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CoReAD - Cognitive Research in AD - Towards a model determining cognitive load in audio described audio(-visual) products. University of Antwerp

Gert Vercauteren
Translation, Interpreting and Intercultural Studies (TricS)
Inclusion and accessibility are higher on Europe's political and social agenda than ever before, and this has led broadcasters, film houses but also theatres and museums to start developing services to give people with disabilities access to their products and events. For blind and partially sighted people, audio description (AD) has been created, a service that describes visual and unclear sound elements for the visually impaired, so that they ...

Live subtitling for access to education: a pilot study of university students' reception of intralingual live subtitles. University of Antwerp

Isabelle Robert
Translation, Interpreting and Intercultural Studies (TricS)
In the United Nations' Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, accessibility to education is mentioned as one of the areas where access has to be ensured. At the University of Antwerp, accessibility services are offered to individual students with a functional impairment; however, the offer does not include the use of new technologies yet, which hold a real potential for breaking down linguistic, physical as well as cultural ...

Discrimination-based verbal aggression in interpreter-mediated public service provision in Flanders Ghent University

July De Wilde
Department of Translation, Interpreting and Communication

Via ethnographic and discourse analytic methods we investigate how public service interpreters in Flanders handle discrimination-based verbal aggressions discursively and internationally. We also investigate how interpreters' handling of discrimination-based aggressions interacts with their (professional) identity and stances towards their own agency.

To have and to hold? The preservation of Russian cultural heritage in Belgium, 1917-1950 KU Leuven

Wim Coudenys
Faculty of Arts, Antwerp Campus

The Russian emigration presented itself as the preserver of the cultural heritage that had been lost after the 1917 revolution. As such, it became a source of inspiration for Russia's new national identity after 1991. Emigration culture, however, was a construct, the result of political bias and circumstance, rather than the continuation of imperial Russian society. The present project focuses on the Russian community in Belgium, the only ...

Grounding, priming or affording? A multimodal analysis of the underpinnings of interactive alignment. KU Leuven

Bert Oben
Multimodality, Interaction and Discourse, Leuven
Interactive alignment (i.e. copying behaviour during conversation) has been demonstrated to govern an important share of the interactional dynamics during conversation. From a theoretical point of view, we want to add to the discussion of the mechanisms underpinning interactive alignment. We want to achieve this theoretical goal by studying the phenomenon in hitherto underexplored conversational settings, viz. in conversations where ...

OncoTolk: An explorative study on communication problems in interpreter-mediated consultations with migrant oncology patients. KU Leuven

Demitra Krystallidou
Faculty of Arts, Antwerp Campus

Effective doctor-patient communication is of paramount importance in healthcare as an indicator for care quality and for affecting health outcomes. Due to the specific problems inherent in cancer and the complex decision making during emotional and value-laden topics (e.g. bad news delivery, truth telling, prognostication) effective doctor patient communication in oncology settings is even more important. There is evidence that when ...

Sabbatical 2018-2019 Prof. Christiane Stallaert. University of Antwerp

Christiane Stallaert
Translation, Interpreting and Intercultural Studies (TricS)
My research as a hispanist and anthropologist focuses on social and political themes (nationalism, interethnic and interreligious society, migration, human rights, historical memory), and its interrelations. The cultural border is central to my work, which is inter- and transdisciplinary, at the intersection of Anthropology, Translation Studies and History. Geographically, my research domain is in Spain and Latin America (Mexico, Brazil, Andean ...

Oncotolk. An explorative study on communication problems in interpreter-mediated consultations with migrant oncology patients. University of Antwerp

Johan Wens
Primary and interdisciplinary care Antwerp (ELIZA)
The ultimate goal of this project is to optimize the provision of care for migrant cancer patients and thier families who need to rely on interpreters. We will do so by creating the conditions that enable both patients and their next of kin to better understand the information provided to them in orde for them to be able to be involved in the process of shared decision making. This means that we aim to improve:- the interaction beween patients, ...

Challenging the European Monoculture: Towards a Policy on the Diversification of the European Literary Field. KU Leuven

Elke Brems
Translation and Intercultural Transfer, Brussels Campus
Readers do not restrict themselves to literature from their own culture, written in their own language. Their literary consumption often contains books that were originally written in another language. This is especially true for so called ‘minor languages’ (in a European perspective), like Hungarian or Dutch. At the same time a ‘central language’, like English imports far less foreign books and English readers are less frequently confronted ...

Stylistic appropriateness in English as a foreign language: The acquisition of grammatical formality by translation trainees. University of Antwerp

Jimmy Ureel
Translation, Interpreting and Intercultural Studies (TricS)
An important component of communicative competence is sociolinguistic competence, which is the ability to use language appropriately in communication. Despite an increasing body of research into sociolinguistic features of foreign language (L2) learning, a feature that has received relatively little and/or one-sided treatment to date is the acquisition of sensitivity to (in)formal language use in L2 learners. This project addresses that gap by ...