Dr Barbara de Cock
IAS Open Programme
Universit茅 Catholique de Louvain
Dr de Cock is a professor at the Universit茅 Catholique de Louvain, in Belgium. From 2015 to 2021, she was head of the Linguistics Research Unit there.
Her PhD on Spanish linguistics was the basis for "Profiling discourse participants. Forms and functions in Spanish conversation and debates". One of her current projects is analyzing how Twitter is used by politicians. At 含羞草视频, she will collaborate with colleagues in the Discourse and Rhetoric Group (DARG) in the School of Social Sciences and Humanities to analyse how responsibility is constructed (or not) when talking about sensitive topics, and how participants manage online medical interaction.