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’[…]

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[…]

Public defence of the PhD Thesis of Emma VANDEN WYNGAERD

Emma VANDEN WYNGAERD’s public defence for her PhD Thesis “Bilingual Implications:Using code-switching data to inform linguistic theory” will be held on January 29, 2020 from 2.30 to 4.30 pm. The jury is composed by Philippe DE BRABANTER (Promotor), Philippine GEELHAND DE MERXEM (Secretary, ULB), Mikhail KISSINE (ULB), Alain DELATTRE (President, ULB), Juana LICERAS (University of[…]