This thesis does not discard opinion polls as an inferior aspect of political communication, but historically studies how the appropriation of electoral research by broadcasters has influenced notions of political ...

This thesis explores the historical development and current appropriation of a war-related site in Japan—the Noborito Institute—that was connected to Japan's aggression during the Asia-Pacific War (1931-1945). It illustrates ...

Juxtaposed entities, like butterfly and dress or banana and bread, invite people to look for meaningful connections between the entities. The type of interpretation one ends up with might depend on which of the object is ...

This thesis seeks to analyse the differences and similarities between early twentieth-century comparisons between the British and Roman empires and between comparisons between America and Rome that were drawn during the ...

Few people have discussed or are nowadays discussing (contemporary) artworks and their effects in terms of use and usefulness. It is generally believed that art is purposeful, and yet the union between art and utilitarianism ...

With a drastic increase in number of writing centres in the Netherlands over the last ten years, their actual effectiveness becomes more and more important. Whereas students’ attitudes about the writing centres’ non-directive ...

The tight time constraints of the turn-taking system (Levinson, 2013) compel listeners to recognize the action conveyed by a turn and plan their response accordingly while the turn is still unfolding (Bögels, Magyari, & ...

In the multilingual landscape at Eijsden-Margraten’s pre-school playgrounds, Limburgish and Dutch are commonly spoken, in addition to a few different home languages. This thesis details how this ‘landscape’ looks for ...

I analysed how the Catholic intellectuals involved in the periodical De Beiaard reflected on World War I and its outcome. It seems no coincidence that the journal was founded in 1916, at a moment in time in which it had ...

This thesis is concerned with the discourse of autism and negotiations of space in literary and visual culture. Here, 'autism' is not a mental disorder that can be read in textual and visual vocabulary, but is a discourse ...