Bert Oben
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I am a currently working on a research project on multimodal alignment phenomena in dialogic interaction (supervisors Kurt Feyaerts and Geert Brône). I received an MA in Germanic Languages (English-Dutch) at the University of Leuven in 2004 and I finished a MA of Business Communication one year later. In 2007 I started working on a two year OI-project under the supervision of Kurt Feyaerts and Dirk Speelman. During this project we developed a student-centred learning environment for disclosing creative language use and a corpus of interactional humour. Since 2009 I am working on a STIM-project (Stimuleringsfonds): Insight Linguistics - Developing a 3D Landscape of Language Use. E-mail: firstname.lastname@arts.kuleuven.be |
Research interests
In general, my research interests lie in cognitive and multimodal approaches to spontaneous interaction, (linguistic) creativity and corpus linguistics. More specifically I’ve acquired a taste for research on:
- linguistic creativity and humour, with respect to the contents
- cognitive discourse representations, with respect to theoretical frameworks
- (multimodal/multichannel) corpus annotation and development, with respect to methodology
Presentations
Here are a few of my recent presentations:-
[2010] B. Oben & G. Brône. Bidirectionality in multimodal interaction. Presentation at LCM-4: Language, Culture and Mind (Turku, Finland, 21-23 June 2010).
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[2010] K. Feyaerts, B. Oben & G. Brône. Tackling the complexity of spontaneous humorous interaction: an integrated classroom-modeled corpus approach. Presentation at New insights into the study of conversation. Applications to the language classroomI (Granada, Spain, 26-29 May 2010).
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[2010] G. Brône, B. Oben & K. Feyaerts. Insight interaction. A multimodal and multifocal dialogue corpus. Demopresentation at LREC 2010: workshop on multimodal corpora: advances in capturing, coding and analyzing multimodality (Valetta, Malta, 18 May 2010).
