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Ecological trauma in contemporary African literature in English

2022

This dissertation will interrogate the possibilities of blending literary trauma theory with ecocriticism to arrive at a new hermeneutics for reading, where human and environmental trauma are not viewed as ...read more
20e eeuw
African Literatures
Afrika
Ecocriticism
Hedendaags
Literatuurwetenschap
Taal- en tekstanalyse
Trauma studies
Female oral genres in the context of basket production in East Wollega, Ethiopia

2022

In this study I will focus on female oral genres in East Wollega, Ethiopia, in the context of basket production. This combined approach of tangible and intangible Oromoo heritage will lead ...read more
Afaan Oromo
Afrika
Afrikaanse talen
Hedendaags
Kunst
Literatuurwetenschap
Taal- en tekstanalyse
Veldonderzoek
A social topography of early modern Ghent (1570-1830). Economic segregation, demography and social life

2022

This project examines residential patterns in Ghent between c. 1670 and 1850, focusing on the evolution of socioeconomic segregation. This period is especially fascinating because it covers the transition from ...read more
Causality

2022

One of the universal properties of human language is that it changes over time. Understanding the mechanisms of language change is therefore key to understanding the properties of natural language ...read more
Language and culture documentation in Uganda

2022

This project documents various languages and cultures in Uganda. It is entirely self-funded, and is led by M. Nabirye, with contributions from Ghent University by G-M de Schryver in terms ...read more
19e eeuw
20e eeuw
Afrika
Afrikaanse talen
Comparatief
Geschiedenis
Hedendaags
Interculturaliteit
Kwantitatief
Luganda
Lusoga
Muziek
Surveys en enquêtering
Taal- en tekstanalyse
Taalkunde
Taaltechnologie
Theater- en podiumkunsten
Veldonderzoek
Science fiction and seriousness. How concerns with seriousness proliferate through and impact on the reading, writing and discussion of the genre

2022

Since its nascency in the American pulp magazines of the 1920s, science fiction (SF) has had a particular relationship with the concept of seriousness. Characterised as juvenile in both its ...read more
Literatuurwetenschap
Multiperspective Narratives across Media: Form, Experience, and Ethics

2022

This project investigates the formal features, experiential effects, and ethical affordances of multiperspective narratives across contemporary novels, movies, and video games. At its most basic, multiperspectivity can be conceptualized as ...read more
Ethiek en moraal
Literatuurwetenschap
Media
Language-powerful partnerships between schools and parents. An examination of productive home engagement interventions

2022

How to promote effective home engagement in learning and language acquisition? And how can we improve existing Flemish practices to better support home engagement?

Situation and research question. Students' academic success ...read more
language learning
Partnership in Education
Can you read me? Investigating textbook reading materials and the coverage–comprehension relationship in the English and French foreign language classroom

2022

This project aims to determine the text characteristics of reading materials used in the Flemish EFL and FFL classroom, as well as the influence of these text characteristics on learners' ...read more
Didactiek
Education
Kwantitatief
Language acquisition
language learning
Natural language processing
Reading
Second language acquisition
Taal- en tekstanalyse
Taalkunde
Taaltechnologie
Human life? From philosophy of life to philosophical anthropology. A transnational and transdisciplinary inquiry

2022

This project proposes a historical and systematic study of German and French intellectual projects between 1870 and 1940 labelled 'Philosophy of Life,' 'Biological Philosophy,' and 'Philosophical Anthropology.' The core hypothesis ...read more
Wijsbegeerte en filosofie