The proposed project sets out to examine how regional and non-native accents in spoken English affect the intelligibility for English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners. Listening to a second ...read more
This project investigates views on the internal body in premodern Japan. In particular, the theory of the five viscera, or gozôron will be of interest. Several handwritten sources from the Edo period ...read more
Prostitution in Japan has been a much studied subject in recent years. The state-sanctioned, highly regulated prostitution practised in the so-called enclosed quarters (kuruwa) of the Edo period (1600-1868) in ...read more
The primary research objective of this project is to use machine learning techniques to enable automatic writing evaluation. Besides providing an overall holistic evaluation of the writing product, various modules ...read more
This project explores the early modern attitude toward nature through the very popular literary medium of the "hofdicht". In this genre the gardens and country houses of the elite are ...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
The main aim of this research project is an intersectional analysis of in/excluding mechanisms in higher education for ethnic minority students and those from socio-economically vulnerable groups. During this project, ...read more
The main objective of this research are the flying apsaras in the grottoes of the Northern Wei Dynasty, focusing on the three main royal grottoes, Yungang Grottoes, Longmen Grottoes and Gongyi ...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