Lieven Vandelanotte

Lieven Vandelanotte is currently a Francqui Research Professor (2023-2026) at the University of Namur, where he teaches English language and linguistics and general linguistics. He is also a research fellow in linguistics at KU Leuven, and is the current president of the Belgian Association of Anglicists in Higher Education. His main research interests include speech and thought representation, viewpoint and multimodality, (inter)subjectivity, and cognitive-linguistic text analysis.

In addition to over 40 journal articles or book chapters, he published, in 2009, the monograph Speech and Thought Representation in English: A Cognitive-Functional Approach (De Gruyter Mouton). A joint monograph with Barbara Dancygier entitled The Language of Memes: Patterns of Meaning across Image and Text is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press (2025).

He was the editor responsible for the areas of linguistics (2010-2019) and literature (2012-2019) of the international journal English Text Construction (John Benjamins), and has co-edited 10 books or journal special issues to date: 

• Subjectification, Intersubjectification, and Grammaticalization (Davidse, Vandelanotte & Cuyckens, De Gruyter Mouton, 2010)
• Textual Choices in Discourse: A View from Cognitive Linguistics (Dancygier, Sanders & Vandelanotte, John Benjamins, 2012)
• Corpus Interrogation and Grammatical Patterns (Davidse, Gentens, Ghesquière & Vandelanotte, John Benjamins, 2014)
• Recent Advances in Corpus Linguistics: Developing and Exploiting Corpora (Vandelanotte, Davidse, Gentens & Kimps, Brill|Rodopi, 2014)
• Viewpoint Phenomena in Multimodal Communication (Dancygier & Vandelanotte, Cognitive Linguistics 28:3, 2017)
• Grammar, Usage and Discourse: Functional Studies offered to Kristin Davidse (Vandelanotte, Van Praet & Brems, English Text Construction 10:2, 2017)
• Multimodal Artefacts and the Texture of Viewpoint (Vandelanotte & Dancygier, Journal of Pragmatics 122, 2017) 
• Signs and wonders: Liber amicorum for Kristin Davidse (Bourgoin, Vandelanotte, Van Praet & Verstraete, KU Leuven, 2022)
• Complement and Parenthetical Constructions: Theory and Description (Vandelanotte, Van linden & Brems, Language Sciences, 2023)
• Cahier DD: Multilingual mélanges voor Dirk Delabastita (Dumont & Vandelanotte, Presses universitaires de Namur, 2024)

Activities in professional service include presidency (2024- ) and, previously (as webmaster and as ETC representative), board membership (2006-2019) of the Belgian anglicists' association BAAHE. Conferences (co-)convened include BAAHE's annual conference (Namur, 2008), the 33rd ICAME conference (Leuven, 2012), the 2nd Round Table on Communicative Dynamism (Namur, 2016), the international workshop Reviewing Viewpoint (Namur, 2019), and the 2025 BAAHE conference and pre-conference symposium (Namur, 2025).

At UNamur, admin activities to date include a term as Vice-Dean of Arts (2009-2013), membership of the university-wide Teaching Committee (2013-2019) and Further Education Committee (2016-2019), 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, head of the English Unit (since 2018) and of the Department of Germanic languages and literatures (2021-2024), and member of the Steering Board of the NaLTT research institute (since 2021).

• 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 2023) Member of the FNRS SHS-3 scientific committees (as observer in the international committee for postdoc level funding, and as full member of the national committee for doctoral level funding)
• (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

• 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