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Expertise can be provided for the analysis and evaluation of communicative processes in any institutional context (education, business, social service centers, courtroom proceedings), in particular when an intercultural dimension is involved.

'Steeling mind and body': Ideological metaphors in Japan 1937-1945. 15/07/2016 - 14/07/2017

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How does the authoritarian militaristic regime of the Japanese Empire succeed in convincing its people to fight a war (1931/1937-1945) that lays waste to almost all of East and Southeast Asia? Specifically, drawing on Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis, Rhetoric and Cognitive Linguistics, this dissertation looks at whether and how metaphor and ideological aspects of language use contribute to mobilizing the Japanese (especially the young) during the war years. In this dissertation I focus on a very specific wartime metaphor that links 'effort of body/mind' and 'steel' ('Steel your mind and body' – shinshin-tanren). This metaphor gained such momentum that it trickled from the conceptual and lexical to the graphic level, affecting the very orthography of the kanji characters. Its functioning is considered ideological in the sense that it contributes to a network of ideas, opinions and beliefs that are carried along in the investigated discourse as if commonsensical or natural. The main corpus on which the research is based consists of the two biggest daily newspapers in wartime Japan, Asahi Shimbun and Yomiuri Shimbun, spanning the years between 1931 and 1945, as well as textbooks used in ethics school teaching and legal documents. A secondary corpus contains personal documents, letters and diaries written by Japanese conscripts during the war.

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Information structuring by multilingual speakers: codeswitching as a marker of topic-comment or focusbackground. 01/10/2013 - 30/09/2015

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The project starts from concrete multilingual data, compiled from four sample corpora in the LIDES database: two corpora with typologically divergent language pairs (Dutch-Turkish and English-Punjabi) and two corpora with typologically more related language pairs (Dutch-French and English-Spanish). I primarily adopt the IS framework proposed by Lambrecht (1994), in combination with interactional viewpoints on CS (Auer & Di Luzio 1992), and Role and Reference Grammar (RRG (Van Valin 2005)).

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"Seriously, it's just beyond a joke now": 'Teasing' (im)politeness out of Big Brother. 01/10/2012 - 30/09/2016

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This project investigates how people tease in two different varieties of English. The purpose is to address some shortcomings in research on politeness and impoliteness. In particular, the project seeks (1) to go beyond the simple opposition between politeness and impoliteness that is characteristic of most earlier work; (2) to pay special attention to hearers' interpretations; (3) to clarify the relationship between everyday concepts of (im)politeness and analysts' concepts; and (4) to explore the cultural variability of (im)politeness practices.

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Translating the news: an ethnographically supported linguistic pragmatic study of the role and nature of translation in the Flemish newsroom. 01/10/2011 - 30/09/2015

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Journalists often say that they do not 'translate' foreign news; they produce new(s) stories. Research has shown that they actually do translate sometimes, rather than simply base their own writing on sources in other languages. By analyzing the correspondences and differences between a set of news articles (newspapers, news websites) and a set of (foreign language) press releases and news wires on which these articles are based, by conducting interviews with journalists and by means of participant observation in Flemish newsrooms, we want to shed light on the role and the nature of translation within the newsroom.

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Interactive topic initiation in patient-doctor interaction. Case study of Polish institutional talk against the backdrop of Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis. 01/10/2011 - 30/09/2013

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This is a fundamental research project financed by the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO). The project was subsidized after selection by the FWO-expert panel.

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Information structuring by multilingual speakers: code-switching as a marker of topiccomment or focus-background. 01/10/2011 - 30/09/2013

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The project starts from concrete multilingual data, compiled from four sample corpora in the LIDES database: two corpora with typologically divergent language pairs (Dutch-Turkish and English-Punjabi) and two corpora with typologically more related language pairs (Dutch-French and English-Spanish). I primarily adopt the IS framework proposed by Lambrecht (1994), in combination with interactional viewpoints on CS (Auer & Di Luzio 1992), and Role and Reference Grammar (RRG (Van Valin 2005)).

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Brusseling language, bustling friction. An ethnographic analysis of linguistic hybridity and purity at a Brussels secondary school. 01/10/2011 - 30/09/2012

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This project sets out to describe ethnographically (meta-)linguistic practices in a mixed-ethnicity classroom at a Brussels secondary Dutch-medium school. Goals: 1. Documenting and analyzing linguistic hybridity and purity in a metropolitan school. 2. Relating linguistic practices to social categorization processes in a multilingual environment. 3. Identifying how and to what extent local practices relate to larger-scale social and linguistic dynamics.

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From press release to news report: what's translating got to do with it? 01/01/2011 - 31/12/2012

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What's translation got to do with it? Journalists often say that they do not 'translate' foreign news; they produce new(s) stories. Prior research has shown that journalists actually do have to translate sometimes, even though they are not always trained to do so. By looking at the differences between a set of news articles (news papers, news websites) and a set of foreign language press releases on which these articles are based, we want to shed light upon the role and the nature of translation within the newsroom.

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Living imagined identities? A longitudinal analysis of the impact of online dating discourse on experienced identities of Russian speaking-Belgian couples 01/07/2010 - 30/06/2014

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The project combines linguistic pragmatics, anthropology and communication sciences to study transnational "internet marriages". The processes of identity construction of Russian speaking-Belgian couples will be analyzed, with special attention to the constitutive power of online dating site discourse. The added value of the project is the interdisciplinary and longitudinal research design, the ethnographic field work in a pre-migration context, and the inclusion of a male perspective.

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Alterity and nation-building. The image of the national 'other' in discourses of sub-national movements and institutions in Belgium, 1830-2010 01/07/2010 - 30/06/2014

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This project investigates how political elites of the subnational movements and administrations in Belgium constructed, during five periods of about twenty years, the national 'Other' in their discourses, and what rhetorical strategies they used to that end. The research goal is to assess the extent to which such 'othering' discourse contributed to the successful institutionalization of subnational movements in Belgium.

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Interactive topic initiation in patient-doctor interaction. Case study of Polish institutional talk against the backdrop of Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis. 01/10/2009 - 30/09/2011

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This is a fundamental research project financed by the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO). The project was subsidized after selection by the FWO-expert panel.

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Complete book project "Engaging with Language and Ideology: Pragmatic guidelines for Empirical Ideology research and development of the foundations for a new theory-making research in linguistic pragmatics. 01/10/2009 - 30/09/2010

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Speaking for others. A pragmatic analysis of the first person plural in the discourse of the Chamber of Deputies in Belgium, France, Great Britain and The Netherlands, 1870-1940. 01/10/2008 - 30/09/2012

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By means of a systematic and comparative enquiry into the use of the first person plural in four Western European Chambers of Deputies, this research project investigates transformations in the phenomenon of political representation during a period of rapid democratization, as well as developments in the range of identities expressed in this process.

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Sociolinguistic-ethnographic analysis of (sub)standardisation processes at school. 01/10/2008 - 30/09/2011

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The goals of this project are: 1. To investigate which role Standard Dutch and substandard forms play in daily interaction at school; 2. To analyse how substandard forms interact or compete with pedagogical goals and the teacher's voice; 3. To explore the relationship between small-scale classroom practices and wider-scale social and linguistic processes.

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Interactive topic initiation in patient-doctor interaction. Case study of Polish institutional talk against the backdrop of Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis. 01/10/2008 - 30/09/2009

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Intertextuality and flows of information. 01/01/2007 - 31/12/2010

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Linguistic analysis of the way in which meanings are generated and transformed in information flows in the context of globalization. The specific focus is on intertextual processes approached from the point of view of ethnographically supported pragmatics-based ideology research, concentrating on the variable use of implicitness and differences in reference to sources. The case to be investigated will be taken from the international printed media in English, the Flemish printed media, and the printed media in French in Belgium, France, Congo, and West Africa.

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Islamic identities in Flanders (1964-present). 01/10/2006 - 30/09/2010

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In this project, publicly accessible and elicited discourse produced by muslims is studied from the perspective of linguistic pragmatics, cultural history and ethnography. The research will be carried out in view of an analysis of the islamic political identities that are developing in muslim communities in Flanders since 1964.

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Social diversity in judicial reasoning. 01/05/2005 - 30/04/2009

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An analysis of how references to social diversity are used in argumentative communication in courtrooms. On the basis of authentic courtroom interaction, transcripts of criminal trials collected in the course of fieldwork, we investigate in which ways and under what circumstances participants in a criminal trial (magistrates, prosecutor, lawyers, defendant) handle the topic of social diversity in assessing the punishability of the acts committed by the defendant.

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Editing of the IPrA journal "Pragmatics" and organization of the biennial International Pragmatics Conferences. 01/06/2004 - 31/05/2008

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Intercultural communication in the courtroom. 01/03/2002 - 31/12/2003

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This project aims at offering a scientific analysis of translation and communication problems in court hearings involving non-Dutch speaking suspects, indicating the consequences of such problems on judiciary decision making, and formulating recommendations. The project is a pilot study of two years, a first year of which is already backed by a contract.

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Theory of formation in pragmatics, metapragmatic studies and the problem of intercultural and international communication. 01/10/2000 - 30/09/2017

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1. development of a coherent framework for the description of aspects of language use (from the point of view of linguistic pragmatics, conceived as the cognitive, social and cultural study of language and communication) 2. study of metapragmatic terms 3. applications to intercultural communication (face-to-face) and international communication (diplomacy and news reporting).

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Linguistic ideologies and linguistic practice in the Belgian colonial context 01/10/2000 - 30/09/2002

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This project investigates the linguistic consequentiality of the linguistic ideologies, practices and decisions that can be reconstructed for the Belgian colonial era in Central Africa. The data used in this project are the archives of the `Centre Aequatoria', complemented with archives from other congregations, organisations and administrative services.

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    Theoretical and methodological foundations for a linguistic-pragmatic monitoring of international communication. 14/09/2000 - 14/12/2000

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    The project to be carried out during the foreign colleague's stay consists in a detailed study of the theoretical and methodological foundations for a monitoring program for diverse forms of international communication. The starting point is linguistic pragmatics, i.e. the interdisciplinary (cognitive, social, and cultural) study of language and communication, which is applied to obtain insights into communication flows pertaining to relations, in the public sphere, between different national, ethnic, cultural, or otherwise identifiable groups or communities, whether at the intra- or inter-state level, and often involving processes of nation building and identity construction. Though linguistic analysis is central to the endeavor, a successful pursuit requires taking into account the historical, social, and cultural anchoring of the flows of communication in question. The project will result in the formulation of theoretically and methodologically justifiable practical procedures for systematically carrying out such monitoring, in an attempt to contribute to conflict prevention in view of local, regional, and global peace and stability.

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      Co-operative communicative competence: an empirical study of meaning negotiation in intercultural negotiations 01/01/2000 - 31/12/2001

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      This research investigates processes of meaning generation in interaction. The empirical case consists of talks between Flemish and American students (simulations of business negotiations). The materials are studied from the angle of linguistic pragmatics and with methods from conversation analysis, anthropology and socioliguisitcs. Empirical findings should lead to refinement and adjustment of the pragmatic frame of interpretation for a systematic understanding of data.

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        The intelectual debate concerning variability in Arabic. 01/10/1999 - 30/09/2001

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        The aim of this project is to research which are the communicative, social and political backgrounds and motives behind the linguistic choices of educated Arabs in their linguistic behavior and the way they account for these choices. By confronting actual performance with the justifications for this performance we can expose possible discrepancies between language practica and ideology. We will pay explicit attention to way argumentations are constructed and how attitudes towards variability are built.

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          Language, power, and identity. 01/01/1999 - 31/12/2003

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          The relations between language, power, and identity are investigated in view of the social, political, and ideological phenomena observable in connection with discursive patterns, language regimes, and language hierarchies, in particular in a variety of institutional contexts.

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          Ideology and language teaching in Flanders: a study of ideological processes and face-to-face interaction practices in the teaching of Dutch to allochthonous adults. 01/10/1998 - 31/08/1999

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          In this project I want to investigate in which way ideological processes in the present and public debate in Flanders on allochthones, foreign speakers and NT2 (Dutch for foreign speakers) play a part in the actual classroom interaction and language teaching-methods in the teaching of NT2 to allochthonous adults, and in which way these processes determine the structure of NT2-education.

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            Linguistic pragmatics: The grammatical and discursive construction of meaning. 01/01/1998 - 31/12/2001

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            Against the background of a general theory of language use which posits the construction of meaning as its central theorie, the following questions are asked : 1. How do languages, as codified and grammaticalized systems, provide the necessary instruments for the dynamic processes of meaning construction which are at the core of all language use? 2. How do people use those instruments in actual processes of meaning construction in discourse, at various levels of complexity?

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              Linguistic ideologies in the colonial and postcolonial context. 01/10/1997 - 30/09/2000

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              Linguistic ideologies pertain to the way in which language users interpret language and language use, and in which they relate language and language use to the social structures and power relationships that determine them. This research project aims at identifying and analyzing the linguistic ideologies that mark the relationships between language, ethnicity and society in a set of historical and modern contexts of Central Africa. This research is based on empirical materials, such as archives and contemporary data gathered through ethnographic fieldwork.

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                Interaction from an intercultural perspective : a pragmatic analysis of every day conversations in a Swahili speech community. 01/10/1997 - 30/09/1999

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                A empirical analysis of face-to-face interaction in a Swahili speech community based on methods developed in conversation analysis and interactional sociolinguistics.

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                  Between ideology and language practice: the intelectual debate concerning variability in Arabic. 01/10/1997 - 30/09/1999

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                  The aim of this project is to research which are the communicative, social and political backgrounds and motives behind the linguistic choices of educated Arabs in their linguistic behavior and the way they account for these choices. By confronting actual performance with the justifications for this performance we can expose possible discrepancies between language practica and ideology. We will pay explicit attention to way argumentations are constructed and how attitudes towards variability are built.

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                    Investigation into the teaching of Dutch as a second language (NT2) in Gent, Belgium. 01/08/1997 - 31/07/1998

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                    Through a linguistic ethnography of the eight organizing institutions of NT2 and the consultation that they have between them, the following three questions are to be answered: 1) What are the pressure points, lacks and overlaps in the NT2 structure in Gent? 2) How can the consultations be better organised? 3) How can the needs and motivations of the pupils be better under-stood and how can they acquire insight into the trajectory of NT2?

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                      Ideological meaning construction. 01/01/1997 - 31/12/1998

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                      An investigation of the way in which societal ideologies are produced and maintained. The approach is linguistic, against the background of a theory of linguistic pragmatics (defined as a functional perspective on language, an approach which takes into account the complexity of its cognitive, social, and cultural functioning). The specific questions to be asked are the following: (1) What linguistic tools are employed in the discursive process of meaning construction? (2) How are these tools used in the construction of ideological meaning?

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                        The pragmatics of international communication 01/01/1996 - 31/12/1998

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                        Detailed analysis of concrete international conflicts (along the East-West, North-South and South-South axes) in view of general patterns of conflict origin and development. In relation to this, an analysis of ideological factors involved in such conflicts.

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                          The pragmatics of language and communication 01/01/1996 - 31/12/1996

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                          Theory formation in linguistic pragmatics (viewed broadly as the social and cognitive science of language and communication), and empirical research in three areas of application : foreign language learning and language teaching, intercultural and international communication, and language technology

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                            Scientific support of action research on the possibilities, difficulties and methods in the support for migrant women in centers for residential welfare work. 01/12/1995 - 31/12/1996

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                            An ethnographic-interpretive investigation of local procedures and explanations by means of which the treatment of migrant women is organized and structured. Special attention for intercultural communication situations, with implications for the training of intercultural mediators and for policy development in the domain of residential welfare centers.

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                              Pragmatic borrowing among African migrants in Belgium; an interdisciplinary approach to language contact phenomena, with implications for intercultural communication. 01/10/1995 - 30/09/1997

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                              The linguistic borrowing of pragmatic functions is approached from an interdisciplinary, sociolinguistic perspective. This study is intented to fill a major gap in the study of language contact phenomena. The significance of pragmatic borrowing for the field of intercultural communication is pointed out.

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                                Interaction from an intercultural perspective : a pragmatic analysis of every day conversations in a Swahili speech community. 01/10/1995 - 30/09/1997

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                                A empirical analysis of face-to-face interaction in a Swahili speech community based on methods developed in conversation analysis and interactional sociolinguistics.

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                                  A concept for an interdisciplinary theory formation in pragmatics. 01/10/1995 - 30/09/1997

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                                  Development of a concept bank and a permanent thematic inventory of research results in view of the definition of coherent research strategies for an interdisciplinary theory formation in pragmatics.

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                                    Interaction from an intercultural perspective : a pragmatic analysis of every day conversations in a Swahili speech community. 01/10/1994 - 30/09/1995

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                                    A empirical analysis of face-to-face interaction in a Swahili speech community based on methods developed in conversation analysis and interactional sociolinguistics.

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                                      Theory of formation in pragmatics, metapragmatic studies and the problem of intercultural and international communication. 01/10/1993 - 30/09/2000

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                                      1. development of a coherent framework for the description of aspects of language use (from the point of view of linguistic pragmatics, conceived as the cognitive, social and cultural study of language and communication) 2. study of metapragmatic terms 3. applications to intercultural communication (face-to-face) and international communication (diplomacy and news reporting).

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                                        A concept for an interdisciplinary theory formation in pragmatics. 01/10/1993 - 30/09/1995

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                                        Development of a concept bank and a permanent thematic inventory of research results in view of the definition of coherent research strategies for an interdisciplinary theory formation in pragmatics.

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                                          Argumentation in language and the construction of the topical field of the 'national'. 01/07/1993 - 30/06/1994

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                                          Comparative analysis of the presentation of Slovenian 'identity' in news reporting, in the context of a wider study of nationalist ideologies in Europe.

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                                            A concept for an interdisciplinary theory formation in pragmatics. 01/01/1993 - 31/12/1993

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                                            Development of a concept bank and a permanent thematic inventory of research results in view of the definition of coherent research strategies for an interdisciplinary theory formation in pragmatics.

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                                              Pragmatic borrowing among African migrants in Belgium; an interdisciplinary approach to language contact phenomena, with implications for intercultural communication. 01/10/1992 - 30/09/1995

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                                              The linguistic borrowing of pragmatic functions is approached from an interdisciplinary, sociolinguistic perspective. This study is intented to fill a major gap in the study of language contact phenomena. The significance of pragmatic borrowing for the field of intercultural communication is pointed out.

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                                                The application of Chinese and data from the Chinese linguistic literature to contrastive pragmatics. 01/10/1992 - 31/12/1992

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                                                Chinese, and data from the Chinese linguistic literature will be used as a test case for present-day theories of linguistic pragmatics.

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                                                  01/01/1992 - 30/06/1992

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                                                    The relationship between conceptualization and linguistic structure from the perspective of the processes of language production 01/10/1991 - 30/09/1993

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                                                    An investigation into the relationship of linguistic and conceptual structure, with the aim to determine the organisation and operating principles of the cognetive systems of language processing. The focus lies on the linguistic and conceptual representation of modality and related operators such as negation and evidentiality.

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                                                      Language contact, pragmatic borrowing, and intercultural communication : an interdisciplinary perspective grounded on case study 01/10/1991 - 30/09/1992

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                                                      'Pragmatic borrowing', the linguistic borrowing of pragmatic functions, is approached with an interdisciplinary, sociolinguistic perspective. This should contribute to an expansion of the objects of inquiry in interlinguistics. Also, the significance of pragmatic borrowing for the field of intercultural communication is pointed out.

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                                                        Training sessions for policemen concerning migrant policy. 01/10/1991 - 31/05/1992

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                                                        Analysis of implicit meaning, global meaning constructs, wording strategies and reaction and interaction profiles in the discourse of training sessions for policemen.

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                                                          The pragmatics of language and communication. 01/12/1990 - 31/12/1995

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                                                          Theory formation in linguistic pragmatics (viewed broadly as the social and cognitive science of language and communication), and empirical research in three areas of application : foreign language learning and language teaching, intercultural and international communication, and language technology.

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                                                            01/04/1990 - 31/12/1990

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                                                              The pragmatics of international communication 01/01/1990 - 31/12/1995

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                                                              Detailed analysis of concrete international conflicts (along the East-West, North-South and South-South axes) in view of general patterns of conflict origin and development. In relation to this, an analysis of ideological factors involved in such conflicts.

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                                                                01/10/1989 - 30/09/1993

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                                                                  01/10/1982 - 30/09/1989

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