Our objective is to investigate how learners of Italian as a second and/or as a foreign language use dictionaries to look for new meanings. To do so, we aim to ...read more
This project applies the computational analysis of style to aural features of medieval Anglo-Latin hagiography (900-1150). Although hagiographies possessed a sermonic quality, had a didactic function and were ceremonially recited, the reading ...read more
Every day, journalists and their sources narrate early or distant past events to their audiences. They do so when providing historical contexts, drawing analogies, or commemorating historical figures or events. ...read more
My project focuses on the satire of Brahmins as well as religious mendicants in other religious traditions (e.g. Buddhist and Jain), and their use as stock characters in the classical Indian literary tradition ...read more
The OriKunda project (PI Rozenn Guérois) aims at revising the history of the Chikunda people and language from the origins to the present day, through historical linguistics, anthropological linguistics, ...read more
Mourning texts (āi jìwén 哀祭文) are an important genre of Dūnhuáng 敦煌 literature and are usually regarded as a subgenre of Dūnhuáng "prayer texts” (yuànwén 願文). More than 230 mourning texts are ...read more
Nureni Aremu Bakenne's Ph.D. research is a study of empirical literature and development of newspapers among the Yoruba people of West Africa, with the main focus being Nigeria. Among other things, the ...read more
This project aims to examine the changes in the Benedictines’ ideology of property and poverty in twelfth-century Normandy. Traditional research attributes these changes to Cistercian criticism, but this project will ...read more
The resurgence of identity politics in India has deeply polarised public discourse between a fundamental clash of cultures and a liberal, pluralistic view of society. Behind the present deadlock is ...read more