Since the second half of 2015, Europe has faced a substantial increase in the number of refugees and asylum seekers in need of international protection (UNHCR, 2015). EU law requires ...read more
This doctoral research investigates how the Japanese martial art of aikido can be used as an embodied pedagogy to enhance intercultural business communication training. The project aims to determine ...read more
The study of dialectal microvariation of Spanish spoken in Spain has until recently mainly focused on lexical and phonetic features. The morphosyntax of these dialects, on the contrary, remains largely ...read more
In recent years several forms of collaboration between journalists, scientific experts, scientific institutions (and their PR staff) and citizen groups have become more frequent (Houston, 2010; Spangenberg & Heise, 2016). ...read more
Via corpus-based analysis and experimental research we investigate the presence and impact of non-standard language features (old and new vernacular) in public consumer comments and company responses on social media.
This five-year project aims to generate a paradigm shift in the understanding of Graeco-Roman and Late Antique communication. Non-literary, ‘documentary’ texts from Ancient Egypt such as letters, petitions and contracts ...read more
In recent years, the study of the use of possessive complements instead of prepositional ones in the adverbial domain, as in encima mío/a vs. encima de mí ‘above me’, has ...read more
This project explores online harassment in Flemish journalism from an intersectional perspective. Studies have shown that online harassment is a gendered issue. Female journalists are disproportionally confronted with name-calling, verbal ...read more
Studies have shown that product or service failures, such as a damaged parcel delivery or a delayed flight, are becoming more and more frequent (CCMC, 2020). As a result, customers ...read more