Projects
Media and political discourse in post-Communist Ukraine. University of Antwerp
Words, not things. Analyzing the discourse of Pier Paolo Pasolini's Tragedies (1966-68) from a system theory perspective. KU Leuven
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 ...
Discourse analysis on climate issues Ghent University
Klimaatverandering stelt ons als samenleving voor een aantal fundamentele keuzes, wat leidt tot heel wat maatschappelijk debat. Zo bestaat er onder andere onenigheid over effecten, oorzaken en verbanden tussen onze consumptie- en productiepatronen, over de beste klimaatstrategieën en -maatregelen die kunnen gevolgd worden binnen bepaalde sectoren, en over hoe de kosten en baten verdeeld zouden moeten worden binnen de samenleving. Dit ...
Rebutting and recording heresy in the eleventh-century Low Countries: towards an understanding of clerical discourse on social and religious change Ghent University
This project aims to investigate the ways in which the cerlical elites of the eleventh century responded to the rise of religious dissent and new forms of social organisation. By investigating the discourse of contemporary sources, it will verify the tenability of commonly-accepted theories regarding the rise of urban society, clerical attitudes and religious change.
Chinese Discourse on Translation as Intercultural Communication ——Ulterior Agendas of the Chinese Literati in their Collaborative Translation with Jesuit Missionaries in Late Ming and Early Qing KU Leuven
From the end of the 16th century (Ming Dynasty, the Wanli Emperor) to the late 18th century (Qing Dynasty, the Qianlong Emperor), there was an approximately two-hundred-year prosperous China-Europe cultural communication. Such cultural exchange was partly characterized by the essential role of printing that produced a large number of translations of Western works into Chinese, mainly attributed to Jesuits, which were usually completed through ...
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 ...
Discourse of “state-induced return” in international institutional speech: how to kindly give the boot to people on the move Vrije Universiteit Brussel
analysing state-induced return speech, the goal is to study how the lexical series of terms using a
prefix expressing repetition or intensity serves the objectives of European external policies. This
paradigm of terms starting with re- (which includes resettlement, readmission and reintegration) is
more and more used ...
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 Specter of Style: Shifting Understandings in Twentieth-Century Architectural Discourse in China KU Leuven
Unlike in Europe, the concept of style only entered Chinese people’s vision as a new term when the modern discipline of architecture was established in the early twentieth century. Thereafter, for much of the rest of the century, Chinese architects faced the conundrum: "In what style should we build?" This dissertation examines the discussions of style within architectural discourse, and considers (a) the shifting understandings of style in ...