We are happy to welcome 18 presenters to this year’s conference, giving us 14 stand-alone presentations and 4 poster presentations.
The Book of Abstracts is available here.
The picture book of this year’s edition can be found here.
Conference programme
Day 1 – 17 December 2024
OPENING AND KEYNOTE |
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| 10:00 – 10:10 | Conference opening by prof. dr. Véronique Hoste |
| 10:10 – 11:00 | Keynote: Combining qualitative and quantitative methods: Insights from research on newly arrived migrant students in Flanders by dr. Shauny Seynhaeve |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | BREAK |
SESSION 1: Diversity in languageChair: Ellen Soens |
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| 11:30 – 12:00 | Hanne Verhaegen Attitudes towards gender-neutral pronouns in Dutch: A thematic analysis |
| 12:00 – 12:30 | Chloé Vincent Gender-neutral pronouns in French: Effects on reader perception and gendering strategies |
| 12:30 – 13:30 | LUNCH |
SESSION 2: Historical perspectives on languageChair: Niels Planckaert |
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| 13:30 – 14:00 | Tim Ongenae Towards an anticausative-passive continuum: some considerations on a scalar division based on diachronic data from Latin |
| 14:00 – 14:30 | Marie Dewulf Competition in sentential negation: A corpus analysis of ne…pas and ne…point in Classical French |
| 14:30 – 15:00 | Jo De Brie Readers above all else? Translated crime feuilletons in the Flemish newspaper Vooruit: translation techniques and story selection in relation to the theoretical readership |
POSTER SESSION with pitchesChair: Michiel Kusé |
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| 15:00 – 17:00 | Xue Dong Cross-linguistic analysis of pain expression: A comparative study between English and Chinese |
| Emma Maes Putting measurement to the test: Assessing the construct validity of implicit and explicit measurement instruments for low-educated learners | |
| Maria J. B. Comarim Characterization of the subtypes of the insubordinate construction [se ao menos] in Brazilian Portuguese | |
| Morris Callens Mapping across: On intermodular communication and the mapping a concept to a language-internal root | |
| Reception as from 15:15 | |
Day 2 – 18 December 2024
SESSION 3: Language supportChair: Michiel Kusé |
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| 11:00 – 11:30 | Enya Strobbe A writing assistant to ENLIGHTen the way: GenAI and the Reader Engagement Framework |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | Wanjing Han Presentation of collocations in Business English Dictionaries for Learners: A study of OBED and LBED2 |
| 12:00 – 13:00 | LUNCH |
SESSION 4: Exploring grammatical constructionsChair: Gil Verbeke |
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| 13:00 – 13:30 | Tom Bossuyt ‘Although … but …’: A cross-linguistic survey of para-hypotactic concessives |
| 13:30 – 14:00 | Yuanhang Zhou Chinese EFL learners’ projecting clauses in interpersonal grammatical metaphor for argumentative writing |
SESSION 5: Code-switchingChair: Nele Van Den Driessche |
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| 14:00 – 14:30 | Simon Claassen Intensification strategies in the English-Spanish speech of Miami bilinguals |
| 14:30 – 15:00 | Aaron S. María Towards an integrative account of English-Tagalog intra-word code-switching |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | BREAK |
SESSION 6: MultimodalityChair: Ellen Soens |
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| 15:30 – 16:00 | Sara Falahi Multimodal analysis of T-Shirt inscriptions in Kermanshah: Emphasis on cultural messages and identity |
| 16:00 – 16:30 | Greet A. De Baets Examining a non-linguistic phenomenon as a language: the case of aikido |
SOCIAL EVENT |
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| 18:00 – … | Conference dinner and visit to the Ghent Christmas market – registered participants only! |
Questions?
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at linghentiandoctorials@ugent.be. We hope to see many of you.
Ellen Soens, Gil Verbeke, Michiel Kusé, Nele Van Den Driessche & Niels Planckaert