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Trojan Horse Discourse: The Use and Abuse of Contemporary Constitutional Discourse for Fundamental Rights Protection. University of Antwerp

Patricia Popelier
Communication for Academic and Professional purposes (C-APP), Government and Law
Europe is confronted with a rise of autocratic regimes and tendencies. In this context, academic research and media have reported on Member States relying on current concepts of European constitutional law that structure the interaction and dialogue between the domestic and European legal order for the pu ose of reinforcing its own policy to the detriment of fundamental rights protection. Such concepts often established to reconcile European and ...

Language Ideologies in Scientific Discourses on Content & Language Integrated Learning (CLIL): A Sociolinguistic and Discourse Analysis. Ghent University

Sarah Van Hoof, Jan Blommaert, July De Wilde
Department of Translation, Interpreting and Communication, Department of Linguistics

Via comparative quantitative and qualitative analyses I investigate language ideologies in scientific discourses on CLIL. To this end, I determine (i) how CLIL has been defined and promoted in scientific discourses; (ii) to what extent the genre of key scientific discourses on CLIL is U+2018hybridU+2019.

Negotiating Group Identities in a Multicultural Society. Case: The Role of Mainstream Media, Discourse Relations and Political Alliances in Germany KU Leuven

Leen d'Haenens
Institute for Media Studies, Leuven School for Mass Communication Research

This research on media portrayals of (ethnic/religious) minorities encompasses the fields of media sociology, media effects, political communication, multiculturalism, populism in the media and politicized uses of collective identities. It compares the political discourse (Bundestag plenary protocols) with the mainstream discourse (mainstream press) in Germany over the sample period of 2009-2015, and scrutinizes a ...

The realization of satirical discourse in 17th century translations (1641-1645) of Spanish satirical fiction KU Leuven

Lieven D'hulst
Faculty of Arts, Kulak Kortrijk Campus, Translation and Intercultural Transfer, Antwerp Campus

The purpose of this study is to investigate the creation of the satirical discourse in Dutch translations of Spanish satirical narrative prose texts from the peak period 1641-1645, a time when translations prevailed over local literature in the Dutch Republic. Spanish picaresque and satirical prose texts remained present throughout the 17th century, at the end of which the Spanish model can be found in local literary prose texts (Leemans, ...

Extremist Discourse and Sectarian Incitement in the Digital Era KU Leuven

Abd Alrahman Alswlaiman
Arabic Studies, Antwerp Campus, Translation and Technology, Antwerp Campus, Institute for Media Studies

Amid the extensive use of digital media platforms by extremist groups operating in war-torn countries like Syria and Iraq, the discourse of such organizations is believed to have incited sectarian confrontations among diverse components of the society and to have contributed to the escalation of violence and the deterioration of living conditions at the heart of the Middle East. Major extremist religious organizations that emerged in the ...

Doing restorative justice in intercultural contexts: An alternative discourse of justice and security KU Leuven

Ivo Aertsen
Leuven Institute of Criminology, Faculty of Law and Criminology

The dissertation explores critically the potential and the limits of the restorative justice discourse in addressing conflicts in intercultural contexts in Europe, as an alternative discourse on both justice and security. The exploration revolves around two main questions: 1. How can we conceptualise the application of restorative justice at a range of community-based and social conflicts?; 2. How can ...

Media and political discourse in post-Communist Ukraine. University of Antwerp

Christ'l De Landtsheer
Faculty Research SW
The present research will focus on the analysis of changes which occurred in media and political discourse in post communist Ukraine and the role of dominant political discourse in the processes of construction of political reality. Also the project will contribute to the theoretical development of the concept of political discourse and the role of media in the process of formation of public opinion in contemporary Ukraine. For the Case study ...

Words, not things. Analyzing the discourse of Pier Paolo Pasolini's Tragedies (1966-68) from a system theory perspective. KU Leuven

Bart van den Bossche
French, Italian and Spanish Literature, Leuven
The primary corpus of this discourse analysis consists of the tragedieswritten and revised by Pier Paolo Pasolini between 1966-68. The research topic as well as the methodology are split up into two parts.
The first part of the project is of a comparative nature. Using a conceptual framework stemming from major contributions within the fields of both Polysystem Theory and Translation/Adaptation Studies, the study will shed light on the ways ...

The discourse on perception from Hesiod to Plato KU Leuven

Geert Roskam
De Wulf-Mansion Centre for Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy, Greek Studies, Leuven

My study domain includes, on the one hand, the presocratic sources (the doctrines of predecessors and contemporaries as well as the perceptible reality they observed), and, on the other hand, what could be called the "knowledge channels" (the epic didactic poems and the mutual communication of the so-called "maîtres de vérité” (Detienne)).

Within this domain, my object of study consists of the discourse / interpretation of the ...