This PhD research is a comparative historical anthropology of cross-cultural interaction and local exchange-relations in late 18th-century China (Guangzhou), Japan (Dejima) and India (Bengal & Ganges-delta region).In this research, cross-cultural ...read more
This project aims to illustrate what happens to fashion communication in the digital era, investigating fashion magazines in five different countries (France, Italy, Portugal Netherlands, United Kingdom). It analyses the ...read more
PhD in Arts project, research is conducted within the research group S:PAM (Studies in Performing Arts & Media) and within the University College Ghent - Faculty of Fine Arts (KASK). ...read more
The ARCHIVE project aims to discover the differences in language use and expression of subjectivity in corporate reporting between varieties of English such as British and American English and ...read more
As previous studies have shown, in order to overcome the language barriers and enable the communication between general practitioners and migrant patients, the employment of professional community interpreters in the ...read more
Before the International Copyright Act of 1891 was passed, the American literary marketplace was saturated with unauthorized reprints of British texts. Neither British nor American authors had any legal claim ...read more
This project involves the compilation of a corpus of complaint sequences between company and customer in four different languages (German, French, English, and Dutch) and in three CMC-modes (e-mail, Twitter, Facebook). ...read more
This PhD project has focused on a group of sketches, which were popular throughout Europe around 1840. The sketches, bearing titles like "les Français peints par eux-mêmes" and "Los Españoles ...read more
This research project looks at consumer representation in the postwar period. It investigates how social movements put their grievances on behalf of the consumer on the table, in the context ...read more
The main objective of the Validiv project is to valorise existing linguistic diversity and the linguistic repertoires of pupils (e.g., English, French, immigrant languages) within educational processes in primary education ...read more