Projects
Multimodal stance-taking in interaction KU Leuven
A fundamental property of language is its ability to simultaneously represent subjects, objects or events, and express the speaker’s stance towards these representations. Although stance-taking as a socially contextualized and recognized interpersonal phenomenon has received substantial attention in different subfields of linguistics, its multimodal realization in real-life interaction still remains largely unexplored. The proposed research ...
Multimodal (di)stance in irony in face-to-face interaction KU Leuven
Although stance-taking as a socially contextualized and recognized interpersonal phenomenon has received substantial attention in different subfields of linguistics, its multimodal realization in real-life interaction still remains largely unexplored. The proposed research project zooms in on the interplay of different semiotic resources, including manual gestures and signs, posture, facial expressions, acoustic experience, touch and eye gaze ...
Person reference and interaction in Umpila/Kuuku Ya'u narrative KU Leuven
Umpila and Kuuku Ya’u storytellers of north-eastern Cape York Peninsula in Australia describe the way they tell most narratives as “we all talk one time”. This expression characterises a highly interactive mode of multi-party storytelling, where two or more narrators take turns or even co-produce turns to jointly tell a story. In this narrative style, storytellers prompt and prod each other, enthusiastically repeat or elaborate on each ...
Multimodal stancetaking in Flemish Sign Language KU Leuven
A fundamental property of language is its ability to simultaneously represent subjects, objects or events, and express the speaker’s stance towards these representations. Although stance-taking as a socially contextualized and recognized interpersonal phenomenon has received substantial attention in different subfields of linguistics, its multimodal realization in real-life interaction still remains largely unexplored. The proposed research ...
Multimodal stancetaking in Flemish Sign Language KU Leuven
A fundamental property of language is its ability to simultaneously represent subjects, objects or events, and express the speaker’s stance towards these representations. Although stance-taking as a socially contextualized and recognized interpersonal phenomenon has received substantial attention in different subfields of linguistics, its multimodal realization in real-life interaction still remains largely unexplored. The proposed research ...
The Status and Functions of the Ancient Greek particle δή in the Dialogues of Plato, with an Analysis of its Translation into Dutch and Polish KU Leuven
This dissertation is divided into two main sections: a theoretical and an analytical one. The corresponding chapters of the theoretical part are focused on (1) the early approach to Greek particles: the definition and the classification of particles in Ancient Greek linguistic thought and (2) the discourse-pragmatic approach to Greek particles. The analytical part consists of corpus research, and analyses (3) the function and uses of the ...