Research projects
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Humor and Violence in Contemporary Latin American Literature
In this book project Brigitte Adriaensen analyses how contemporary Latin American literature uses different types of humour (black humour, parody, irony, cynicism) in the representation of violence.
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Poison, Medicine or Magic Potion?
The main aim of this project is to analyse the changing perceptions of 'drugs' in Latin America from the continent’s independence to our present day (1820-2020). The project focuses on the representation of ayahuasca, peyote and coca(ine).
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Gods, Heroes, Myths
All stories build on the stories that came before them, but perhaps none more unabashedly than fanfiction. This project examines how fanfiction anchors and innovates story elements from Antiquity.
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The nature of the mental lexicon
This project addresses how to use computational modelling to link levels of description, from neurons to cognition and behaviour, in understanding the language system.
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MultiplEYE
Enabling multilingual eye-tracking data collection for human and machine language processing research.
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Do discourse expectations immediately affect pronoun resolution during reading?
Using self-paced reading and eye-tracking during reading, the project investigates at which point during comprehension the bias in interpersonal verbs plays a role.
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Crossing versus nested dependencies in Dutch and German verb clusters
A classic study shows that German sentences that contain nested dependencies between nouns and verbs are harder to understand that the Dutch versions with crossing dependencies. Our project replicates and improves on the study.
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The Language Leak
This project aims at uncovering the architecture of the multilingual sentence processing system and explaining how multilingual’s languages interact.
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Metamodernism / Glocal Metamodernisms
This project aims to bring together colleagues working on artistic (esp. literary) responses to the perceived demise of Postmodernism in the arts and culture more generally.
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Hands-on second language acquisition
Previous work has shown that spoken language and hand gestures are closely related. This project uses the close relationship between speech and gesture by studying the use of gesture in second language acquisition.
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An evaluation model for music criticism in The Netherlands
This project looks at music reviews in five different Dutch magazines in five different time periods, to research how criticism is formulated in terms of content.
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Executive control in bilingual aphasia
In this research project, the role of executive control in bilingual persons with aphasia (PWA) is investigated.
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What starting writers do and why
This project researches what starting literary makers do, and why. It works towards improving connections and dismantling barriers, aiming at a more versatile, resilient and inclusive Dutch-Flemish literary sector.
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Young Adult Literature: accepted and mature?
The term Young Adult literature is gaining ground in the Netherlands. This research project aims to determine the position that Young Adult literature takes within the Dutch literary polysystem.
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WordWise: Rhetoric for All!
WordWise is a pathbreaking initiative of Peitho (Radboud Centre for Rhetoric) and Radboud University’s Department of Political Science offering rhetoric as a means to educate responsible and resilient citizens.
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Calling for Timeout
This PhD project sets out to explore how and why public protest against the hosting of mega-sporting events, and in particular the Olympic Games and the FIFA World Cup, has emerged and transnationalised from the 1960s to the present.
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Cognate processing in idioms
This study aims to investigate the processing of Dutch-English cognates embedded in English idioms by L2 Dutch learners of English in a sentence reading task.
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SENTENCES
In this project, we examine how news media content and social media discussions influence public perceptions of the benefits and harms of cancer screening.
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Recent increase in treatment requests for transgender care
This projects aims to gain insight into the reasons for the increase in transgender care in the Netherlands and into underlying social processes to achieve a better match between care wishes (from transgender persons) and treatment offerings.
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You Have a Part to Play
In collaboration with ArtEZ University of the Arts, this project aims to design and create a new, university-wide approach to Higher Education for Sustainable Development (HESD).