Projects
Analysis of presupposition triggers in Mandarin and their use in Chinese official media discourse KU Leuven
The notion of presupposition, as studied in the field of Pragmatics, refers to knowledge that is taken for granted by participants in the exchange of information (Grundy, 2000). Serving as a strategy for generating implicit meaning, presupposition becomes a potent tool for influencing audience understanding by converting evaluative information into background knowledge. This study examines how presuppositions are used in the Chinese official ...
Anti-populist discourse in European politics and media (OZR EU BONUS) Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Anti-populist discourse in European politics and media Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Universal historiography and millenarian kingship in late medieval Egypt and Syria: the third reign of al-Nasir Muhammad and the discourse of history Ghent University
This project investigates a corpus of historiographical texts, predominantely universal chronicles, composed by four historians closely related to the court of the Mamluk sultan al-Nāṣir Muḥammad: Baybars al-Manṣūrī, al-Nuwayrī, Ibn al-Dawādārī, and Abū l-Fidāʾ (death dates between 1325-40). It argues that these texts attest to a specific discourse of history that went well beyond formulations of legitimisation and sultanic hegemony. These ...
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 discourse-theoretical analysis of international communication policies and projects and a multi-facetted analysis of the Information and Comminication Technologies for Development (ICT4D) discourse. Ghent University
First, a discourse-theoretical approach will be developed which will be applied to international communication polices and projects. Second, ICT4D (Information and Communication Technologies for Development) projects, events and policy initiatives will be tied together in a theoretical framework uniting discourse theory and political theory.
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 ...
Referential cohesion in language learners' oral discourse Vrije Universiteit Brussel
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.