Regional pronunciations can result from the phonological contact between a standard language and its dialectal substrate. Such pronunciations might be less diversified compared to their substrate dialects, since regional varieties ...read more
Literary criticism plays an important role in the way literary works are perceived and what value is ascribed to them: it has a gatekeeping function, attributing cultural legitimacy through its ...read more
Over the course of the 4th to the 6th centuries, the ancient world was coming to its end in the midst of massive change: the establishment of Christianity, alterations in ...read more
This project examines conviviality as an everyday practice of bridging religious and cultural difference from the perspective of Muslim minorities in Belgium. It aims to reveal the modalities in which ...read more
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
Memory scholars have been criticising the state of collective memory in the West arguing that efforts made to commemorate the crimes of the 20th century have neither reduced racism nor ...read more
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
This project aims to investigate China's relational power and critique the so-called 'China's sharp power’ in China's diplomacy. This research will theorise the ‘relational power’ derived from pluralistically imagined ‘Chineseness’. The ...read more
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
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