Projects
How to stimulate reflection on the disciplinary future self through internships: challenges and opportunities. KU Leuven
Disciplinaire persoonsvorming via stages en praktijkervaringen: opleidingsspecifieke en facultaire uitdagingen en kansen
In het onderwijsbeleidsplan van de KU Leuven (2014-2017) wordt sterk de nadruk gelegd op het belang van het voortdurend aanspreken en ter discussie stellen van het disciplinaire future self van studenten en op de bijdrage die de universiteit op die manier kan leveren tot hun ...
The disciplinary future self in a faculty with diverse disciplinary profiles - towards a coherent faculty policy KU Leuven
This project wants to identify ways in which a faculty with diverse disciplinary profiles can deal with this diversity (in its communication, in how it recrutes students and strengthens their profiles throughout their study, in how it presents the faculty from the perspective of employability).
Mapping metatext. On semantics of connectors, nature of conjunction and non-correspondence of metatexts of various languages on example of metatextual units marking opposition in Polish, Russian, Bulgarian, English and Dutch KU Leuven
From Hellas to Haarlem: New Ancient Greek literature on the cultural scene of the early modern Low Countries (ca. 1484–1700) KU Leuven
While it is well-known that Latin served as a major literary language in the early modern period (ca. 1400–1700), it is much less known that authors from that era also produced a rich literature in the language of ancient Greece. There is as yet no systematic study of this intriguing phenomenon, which flourished across the European continent from Italy to Scandinavia, and especially in the cultural and linguistic melting pot that were the Low ...
Learning Dutch in Flanders. The acquisition of sociolinguistic variation with adult L2 learners Ghent University
Acquisition of sociolinguistic variation is increasingly considered essential for L2 speakers. At the same time it poses challenges, especially for late language learners. This project focuses on the acquisition of sociolinguistic variation by late starting learners in Flanders, the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium. Flanders offers a fascinating context for this project, because the linguistic landscape is strongly dominated by non-standard ...
Facing Diversity. Representations of Early Modern Learned Women Writers and the Construction of intellectual and literary authority (1500-1850) KU Leuven
The prototypical image of the learned has long been that of a man. This project reveals a different lineage. It investigates female representations of intellectual and literary authority at the dawn of modern science in the early modern era, systematically analyzing printed textual and visual portraits of women writers as agents of public authority. In traditional historiography on women’s contributions to the early modern European ...
Towards a socio-cognitive account of turn-taking in dialogue interpreting Ghent University
The aim of the project is to contribute to a novel model of turn-taking in dialogue interpreting (DI) by offering an analysis in terms of ‘cognition for interaction’ (Levinson 2015). Although various aspects of interpreter’s turn-taking have been studied over the past two decades, its relationship with cognitive processes is still largely unexplored. Cognitive research in Interpreting Studies has mainly focused on conference interpreting and ...
On the cognitive side of translation and interpreting: Process, performance, and product Ghent University
When translators and interpreters render a given text in another language, they first need to comprehend the input, then transfer its meaning, produce an output, and lastly edit the output where necessary. The aim of the current project is to glance behind the cognitive screens of translation and interpreting, creating a cognitive model of the entire rendition from input to output, while also taking into account performance and the quality ...