Conference Programme
We are happy to welcome 24 presenters to this year’s conference. The Book of Abstracts can be found here.
tuesday 14 december 2021
| 09.00-09.15 | Conference opening by Prof. Dr. Gita Deneckere, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy |
SESSION 1 – Politics and Policy |
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| 09.15-09.45 | Edward De Vooght How do you figure? The use, value and effect of rhetorical figures in political discourse |
| 09.45-10.15 | Laura Schildt High-stakes language tests for migration |
| 10.15-10.30 BREAK | |
SESSION 2 – Hispanic Studies |
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| 10.30-11.00 | Laurence De Backer On the (not so) persuasive potential of metaphorical language in news media communication. Framing the Latin-American migration debate through metaphor. |
| 11.00-11.30 | Mariia Baltais Productivity of the Spanish inchoative construction: From corpus to acceptability judgments |
| 11.30-12.00 | Nele Van Den Driessche What stays and what goes? Monitoring patterns of recent language change in Spanish youth language. |
| 12.00-12.30 | Miguel Guerra The forbidden translation of Un Barrage: Duras’ traces in the censorship archives |
| 12.30-14.00 LUNCH | |
SESSION 3 – Language and Education |
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| 14.00-14.30 | Caroline Staquet Launching a European educational product: A critical genealogy of CLIL research |
| 14.30-15.00 | Ineke Barbaix ‘Do you even English?’ The perception of English according to STEM students and Linguistics students in the context of expanding English Medium Instruction (EMI) in Flanders |
| 15.00-15.30 | Seppe Goddaert A linguistic-ethnographic analysis of how science teacher trainers navigate the fields of science, education and politics |
| 15.30-15.45 BREAK | |
SESSION 4 – Translation and Interpreting |
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| 15.45-1615 | Dries Cavents Face-work in interpreting: a methodological overview |
| 16.15-16.45 | Sara Delva Translation in criminal proceedings in Belgium: A mixed-methods approach |
| 16.45-17.15 | Michiel Kusé Many paths to tread: On 4EA cognition and translation studies |
| 17.15-17.30 BREAK | |
| 17.30-18.30 SOCIAL EVENT | |
wednesday 15 december 2021
SESSION 5 – Communication in a Business Context |
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| 09.00-09.30 | Sofie Labat Wizard of Oz (WOZ) experiments to model emotions in customer service dialogues |
| 09.30-10.00 | Greet De Baets Tranquillity: An added value of aikido’s embodied pedagogy for intercultural communication training |
| 10.00-10.30 | Ellen Soens The external impact of work-related social media use: Employees as organizational ambassadors or adversaries? |
| 10.30-10.45 BREAK | |
SESSION 6 – Historical Perspectives on Language |
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| 10.45-11.15 | Brian Cluyse On the emergence, form and use of cleft sentences from Classical into Late Latin |
| 11.15-11.45 | Tim Ongenae P-labile verbs in the history of Latin |
| 11.45-12.15 | Anke Lenssens Freising and the Slavs under bishop Abraham. Possible literary witnesses of the Freising mission in Karantania found in the Klagenfurt area in present day Carinthia. |
| 12.15-13.45 LUNCH | |
SESSION 7 – Language Documentation |
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| 13.45-14.15 | Lorenzo Maselli Phonetic documentation in the underexplored linguistic landscape of the Mai-Ndombe Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo |
| 14.15-14.45 | Laurentia Schreiber Contact-induced change in Romeyka |
| 14.45-15.00 BREAK | |
SESSION 8 – Language Teaching and Language Learning |
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| 15.00-15.30 | Cathy Hauspie The benefits of Latin on study achievement in Flemish academic higher education |
| 15.30-16.00 | Margot D’Hertefelt The effectiveness of didactic practices in Dutch L2 classes for adult learners |
| 16.00-16.15 BREAK | |
SESSION 9 – Construction Grammar |
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| 16.15-16.45 | Anouk Van den Stock Individual variation in attitudes towards grammatical productivity/creativity |
| 16.45-17.15 | Flor Vander Haegen German ‘wh-ever’ and ‘no matter wh-‘ as allostructions |
Questions?
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at linghentiandoctorials@ugent.be. We hope to see many of you.
Tom Bossuyt, Ella van Hest, Eline Daveloose & Shauny Seynhaeve