Projects
Bureaucracy and Discourse in Everyday Architecture, 1930-1970: An Introduction Ghent University
My proposal is threefold: I intend to prepare the long-term research project
U+2018Bureaucracy and Discourse in Everyday Architecture, 1930-1970U+2019, taking
advantage of the expertise of the Architectural History and Theory research group
in Ghent; to collaborate with it to produce specific outputs that explore our shared
interest in the less-celebrated works and agents of architecture; and to valorise my
recently ...
The reception of Oswald Spengler in German literary-intellectual discourse after 1989. KU Leuven
Research Project. The Nepantla generation: identity discourse in the essays of the second generation os Spanish exiles in Mexico Ghent University
The project explores the identity discourse in the essayistic texts written by the children of Republican exiles in Mexico. This so-called Nepantla generation, after the Nahuatl word for “between two worlds”, is characterized by its complex and multiple cultural identity. Through a discourse analysis of the essays of a representative sample of authors from this generation, we examine how these ‘Hispanic Mexican’ writers managed to construct ...
Rethinking the federal paradox. Sub state nationalist discourse of political parties in electoral manifestoes and television debates of four federal countries (1968-2010). University of Antwerp
Changing leaders, changing times? A description and analysis of leadership practices at upper-school level in secondary school clusters in Flanders. KU Leuven
In part 1 we report on a systematic review of the literature on ...
Outsider literature in Belgium, 1968-2008. A polysystemic analysis. KU Leuven
Analysis of the disaster problematique from a political ecology perspective. KU Leuven
This doctoral research focuses on housing systems, especially on subsidized housing in the city of New Orleans post-Katrina. The aim is to give a societally embedded content to the notion of ‘social resilience’ based on a critical analysis of the diversity of pre-existent and emerging housing actors in the early and late recovery years in post-Katrina New Orleans. The study further aspires to propose recovery governance arrangements that are ...
The development of nominal and verbat gerunds from Middle to Late Modern English: towards a semantic and discourse-functional analysis. KU Leuven
Strategies and effects of 'foreigner talk'. A multmodal analysis. KU Leuven
Foreigner talk or foreigner-directed speech has been described as a type of linguistic adaptation that occurs when native speakers (NS) adapt their communicative behavior to less proficient, nonnative speakers (NNS) and that includes simplification strategies such as hyper-articulation, reduced speech rate, the use of high frequency forms, omission of morphosyntactic items and reformulations. Concerning non-verbal modifications, some pilot ...