Kim Schoofs
Biographic Data
| ID | 951536 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kim Schoofs |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kim |
| FAMILY NAME | Schoofs |
| SIGNATURE | SCHOOFS K |
| AFFILIATIONS | KU Leuven |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4645-8511 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
‘Bringing about’ complex social groups in WWII testimonies through the code German’s indexical value
In de bijdrage van dr. Kim Schoofs wordt aan de hand van een zorgvuldig geselecteerd bronnencorpus nagegaan hoe het gebruik van de code Duits in getuigenissen over de Tweede Wereldoorlog complexe sociale groepen ‘tot stand kan brengen’. Meer specifiek geeft de analyse aan hoe vertellers, door het afwisselend gebruik van de moedertaal en het Duits, moeilijk af te bakenen, multidimensionale identiteitsconstructies over maatschappelijke groepen en h…
Leadership style in transition? Decision-making processes in cabin crew's pre-flight briefings
Negotiating identities in stories of anti-Chinese racism during the Covid-19 pandemic
Since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, there has been an upsurge of anti-Chinese racism. This paper investigates the socio-pragmatic processes through which Chinese international students in Belgium discursively deal with othering processes in the stories they tell about racist incidents during semi-structured research interviews. These processes are closely linked to various identities which are sometimes projected upon them and often …
When the Egg Breaks, the Chicken Bleeds
Clarice Lispector has been studied thoroughly against the backdrop of Western ontology and feminism, but she has not often been read in relation to postcolonial theory and Black studies. Yet, their critique of coloniality and the radicality with which they conceive of a different world, can provide a fitting frame for understanding what is at stake in Lispector’s thought. When put in dialogue with the work of Édouard Glissant and Denise Ferreira …
Reflecting and forging master narratives
Sociolinguistics can help us grasp how collective memory cultures are (in part) shaped by representations of historic events through varied linguistic - and other - sources (e.g. education, news media, conversations and museum displays). In this study, we specifically zoom in on the curatorial selection process of a Belgian Second World War (WWII) memorial museum, whilst simultaneously exploring the reflexive relation between this curatorial proc…
Epistemic competitions over Jewish Holocaust survivors’ stories in interviews
In this article, we scrutinise epistemic competitions in interviews about World War II. In particular, we analyse how the interlocutors draw on their epistemic authority concerning WWII to construct their interactional telling rights. On the one hand, the analyses illustrate how the interviewers rely on their historical expert status – as evidenced through their specialist knowledge and ventriloquisation of vicarious WWII narratives – in order to…
The indexical value of lexical borrowing in a ‘remembrance culture’-community of practice
In this study, we scrutinize the locally constructed indexical value of German loanwords in Belgian WWII-testimonies. We argue that these testimonies are situated in a specific WWII-remembrance context which forms a community of practice with its own local style. In particular, we selected three Flemish (i.e. Dutch) and three Walloon (i.e. French) spoken testimonies from our testimony-corpus. Methodologically, we draw on multimodal discourse anal…
Adjusting to new “truths”
In this article, we study the diachronic (re)construction of repeated WWII-testimonies. Specifically, we scrutinize how shifting master narratives in the social context may affect how stories are told in a particular time and place. We selected testimonies by two Belgian concentration camp survivors – one Flemish and one Walloon – who both wrote down their story twice, namely in 1946 and 1985. By comparing the “same” diachronically dispersed stor…
Adjusting to new “truths”
In this article, we study the diachronic (re)construction of repeated WWII-testimonies. Specifically, we scrutinize how shifting master narratives in the social context may affect how stories are told in a particular time and place. We selected testimonies by two Belgian concentration camp survivors – one Flemish and one Walloon – who both wrote down their story twice, namely in 1946 and 1985. By comparing the “same” diachronically dispersed stor…
Leadership style in transition? Decision-making processes in cabin crew's pre-flight briefings
Epistemic competitions over Jewish Holocaust survivors’ stories in interviews
In this article, we scrutinise epistemic competitions in interviews about World War II. In particular, we analyse how the interlocutors draw on their epistemic authority concerning WWII to construct their interactional telling rights. On the one hand, the analyses illustrate how the interviewers rely on their historical expert status – as evidenced through their specialist knowledge and ventriloquisation of vicarious WWII narratives – in order to…
The indexical value of lexical borrowing in a ‘remembrance culture’-community of practice
In this study, we scrutinize the locally constructed indexical value of German loanwords in Belgian WWII-testimonies. We argue that these testimonies are situated in a specific WWII-remembrance context which forms a community of practice with its own local style. In particular, we selected three Flemish (i.e. Dutch) and three Walloon (i.e. French) spoken testimonies from our testimony-corpus. Methodologically, we draw on multimodal discourse anal…
Adjusting to new “truths”
In this article, we study the diachronic (re)construction of repeated WWII-testimonies. Specifically, we scrutinize how shifting master narratives in the social context may affect how stories are told in a particular time and place. We selected testimonies by two Belgian concentration camp survivors – one Flemish and one Walloon – who both wrote down their story twice, namely in 1946 and 1985. By comparing the “same” diachronically dispersed stor…
Epistemic competitions over Jewish Holocaust survivors’ stories in interviews
In this article, we scrutinise epistemic competitions in interviews about World War II. In particular, we analyse how the interlocutors draw on their epistemic authority concerning WWII to construct their interactional telling rights. On the one hand, the analyses illustrate how the interviewers rely on their historical expert status – as evidenced through their specialist knowledge and ventriloquisation of vicarious WWII narratives – in order to…
Reflecting and forging master narratives
Sociolinguistics can help us grasp how collective memory cultures are (in part) shaped by representations of historic events through varied linguistic - and other - sources (e.g. education, news media, conversations and museum displays). In this study, we specifically zoom in on the curatorial selection process of a Belgian Second World War (WWII) memorial museum, whilst simultaneously exploring the reflexive relation between this curatorial proc…
‘Bringing about’ complex social groups in WWII testimonies through the code German’s indexical value
In de bijdrage van dr. Kim Schoofs wordt aan de hand van een zorgvuldig geselecteerd bronnencorpus nagegaan hoe het gebruik van de code Duits in getuigenissen over de Tweede Wereldoorlog complexe sociale groepen ‘tot stand kan brengen’. Meer specifiek geeft de analyse aan hoe vertellers, door het afwisselend gebruik van de moedertaal en het Duits, moeilijk af te bakenen, multidimensionale identiteitsconstructies over maatschappelijke groepen en h…
Leadership style in transition? Decision-making processes in cabin crew's pre-flight briefings
Negotiating identities in stories of anti-Chinese racism during the Covid-19 pandemic
Since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, there has been an upsurge of anti-Chinese racism. This paper investigates the socio-pragmatic processes through which Chinese international students in Belgium discursively deal with othering processes in the stories they tell about racist incidents during semi-structured research interviews. These processes are closely linked to various identities which are sometimes projected upon them and often …
When the Egg Breaks, the Chicken Bleeds
Clarice Lispector has been studied thoroughly against the backdrop of Western ontology and feminism, but she has not often been read in relation to postcolonial theory and Black studies. Yet, their critique of coloniality and the radicality with which they conceive of a different world, can provide a fitting frame for understanding what is at stake in Lispector’s thought. When put in dialogue with the work of Édouard Glissant and Denise Ferreira …
Sociology (7 works) · Art (4 works) · History (4 works) · History (4 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (4 works) · Narrative (4 works) · Context (archaeology (3 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (3 works) · Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare (3 works) · Law (3 works)