Projects
Identity negotiations at work of women with a migration background: Combining interactional sociolinguistic and social psychological analyses to advance our understanding of group affiliation and distancing KU Leuven
In the last few decades, the notion of identity negotiations has become very popular as a research topic in numerous disciplines as diverse as anthropology, literature, history, psychology and linguistics. While there are some common threads in these different approaches to identity, there is actually little cross-fertilization. This lack of interplay is particularly a pity for the fields of interactional sociolinguistics and social ...
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
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 ...
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
Language and employability. A sociolinguistic ethnography of the activation of migrant job seekers in Flanders Ghent University
This project proposes a sociolinguistic ethnographic analysis of the activation trajectories in which migrant job seekers are inserted by the Flemish employment agency VDAB. The analysis is aimed at acquiring insight in the different stages of these trajectories, focusing on the relation between small-scale interactional practices, policy requirements and public macro-discourses on integration, linguistic diversity and work.
A sociolinguistic ethnographic study of the activation of migrant job seekers in Flanders Ghent University
This project investigates how policy makers’ investments in improving linguistic competences in order to increase employment rates among immigrants are put into practice. The project proposes a sociolinguistic ethnographic analysis of the role of language in the different stages of the activation trajectories that immigrant job seekers are inserted in in Flanders.
Exploring the dialectic relation between narrative and context from an interactional sociolinguistic perspective: The case of World War II-testimonies KU Leuven
This project scrutinizes the relation between the way narrators construct their stories and identities in relation to the dominant discourses circulating in the global context. Only recently have interactional sociolinguists increasingly examined this dialectic relation between the local interactional level of narrative and the surrounding socio-cultural context and its ‘big D’-discourses (Gee 1999). This is also thanks to positioning ...
Project Research Fund Autonomous Community Madrid: "The migrant population of the Autonomous Community of Madrid: multidisciplinary study and tools for a sociolinguistic integration" KU Leuven
Within this project (funding by the Research Fund of the Autonomous Commnity of Madrid (ConsejerÃa de Educación, Juventud y Deporte de la Comunidad de Madrid; PI: Florentino Paredes GarcÃa (Universidad de Alcalá), in collaboration with Universidad Nebrija; budget: 36.259,04€) we investigate the creation of a Linguistic Identity and its influence on the learning of Spanish as a migrant language.
Within this project Kris Buyse codirected ...
Sociolinguistic gatekeeping with indexical variation: a quantitative-qualitative investigation of the endexical value of Standard and Colloquial Belgian Dutch variation in 'elderspeak' in Flemish nursing homes KU Leuven
In many Western societies, elders (>65 years) are gradually becoming a larger demographic (OECD Data, 2016), yet at the same time, a complaint frequently heard among the older generations is that people no longer respect their elders. This complaint is supported by a linguistic phenomenon studied in Sociolinguistics known as ‘elderspeak’ (Kemper, 1994). Elderspeak refers to a cluster of linguistic features utilized by younger adults to ...
Exploring the dialectic relation between narrative and context from an interactional sociolinguistic perspective: the case of World War II-testimonies KU 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 ...