Workshop: Cross-disciplinary perspectives on quoting and speech reporting

Dates: October 5-7, 2022 Place: ULB – Campus Solbosch (Brussels) Summary:The aim of this three-day workshop is to reinforce the links between different groups of scholars working on quotation and on reported speech. The workshop also seeks to broaden the scope of research by bringing to prominence research on sign languages and on ‘less well-studied’[…]

Public defence of the PhD Thesis of Sarah CHATTI

Sarah CHATTI’s public defence for her PhD Thesis « La question environnementale et les organisations internationales (1992-2018). Analyse logométrique des rapports d’activité du Programme des Nations unies pour l’environnement (PNUE), de la Banque mondiale, et de l’Organisation des Nations unies pour l’éducation, la science et la culture (UNESCO) » will be held on June 13,[…]

Public defence of the PhD Thesis of Pauline Maes

Pauline MAES’s public defence for her PhD Thesis  « Social attention and profiles of expressive language in young autistic children » will be held on January 26, 2022 from 1 to 3 pm. The jury is composed by Mikhail KISSINE (Promotor), Philippe DE BRABANTER (Secretary, ULB), Arnaud DESTREBECQZ (ULB), Rhiannon LUYSTER (Emerson College, Boston) et[…]

Paul G. Standwood Prize

Philippine Geelhand de Merxem, Academic Researcher at the Research Center LaDisco of the Faculty of Arts of ULB, has received recently the Paul G. Standwood prize for her thesis published in co-supervision in Languages, Letters and Communication (ULB) and the English Language and Litteratures (The University of British Columbia) on: Discourse coherence and atypicality in[…]