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Measuring Convergence and Divergence in Varieties of Chinese: A Lectometric Approach. KU Leuven

Dirk Geeraerts
Quantitative Lexicology and Variational Linguistics (QLVL), Leuven

What can Chinese teach us about the languages of Europe? Sociolinguistic research has obtained important insights into the dynamics of the languages of Europe: the emergence of pluricentric varieties, the global influence of English, the tendency towards informalization of the standard languages. But are these phenomena typically European, or are the same forces at work in other linguistic areas? A comparison with Chinese may provide an ...

Stylistic appropriateness in English as a foreign language: The acquisition of grammatical formality by translation trainees. University of Antwerp

Jim Ureel
Translation, Interpreting and Intercultural Studies (TricS)
An important component of communicative competence is sociolinguistic competence, which is the ability to use language appropriately in communication. Despite an increasing body of research into sociolinguistic features of foreign language (L2) learning, a feature that has received relatively little and/or one-sided treatment to date is the acquisition of sensitivity to (in)formal language use in L2 learners. This project addresses that gap by ...

Expert sensitivity to linguistic formality as a benchmark for measuring stylistic translation revision competence. University of Antwerp

Jim Ureel
Translation, Interpreting and Intercultural Studies (TricS)
This project directly contributes to the foundation of experimental research into the acquisition of translation revision competence. Funding is required to create a benchmark for the stylistic revision of a formal academic translation. The benchmark will guarantee the validity and reliability of ensuing experimental research. The data-collection instrument used for the benchmark and ensuing research consists of a source text (academic text in ...

Errors outside the lab: the interaction of psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic variables in the production of verb spelling errors in informal computer-mediated communication. University of Antwerp

Reinhild Vandekerckhove
Centre for Computational Linguistics and Psycholinguistics (CLiPS)
We will investigate how social and mental processes interact in the production of spelling errors in informal computer-mediated communication (CMC). Unlike many CMC-studies, the research will not focus on prototypical CMC-features, but on unintentional spelling deviations on verb forms whose pronunciation corresponds to two spelling forms (homophones). We will study an extensive corpus of informal CMC produced by Flemish adolescents. The correct ...

Is leuk sufficiently cool? The social meaning of English loanwords: an acquisitional perspective KU Leuven

Eline Zenner
Centre for Language and Education, Leuven, Quantitative Lexicology and Variational Linguistics (QLVL), Leuven, Faculty of Arts, Brussels Campus

This project wants to investigate how the speech community of tomorrow, viz. elementary school children evaluate the use of English words in a Dutch context, which contextual parameters affect their evaluation and whether an evolution is visible in the dimensions shaping these attitudes as children grow older. By focusing on these questions, the project I am proposing intents to break new ground in the study of social meaning of English ...

IOF Valorisation Social Sciences and Humanities. University of Antwerp

Jurgen Joossens
Tech Transfer Office (TTO)
Within SSH domain we notice an increasing activity towards partnerships with the private sector. Innovative software applications are an important driver, but also in the domains of communication, ethics, management systems, transport, law and safety sciences an increasing need for valorization support is observed. This IOF mandate will be facilitator for industrial partnerships within the faculties Social Sciences, Law, Arts, Applied Economics ...

Research and Training programme Historical Sociolinguistics University of Antwerp

Peter Petré
Grammar and Pragmatics
The aim of this FWO Scientific Research Network application is threefold: (1) to consolidate the Historical Sociolinguistics Network (HiSoN) and firmly secure the position of Flemish expertise in the research network internationally; (2) to initiate a range of new activities as part of a broader Historical Sociolinguistics Research and Training Program, with adistinct focus on postgraduate training and joint research initiatives; (3) to expand ...

Life is a pitch: self-presentation in the age of corporate speak University of Antwerp

Tom Van Hout
Communication for Academic and Professional purposes (C-APP)
Success in the digital economy depends largely on the ability to present yourself in entrepreneurial terms. This requires autobiographical identity work in all-purpose narratives of professional accomplishment and merit. Such narratives present the self as a dynamic and transferable bundle of skills, experiences, and achievements across a range of mobile communicative contexts such as job applications, academic profiles and professional ...

The interaction of gender and social class in Flemish online teenage talk. University of Antwerp

Reinhild Vandekerckhove
Centre for Computational Linguistics and Psycholinguistics (CLiPS)
Social class differences in teenage speech remain largely unexplored, while gender has been focused on in quite a lot of sociolinguistic research on adolescent peer group language. The interest in gender differences has also pervaded the research on informal computer-mediated communication (CMC) and more specifically on the online writing practices of adolescents in chat or texting media, but then again, the link with social class is generally ...