Lieven VANDELANOTTE
Phone(s) : +32 (0)81 72 41 73
Web site : http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5935-5517
- Faculties/Departments/Services
- Department of Germanic Languages and Literature - Directeur/Directrice de département
- Research groups
- Namur Institute of Language, Text and Transmediality (NaLTT) - Member of the Steering board
- English Department - Responsable
- English Department
- Committees
- Board of Faculty of Arts
- Bureau of Faculty of Arts
- (LCONSGER) - Président(e)
Introduction
Lieven Vandelanotte is associate professor of English linguistics at UNamur and research fellow in linguistics at KU Leuven.
In addition to over 40 journal articles or book chapters, he published the monograph Speech and Thought Representation in English: A Cognitive-Functional Approach (De Gruyter Mouton 2009). A joint monograph with Barbara Dancygier entitled Multimodal Discourse: Viewpoint and Figuration across Image and Text is forthcoming (Cambridge UP).
He was the editor for the areas of linguistics (2010-2019) and literature (2012-2019) of the journal English Text Construction (Benjamins), and has co-edited 9 books or journal special issues to date:
- Subjectification, Intersubjectification, and Grammaticalization (De Gruyter Mouton, 2010)
- Textual Choices in Discourse: A View from Cognitive Linguistics (Benjamins, 2012)
- Corpus Interrogation and Grammatical Patterns (Benjamins, 2014)
- Recent Advances in Corpus Linguistics: Developing and Exploiting Corpora (Brill, 2014)
- Viewpoint Phenomena in Multimodal Communication (Cognitive Linguistics 28:3, 2017)
- Grammar, Usage and Discourse: Functional Studies offered to Kristin Davidse (English Text Construction 10:2, 2017)
- Multimodal Artefacts and the Texture of Viewpoint (Journal of Pragmatics 122, 2017)
- Signs and wonders: Liber amicorum for Kristin Davidse (KU Leuven, 2022)
- Complement and Parenthetical Constructions: Theory and Description (Language Sciences, 2023)
Activities in professional service include board membership (2006-2019) of the Belgian anglicists' association BAAHE, as webmaster and as ETC representative. Conferences (co-)convened include BAAHE's conference (Namur, 2008), the 33rd ICAME conference (Leuven, 2012), and international workshops on Communicative Dynamism (Namur, 2016) and on Reviewing viewpoint (Namur, 2019).
At UNamur, admin activities include a term as Vice-Dean of Arts (2009-2013), membership of the university-wide Teaching (2013-2019) and Further Education (2016-2019) Committees, membership of the general assembly (2007-2017) of the development NGO FUCID, secretary of the admissions and examination jury (2016-) and head of the English Unit (2018-) and of the Germanic languages and literatures department (2021- ), and member of the NaLTT institute steering board (2021- ).
Areas of expertise
- Viewpoint and multimodality
- Speech and thought representation
- The English noun phrase
- Grammaticalization and (inter)subjectification
- Functional, cognitive and corpus linguistics
- Cognitive poetics and linguistic approaches to literature
External responsibilities
- (since 2022) advisory board member of the book series Routledge Focus on Dialogues in Cognitive Literary Studies (Routledge)
- (since 2019) editorial advisory board member for European Journal of English Studies (Routledge)
- (since 2019) editorial board member for English Text Construction (John Benjamins) (previously editor from 2010-2019)
- (since 2012) Advisory Panel member of Babel - The Language Magazine
- (since 2006) Research fellow in the research group Functional and cognitive linguistics: Grammar and typology (FunC), KU Leuven
- (since 2006) webmaster of the Belgian Association of Anglicists in Higher Education (BAAHE); previously (2006-2019) also board member and (2012-2019) ETC representative
Degrees
PhD in Language and Literature: Germanic Languages, KU Leuven, March 2005
MA in Language and Literature: Germanic Languages (English and Dutch), KU Leuven, July 2000
