The MIDI Research Group focuses on the study of language and interaction as a social and/or conceptual practice as it can be observed in different interpersonal settings involving, for instance, spontaneous workplace, mundane and other social interactions, as well as research interviews and experimentally controlled face-to-face conversations.
Multimodality, Interaction and Discourse, Campus Leuven.
The MIDI Research Group focuses on the study of language and interaction as a social and/or conceptual practice as it can be observed in different interpersonal settings involving, for instance, spontaneous workplace, mundane and other social interactions, as well as research interviews and experimentally controlled face-to-face conversations.
The MIDI Research Group focuses on the study of language and interaction as a social and/or conceptual practice as it can be observed in different interpersonal settings involving, for instance, spontaneous workplace, mundane and other social interactions, as well as research interviews and experimentally controlled face-to-face conversations.
Research topics of this unit are:
° Literary theory: development of a historical poetics of narrative prose, from the Middle Ages to 1800.
° Autobiography study: modalities and conditions for the I-discourse during the Ancien Régime.
° Study of narrative strategies: ambiguity and ductus obliquus in the narrative-philosophical discourse of the Enlightenment.
° Legitimization strategies of the literary, scientific and ...