Kris Helincks

Office: 05.03.120.020 (old number: 2.61)
Blandijnberg 2, 9000 Gent
Belgium

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Tel.(+32)(0)9 264 40 50
Fax (+32)(0)9 264 41 76

Student consultation: by appointment / Spreekuur: op afspraak

 

Education

Diplomas

  • 2009-2010: Master in Linguistics and Literature: Dutch-Spanish (Ghent University)

Dissertation: La variación estilística y social del voseo chileno. Un estudio sociolingüístico cuantitativo y cualitativo basado en géneros televisivos

  • 2006-2009: Bachelor in Linguistics and Literature: Dutch-Spanish (Ghent University)

 

Research stays abroad 

  • 2012: Research stay in Iquique, Chile, for the aim of linguistic fieldwork (3 months)
  • 2008: Erasmus Exchange at Universidad de Salamanca, Spain (1 semester)

 

Research

Interests

Topics

  • Use of forms of address in the world’s languages, particularly in Spanish
  • Chilean variety of Spanish
  • Politeness, stylistic variation, identity construction, negotation of meaning in interaction

Approaches

  • Interactional sociolinguistics
  • (Socio)Pragmatics
  • Language variation and change
  • Dialectology
  • Cognitive linguistics

Publications

  • (submitted): “Negotiation of pronominal terms of address in a Chilean television talk show”, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies. [peer reviewed]
  • (2012): “La variación social y estilística del voseo chileno en diferentes géneros televisivos”, Revista Internacional de Lingüística Iberorománica 19: 185-211. [peer reviewed]

Presentations at international conferences

  • ‘’Oye huevón ¿cachaste que huevón más huevón es ese huevón, huevón?’ El uso particular entre insulto y anticortesía de la forma de tratamiento nominal de huevón y sus derivaciones en Chile’, VI Coloquio Internacional del Programa EDICE “Avances para una discusión sobre las actividades de imagen en discursos en español”, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Monterrey, 30 Sept - 4 Oct 2013.
  • ‘Explaining shifts between language choices: proposal of a model built on the modern relational work approach to politeness and application on the Chilean address system’, 4th Biennial Meeting of the International Association for the Study of Spanish in Society (SIS-EES) / 6th International Conference of Hispanic Linguistics, Birkbeck, University of London, 3-5 July 2013.
  • ‘‘¿Oye huevón, cachaste que huevón más huevón es ese huevón, huevón?’ The particular meanings and uses of the nominal term of address huevón in Chile’, Address(ing) (Pro)Nouns. Sociolinguistics and Grammar of Terms of Address, Frei Universität Berlin, Berlin, 30 May - 1 June 2013.
  • ‘Intraspeaker variability of terms of address in Chilean Spanish in relation to politeness: an exploratory sociopragmatic approach’, Linguistic Impoliteness and Rudeness (LIAR III) “Experimental and empirical approaches to politeness and impoliteness”, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana IL, 29-31 August 2012.
  •  ‘The stylistic variation of Chilean voseo. A quantitative and qualitative sociolinguistic examination based on television genres’, XXXIX Romance Linguistics Seminar, Trinity Hall, Cambridge, 5-6 Jan 2011.

 

Teaching

  • Dominio de Español III (2011)
  • Lingüística Española III (2012)
  • Lingüística Española: Español de América (2012-)
  • Evaluation of Bachelor and Master's dissertations (2012-)

Supervision of Bachelor and Master’s dissertations 

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