Projects
Is 'leuk' sufficiently cool? The social meaning of English loanwords: an acquisitional perspective. KU Leuven
Decoding China's behavior in international organizations: a poststructuralist inquiry into the domestic, organization-specific and international discourse which constitutes Chinese diplomatic practices. KU Leuven
China's 'rise' on the stage of international politics and organization represents one of the most frequently examined phenomenons in International Relations. The dicussion of this phenomenen in the Western literature (as well as the discussion of the 'rise of the rest') has thus far remained structured around traditional theoretical paradigms. Surprisingly, while encounters in recent years with a more confident and ideologically oriented ...
Sabbatical Karen Lahousse: The pragmatics-syntax interface in French: theoretical and sociolinguistic approach KU Leuven
The planned research focuses on the interaction of pragmatics with syntax in French, from a theoretical, sociolinguistic and innovative methodological perspective. Over the past five years, I have conducted research on the pragmatic concepts of topic, focus and contrast (i.e. discourse pragmatics, information structure), as expressed by syntactic structures and discourse markers (Lahousse 2017/2022a/2022b, Lahousse & Verwimp 2017, ...
Sabbatical Heidi Verplaetse: Applied study of modality in science/health communication and advisory texts, and linguistic focus points in translation assessment KU Leuven
During the sabbatical period, I plan to continue the line of research I have developed over recent years regarding translation quality based on error analyzes of student translations. Specifically, I aim to explore and add linguistic focus points for error analysis. I would also like to elaborate preparations for research into translation processes among students. Interdisciplinary points of contact with colleagues between research into ...
A linguistic analysis of indexical markers of identity in Flemish job interviews in a changing recruitment context: A sociolinguistic-pragmatic mixed methods study KU Leuven
Communication within care networks with special attention to non-native speakers and persons with communication disabilities HOGENT
IVESS: Intelligent Vocabulary and Example Selection for Spanish vocabulary learning. Ghent University
By conducting fundamental research on ICALL-related NLP techniques and applying them to
Spanish, this project aims to contribute to the future architecture of ICALL vocabulary learning.
Additionally, by analysing teachers’ and learners’ attitudes towards data-driven learning, the project
will also provide valuable insights into the applicability of ICALL vocabulary learning in a didactic
setting.