Romeo De Timmerman

romeo.detimmerman@ugent.be

Vakgroep

Vakgroep Taalkunde

Onderzoeksgroep(en)

MULTIPLES - Research Centre for Multilingual Practices and Language Learning in Society

Onderzoeksgebied

Linguistics

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Romeo De Timmerman is a doctoral researcher at the Linguistics Department of Ghent University, where he is also a member of the MULTIPLES research group. His research interests are situated within the field of variationist sociolinguistics, with a specific focus on stylistic language use in staged performances. His current PhD project focuses on the use of African American English features as indexical expressions of authenticity in blues music.

Projecten

Projecten als doctoraatsonderzoeker

Indexical expressions of authenticity. A mixed-method inquiry into the stylistic use of African American English in live performed blues music (2022 - 2026)

Publicaties

Meest recente publicaties

De Timmerman, Romeo, et al. “Participant Role Shifting in Minority Language Institutional Interactions : COVID-19 Contact Tracing Telephone Calls as Complex Spaces of Linguistic Non-Understanding.” MULTILINGUA-JOURNAL OF CROSS-CULTURAL AND INTERLANGUAGE COMMUNICATION, edited by Marie Jacobs and Ella van Hest, vol. 44, no. 1, 2025, pp. 63–91, doi:10.1515/multi-2024-0104.
Data for "Covering Blue Voices: African American English and Authenticity in Blues Covers" (2024) Romeo De Timmerman (UGent)
De Timmerman, Romeo, et al. “The Globalization of Local Indexicalities through Music : African-American English and the Blues.” JOURNAL OF SOCIOLINGUISTICS, vol. 28, no. 1, 2024, pp. 3–25, doi:10.1111/josl.12616.
Slembrouck, Stef, et al. “Question/Answer-Sequences in Contact Tracing Telephone Calls in Flanders during the Covid-19 Pandemic’.” MEDICAL RESEARCH ARCHIVES, vol. 12, no. 11, 2024, doi:10.18103/mra.v12i11.6097.
De Timmerman, Romeo, and Stef Slembrouck. “Covering Blue Voices : African American English and Authenticity in Blues Covers.” LANGUAGES, vol. 9, no. 7, MDPI, 2024, doi:10.3390/languages9070229.

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