Projecten

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Challenging Crossroads: A Critical Discourse Analysis on the Intersections of Race, Gender, Class, Ethnicity, Sexuality and Ensuing Discursive Counterreactions in Female Apartheid Narratives

2023

Between 1948 and 1994, the National Party installed the apartheid regime in South Africa, based on the communicating vessels of racism and sexism, which permeated the entire country and its ...read more
20e eeuw
Afrika
Afrikaanse talen
apartheid
Comparatief
Discourse analysis
Engels
Gender
Intersectionality
Literatuurwetenschap
Nederlands
Taal- en tekstanalyse
Language contact and linguistic reconstruction. (Pre)historic Bantu-Khoisan interactions in Southern Africa in a historical linguistic perspective

2022

The Southern African linguistic landscape is dominated by Bantu languages, which form Africa’s largest language family and are spoken by the vast majority of Southern Africans. Nonetheless, the first Bantu-speaking communities ...read more
Afrika
Afrikaanse talen
Archeologie
Geschiedenis
Taalkunde
Oral narratives as an ecological crisis coping strategies. Arsi Oromo of Eastern Ethiopia in focus

2022

This research project aims at analysing Oromo oral narratives from econarratological perspectives. Econarratlogy is often viewed as a new approach in literary and cultural studies in relation to the other ...read more
20e eeuw
Afrika
Afrikaanse talen
Crisis management
Hedendaags
Literatuurwetenschap
Oral narratives
Oromo
Taal- en tekstanalyse
Veldonderzoek
Storytelling and young people coping with crisis. Oral narratives and crisis management in Kenya and Ethiopia

2022

This project focuses on ‘Oral Literature for Development’ (OL4D) as a new line of thinking. We introduce OL4D firmly based on the belief that culture and creativity are central for ...read more
20e eeuw
Afrika
Afrikaanse talen
Crisis management
Ethiopia
Hedendaags
Interculturaliteit
Kenya
Literatuurwetenschap
Oral narratives
Taal- en tekstanalyse
Veldonderzoek
Monsters in Oromo oral narratives from a gendered perspective

2021

This project will study gender relations and monsters in Oromo oral narratives, both as a way to map the gender-stereotypical discourse inherent in the narratives as well as the potentiality ...read more
19e eeuw
20e eeuw
Afrika
Afrikaanse talen
Gender
Gender studies
Hedendaags
Literatuurwetenschap
Ogres
Oral narratives
Oromo
Taal- en tekstanalyse
Veldonderzoek
Documenting the Bantu languages of the last hunter-gatherer communities of the Mai-Ndombe and Lower Kasai regions (DRC). A pioneering phonetic and laboratory phonological study

2020

Linguistic diversity is disappearing (almost) as fast as biological diversity: very soon, we may no longer be able to know the sounds and structures of many of the world's languages. ...read more
Afrika
Afrikaanse talen
Bantu historical linguistics
Comparatief
Evolutionary linguistics
Historical sociolinguistics
Laboratory phonetics and speech science
laboratory phonology
phonetic documentation
Phonetics and phonology
Regiostudies
sociophonetics
Taal- en tekstanalyse
Taalkunde
Veldonderzoek
Directionality in morphosyntactic change. West-Coastal Bantu as a historical test case for linguistic theory

2020

The proposed research will shed new light on a debate within Bantu, the largest language family in Africa and a recent offshoot of Niger-Congo, the world’s largest phylum. Many non-Bantu ...read more
Afrika
Afrikaanse talen
Bantu
Bantu comparative linguistics
Bantu historical linguistics
Bantu linguistics
Comparatief
Comparative linguistics
Comparative Method
degrammaticalization
Grammaticalization
Historical linguistics
morphosyntactic reconstruction
Niger-Congo
Proto-Bantu
Taal- en tekstanalyse
Taalkunde
Veldonderzoek
West-Coastal Bantu
A diachronic phonological and morphological approach to the classification of Teke languages within West-Coastal Bantu

2020

The Teke languages are a contiguous cluster of closely related Bantu languages spoken in adjacent parts of Gabon, Congo-Brazzaville and Congo-Kinshasa. In the referential classification of the Bantu languages (Guthrie ...read more
Afrika
Afrikaanse talen
Bantu
Bantu comparative linguistics
Bantu historical linguistics
Bantu language documentation and description
Comparative linguistics
Congo-Brazzaville
Congo-Kinshasa
Gabon
Historical linguistics
Taal- en tekstanalyse
Taalkunde
Teke
West-Coastal Bantu
Rethinking African gender histories. Time, change, and the deeper past in Northern Mozambique

2019

This project aims at rethinking ways of reading and writing change in African gender history. Looking at oral historical narratives and the transgenerational communication of historical knowledge among the Yaawo-speaking ...read more
19e eeuw
20e eeuw
Afrika
Afrikaanse talen
Gender
Geschiedenis
Hedendaags
Veldonderzoek
Turning diversity into capacity

2018

Starting from fundamental observations about the need and usefulness of cross-national, North/South-comparison around pressing social themes, including questions of how to theorize, investigate and respond adequately to diversity, the proposed ...read more
20e eeuw
Afrika
Afrikaanse talen
België
Capacity building
Comparatief
Cross-sectoral valorisation
Diversity
Engels
Hedendaags
Interculturaliteit
Nederlands
North-South exchange
Social inequalities in education
Taal- en tekstanalyse
Taalkunde