This project starts from two major lacunae in research. Despite substantial progress in the study of premodern material culture, historians have failed to add a spatial dimension to their knowledge ...read more
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
This project aims to investigate the role of structural priming in translation. This cognitive mechanism has received only little attention in Empirical Translation Studies compared to the field of psycholinguistics. ...read more
In Latin classes in Flemish secondary schools, reading authentic Roman texts is the main objective. These texts are characterised by a high degree of complexity in terms of vocabulary, morphology ...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
Although basic genetic screening is an integral part of the sperm donor screening process in assisted reproduction, sometimes (suspected) harmful mutations are discovered after the donation, either in the donor ...read more