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Legitimizing linguistic hierarchization: Elite multilingualism at an IB-accredited international school. University of Antwerp

This project examines the linguistic construction of elite multilingualism in an IB international school. International schools are exclusive educational institutions which typically provide transnational education for expat children. To address the lack of knowledge on how language-based elitism manifests itself and how it is legitimized in an educational institutional context, this project specifically looks at (i) how teachers and students ...

Just Linguistic Interactions KU Leuven

Helder De Schutter

Research in Political Philosophy and Ethics Leuven (RIPPLE)

From the perspective of political philosophy, the problem of linguistic justice concerns the management of the presence of different language groups within a political community. Tackling this problem means asking what policies the just management of linguistic diversity requires. Political philosophers have standardly broached this question with an exclusive focus on issues of 'end-state justice:' Should special rights be granted to linguistic ...

The interaction between information structure, syntax and semantics: a comparative linguistic and interdisciplinary analysis. KU Leuven

Karen Lahousse

Functional and Cognitive Linguistics: Grammar and Typology (FunC), Leuven

One of the major functions of language is to convey information between speakers and hearers. Speakers have several linguistic means at their disposal to structure the information they want to communicate, e.g. active (Nous avons pris la décision) vs passive sentences (La décision a été prise) refer to the same referential content but the way in which the information is structured differs. Information Structure (IS) is a ...

The interactional dynamics of multilingualism and translanguaging in the Belgian asylum procedure Ghent University

Stef Slembrouck

Department of Linguistics

This project investigates the ways in which linguistic diversity, multilingualism and translanguaging are institutionally managed in the Belgian asylum procedure. Drawing on linguistic-ethnographic data, this study (a) analyses language ideological issues related to competing forms of multilingualism, with a particular focus on interpreting practice and LADO applications and (b) explores how the observed interactional dynamics may affect the ...

Identity negotiation of upwardly mobile migrants – combining interactional sociolinguistic and social psychological analysis to advance our understanding of self-group affiliation and distancing KU Leuven

Dorien Van De Mieroop

Multimodality, Interaction and Discourse, Leuven, Social and Cultural Psychology

While both interactional sociolinguistics (S) and social psychology (P) study identity negotiation and address research topics with societal relevance (e.g. discrimination against migrants), there is little cross-fertilization between the two disciplines. Also, even though they draw on very diverse research methods (S: qualitative analyses of authentic interactions and research interviews; P: quantitative survey research and experimental ...

Exploring the dialectic relation between narrative and context from an interactional sociolinguistic perspective: the case of World War II-testimonies KU Leuven

Dorien Van De Mieroop

Multimodality, Interaction and Discourse, Leuven

It is only recently that interactional sociolinguists have increasingly scrutinized the dialectic relation between the local level of narrative as an interactional accomplishment and the surrounding socio-cultural context and its big D-discourses (= socially accepted ways of thinking and acting). This is also thanks to positioning analysis (Bamberg 1997), which links the local levels 1 and 2 (viz. storyworld and storytelling world) to a more ...

Functional and Cognitive Linguistics (grammar and typology). University of Antwerp

Peter Petré

Grammar and Pragmatics

Understanding how, when, and why do the functions and forms of grammar change the way they do, in order to gain insight in human cognition and evolution. The fundamental questions that continue to guide this research are: 1. To what extent is language change dependent on linguistic variation between individuals? For a long time studies on language change treated language as an abstract object cut loose from its users. But obviously language ...

Language Ideologies in Scientific Discourses on Content & Language Integrated Learning (CLIL): A Sociolinguistic and Discourse Analysis. Ghent University

Sarah Van Hoof, Jan Blommaert, July De Wilde

Department of Translation, Interpreting and Communication, Department of Linguistics

Via comparative quantitative and qualitative analyses I investigate language ideologies in scientific discourses on CLIL. To this end, I determine (i) how CLIL has been defined and promoted in scientific discourses; (ii) to what extent the genre of key scientific discourses on CLIL is ‘hybrid’.

Beyond the clause: Encoding and inference in clause combining KU Leuven

Jean-Christophe Verstraete

Functional and Cognitive Linguistics: Grammar and Typology (FunC), Leuven, Multimodality, Interaction and Discourse, Leuven

The aim of this project is to examine the interplay between inference and encoding in the emergence and development of clause combining, using methods from interactional linguistics, typology, historical linguistics and synchronic corpus analysis. The empirical focus is on how inferences can mediate paths between clause-internal categories and specialized complex sentence markers, for instance the development of modal elements to markers of ...

The function of eye gaze in multimodal interaction management. An interdisciplinary study on speech, music and signed language KU Leuven

Geert Brône

Multimodality, Interaction and Discourse, Leuven, Centre for Innovation and the Development of Teacher and School, Multimodality, Interaction and Discourse, Antwerp Campus, Musicology, Leuven, Multimodality, Interaction and Discourse, Kulak Kortrijk Campus

Research in a variety of disciplines (including linguistics, psychology, behavioral sciences and empirical musicology) has pointed at the important role of eye gaze as a strong coordinating device in interaction management. Gaining insights into the ways in which gaze may be used to claim speakership (turn-taking), to designate next speakership (turn-giving) or to give feedback to a current speaker (backchanneling), requires fine-grained data on ...

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