Lieven Vandelanotte

Lieven Vandelanotte is associate professor of English linguistics at the University of Namur and research fellow in linguistics at KU Leuven. His main research interests include speech and thought representation, viewpoint and multimodality, (inter)subjectivity, and cognitive-linguistic text analysis.

In addition to around 30 journal articles or book chapters, he published, in 2009, the monograph Speech and Thought Representation in English: A Cognitive-Functional Approach (De Gruyter Mouton).

He has been the editor responsible for the areas of linguistics (since 2010) and literature (since 2012) of the international journal English Text Construction (John Benjamins), and has co-edited 7 books or journal special issues to date: 

• Subjectification, Intersubjectification, and Grammaticalization ed. by Kristin Davidse, Lieven Vandelanotte & Hubert Cuyckens (De Gruyter Mouton, 2010)
• Textual Choices in Discourse: A View from Cognitive Linguistics ed. by Barbara Dancygier, José Sanders & Lieven Vandelanotte (John Benjamins, 2012)
• Corpus Interrogation and Grammatical Patterns ed. by Kristin Davidse, Caroline Gentens, Lobke Ghesquière & Lieven Vandelanotte (John Benjamins, 2014)
• Recent Advances in Corpus Linguistics: Developing and Exploiting Corpora ed. by Lieven Vandelanotte, Kristin Davidse, Caroline Gentens & Ditte Kimps (Brill|Rodopi, 2014)
• Viewpoint Phenomena in Multimodal Communication ed. by Barbara Dancygier & Lieven Vandelanotte (Cognitive Linguistics 28:3, 2017)
• Grammar, Usage and Discourse: Functional Studies offered to Kristin Davidse ed. by Lieven Vandelanotte, Wout Van Praet & Lieselotte Brems (English Text Construction 10:2, 2017)
• Multimodal Artefacts and the Texture of Viewpoint ed. by Lieven Vandelanotte & Barbara Dancygier (Journal of Pragmatics 122, 2017) 

Activities in professional service include board membership of the Belgian Association of Anglicists in Higher Education, as webmaster (since 2006) and as ETC representative (since 2012). Conferences (co-)convened include BAAHE's annual conference (Namur, 2008), the 33rd ICAME conference (Leuven, 2012) and the 2nd Round Table on Communicative Dynamism (Namur, 2016).

At UNamur, admin activities to date include a term as Vice-Dean of Arts (2009-2013), membership of the university-wide Teaching Committee (since 2013) and Further Education Committee (since 2016), and membership of the general assembly, first as faculty representative (2007-2012) and then as elected member (2012-2017), of the university’s development NGO FUCID.

• 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

• (since 2012) Advisory Panel member of Babel - The Language Magazine
• (since 2010) editor for the domains of linguistics and (since 2012) literature of the international journal English Text Construction (John Benjamins)
• (since 2006) Research fellow in the research group Functional and cognitive linguistics: Grammar and typology (FunC), KU Leuven
• (since 2006) webmaster and (since 2012) ETC representative on the board of the Belgian Association of Anglicists in Higher Education (BAAHE)

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