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Is leuk sufficiently cool? The social meaning of English loanwords: an acquisitional perspective KU Leuven

Centre for Language and Education, Leuven, Quantitative Lexicology and Variational Linguistics (QLVL), Leuven, Faculty of Arts, Brussels Campus

This project wants to investigate how the speech community of tomorrow, viz. elementary school children evaluate the use of English words in a Dutch context, which contextual parameters affect their evaluation and whether an evolution is visible in the dimensions shaping these attitudes as children grow older. By focusing on these questions, the project I am proposing intents to break new ground in the study of social meaning of English ...

Mystical Heritage and Modern Identities. Reception and Appropriation of the Medieval 'Flemish' Mystic Hadewijch in Interwar Belgium. University of Antwerp

Veerle Fraeters

Power in History - Centre for Political History, Research centre Ruusbroec Institute

This project offers an in-depth study of the polymorphic reception of the Middle Dutch or 'Flemish' mystical author Hadewijch (ca. 1240) within the intellectual field and the wider socio-cultural field in Interwar Flanders (including Brussels), a society characterized by acute 'pillarization'. The enthusiast appropriation of the hitherto hardly known oeuvre of Hadewijch by a remarkably broad range of intellectuals belonging to very different ...

The effect of multimedia hyperlinks in fiction on reading motivation and immersion in adolescent readers: An empirical study. University of Antwerp

Mathea Simons

Antwerp Centre for Digital humanities and literary Criticism (ACDC), Didactica

Adolescents' reading habits, particularly of literary texts, are the object of scientific and social concern. Due to the omnipresence of short, digital texts they would read fewer literary texts, be less motivated to do so, and consequently underperform. Especially young adolescents are characterized by a drop in reading motivation. However, reading promoters point out the new possibilities of digital literary texts, such as hypermedia fiction. ...

With theatre he urged people to remember their duties. Social Criticism in the Seventeenth-Century Theatre of the Low Countries. University of Antwerp

Hubert Meeus

Institute for the Study of Literature in the Low Countries (ISLN)

'Hy dwong het volk door klucht te luistren naar hun plichten' ('With farce he urged people toremember their duties'). With this verse the seventeenth-century playwright Jan Vos honouredBredero, whose theatre clearly focused on entertainment, while at the same time it urged theaudience into social criticism. This verse concisely shows how seventeenth-century theatrefunctioned. Whereas in the sixteenth century, rhetoricians performed didactic ...

Lord, give me the first prize! Fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Low Countries lottery poems as the voice of the people. University of Antwerp

Jeroen Puttevils

Centre for Urban History

In this project the applicant together with a group of students (in history, with sufficient paleographic skills) will transcribe thousands of so-called lottery poems – poems which were read out loud during the draw of the lottery and which were intended to identify those who acquired lottery tickets – from the fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Low Countries and enter those poems into a database and tag them with a number of other data fields. ...

Growing Scientists. STEM-representations, identity construction and active citizenship in fictional and nonfictional children's literature. University of Antwerp

Kevin Absillis

Antwerp Centre for Digital humanities and literary Criticism (ACDC), Institute for the Study of Literature in the Low Countries (ISLN)

Literacy with regard to Science Technology Engineering Mathematics (STEM) is considered worldwide to be a key factor in societal growth. Research and education are therefore strongly geared towards fostering STEM literacy. Cultural artefacts for the young, such as children's books, are rarely included in these efforts. That omission is deplorable, because children's concepts of science are not only constructed in schools or museums. Stories and ...

Meeting the Needs of Migrants in Flanders: the Role of the Job-seeker KU Leuven

Kris Van den Branden

Centre for Language and Education, Leuven, Language, Education and Society, Leuven

One of the most pressing concerns for migrants is in finding employment. Aside from many bureaucratic steps required in the process and occasional vocational trainings, job-seekers also need to learn to navigate the job search process itself, which includes actions such as applying to the National Employment Agency, answering job applications, negotiating contract conditions, and networking. A number of these tasks do require the use of the ...

Wagner in Antwerp (1972-1987), an Inquiry into Opera Staging. University of Antwerp

Kurt Vanhoutte

Research Centre for Visual Poetics

This project measures the impact of the emancipation of the opera director in Antwerp's opera scene between 1972 and 1987. Video footage of productions and archival research in the yet undisclosed archives of the former KVO of Antwerp should enable us to reconstruct dramaturgical concept and mise-en-scène in both traditional readings and the more radical re-interpretations (called Regietheater) of Wagner's works, after which broader evolutions ...

120 photos and 120 trades for orientation Hasselt University

Center for Applied Linguistics

The project builds on two learning tools developed in the course of former Leonardo da Vinci projects. The first tool, called 'Zoom2Choose', is an electronic professional orientation test. It helps a person to find out what professions fit his/her personality based on sets of pictures. The second tool, '100 job descriptions brought to life', combines professional orientation activities (getting to know different professions) with language ...

'I write my own Claus-language'. Language variation in the literary prose of Hugo Claus (1929-2008): a stylistic analysis University of Antwerp