University of Namur

List of John Benjamins publications that have an author or editor affiliated with University of Namur*

The Semiotic Diversity of Language: The Case of Signed Languages

Edited by Alysson Lepeut & Inez Beukeleers

Subjects Theoretical linguistics

[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 36] 2023. | yearbook

Signed and spoken language contrastive research: A multimodal approach. Special issue of Languages in Contrast 22:2 (2022)

Edited by Sílvia Gabarró-López & Laurence Meurant

Subjects Comparative linguistics | Theoretical linguistics

[Languages in Contrast: International Journal for Contrastive Linguistics, 22:2] 2022. | special issue

Multilingualism in the Drama of Shakespeare and his Contemporaries

Edited by Dirk Delabastita & Ton Hoenselaars

Subjects English linguistics | Historical linguistics | Multilingualism | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical literature & literary studies

[Benjamins Current Topics, 73] 2015. viii, 215 pp. |

Corpus Interrogation and Grammatical Patterns

Edited by Kristin Davidse, Caroline Gentens, Lobke Ghesquière, Lieven Vandelanotte & Tinne Van Rompaey

Subjects Corpus linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 63] 2014. viii, 358 pp. |

Multilingualism in the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries: Special issue of English Text Construction 6:1 (2013)

Edited by Dirk Delabastita & Ton Hoenselaars

Subjects Applied linguistics | English linguistics | English literature & literary studies | Theoretical literature & literary studies

[English Text Construction, 6:1] 2013. | special issue

European Shakespeares. Translating Shakespeare in the Romantic Age: Selected papers from the conference on Shakespeare Translation in the Romantic Age, Antwerp, 1990

Edited by Dirk Delabastita & Lieven D’hulst

Subjects English literature & literary studies | Translation Studies

1993. 256 pp. | edited volume

Eklundh, Emmy & Sebastián Ronderos 2025 Studying affect through discourse theory: Towards a methodology of practice

Keywords: discourse theory | affect | practice | fantasy | transgression | Just Stop Oil | Milei

Journal of Language and Politics 24:1 p. 91 | article

Doumen, Jonas, Veronica Juliana Schmalz, Katrien Beuls & Paul Van Eecke 2024 The computational learning of construction grammars* : State of the art and prospective roadmap

Keywords: construction grammar | computational construction grammar | usage-based linguistics | computational modelling | learning construction grammars

Constructions and Frames 17:1 pp. 141–174 | article | open access

Borrelli, Nathalie 2024 Witch, strumpet, maid and saint: Joan of Arc’s characterisation through the use of epithets in Shakespeare’s Henry VI, Part 1

Keywords: antagonistic representation | characterisation | context-dependent meaning | epithets | Joan of Arc

English Text Construction 17:1 pp. 106–140 | article

Vandenitte, Sébastien 2023 When referents are seen and heard: A comparative study of constructed action in the discourse of LSFB (French Belgian Sign Language) signers and Belgian French speakers

Keywords: signed language | gesture | corpus linguistics | multimodal | comparative semiotics

In: Reference: From conventions to pragmatics, Gardelle, Laure, Laurence Vincent-Durroux & Hélène Vinckel-Roisin (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 228] pp. 127–149

Gabarró-López, Sílvia & Anna Kuder 2023 A corpus-based study of ‘Away gestures’ across four signed languages: DGS, LSC, LSFB and PJM

Keywords: sign language | recurrent gestures | away-family | multimodality | corpus linguistics | German Sign Language (DGS) | French Belgian Sign Language (LSFB) | Catalan Sign Language (LSC) | Polish Sign Language (PJM)

Belgian Journal of Linguistics 36 p. 73 | article | open access

Vandeleene, Audrey, François Randour, Jérémy Dodeigne, Pauline Heyvaert, Thomas Legein, Julien Perrez & Min Reuchamps 2022 Metaphors, political knowledge and the basic income debate in Belgium: An experimental study of the framing impact of metaphors on political representations

Keywords: metaphorical reasoning | basic income | experiment | political knowledge | political metaphor

Metaphor and the Social World 13:2 pp. 269–292 | article

Lepeut, Alysson & Inez Beukeleers 2023 On the semiotic diversity of language: The case of signed languages

Keywords: sign language linguistics | sign language corpora | gesture studies | semiotics

Belgian Journal of Linguistics 36 pp. 1–15 | introduction

Meurant, Laurence 2023 Put another way: Reformulation as a window into discourse and interaction in LSFB (French Belgian Sign Language)

Keywords: reformulation | discourse | interaction | language heterogeneity | semiotic complexity | LSFB (French Belgian Sign Language)

Belgian Journal of Linguistics 36 pp. 145–178 | article

Vandenitte, Sébastien 2023 Showing where you stand: The depictive potential of the lexical sign ls in LSFB conversations about language attitudes

Keywords: iconicity | enactment | stance | sign language | sociolinguistics

Belgian Journal of Linguistics 36 pp. 46–72 | article

Beukeleers, Inez & Alysson Lepeut 2023 Who’s got the upper hand?: A cross-linguistic study on overlap in VGT and LSFB

Keywords: overlap | turn-taking | signed interaction | conversation analysis | French Belgian Sign Language (LSFB) | Flemish Sign Language (VGT)

Belgian Journal of Linguistics 36 pp. 212–246 | article | open access

Gabarró-López, Sílvia & Laurence Meurant 2022 Contrasting signed and spoken languages: Towards a renewed perspective on language

Keywords: sign language linguistics | gesture studies | multimodality | signed/spoken languages | corpora | contrastive studies

Languages in Contrast 22:2 pp. 169–194 | introduction | open access

Meurant, Laurence, Aurélie Sinte & Sílvia Gabarró-López 2022 A multimodal approach to reformulation: Contrastive study of French and French Belgian Sign Language through the productions of speakers, signers and interpreters

Keywords: reformulation | multimodality | signed language | spoken language | interpreters | reformulation markers | depiction | French/French Belgian Sign Language (LSFB)

Languages in Contrast 22:2 pp. 322–360 | article | open access

Lombart, Clara 2023 Prosodic marking of contrast in LSFB (French Belgian Sign Language): An investigation of manual cues and their relations to prominence

Keywords: information structure | prosody | contrast | prominence | French Belgian Sign Language

Belgian Journal of Linguistics 36 pp. 108–144 | article

Lepeut, Alysson 2022 When hands stop moving, interaction keeps going: A study of manual holds in the management of conversation in French-speaking and signing Belgium

Keywords: gesture | contrastive analysis | multimodality | interaction | Belgian French/LSFB

Languages in Contrast 22:2 pp. 290–321 | article | open access

Delabastita, Dirk 2021 

Target 34:2 pp. 343–347 | book review

Vandelanotte, Lieven 2021 Creative constructs, constructions, and frames in Internet discourse

Keywords: constructions | frames | Internet memes | multimodality | Twitter

Constructions and Frames 13:1 pp. 160–191 | article

Van Praet, Wout 2021 Re-evaluating the importance of discourse-embedding for specificational and predicative clauses

Keywords: discourse-familiarity | specificational and predicative clauses | information structure | presupposition and focus | reversibility | mirativity

Pragmatics 31:4 pp. 560–588 | article | open access

Gentile, Paola, Fruzsina Kovács & Marike van der Watt 2021 Transnational image building: Linking up translation studies, reception studies and imagology

Translation Spaces 10:1 pp. 1–4 | introduction

Delabastita, Dirk 2020 Review of Using Computers in the Translation of Literary Style: Challenges and Opportunities by Roy Youdale (2020)

Target 33:3 pp. 494–499 | book review

Van Mensel, Luk, Amélie Bulon, Isa Hendrikx, Fanny Meunier & Kristel Van Goethem 2020 Effects of input on L2 writing in English and Dutch: CLIL and non-CLIL learners in French-speaking Belgium

Keywords: L2 English | L2 Dutch | CLIL | non-CLIL | writing | French-speaking Belgium

Journal of Immersion and Content-Based Language Education 8:2 pp. 173–199 | article

Praet, Wout Van 2019 Aspect and modality in English predicative and specificational copular clauses

Keywords: aspect | collostructional analysis | modality | (non-)exhaustiveness implicature | specificational and predicative copular clauses

English Text Construction 12:2 pp. 196–234 | article

Vandelanotte, Lieven 2019 Changing perspectives: Something old, something new

Keywords: be like | deixis | distancing indirect speech/thought | fictive interaction | Internet memes | perspective | quotation | viewpoint

Pragmatics 29:2 pp. 170–197 | article | open access

Heyvaert, Pauline, François Randour, Jérémy Dodeigne, Julien Perrez & Min Reuchamps 2019 Metaphors in political communication: A case study of the use of deliberate metaphors in non-institutional political interviews

Keywords: political discourse | metaphor analysis | deliberate metaphor | metaphor variation | three-dimensional model | non-institutional interviews | regional parliamentarians | Belgium | Wallonia

Journal of Language and Politics 19:2 pp. 201–225 | article

De Meulder, Maartje & Hilde Haualand 2019 Sign language interpreting services: A quick fix for inclusion?

Keywords: sign language interpreting | public services | deaf | access | inclusion

Translation and Interpreting Studies 16:1 pp. 19–40 | article | open access

Van Praet, Wout 2018 Michael Fortescue, The Abstraction Engine: Extracting Patterns in Language, Mind and Brain

English Text Construction 11:2 pp. 322–328 | book review

Vandelanotte, Lieven 2017 Favourite puzzles: Revisiting categories in grammar, usage and discourse from functional perspectives

Keywords: Cognitive Grammar | discourse | functional linguistics | grammar | usage

English Text Construction 10:2 pp. 187–198 | article

Labate, Simon 2017  La Classe américaine : Film collage and dubbing

Keywords: adaptation | détournement | dubbing | film collage | film remix

English Text Construction 10:1 pp. 21–36 | article

Robinson, Douglas, Elodie Feron & Maud Gonne 2017 Quel type de littérature pour la traduction littéraire? [What kind of literature is a literary translation?]

Keywords: traduction littéraire | Genette | littérarité | genre

Target 29:3 pp. 440–463 | translation

Delabastita, Dirk, Sandra Halverson, José Lambert & Kirsten Malmkjær 2017 In Memoriam Gideon Toury (1942–2016)

Target 29:1 pp. 1–6 | obituary

De Meulder, Maartje & Joseph J. Murray 2017 Buttering their bread on both sides?: The recognition of sign languages and the aspirations of deaf communities

Keywords: deaf communities | sign language vitality | sign language legislation | language rights | sign language planning | new signers

Language Problems and Language Planning 41:2 pp. 136–158 | article

Cerdá, Juan F., Dirk Delabastita & Keith Gregor 2017 Introduction: European households, alike in dignity?

In: Romeo and Juliet in European culture, Cerdá, Juan F., Dirk Delabastita & Keith Gregor (eds.) [Shakespeare in European Culture, 1] pp. 1–24

Delabastita, Dirk & Ton Hoenselaars 2015 ‘If but as well I other accents borrow, that can my speech diffuse’: Multilingual perspectives on English Renaissance drama

Keywords: English Renaissance drama | Englishness vs. foreignness | Functions of multilingualism | interdisciplinarity | stage dialects | William Shakespeare

In: Multilingualism in the Drama of Shakespeare and his Contemporaries, Delabastita, Dirk & Ton Hoenselaars (eds.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 73] pp. 1–16

Nélis, Noémie 2014 Review of The Routledge Concise History of World Literature by Theo D’haen (2012)

English Text Construction 7:2 pp. 281–286 | book review

Davidse, Kristin, Lieven Vandelanotte, Caroline Gentens & Lobke Ghesquière 2014 Interrogating corpora to describe grammatical patterns

In: Corpus Interrogation and Grammatical Patterns, Davidse, Kristin, Caroline Gentens, Lobke Ghesquière, Lieven Vandelanotte & Tinne Van Rompaey (eds.) [Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 63] pp. 1–11

Durmus, Hilal Erkazanci, Elif Kasap & Maud Gonne 2014 Résistance face à la planification linguistique via la traduction: une approche centrée sur l’habitus: La traduction turque du roman d’Elif Şafak The Bastard of Istanbul [A habitus-oriented perspective on resistance to language planning through translation. A case study on the Turkish translation of Elif Şafak’s The Bastard of Istanbul ]

Keywords: habitus | style | traduction | narratologie | planification linguistique

Target 26:3 pp. 385–405 | translation

Linder, Daniel, Céline Fays & Norbert Jacquinet 2014 Un meurtre impuni: L’argot homosexuel spécialisé du Faucon Maltais assassiné lors de la traduction [Getting away with murder: The Maltese Falcon’s specialized homosexual slang gunned down in translation]

Keywords: ambiguïté | roman noir | homosexualité | littérature | traduction | langage à connotation sexuelle | argot

Target 26:3 pp. 337–360 | translation

Darquennes, Jeroen 2014 Current issues in LPP research and their impact on society

AILA Review 26:1 pp. 11–23 | article | open access

Ladouceur, Louise, Hanae Roquet & Louise Ladouceur 2013 Les surtitres entrent en scène dans le théâtre franco-canadien [Surtitles take the stage in Franco-Canadian theatre]

Keywords: Franco-Canadien | bilinguisme | théâtre | traduction sur scène | surtitres créatifs

Target 25:3 | translation

Delabastita, Dirk & Ton Hoenselaars 2013 ‘If but as well I other accents borrow, that can my speech diffuse’: Multilingual perspectives on English Renaissance drama

English Text Construction 6:1 pp. 1–16 | article

Boemer, Magali & Jeroen Darquennes 2012 Towards a historical sociolinguistic account of language-in-education policy in the German-speaking community of Belgium

Dutch Journal of Applied Linguistics 1:2 pp. 219–235 | article

Romero-Muñoz, Eloy Juan Miguel 2011 Review of Cognitive Approaches to Pedagogical Grammar: A Volume in Honour of René Dirven edited by Sabine De Knop & Teun De Rycker (2008)

English Text Construction 4:1 pp. 151–154 | book review

Inggs, Judith A. & Marie Gabrys 2011 Censure et littérature pour enfants traduite dans l’Union soviétique: L’exemple du Magicien d’Oz et de Goodwin

Keywords: traduction | censure | littérature pour enfants | littérature soviétique | Bourdieu | sociologie de la traduction

Target 23:1 pp. 77–91 | translation

Delabastita, Dirk 2011 Pym, Anthony. 2009. Exploring Translation Theories

Target 23:2 pp. 380–386 | book review

Delabastita, Dirk 2009 Mathijssen, Jan Willem. 2007. The Breach and the Observance. Theatre retranslation as a strategy of artistic differentiation, with special reference to retranslations of Shakespeare’s Hamlet (1777–2001)

Target 21:2 pp. 388–393 | book review

Vandelanotte, Lieven 2008 Mister so-called X: Discourse functions and subjectification of so-called

In: Functional Perspectives on Grammar and Discourse: In honour of Angela Downing, Butler, Christopher S., Raquel Hidalgo Downing & Julia Lavid-López (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 85] pp. 359–394

Delabastita, Dirk 2007 Turner, Allan. 2005. Translating Tolkien: Philological elements in The Lord of the rings.

Target 19:1 pp. 169–172 | book review

Delabastita, Dirk 2006 Henry, Jacqueline. 2003. La traduction des jeux de mots

Target 17:1 pp. 178–181 | book review

Delabastita, Dirk 2003 From Aesop to Zweig and from Martial to Martial Arts Fiction: Charting the history of literary translation into English

Target 14:1 pp. 149–171 | review article

Condon, Nora & Peter Kelly 2002 Does Cognitive Linguistics have anything to offer English language learners in their efforts to master phrasal verbs?

ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 137-138:1 pp. 205–231 | article

Capelle, Annick 2000 Vries, Anneke de. 1998. Het kleine verschil: Man/vrouw-stereotypen in enkele moderne Nederlandse vertalingen van het Oude Testament

Target 12:1 pp. 169–172 | book review

Delabastita, Dirk 1999 Tęcza, Zygmumt. 1997. Das Wortspiel in der Übersetzung: Stanisław Lems Spiele mit dem Wort als Gegenstand interlingualen Transfers.

Target 11:1 pp. 168–172 | book review

Kelly, Peter, Xinghua Li, Johan Vanparys & Carole Zimmer 1996 A comparison of the perceptions and practices of Chinese and French-speaking Belgian university students in the learning of English: the prelude to an improved programme of lexical expansion

ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 113-114:1 pp. 275–303 | article

Delabastita, Dirk 1994 Focus on the Pun: Wordplay as a Special Problem in Translation Studies

Target 6:2 pp. 223–243 | review article

Delabastita, Dirk 1992 Arntz, Reiner & Gisela Thome, eds. 1990. Übersetzungswissenschaft. Ergebnisse und Perspektiven: Festschrift für Wolfram Wilss zum 65. Geburtstag.

Target 4:1 pp. 121–124 | book review

Delabastita, Dirk 1991 A False Opposition in Translation Studies: Theoretical versus/and Historical Approaches

Target 3:2 pp. 137–152 | article

Delabastita, Dirk 1991 Westerweel, Bart & Theo D'haen, eds. 1990. Something Understood: Studies in Anglo-Dutch Translation

Target 3:2 pp. 261–262 | book review

Kelly, Cem 1989 Utilization of the Hookword Method for the Learning of Polish Vocabulary: A Personal Investigation

ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 85-86:1 pp. 123–142 | article

Kelly, Peter 1986 Solving the Vocabulary Retention Problem

ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 74:1 pp. 1–16 | article

Godin, P. & P. Ostyn 1985 La grammaire dans l'enseignement des langues étrangères: de l'apprentissage à l'acquisition par le détour des fonctions

ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 66:1 pp. 25–48 | article

*Please note that this list may be inaccurate for older publications.