Projects
An Empirical Study of Acquisition of English Discourse Markers Among Chinese EFL learners KU Leuven
As a functionally related group of expressions (Schourup 1999), discourse markers (henceforth DMs) are extensively used in daily communications. In general, they are considered as the pragmatic ‘glue’ of conversation (Schiffrin, 1987), indexing the speaker’s attitude toward the listener and the discourse (Aijmer, 2002; Fraser, 1990). Discourse markers have been described and categorized differently by various authors (Aijmer and ...
The "Nepantla" generation: identity discourse in the essays of the second generation of Spanish exiles in Mexico. KU Leuven
Gender and sexuality as strategic tools in populist discourse. University of Antwerp
A constructional multimodal approach to coordination in discourse KU Leuven
This project aims at describing the verbal, vocal, and gestural features participating in coordination in English. The study will rely on a corpus of audiovisual recordings of unprepared dialogues, semi-scripted TV talk-shows, and television broadcast news. The objectives of this study are twofold. We investigate 1) how speakers express coordinate structures, as we identify recurrent verbal, vocal, and visual marks of coordination through the ...
The language of translation in Brazil: written vs. oral discourse. University of Antwerp
The material image-building of Erard de la Marck, Prince-Bishop of Liège. Strategy, components and significance of a versatile discourse KU Leuven
The adaptation to the required decorum as well as the creation of a personal image were essential components of the material culture of rulers during the Ancien Régime. To that end, a large set of tools was available that could produce an impressive variety of buildings, monuments, works of art and other objects that served the creation of the required image building. The present research project concentrates on the material culture of Erard ...
A study of BIYO, an endangered Chinese ethnic minority language of the Lolo-Burmese family: Language documentation and an analytical approach to the system of discourse markers in contact with Southwestern Mandarin Ghent University
This project aims at documenting the endangered BIYO language (Hani group of the Lolo-Burmese language family), spoken by ethnic minorities in scattered locations of Southwestern Yunnan Province of China. Nowadays, the language is very rarely transmitted to the younger generation which prefers Chinese or English as daily means
of communication. As such, the language community is continuously shrinking and the language is on the verge of ...
Discourse markers in Italian L2 and heritage language Ghent University
The project analyses discourse markers in Italian, by comparing the acquisition of discourse markers by Belgian-Dutch speakers who study Italian as second language with that by Belgian- Dutch speakers who have learnt Italian as their heritage language. The project produces an analysis of the linguistic and sociolinguistic factors involved.