigates how pain and bodily discomfort are expressed, interpreted, and negotiated in healthcare interactions. It focuses on English-medium and Chinese-medium consultations in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) clinics in Belgium, ...read more
Central Africa’s Congo-Ubangi watershed spans multiple ecozones in the northern margins of the rainforest. It is a major hotbed of linguistic, cultural and human genetic diversity with deep occupation history. ...read more
Data are collected by and under supervision of Koen Stroeken and Mrisho Malipula (Mzumbe U) on the current significance of traditional institutions in north and western Tanzania such as village ...read more
Bookperformance, which is equally Performancebook, is a proprietary concept reflecting life, uncompromisingly written as a single word, coined by Çiğdem Mirol in 2011. As its originator and philosopher, Mirol has developed it across ...read more
This research solves knowledge gaps concerning Vietnamese religion and philosophy in the 18th century (“zoomed-out”) by analyzing the inclusion of the Chinese Three Teachings (i.e., Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism) in Le ...read more
Emotions have attracted a lot of attention in psychology, socio- and psycholinguistics and communication science, but since the past decade also in the fields of computational linguistics and natural language ...read more
This project sets out to provide a historiography of Kikongo language studies and management between 1624 and 1960. It will provide a detailed analysis and historical contextualization of linguistic sources ...read more
The late Qing Reformists were a Chinese political faction that advocated for a transition from monarchy to constitutional monarchy in the 1890s, and rose to prominence by leading the Hundred ...read more
This project examines interpreting practices in marriage fraud investigations conducted by Belgian authorities, in which a complex chain of interviews and reports results in the decision whether a transnational couple's ...read more
In the face of planetary-wide anthropogenic change, new knowledge and methods are required to better grasp how human and nonhuman actors have contributed to global socio-environmental transformations of rural landscapes. ...read more