Projects
Multilingual landscapes and linguistic vitality in urban surroundings: case-studies of Brussels and Amsterdam. Ghent University
This project aims to address the vitality and structured linguistic hierarchies of languages used and displayed in the linguistic landscapes of Brussels and Amsterdam by means of quantitative and qualitative methodologies as well as geographical analyses. The project also aims to address the current conceptual void and lack of clarity on the relation between vitality and linguistic landscapes in general.
Linguistic Landscapes Analysis on Hawaii Poke Shops in Belgium: Preliminary Case Studies. University of Antwerp
InSight Linguistics - developing a 3-D landscape of language use. KU Leuven
Language contact and linguistic reconstruction: (pre)historic Bantu-Khoisan interactions in Southern Africa in a historical linguistic perspective Ghent University
The Southern African linguistic landscape is dominated by Bantu languages, which form Africa’s largest language family and are spoken by the vast majority of Southern Africans. Nonetheless, the first Bantu-speaking communities arrived in Southern Africa less than two thousand years ago, where they came into contact with and gradually replaced the languages of pre-existing hunter-gatherer and pastoralist communities, known as “Khoisan” ...
Measuring linguistic attitudes with auditory affective priming: Attitudinal variation towards varieties of Dutch KU Leuven
The objective of this work is twofold. It sets out to contribute to the study of language attitudes on a methodological as well as a descriptive level. The main goal of the study is the methodological one. Notwithstanding some exceptions (e.g. Preston 1982), quantitative language attitude research has known little methodological innovation since the introduction of the matched-guise technique in the 1960s (Lambert et al. 1960). This relative ...
Hic Sunt Dracones. Data-driven analysis of the (un)changing nature of toponyms and its implications for toponym-based landscape reconstructions. University of Antwerp
Spanish as a language of origin and heritage in Belgium: translinguistic and transcultural studies of emotionality and factors of its maintenance Spaans als “language of origin” en “heritage language” in België: translinguïstische en transculturele studie KU Leuven
Language plays an important role, both in emotional processes (from the conceptualization of emotions to their regulation and expression), and in culture (as part of it, and in its transmission, conservation and change), . Emotion and culture are also linked: emotions respond to cultural values and models, and, since emotions are relational, they emerge and develop in interaction and contribute to regulating social and cultural behavior. The ...
The Road to Alexandria. The Sensation of Landscapes in European Travel Writing, 1919-1939 Vrije Universiteit Brussel
‘gazes’ on foreign people and places. Challenging the longstanding
neglect of non-visual sensations, this project will analyze the
interplay of sounds, tastes, smells, and textures in non-fictional
published travel accounts. This approach will be applied to the
sensation of arduous landscape types in Southeastern Europe and
Western ...