Lieven Vandelanotte
Biographic Data
| ID | 980166 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lieven Vandelanotte |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lieven |
| FAMILY NAME | Vandelanotte |
| SIGNATURE | VANDELANOTTE L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Namur |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5935-5517 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 60 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Emotional dimensions in the linguistic analysis of internet memes
This paper considers the role of features of linguistic constructions, and features of embodied emotion, in the meaning emergence at work in internet memes. It builds on the argument that images, often showing embodied elements such as facial expressions and interactions between participants, play structural roles in meme constructions. It also aims to show how memes function as shortcuts to stance, making sometimes complex configurations of stan…
The Language of Memes: Patterns of Meaning Across Image and Text
Internet memes have been studied widely for their role in establishing and maintaining social relationships, and shaping public opinion, online. However, they are also a prominent and fast evolving multimodal genre, one which calls for an in-depth linguistic analysis. This book, the first of its kind, develops the analytical tools necessary to describe and understand contemporary 'image-plus-text' communication. It demonstrates how memes achieve …
Revisiting complement and parenthetical constructions: Theory and Description
Creative constructs, constructions, and frames in Internet discourse
This paper explores questions of constructionality and framing in Internet discourse. It proposes a sharper understanding of what, as analysts, we mean by Internet memes, before turning to formal and semantic aspects of Internet memes as multimodal (image-text) constructions. A broad range of examples is considered, but the focus is mainly on image macro memes and labelling memes. Particular attention is focused on the presentational templates th…
(Non-)quoting and subjectivity in online discourse
This paper investigates a broad range of quotation practices in social media discourse. Many of these involve so-called non-quotative uses, in which the frame of a conversation or interaction is used fictively to portray and respond to existing attitudes and patterns of behaviour, rather than to actually quote any one specific utterance. Cases considered include Internet memes and tweets incorporating recognizably ‘quotative’ markers such as said…
Changing perspectives: Something old, something new
This paper investigates questions of perspective shift or non-shift against a background of a basic deictic-cognitive divide in our understanding of what comes under the linguistic notion of perspective. In differentiating ‘distancing’ from ‘free’ indirect speech/thought in narratives, it proposes a new lens through which to reconsider a class of examples controlled in curious ways by the narrator’s deictic and cognitive perspective. Turning to a…
Internet memes as multimodal constructions
This paper considers a range of so-called image macro Internet memes and describes them as emerging multimodal constructions relying as much on image as on text, and apportioning roles to images much like constructional slots, for instance to fill in a subject role in a subjectless clause, or even to provide the main clause content to a textually given when -clause. In addition to existing or partially altered linguistic constructions, many examp…
Viewpoint phenomena in multimodal communication
In this introduction to the special issue on viewpoint phenomena in multimodal communication, we highlight central questions concerning the nature of multimodality and of conceptual viewpoint, which the issue as a whole expands and clarifies. We argue that multimodality needs to be rethought as a varied but cohesive phenomenon, and we briefly illustrate both embodied multimodal interaction (in an example from stand-up comedy) and the meaning emer…
Multimodal artefacts and the texture of viewpoint
Image-schematic scaffolding in textual and visual artefacts
Tense use in direct and indirect speech in English
Subjectification, Intersubjectification and Grammaticalization
This volume aims to arrive at a fine-grained and grammar-based understanding of the notions of (inter-)subjectivity and (inter-)subjectification in their application to grammaticalization research. In terms of linguistic theory, position is taken vis-à-vis existing approaches to (inter-)subjectification which are either too narrow or too general by addressing two questions: (i) what is the relation between (inter-)subjectivity and pragmatics, and…
The emergence and structure of be like and related quotatives: A constructional account
This article investigates the structural assembly and semantics of innovative quotatives such as be like, be all and go in English. While the sociolinguistic origins and spread of these forms have received ample attention, a question that is rarely addressed is how precisely this construction is syntagmatically composed, and how it relates to more canonical forms of speech representation. We argue that the basic component structures are the be li…
Dependency, framing, scope? The syntagmatic structure of sentences of speech or thought representation
In this paper*, I consider several ways in which the syntagmatic structure of sentences of speech or thought representation has been modelled. I reject the traditional constituency view according to which reported clauses of indirect and even of direct speech or thought are direct objects of the reporting verb. From Halliday's (1985/1994) and McGregor's (1997) concepts of projection and framing, respectively, I take the idea that it is the entire…
Deixis and grounding in speech and thought representation
But forced to qualify
Restrictive and non-restrictive modification of proprial lemmas
The notion of rigid designation has become a widely accepted, if not unproblematic one in connection with the function of proper names. In this paper, some less "rigid" uses of proper names will be looked at. Proprial lemmas-that is to say, words that function prototypically as proper names-may sometimes function as common nouns rather than as proper names, for instance in There are two Johns in my class. On the other hand, proprial lemmas may al…
Deixis and grounding in speech and thought representation
Internet memes as multimodal constructions
This paper considers a range of so-called image macro Internet memes and describes them as emerging multimodal constructions relying as much on image as on text, and apportioning roles to images much like constructional slots, for instance to fill in a subject role in a subjectless clause, or even to provide the main clause content to a textually given when -clause. In addition to existing or partially altered linguistic constructions, many examp…
Tense use in direct and indirect speech in English
Restrictive and non-restrictive modification of proprial lemmas
The notion of rigid designation has become a widely accepted, if not unproblematic one in connection with the function of proper names. In this paper, some less "rigid" uses of proper names will be looked at. Proprial lemmas-that is to say, words that function prototypically as proper names-may sometimes function as common nouns rather than as proper names, for instance in There are two Johns in my class. On the other hand, proprial lemmas may al…
The emergence and structure of be like and related quotatives: A constructional account
This article investigates the structural assembly and semantics of innovative quotatives such as be like, be all and go in English. While the sociolinguistic origins and spread of these forms have received ample attention, a question that is rarely addressed is how precisely this construction is syntagmatically composed, and how it relates to more canonical forms of speech representation. We argue that the basic component structures are the be li…
Image-schematic scaffolding in textual and visual artefacts
Dependency, framing, scope? The syntagmatic structure of sentences of speech or thought representation
In this paper*, I consider several ways in which the syntagmatic structure of sentences of speech or thought representation has been modelled. I reject the traditional constituency view according to which reported clauses of indirect and even of direct speech or thought are direct objects of the reporting verb. From Halliday's (1985/1994) and McGregor's (1997) concepts of projection and framing, respectively, I take the idea that it is the entire…
Multimodal artefacts and the texture of viewpoint
Viewpoint phenomena in multimodal communication
In this introduction to the special issue on viewpoint phenomena in multimodal communication, we highlight central questions concerning the nature of multimodality and of conceptual viewpoint, which the issue as a whole expands and clarifies. We argue that multimodality needs to be rethought as a varied but cohesive phenomenon, and we briefly illustrate both embodied multimodal interaction (in an example from stand-up comedy) and the meaning emer…
Revisiting complement and parenthetical constructions: Theory and Description
But forced to qualify
Restrictive and non-restrictive modification of proprial lemmas
The notion of rigid designation has become a widely accepted, if not unproblematic one in connection with the function of proper names. In this paper, some less "rigid" uses of proper names will be looked at. Proprial lemmas-that is to say, words that function prototypically as proper names-may sometimes function as common nouns rather than as proper names, for instance in There are two Johns in my class. On the other hand, proprial lemmas may al…
Deixis and grounding in speech and thought representation
Dependency, framing, scope? The syntagmatic structure of sentences of speech or thought representation
In this paper*, I consider several ways in which the syntagmatic structure of sentences of speech or thought representation has been modelled. I reject the traditional constituency view according to which reported clauses of indirect and even of direct speech or thought are direct objects of the reporting verb. From Halliday's (1985/1994) and McGregor's (1997) concepts of projection and framing, respectively, I take the idea that it is the entire…
The emergence and structure of be like and related quotatives: A constructional account
This article investigates the structural assembly and semantics of innovative quotatives such as be like, be all and go in English. While the sociolinguistic origins and spread of these forms have received ample attention, a question that is rarely addressed is how precisely this construction is syntagmatically composed, and how it relates to more canonical forms of speech representation. We argue that the basic component structures are the be li…
Subjectification, Intersubjectification and Grammaticalization
This volume aims to arrive at a fine-grained and grammar-based understanding of the notions of (inter-)subjectivity and (inter-)subjectification in their application to grammaticalization research. In terms of linguistic theory, position is taken vis-à-vis existing approaches to (inter-)subjectification which are either too narrow or too general by addressing two questions: (i) what is the relation between (inter-)subjectivity and pragmatics, and…
Tense use in direct and indirect speech in English
Internet memes as multimodal constructions
This paper considers a range of so-called image macro Internet memes and describes them as emerging multimodal constructions relying as much on image as on text, and apportioning roles to images much like constructional slots, for instance to fill in a subject role in a subjectless clause, or even to provide the main clause content to a textually given when -clause. In addition to existing or partially altered linguistic constructions, many examp…
Viewpoint phenomena in multimodal communication
In this introduction to the special issue on viewpoint phenomena in multimodal communication, we highlight central questions concerning the nature of multimodality and of conceptual viewpoint, which the issue as a whole expands and clarifies. We argue that multimodality needs to be rethought as a varied but cohesive phenomenon, and we briefly illustrate both embodied multimodal interaction (in an example from stand-up comedy) and the meaning emer…
Multimodal artefacts and the texture of viewpoint
Image-schematic scaffolding in textual and visual artefacts
Changing perspectives: Something old, something new
This paper investigates questions of perspective shift or non-shift against a background of a basic deictic-cognitive divide in our understanding of what comes under the linguistic notion of perspective. In differentiating ‘distancing’ from ‘free’ indirect speech/thought in narratives, it proposes a new lens through which to reconsider a class of examples controlled in curious ways by the narrator’s deictic and cognitive perspective. Turning to a…
(Non-)quoting and subjectivity in online discourse
This paper investigates a broad range of quotation practices in social media discourse. Many of these involve so-called non-quotative uses, in which the frame of a conversation or interaction is used fictively to portray and respond to existing attitudes and patterns of behaviour, rather than to actually quote any one specific utterance. Cases considered include Internet memes and tweets incorporating recognizably ‘quotative’ markers such as said…
Creative constructs, constructions, and frames in Internet discourse
This paper explores questions of constructionality and framing in Internet discourse. It proposes a sharper understanding of what, as analysts, we mean by Internet memes, before turning to formal and semantic aspects of Internet memes as multimodal (image-text) constructions. A broad range of examples is considered, but the focus is mainly on image macro memes and labelling memes. Particular attention is focused on the presentational templates th…
Revisiting complement and parenthetical constructions: Theory and Description
The Language of Memes: Patterns of Meaning Across Image and Text
Internet memes have been studied widely for their role in establishing and maintaining social relationships, and shaping public opinion, online. However, they are also a prominent and fast evolving multimodal genre, one which calls for an in-depth linguistic analysis. This book, the first of its kind, develops the analytical tools necessary to describe and understand contemporary 'image-plus-text' communication. It demonstrates how memes achieve …
Emotional dimensions in the linguistic analysis of internet memes
This paper considers the role of features of linguistic constructions, and features of embodied emotion, in the meaning emergence at work in internet memes. It builds on the argument that images, often showing embodied elements such as facial expressions and interactions between participants, play structural roles in meme constructions. It also aims to show how memes function as shortcuts to stance, making sometimes complex configurations of stan…
Linguistics (13 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (11 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Artificial Intelligence (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (5 works) · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis (5 works)