This doctoral research aims to reconceptualize the design and application of online Chinese-English specialized dictionaries for learners of English for Specific Purposes (ESP), with a particular focus on writing support. ...read more
Pain is a sensory and emotional experience that relies heavily on language for communication. While English pain expressions often use vivid metaphors such as "a burning fire" or "a storm ...read more
Ancient Greece witnessed significant socio-political shifts from the Classical to the Roman period, shaping both regional history and societal dynamics in the populations. Despite the recently emerging view of low ...read more
In the context of globalization and digitalization, this study analyses the literary and artistic creations of Chinese socialist feminism in cyberspace, and explores the unique cultural expressions of the modernity ...read more
The starting point of this research proposal is that shedding light onto the question of whether there could be a markedly Kantian philosophy of language must pass through a thorough ...read more
The title of this project alludes to the terms used by Gabriele D'Annunzio to describe his translation experiments (from Latin and Ancient Greek) in his first youthful collection of poems. ...read more
This research solves knowledge gaps concerning Vietnamese religion and philosophy in the 18th century (“zoomed-out”) by analyzing the inclusion of the Chinese Three Teachings (i.e., Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism) in Le ...read more
This project examines interpreting practices in marriage fraud investigations conducted by Belgian authorities, in which a complex chain of interviews and reports results in the decision whether a transnational couple's ...read more
Between 1948 and 1994, the National Party installed the apartheid regime in South Africa, based on the communicating vessels of racism and sexism, which permeated the entire country and its ...read more
My research project proposes a cultural study of ikebana, based on Stuart Hall’s (1997) ‘circuit of culture’ and Kristin Surak’s (2012) ‘nation-work’. Hall’s approach focuses on articulations and communication between ...read more