2,603 search results for “language cultural and worldviews” in the Public website
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Primacy and collapse in intonational melodies: Insights from imitation
Lecture, SMILE Talks
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Mistaken Identities
Lecture, LUCL Colloquium
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Leiden Essay Film Festival
Festival
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Reducing or Reinforcing Gender Bias? A Study on the Application of ChatGPT in Translation from a Feminist Perspective
Lecture, Leiden Translation Talks
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Conference: The Poetics of Olfaction, 1500–1800
Conference
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How extensive is a grammar? Explorations in measuring grammatical descriptions
Lecture, LUCL Colloquium
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Dutch Language, Culture and Society (MA)
In the master’s programme in Dutch Language, Culture and Society at Leiden University you will study the language and culture of the Netherlands from the Dutch Golden Age – the time of Rembrandt and Vondel – until today’s dynamic and muliticultural society.
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Online Experience English Language and Culture
Study information, Online Experience
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Veni for Verena Meyer: 'Not every religious manuscript is meant to be digitised'
Now that it is becoming increasingly easy to digitise texts, it seems almost obvious to do that with everything that has ever been written. University lecturer Verena Meyer thinks that is too simplistic. ‘We need to look more closely at the political and cultural effects of digitisation.’
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Daan Roovers in the 54th Huizinga Lecture: ‘Democracy is more than winning elections’
In a packed Stadsgehoorzaal, philosopher and Member of the Senate Daan Roovers delivered the 54th Huizinga Lecture. It was a passionate plea for a form of politics thatt is not only about winning, but also about talking and playing.
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54th Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics
Conference
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Three PhD defences in one day on religious coexistence in Ghana
Last Tuesday was a special day: three researchers defended their PhD dissertations in succession as part of the same project. Martin Luther Darko, Kauthar Khamis and Rashida Adum-Atta investigated how people of different religions coexist in Madina in Ghana.
- Teaching Chinese Language and Culture (MA)
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The 33rd Annual Conference of the International Association for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics (IAFPA)
Conference
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From Japan Studies to junior school: ‘I was back to square one in the classroom’
It was while wearing clogs at a Dutch theme park in Japan that Cindy Heijdra really got to know Japan. Over 20 years later, she is studying again: to be a primary school teacher.
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Crossing language borders
How do speakers adapt to multilingual contexts?
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History and change in Sign Language Phonology
Lecture
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Inflection in Kaaɓooje
Lecture, This Time for Africa series
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Cultural evolutionary modeling of patterns in language change. Exercises in evolutionary linguistics
This thesis describes the use of the evolutionary approach in the study of language change, aiming to provide a better insight in the mechanisms that play a role in language change and to validate this approach in the field of language change.
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Part-time English Language and Culture bachelor's programme
The English Language and Culture study programme is also offered on a part-time basis.
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Sign language emergence and diachronic change
Conference, Leiden-Birmingham Lectures
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Ideophones in Brazilian Portuguese: focusing on Afro-diasporic contexts in Brazil
Lecture, This Time for Africa! series
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Disentangling ghost segments and number marking in Sengwer
Lecture, This Time for Africa! series
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Towards a Reconstruction of the Proto-South Omotic Suprasegmentals: Initial Findings
Lecture, This Time for Africa series
- This Time for Africa! series
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Reanalysing asymmetry in Xichangana (S53): evidence from applicative constructions
Lecture, This Time for Africa! series
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Colonial government by correspondence: the British government's communicative practice in colonial bureaucracy at the turn of the twentieth century
Lecture, Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series
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Between deference and destitution: Requesting relief in Scottish pauper letters, 1750-1910
Lecture, Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series
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‘Military strikes alone unlikely to fatally undermine Venezuelan government’
What will be the outcome of the US raid on Venezuela and capture of President Maduro? ‘History shows that people usually react to being bombed by a foreign power by rallying around the flag, not turning against their leaders’, says historian Andrew Gawthorpe in The Conversation.
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LUCIP Colloquium "Humans as Heaven: Innaecheon 人乃天, and the Resilient Spirit of Korean Democracy and the Korean Wave"
Lecture
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Frying and tweeting. Perception and production aspects of social meaning as a change determinant
Lecture, Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series
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The language of internet memes
Lecture, Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series
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How infants learn about language within their social context - experimental and observational evidence
Lecture, LUCL Colloquium
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Gestures to signs around the world
Conference, Workshop
- Leiden-Birmingham Lectures
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Neoplatonism in the Christological Debates of Late Antiquity: Influences, Interferences, and Contrasts
Conference
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Multilingualism and Language Policy
This project investigates the languages spoken by elementary school children in Leiden: which languages or varieties do they use, what is their level of competence and in what domains do they use them?
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Communicative Language Teaching in Georgia
The present investigation aims at exploring whether the instruction provided at secondary schools in the capital meets the requirements of Communicative Language Teaching and whether the aims of improving learners’ communicative proficiency are met.
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China, Protest and Asia’s Struggle against Autocracy
Lecture
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Morphological Encoding in Mandarin Chinese: Evidence from Chinese Disyllabic Compound Words
PhD defence
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Intentions in Communication
Conference, Workshop
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Formants are better predictors of vowel markedness than features
Lecture, SMILE - Experimental Linguistics series
- SMILE - Experimental Linguistics series
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A Grammar of the Thangmi Language with an Ethnolinguistic Introduction to the Speakers and their Culture
This 862-page monograph is a grammar of Thangmi, an endangered Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the districts of Dolakha and Sindhupalcok in central-eastern Nepal.
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Implications of Case (mis-)matches for theories of ATB-movement. Evidence from non-syncretic mismatches involving the genitive of negation in
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Functional projections in analytic languages
The ultimate aim of the project is to find out whether there are such things as
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From Gesture to Language
Like any language, the natural sign languages (henceforth: SLs) of deaf communities differ from each other in their grammars and lexicons. A growing number of studies indicates that SLs make use of the gestures of hearing speakers to build linguistic structure. This implies that variation and similarities…
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The Muslim Woman Question in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Between Islamic Tradition and Global Modernity
PhD defence
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Unbefitting healing objects?
PhD defence
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The phonological systems of the Mbam languages of Cameroon with a focus on vowels and vowel harmony
The languages of the Mbam-et-Inoubou District of the Centre Region of Cameroon have a unique position in Bantu linguistics. Being in between