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Finish your plate and clean up your language! A mixed methods approach to Colloquial Belgian Dutch and Standard Dutch variation in child-directed speech at Flemish dinner table conversations. KU Leuven

Eline Zenner
Quantitative Lexicology and Variational Linguistics (QLVL), Leuven, Multimodality, Interaction and Discourse, Leuven

This project studies variation in the way parents address their children, focusing on parents’ selection of Colloquial Belgian Dutch (‘tussentaal’, e.g. gij ‘you’) or Standard Belgian Dutch forms (e.g. jij ‘you’).

Through structured variation between standard and vernacular, parents implicitly teach their children which language features (and varieties) to use in which context, hence at the same time revealing which language features ...

The dynamics of language policies in two urban secondary schools in post-monolingual Flanders Ghent University

Piet Van Avermaet
Department of Linguistics

The aim of the proposed research project is to explore the localised ways in which teachers, students and school management staffs handle, negotiate and navigate migrant-background studentsU+2019 multilingual repertoires in a post-monolingual societal condition. Ethnographic research using a variety of qualitative methods will be conducted in two matched urban secondary schools
which contrast in their pursued language policies.

A Parsed Corpus of Southern Dutch Dialects Ghent University

Miriam Bouzouita
Department of Linguistics

Many of the unique syntactic features of Dutch dialects spoken in Flanders only occur in very

specific discourse contexts, and therefore cannot be researched using existing databases and

linguistic atlases, as those are based on elicited data, not spontaneous speech. At Ghent University,

783 tape recordings (c. 700h) of spontaneous dialect speech from all Dutch-speaking provinces in

Belgium and from French Flanders ...

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

Eline Zenner
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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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' mysticalauthor 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 hithertohardly known oeuvre of Hadewijch by a remarkably broad range of intellectuals belonging to very different ...

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 ...