Research Projects at LETS
Explore the different research projects that the team at LETS has been working on. From sociolinguistics to more theoretical linguistics - we like exploring the bandwidth of linguistic areas!
QuiP - Queer Identities Project
The QuiP project deals with narratives and discourse around queer identities and coming-out experiences.
D&M - Democratisation and power structures
The project examines how societies in the 21st century negotiate social, political, cultural, and economic power structures.
SilC - Sociocultural impact on language change
What does democratisation mean for language users? And what are people's attitudes towards social hierarchies and concepts such as authority?
Former projects
Explicitation in translation (ExiT)
Explicitation in translation (ExiT) deals with the question of explicitation as a universal in translation.
Language variation and change through translation
Language variation and change through translation investigates how translation can lead to changes in the target language.
Late stages and losses in grammatical change
What are preconditions, motivations, and consequences of the loss of linguistic constructions and whole categories (e.g. loss of gender in English).