Projects
Effective information exchange and care orientation in Covid-19-related contact tracing phone calls. An applied sociolinguistic and conversation analytic enquiry into optimizing interactional dynamics and pragmatic awareness. University of Antwerp
Self-actualization and self-transcendence in China: the paradoxical role of fate as an agent for spiritual and psychological wellbeing. Ghent University
This research proposes to investigate the characteristically Chinese concept of fate (ming) in terms of spiritual-psychological agency Fate has always played a pervasive role in ancient Chinese thought and folk religion However, fate as we know it in the West as an uncontrollable force does not have the same meaning in China Chinese conceptions of fate display different dimensions, most commonly expressed in the concepts ‘eavenly ...
Reflecting and resisting. Polish theatre and politics of memory since 2005 KU Leuven
This research argues that contemporary Polish theatre has been marked by this struggle between those creating performances and state authorities that see those creations as a threat to their authority. It interrogates the ways in which the artistic and political strategies that have been developed in the past two decades in the Polish theatre field can be theorized as queer artistic and political strategies. It will argue that this struggle ...
Function and form of the Spanish nominal vocative: between production, cognition and personality. Ghent University
In everyday speech, Spanish speakers frequently use vocatives, defined as (pro)nominal expressions used to directly address the interlocutor. Besides prototypical ‘proper noun’- vocatives, they have a wide gamut of vocatives at their disposal derived from common nouns and adjectives, which assume different interpersonal functions in discourse. As a result, the vocative is considered a strikingly productive category in Spanish, in terms of ...
The register-specificity of probabilistic grammatical knowledge in English and Dutch KU Leuven
Probabilistic grammars regulate the way in which we choose between alternative ways of saying the same thing. For example, in English people can say either "Tom sent Mary a letter", or "Tom sent a letter to Mary". Both syntactic variants have roughly the same meaning, and we know that variant choice is a function of precisely quantifiable effects of probabilistic factors such as the length of the recipient ("Mary"), or whether the recipient ...
Wetenschappelijke opdracht: Sabbatical periode van 01/10/2017 - 30/09/2018. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
A sociolinguistic ethnographic study of the activation of migrant job seekers in Flanders Ghent University
This project investigates how policy makers’ investments in improving linguistic competences in order to increase employment rates among immigrants are put into practice. The project proposes a sociolinguistic ethnographic analysis of the role of language in the different stages of the activation trajectories that immigrant job seekers are inserted in in Flanders.
Technologies of the displaced: governance, communication use and media experiences among Syrian refugees in Sanliurfa (South- Eastern Turkey) and Brussels (Belgium). University of Antwerp
Circular Economy Transition in Flanders. An Urban Landscape Design Contribution. KU Leuven
Responding to threatening resource scarcity Flemish policy documents and public tenders increasingly mention ‘circular economy’, turning waste into resources, as a goal. Nevertheless, a clear consensus about what exactly constitutes this circular economy lacks. Going to the core of the issue, resource scarcity will not be solved with endless recycling if (population and therefore) consumption keeps growing. Instead consumption needs to ...