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LaDisco : Center of research in linguistics

Faculty of Letters, Translation and Communication | Research Centers

(Code: ULB719)

► Discours analysis and sociolinguistics Axis

F.R.S.-FNRS et Fonds associés (hors FRIA) - Actions concertées - Initiatives ministérielles et autres Communauté française - Financement de base institutionnel.

This axis of research gathers subjects as varied as the study of linguistic norms, multilinguism management policies, verbal violence and insults, theo ...

► Language and Cognition Axis

F.R.S.-FNRS et Fonds associés (hors FRIA) - Programmes d'impulsion - Actions concertées - Financement de base institutionnel.

The projects articulated around this axis explore subjects such as the development of language in people with autism, the cognitive effects of multilin ...

► Semantics and Pragmatics Axis

F.R.S.-FNRS et Fonds associés (hors FRIA) - Programmes d'impulsion - Actions concertées - Financement de base institutionnel.

Around this axis are organised subjects related to the question of the emergence of meaning: reference, speech acts, indirect requests, interfaces betw ...

► Morphology and Syntax Axis

F.R.S.-FNRS et Fonds associés (hors FRIA) - Financement de base institutionnel.

This axis converges numerous works on verbal tenses, aspects and modes, on syntaxic structures as subordination and complementarity as well as on gramm ...

► ACTE - Autism in Context: theory and experiment

F.R.S.-FNRS et Fonds associés (hors FRIA) - Programmes d'impulsion - Actions concertées - Initiatives ministérielles et autres Communauté française - Financement de base institutionnel.

The project ACTE (Autism in Context: Theory and Experience) started in 2015 at the Université libre de Bruxelles. Our main objective is to contribute  ...

► REFER: Cognitive Transparency of semantic contents, pragmatic determination of reference

F.R.S.-FNRS et Fonds associés (hors FRIA).

The aim of this project is to explore the relevance and the potential theoretical advantages of relativist semantics over the classical propositionalis ...

► Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: implementing language policy in urban heteroglossic schools

F.R.S.-FNRS et Fonds associés (hors FRIA) - Actions concertées.

This project sets out to describe and understand how teachers reconcile the irreconcilable: it explores how teachers in heteroglossic urban schools imp ...

► BIBI: the impact of bilingualism and bi-dialectalism on cognitive and linguistic development.

F.R.S.-FNRS et Fonds associés (hors FRIA) - Autres moyens financiers dépendant de l'étranger - Autres ressources extérieures - Financement de base institutionnel.

The BiBi-project (the impact of bilingualism and bi-dialectalism on cognitive and linguistic development) is a collaboration between language researche ...