Barbara De Cock
@barbaradecock.bsky.social
Professor in Spanish linguistics at UCLouvain
I'm interested in pragmatics and discourse analysis on politics, healthcare, and everyday life.
Circle U. chair for democracy
Avid reader who likes to go hiking
I'm interested in pragmatics and discourse analysis on politics, healthcare, and everyday life.
Circle U. chair for democracy
Avid reader who likes to go hiking
This paper I co-authored concerning Twitter (www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...) was not mainly about the impact of character limits, but we do discuss the impact of the limit on e.g. subject pronoun ellipsis or on the preference for some constructions.
Self-reference by politicians on Twitter: Strategies to adapt to 140 characters
This paper studies how language is used on Twitter by Belgian and Spanish politicians in the context of the 2014 European elections campaign. Taking a…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 2, 2025 at 7:56 PM
This paper I co-authored concerning Twitter (www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...) was not mainly about the impact of character limits, but we do discuss the impact of the limit on e.g. subject pronoun ellipsis or on the preference for some constructions.
Si todo va bien, será en enero 🙂.
October 13, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Si todo va bien, será en enero 🙂.
Tengo un estudiante de TFM que trabaja sobre las representaciones distintas en la prensa...
October 13, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Tengo un estudiante de TFM que trabaja sobre las representaciones distintas en la prensa...
Wonderful! I had a beautiful misty morning today, thought I should share a picture of it, and then forgot it :-(
October 1, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Wonderful! I had a beautiful misty morning today, thought I should share a picture of it, and then forgot it :-(
Don't speak English at home so don't qualify, but am very interested in the results, in case this helps motivate potential participants 😀
August 13, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Don't speak English at home so don't qualify, but am very interested in the results, in case this helps motivate potential participants 😀