Name Responsible Activity "Multimodality, Interaction and Discourse, Brussels Campus" "Bert Oben" "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, Leuven" "Bert Oben" "Multimodality, Interaction and Discourse, Campus Leuven." "Multimodality, Interaction and Discourse, Antwerp Campus" "Bert Oben" "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, Kulak Kortrijk Campus" "Bert Oben" "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." "Communication for Academic and Professional purposes (C-APP)" "The C-APP research group brings together researchers in the areas of applied linguistics, academic literacies, and discourse studies to consolidate research on language use in: (i) public or private organizational settings - health communication - corporate communication - intercultural communication - multilingualism - language, media and ideology - digital communication (ii) (higher) education - teaching communication for special purposes - language testing - second language acquisition - academic acculturation" "French, Italian and Spanish Literature, Leuven" "Beatrijs Vanacker" "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 ideological discourse during the Ancien Régime° Theory about fiction and illusion" "Linguistics Research Unit" "Karen Lahousse" "The Department of Linguistics brings together the linguistic researchers in the Faculty of Arts. Next to studies of a generalor theoretical linguistic nature, research is mainly oriented towards Dutch, English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, and the classical languages. In disciplinary terms, all fields of linguistics are represented: grammar, semantics and pragmatics, diachronic linguistics and variational linguistics, and various kinds of applied linguistics (including language and education, translation studies, terminology). Research is organized in six research groups:Functional and Cognitive Linguistics: Grammar and Typology: Functionele en Coginitieve Taalkunde: Grammatica en Typologie (FunC)Language and Education: Taal en onderwijs (T&O)Quantitative Lexicology and Variational Linguistics: Kwantitatieve Lexicologie en variatielinguïstiek (QLVL) Formal and Computational Linguistics: Formele en computationele Linguïstiek (ComForT)Multimodality, Interaction and Discourse: Multimodaliteit, Interactie en Discours (MIDI)Comparative, historical and applied linguistics: Comparatieve, Historische en Toegepaste Taalkunde (CoHisTal)" "French, Italian and Spanish Literature, Kulak Kortrijk Campus" "Beatrijs Vanacker" "Research topics of this unit that is closely connected with the KU Leuven research 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 ideological discourse during the Ancien Régime° Theory about fiction and illusion" "Literary and Cultural Studies Research Unit, Leuven" "Geert Roskam" "The Literary Studies Research Unit, Leuven, consists of the following six research groups:Dutch Literature, LeuvenEnglish Literature, LeuvenGerman Literature, LeuvenFrench, Italian and Spanish Literature, LeuvenLiterary Theory and Cultural Studies, LeuvenLatin Literature, Leuven" "Centre for the study of Democracy, Signification and Resistance" "Benjamin De Cleen" "DESIRE performs critical research into the political-democratic nature of societal processes and their discursive-significatory dimensions.Crucial within DESIRE's remit is the study of the logics of power, how power strategies are developed and resisted and how signification intervenes into these power logics. DESIRE's areas of interest thus include the many societal fields where meaning is produced and circulated, including the media sphere, the sphere of cultural institutions (including museums, heritage sites and theatres) and the sphere of politics. Within these areas of interest, DESIRE analyses the role of the discursive-significatory. In order to study these discursive-significatory dimensions of the power logics, a variety of methods are used and combined, e.g., critical discourse analysis, visual analysis, rhetorical analysis, discourse-theoretical analysis, and narrative analysis.DESIRE brings together an interdisciplinary group of researchers from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium), Univerza v Ljubljani (Slovenia), Charles University in Prague (Czech Republic), University of Essex (UK), and Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece), as well as affiliate members from other institutions, to support their joint research activities.DESIRE is chaired by Benjamin De Cleen (VUB) and its management committee further consists of Ilija Tomanic Trivundza (Univerza v Ljubljani), Nico Carpentier (Charles University in Prague (Czech Republic), Jason Glynos (University of Essex) and Yannis Stavrakakis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)."