Projects
Pain in Ancient Hebrew: Language, Cognition, and Culture KU Leuven
By combining several linguistic disciplines and theories (i.e., cultural linguistics, frame semantics, conceptual metaphor theory, and cultural scripts theory), this research will provide the very first comprehensive analysis of the verbal expressions of pain in ancient Hebrew, and its underlying conceptualizations, cultural norms and assumptions from prior to the 2nd century CE. The ancient Hebrew language of pain has never been thoroughly ...
BOF-ZAP professorship in Japanese language and culture Ghent University
A dead language resuscitated? Ancient Greek in early modern culture and scholarship KU Leuven
Legal culture and language: a study of the linguisticdiscursive aspects of contract law in France, Germany and England from a comparative and historical perspective Ghent University
Comparative law has always been a kind of umbrella concept encompassing different
activities with diverse underlying motives and goals and to that extent, methodological
pluralism is part and parcel of comparative law. In the context of approximation/harmonization initiatives (e.g. EU), scholars in comparative contract law have tended to adopt a (not well elaborated) functionalist approach and limited their research to a mainly ...
Current title: Political emancipation through language and cultural education. Critical pedagogical research into the rhetoric of cultural literacy mediated by cultural institutions and cultural policy at the Flemish, Belgian and European level. Ghent University
This research conducts 3 integrated research tracks to investigate cultural literacy projects - issued at the Flemish, Belgian and European policy level: (1) conceptual study into cultural literacy; (2) a crosssectional analysis of the rhetoric of political emancipation in cultural policies; (3) field research inquiring
how cultural institutions (theatres, libraries, museums, …) translate emancipatory cultural knowledge, defined at ...
Emotional fit within and between cultural contexts: Analyzing natural language to describe and compare the conceptual system for emotions KU Leuven
The frequencies, intensities, and types of emotions people experience in a given situation differ systematically across cultural boundaries. This variation is inherently meaningful because it reflects differences in the conceptual system for emotions, with implications for well-being. Emotional fit between an individual and other members of their culture is a protective factor for mental and physical health, as is a well-developed conceptual ...
Linguistic and cultural education in Western Christianity, from c. 380 until 735: A study of the content, form, and sociocultural insertion of Latin language manuals KU Leuven
This postdoctoral research project aims to improve our understanding of the linguistic and cultural foundations for education in Late Antique and Early Medieval Western Christianity. In order to do so, it will focus on the corpus of Latin language manuals (grammatical, lexicographical and orthographical works) produced during the period between the manuals of Augustine (c. 380) and Bede (d. 735). The project is based on the hypothesis that ...
Language and cultural policy as key to international competitiveness for SMEs HOGENT
DE-BIAS - Detecting and cur(at)ing harmful language in cultural heritage collections KU Leuven
Cultural heritage institutions in Europe and beyond have been undertaking work to describe and catalogue the historical objects in their collections for decades. However, once created, catalogue data are rarely updated to reflect changes in language and society. As a result, many object and collection descriptions that once fit into popular social narratives now convey outdated views that not only ignore and therefore alienate a wide range of ...