Projects
"Languages writing history: the impact of language studies beyond linguistics (1700-1860)" KU Leuven
In 1710, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz noted that “languages will serve as monuments in our investigations since the peoples’ origins reach further back than history’s tradition can tell.' In his opinion, the study of language, and language comparison in particular, was the historian’s foremost source of knowledge about the earliest stages of humanity as well as its migrations (see Van Hal 2014 and other contributions in Li 2014). For him, as for ...
Languages writing history. The impact of language studies beyond linguistics (1700-1860) KU Leuven
Before the study of language was institutionalized, and concentrated, in the discipline of linguistics in the 19th century, languages were central to understanding mankind and, therefore, to scholarship in the humanities. Once historical and linguistic knowledge came to be collected, systematized, categorized, codified, and transmitted in institutionalized disciplines, boundaries arose between the new disciplines. This project aims to focus ...
Processes underlying mono- and bilingual written word production: A computational approach based on typewriting errors Ghent University
In psycholinguistics, written production has received only limited attention compared to spoken production, especially on the word level. The goal of the current project is to build a computational model of the processes underlying written picture naming based on errors in mono- and bilingual writing. For this, I will extend the interactive two-step model of spoken word production (Dell et al., 1997) to the written modality by adding a letter ...
Remote Practices. Insights on Architectural Design Processes. KU Leuven
The effects of climate change, recent geopolitical events and the global pandemic showed us that physical limits and capacity of movement take new meanings and increase the interest to understand the world across its frontiers. To apprehend how our interdependent world is fragmented, alternative views should be proposed to the antagonism globalization – localism commonly accepted as a major framework of reference in the last decades. This ...
#DrinksWithFriends - The Underlying Processes and Conditionality of Alcohol-Related Social Media Effects KU Leuven
For many adolescents and emerging adults, alcohol is an essential part of going out, having fun and growing up. Simultaneously, social media have become routinely integrated in the drinking practices of many young individuals. Unsurprisingly, a growing number of communication scholars and health practitioners have turned their attention to the roles social media can play in young individuals’ drinking behavior. They find that both exposure to ...
International Cultivation - processes of enculturation in a non-American culture. KU Leuven
Reserarch on international Cultivation - processes of enculturation in a non-American culture.
Decolonizing European Theology: Processes of reception and entanglements between Irish und German-speaking theology in the horizon of power-knowledge-correlations KU Leuven
This doctoral project aims to contribute to the contextualisation of European Theology on the premises that Eurocentrism in theology can only be deconstructed by bringing into focus the internal heterogeneity of European theologies themselves. The project chooses a constructivist approach on the postcolonial premise that knowledge is always a product of discursive negotiation formed by power dynamics. Based on the assumption that theological ...
Collaboration in the media: the impact of interthinking and distributive cognition on news and media production processes. Ghent University
The central research questions of the research project are: which components (including interthinking) play salient roles in the distributed cognition of media production work and how are these components organized in interaction? The project analyses segments of 200 hours of audio-recorded media production meetings in which (i) media products were planned, (ii) drafts were discussed, and (iii) updates and revisions were made.