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Barbara De Cock

Professeure
barbara.decock@uclouvain.be

SSH/FIAL Faculty of Philosophy, Arts and Letters (FIAL)

SSH/FIAL/ELAL Ecole de langues et lettres (ELAL)

SSH/ILC Institut Langage et Communication (IL&C)

SSH/ILC/PLIN Pôle de recherche en linguistique (PLIN)

  • Expertise :
  • linguistique espagnole
  • pragmatique
  • analyse du discours
2026
Book chapter

De Cock, B. (2026). Do we think populists actually do something? A discursive analysis of populists as agents or patients in tweets in French, Spanish and Dutch. In Noelia Ramón Perez, María Pérez Blanco (ed.), Multilingual corpus research. Advances and challenges (pp. 151-173). John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.126.06de

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/272978


2025
Journal article

De Cock, B., Hambye, P., Rondiat, C., & Shchinova Shchinov, N. (2025). Keywords in sociopolitical debates: confronting different approaches to struggles about meaning in discourse. Journal of Corpora and Discourse Studies, 8. https://doi.org/10.18573/jcads.v8 (Original work published 2025)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/265965


Aulit, L., & De Cock, B. (2025). Los términos populismo(s) y populista(s) en debates parlamentarios españoles: contextos, usos y efectos en la argumentación. Discurso & Sociedad, 19(1), 23-48. https://doi.org/10.14198/dissoc.19.1.02 (Original work published 2025)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/264153


Figueras Bates, C., & De Cock, B. (2025). Hierarchies of Knowledge in Responses to Messages of Newbies in Online Health Support Groups. Patient Education and Counseling, 134, 108661. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pec.2025.108661 (Original work published 2025)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/264147


Filardo Llamas, L., De Cock, B., Hambye, P., & Shchinova Shchinov, N. (2025). “I am not populist” Mechanisms for the re-negotiation of category membership on Twitter. Pragmatics and Society, 16(5), 653-675. https://doi.org/10.1075/ps.24027.fil (Original work published 2025)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/264150


Marsily, A., & De Cock, B. (2025). How to start a request? A contrastive study of alerters in Spanish by speakers of L1 Spanish and L1 French. Contrastive pragmatics, 6(1), 154-178. (Original work published 2025)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/264149


Hambye, P., De Cock, B., & Rondiat, C. (2025). Studying keywords in discourse: contrasting different theories and methods. Journal of Corpora and Discourse Studies, 8, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.18573/jcads.149 (Original work published 2025)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/265154


Book chapter

De Cock, B., & Greco, S. (2025). Approaching social media argumentation from a linguistics-informed perspective. Methodological aspects. In Corina Andone, Marianne Doury, Sara Greco, Kati Hannken-Illjes, Menno Reijven (ed.), Qualitative Research Methods in Argumentation Studies (p. p. 111-126). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003502296-7

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/264154


2024
Book chapter

De Cock, B., & Spooren, W. (2024). Stability and variation in genre. In Ninke Stukker, John A. Bateman, Danielle McNamara, Wilbert Spooren (ed.), Multidisciplinary Views on Discourse Genre. A Research Agenda (pp. 85-107). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003335603

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/264173


De Cock, B., Hambye, P., & Pizarro Pedraza, A. (2024). Annotation and mark up for representation analysis. In Frazer Heritage & Charlotte Taylor (ed.), Analysing Representation A Corpus and Discourse Textbook (pp. 84-99). Routledge.

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/264169


De Cock, B., & van Laar, J. A. (2024). Self-reference as an argumentative tool: discourse by politicians and experts during the Covid-19 pandemic. In Minna Nevala & Minna Palander (eds.) (ed.), Self- and Other Reference in Social Contexts: From Global to Local Discourses (pp. 39-61). John Benjamins.

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/264157


Shchinova Shchinov, N., De Cock, B., Hambye, P., & et al. (2024). What does populism mean in Belgian media discourse?  A corpus-assisted analysis of the terms populism and populist in French- and Dutch-Speaking media in Belgium. In Isabel Íñigo-Mora, Cristina Lastres-López (ed.), Discourse approaches to an emerging age of populist politics (pp. 15-39). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-1355-4_2

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/243556


Journal article

De Cock, B., Aulit, L., Cigada, S., Greco, S., Modrzejewska, E., & Palmieri, R. (2024). The discourse of digital activism: A linguistic analysis of calls for action concerning the Fashion Revolution. Applied Linguistics, 45(6), 1091-1110. https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/amae046 (Original work published 2024)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/264166


Pizarro Pedraza, A., Suner Munoz, F., & De Cock, B. (2024). Beyond Bleeps and Bounds: The Role of Individual Differences in Understanding Taboo Language from TV Series in the L2. Languages, 9(3), 74. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages9030074 (Original work published 2024)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/264158


De Cock, B., & Antaki, C. (2024). How diabetes forum-users complain about others’ expectations: Troubles-telling and troubles-receiving. Discourse & Communication, 18(5), 726-740. https://doi.org/10.1177/17504813241243020 (Original work published 2024)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/264165


Suner Munoz, F., & De Cock, B. (2024). The role of reticence in language learners’ comprehension of metaphorical taboo expressions. International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 34, 746-761. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijal.12522 (Original work published 2023)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/264160


2023
Book chapter

Pierre, E., & De Cock, B. (2023). Discourse participants in impersonal constructions: the case of first and second person object pronouns with Spanish non-anaphoric third person plural subjects. In Posio, Pekka & Herbeck, Peter (ed.), Referring to Discourse Participants in Ibero-Romance Languages (pp. 237-269). Language Science Press. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8124502

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/264175


De Cock, B., & Figueras Bates, C. (2023). Peer experts as actors for shared understanding in Spanish online health fora. In Sarah Bigi & Maria Grazia Rossi (ed.), A pragmatic agenda for healthcare: Fostering inclusion and active participation through shared understanding (pp. 291-312). John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.338.12dec

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/264179


De Cock, B. (2023). ¿Una coalición progresista o populista? Un análisis discursivo de la investidura del Segundo Gobierno Sánchez en España. In Trinis A. Messina Fajardo & Ruth Castillo Ochoa (ed.), Personajes, discursos y frases célebres (pp. 91-109). Aracne editrice. https://doi.org/10.53136/97912218072577

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/264167


Journal article

Greco, S., Mercuri, C., De Cock, B., & Schär, R. (2023). Arguing through best practice: the role of argumentation from example in activists’ social media posts on sustainable fashion. Discourse Studies : an interdisciplinary journal for the study of text and talk, 25(4), 530-548. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614456231163422 (Original work published 2023)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/264177


Figueras Bates, C., & De Cock, B. (2023). Patrones de empatía en dos foros virtuales: el caso de la diabetes y los trastornos de la conducta alimentaria. Círculo de Lingüística Aplicada a la Comunicación, 95, 233-248. https://doi.org/10.5209/clac.90071 (Original work published 2023)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/264180


2022
Journal article

van Laar, J. A., & De Cock, B. (2022). Argumentatie, zelfpromotie of beide? Een analyse van de tweets van Nederlandstalige politici en experten over de covid-19-pandemie. Tijdschrift voor Taalbeheersing, 44(3), 176-196. https://doi.org/10.5117/tVt2022.3.003.LAAR (Original work published 2022)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/264181


Sánchez-Gutiérrez, C., De Cock, B., & Tracy-Ventura, N. (2022). Spanish corpora: research, design and teaching applicability / Corpus en español: investigación, diseño y aplicabilidad a la enseñanza. Journal of Spanish Language Teaching, 2(9), 105-211. (Original work published 2022)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/264182


Roginsky, S., & De Cock, B. (2022). Faire campagne sur Twitter: permanences et évolutions en contexte de campagne électorale. Le cas des candidats et candidates à l’élection européenne en Belgique, Espagne, France et Royaume-Uni. Revue internationale de politique comparée, 29(2-3), 107-156. https://doi.org/10.3917/ripc.292.0107 (Original work published 2022)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/100310


Sánchez-Gutiérrez, C., De Cock, B., & Tracy-Ventura, N. (2022). Spanish corpora and their pedagogical uses: challenges and opportunities. Journal of Spanish Language Teaching, 9(2), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1080/23247797.2022.2157078 (Original work published 2022)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/264185


Book chapter

Morales López, E., & De Cock, B. (2022). Comunicación profesional y Estudios del discurso. In Carmen López Ferrero, Isolda E. Carranza, Teun A. van Dijk (ed.), Estudios del discurso / The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Language Discourse Studies (p. p. 422-435). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367810214-34

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/264184


De Cock, B. (2022). Sistema pronominal y corpus especializados en español. In Giovanni Parodi, Pascual Cantos-Gómez, Chad Howe (ed.), Lingüística de corpus en español / The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Corpus Linguistics (p. p. 163-174). Routledge. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/223189

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/223189


De Cock, B., Dupret, P., Hambye, P., & Pizarro Pedraza, A. (2022). Polarizing representations of immigrant communities in Belgian French-speaking online political discourse. In Laura Filardo-Llamas; Esperanza Morales-López; Alan Floyd (ed.), Discursive approaches to socio-political polarization and conflict (pp. 80-98). Routledge. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/219489

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/219489


2021
Journal article

Greco, S., Mercuri, C., & De Cock, B. (2021). Victims or agents for change? Representations and self-representations of women in the social media debate surrounding sustainable fashion. Babylonia, 3 (2021), 90-94. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/112763 (Original work published 2021)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/112763


Greco, S., & De Cock, B. (2021). Argumentative misalignments in the controversy surrounding fashion sustainability. Journal of Pragmatics, 174, 55-67. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2020.12.019 (Original work published 2021)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/121812


De Cock, B. (2021). Reseña de Salvador, V. & Sampietro, A. (eds.) (2020) Understanding the Discourse of Aging: A Multifaceted Perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars. Tonos Digital : revista electronica de estudios filologicos, 41. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/109849 (Original work published 2021)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/109849


2020
Journal article

De Cock, B. (2020). Intersubjective Impersonals in Context: a Multivariate Analysis of Spanish Uno and Se in Spoken Language. Catalan Journal of Linguistics. Published. https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/catjl.310 (Original work published 2020)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/119302


De Cock, B., & Pizarro Pedraza, A. (2020). Any #JesuisIraq planned? Claiming affective displays for forgotten places. Pragmatics : quarterly publication of the International Pragmatics Association, 30(2), 201-221. https://doi.org/10.1075/prag.18059.dec (Original work published 2020)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/236380


2019
Report

De Cock, B., Hambye, P., Dupret, P., & Pizarro Pedraza, A. (2019). Des messages à la frontière entre opinion et discours de haine. Une analyse de la communication des personnalités politiques belges francophones sur les réseaux sociaux. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/271593

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/271593


Report on existing datasets. COST action CA17132 APPLY. (2019). https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/125400

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/125400


Greco, S. (ed. )., & De Cock, B. (2019). Report on existing datasets. COST action CA17132 APPLY. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/90498

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/90498


Journal article

Michaud Maturana, D., & De Cock, B. (2019). Las arpilleras chilenas en los Países Bajos: denuncia de pobreza y represión. Museo de la Memoria y de los Derechos Humanos. Centro de documentación. Published. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/273778 (Original work published 2019)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/273778


De Cock, B., Michaud Maturana, D., & Ruiz Zúñiga, M. A. (2019). Un enfoque cognitivo hacia el análisis del discurso: el caso de los informes de Derechos Humanos en Chile. Revista Heterotópica, 1(1), 184-200. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/59504 (Original work published 2019)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/59504


Book chapter

De Cock, B. (2019). To be or not to be … a patient: identity construction of healthcare professionals and patients in public online diabetes-related interaction. In Ursula Lutzky & Minna Nevala (ed.), Reference and Identity in Public Discourses (p. p. 205-225). John Benjamins Publishing Company. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/222913

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/222913


2018
Monography

Cougnon, L.-A., De Cock, B., & Fairon, C. (2018). Language and the new (instant) media. Presses Universitaires de Louvain. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/125663

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/125663


Journal article

De Cock, B., Marsily, A., Pizarro Pedraza, A., & Rasson, M. (2018). ¿Quién atenúa y cuándo en español? La atenuación en función del género discursivo. Spanish in Context, 15(2), 305-324. https://doi.org/10.1075/sic.00016.dec (Original work published 2018)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/214277


De Cock, B., & Pizarro Pedraza, A. (2018). From expressing solidarity to mocking on Twitter: pragmatic functions of hashtags starting with #jesuis across languages. Language in Society, 47(2), 197-217. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047404518000052 (Original work published 2018)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/238147


De Cock, B. (2018). Spanish spatial deictic adverbs: interpretation and discourse functioning with depersonalizing constructions. Quaderns de Filologia. Estudis Linguistics, XXIII, 59-79. https://doi.org/10.7203/qf.23.13520 (Original work published 2018)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/194153


Pizarro Pedraza, A., & De Cock, B. (2018). Taboo effects at the syntactic level: reducing agentivity as a euphemistic strategy. Pragmatics : quarterly publication of the International Pragmatics Association, 28(1), 113-138. https://doi.org/10.1075/prag.17001.piz (Original work published 2018)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/238148


De Cock, B., & González Arias, C. (2018). Reference to self and other in the digital public sphere: the case of political blogs. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 47(2), 343-354. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10936-017-9537-4 (Original work published 2018)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/236378


De Cock, B., & Michaud Maturana, D. (2018). Discursive construction of human rights violations: the case of the Chilean Rettig report. Text & Talk : an interdisciplinary journal of language, discourse & communication studies, 38, 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1515/text-2017-0028 (Original work published 2018)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/177161


Book chapter

De Cock, B., & Suner Munoz, F. (2018). The influence of conceptual differences on processing taboo metaphors in the foreign language. In Pizarro Pedraza, Andrea (ed.), Linguistic Taboo Revisited. Novel Insights from Cognitive Perspectives (p. p. 201-222). De Gruyter Mouton. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/236379

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/236379


Pizarro Pedraza, A., & De Cock, B. (2018). Non-conforming Uses of #jesuisCharlie and Derived Hashtags on Twitter. In Louise-Amélie Cougnon, Barbara De Cock, Cédrick Fairon (ed.), Language and the new (instant) media (p. p. 99-106). Presses Universitaires de Louvain. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/236375

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/236375


2017
Journal article

De Cock, B., & Nogué Serrano, N. (2017). The pragmatics of person reference: A comparative study of Catalan and Spanish parliamentary discourse. Languages in Contrast : international journal for contrastive linguistics, 17(1), 96-127. https://doi.org/10.1075/lic.17.1.05dec (Original work published 2017)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/236383


De Cock, B., Paquot, M., & Van Goethem, K. (2017). Papers of the Linguistic Society of Belgium 2017. Papers of the Linguistic Society of Belgium, 11(1), 142 p. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/180215 (Original work published 2017)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/180215


Coesemans, R., & De Cock, B. (2017). Self-reference by politicians on Twitter: Strategies to adapt to 140 characters. Journal of Pragmatics, 116, 37-50. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2016.12.005 (Original work published 2017)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/66959


2016
Journal article

De Cock, B., & Kluge, B. (2016). The referential ambiguity of personal pronouns and its pragmatic consequences. Pragmatics : quarterly publication of the International Pragmatics Association, 26(3). https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/185063 (Original work published 2016)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/185063


De Cock, B., & Kluge, B. (2016). On the referential ambiguity of personal pronouns and its pragmatic consequences. Pragmatics : quarterly publication of the International Pragmatics Association, 26(3), 351-360. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/46854 (Original work published 2016)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/46854


De Cock, B. (2016). Register, genre and referential ambiguity of personal pronouns: A cross-linguistic analysis. Pragmatics : quarterly publication of the International Pragmatics Association, 26(3), 361-378. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/91551 (Original work published 2016)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/91551


2015
Journal article

De Cock, B. (2015). Subjectivity, intersubjectivity and non-subjectivity across spoken language genres. Spanish in Context, 12(1), 10-34. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/46904 (Original work published 2015)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/46904


Roginsky, S., & De Cock, B. (2015). Faire campagne sur Twitter. Modalités d’énonciation et mises en récit des candidats à l’élection européenne. Les Cahiers du Numerique, 11(4), 119-144. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/186200 (Original work published 2015)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/186200


Cornillie, B., & De Cock, B. (2015). Hearer-orientation in spoken genres. Spanish in Context, 12(1 (2015)). https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/236377 (Original work published 2015)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/236377


Cornillie, B., & De Cock, B. (2015). Ways of encoding attention to the interlocutor in contemporary spoken Spanish. Spanish in Context, 12(1), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1075/sic.12.1.01cor (Original work published 2015)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/192656


Book chapter

De Cock, B., & Roginsky, S. (2015). Identités discursives sur Twitter: construction de l’identité de député européen en période pré-électorale. Comparaison entre la France, l’Espagne et le Royaume-Uni. In Fabien Liénard,Sami Zlitni (ed.), Communication électronique: enjeux, stratégies et opportunités (pp. 137-148). Lambert-Lucas. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/72388

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/72388


2014
Book chapter

De Cock, B. (2014). The discursive effects of Spanish uno and se. A case study of the phenomena of speaker inclusion and female-only reference. In Dylan Glynn, Mette Sjölin (ed.), Subjectivity and epistemicity. Corpus, discourse and literary approaches to stance (pp. 107-120). Lund University Press. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/236376

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/236376


Journal article

De Cock, B. (2014). Verbos deónticos en primera persona: un corpus general frente a un corpus parlamentario. Círculo de Lingüística Aplicada a la Comunicación, 59(59), 16-34. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/77551 (Original work published 2014)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/77551


De Cock, B., & Michaud Maturana, D. (2014). La expresión de la agentividad en el Informe Rettig (Chile, 1991). Revista Internacional de Linguistica Iberoamericana, XII(23), 123-140. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/75019 (Original work published 2014)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/75019


De Cock, B. (2014). [Compte rendu]Reseña: María Ángeles Soler Arechalde (2012): La concordancia de número en español. México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 278 pp. Verba : anuario galego de filoloxia, 41, 405-408. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/78836 (Original work published 2014)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/78836


Monography

De Cock, B. (2014). Profiling Discourse Participants. Forms and functions in Spanish conversation and debates. John Benjamins Publishing Company. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/197108

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/197108


2013
Journal article

De Cock, B. (2013). Entre distancia, discurso e intersubjetividad: los demostrativos neutros en español. Anuario de Letras, 1(2), 7-36. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/196349 (Original work published 2013)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/196349


2012
Book chapter

De Cock, B. (2012). El debate parlamentario frente al lenguaje coloquial y al debate televisivo: una caracterización lingüística basada en el uso de la referencia de persona. In Retórica y política. Los discursos de la construcción de la sociedad (p. p. 729-743). https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/236371

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/236371


2011
Journal article

De Cock, B. (2011). Why we can be you: the use of 1st person plural forms with hearer reference in English and Spanish. Journal of Pragmatics, 43(11), 2762-2775 (26/05/2011 en ligne). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2011.04.009 (Original work published 2011)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/40415


2010
Journal article

De Cock, B. (2010). La funcionalidad discursiva del esquema construccional: Los españoles hemos hecho historia en Europa. Linguistica Espanola Actual, 32(2), 173-195. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/162866 (Original work published 2010)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/162866


2009
Journal article

De Cock, B. (2009). Funciones pragmáticas de la referencia de persona en el lenguaje coloquial y en el discurso político. Oralia, 12, 247-266. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/55664 (Original work published 2009)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/55664


2008
Journal article

Verstraete, J.-C., & De Cock, B. (2008). Construing confrontation. Grammar in the construction of a key historical narrative in Umpithamu. Language in Society, 37(2), 217-240. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047404508080275 (Original work published 2008)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/78644


De Cock, B. (2008). Instituciones españolas de cara a la difusión de la lengua. Con atención particular a la situación en Bélgica, Estados Unidos y Canadá. Bulletin Hispanique, 110(2), 681-724. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/32821 (Original work published 2008)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/32821


2006
Journal article

De Cock, B. (2006). The European Union and the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie: organisations on a joint mission or friendly opponents? Journal of Language & Politics, 5(3), 385-413. https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.5.3.06dec (Original work published 2006)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/77022


De Cock, B., Cornillie, B., Dendale, P., Rosier, L., Kindt, S., & Le Bruyn, B. (2006). Studies van de BKL/Travaux du BKL, volume 1. Studies van de BKL/Travaux du BKL, 1. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/274218 (Original work published 2006)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/274218


De Cock, B. (2006). Flemish language policy in an era of globalisation. Noves SL, Journal on Sociolinguistics, autumn-winter 2006. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/162458 (Original work published 2006)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/162458


Book chapter

De Cock, B. (2006). El discurso político entre oral y escrito. In Joana Salazar, Marian Amengual & Mari Juan (ed.), Usos sociales del lenguaje y aspectos psicolingüísticos: perspectivas aplicadas. (pp. 123-130). Universitat de les Illes Balears Servei de Publicaciones i Intercanvi Científic. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/77083

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/77083


2005
Book chapter

De Cock, B. (2005). Spain, Portugal and Europe in Spanish international relations discourse: a linguistic approach to group and identity construction/España, Portugal y Europa en el discurso español sobre relaciones internacionales: un enfoque lingüístico de la construcción de identidad y grupo. In Michel Dumoulin, Antonio Ventura Díaz Díaz (ed.), Portugal y España en la Europa del siglo XX (pp. 279-300). Fundación Academia Europea de Yuste. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/73866

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/73866


My main research interests concern:

  • pragmatics
  • discourse analysis
  • specificities of certain genres/registers, with a particular interests for societal discourses (political discourse, online discourses, discourses on human rights, healthcare interaction,...)

I am currently co-PI of Tracking the uses of populism in media and political discourse.

PhD supervision:

  • Marie Rasson (soutenue en 2017): Interpretaciones y funciones del pronombre indefinido "uno". Análisis de tres variedades geográficas (Chile, España y México) y de tres géneros discursivos (conversaciones, foro digital y redacciones)
  • Emeline Pierre (soutenue en 2021): Agent-defocussing structures in Spanish, English and French: a contrastive corpus-based account of the interaction between different passive-like structures
  • Aurélie Marsily (soutenue en 2022): La petición en español peninsular. Producción y percepción de la cortesía verbal en las estrategias de petición de hablantes nativos y francófonos de Bélgica
  • Tania Rodriguez Chavez (soutenue en 2023): ¿Mana llaqtayuq qhichwakuna? Rutas migratorias y discurso etnodidentitario de quechuas en el barrio 1ro de Mayo, Cochabamba(copromoteur: Fernando Galindo, Universidad Mayor San Simón, Cochabamba, thèse en cotutelle)
  • Laetitia Aulit (soutenue en 2023): Atenuación e intensificación para posicionarse en contextos de controversia: estudio de interacciones digitales escritas y orales sobre tradiciones españolas
  • Victor Hugo Mamani (soutenue en 2023): Los Sikuyas y su(s) territorio(s): Discursos y etnicidad en contextos de migración en el Norte de Potosí (cotutelle avec UMSS, co-promoteur Fernando Prada)
  • Raül Nuevo Gascó (soutenu en 2025): Discourse, populism and democracy: Tracking the uses of populism in media and political discourse (copromotrice : Sandrine Roginsky)
  • Nadezda Shchinova (en cours): A cross-linguistic study of populism in political, news, and social media discourses (copromoteur : Philippe Hambye)
  • Stéphanie Pécher (en cours): Análisis discursivo de la atribución de responsabilidad a los perpetradores en las violaciones de derechos humanos: análisis de la agentividad en discursos publicados en el contexto del estadillo social chileno de 2019
  • Lucie Niclaes (en cours): Showing and silencing responsibilities in relationships between former colonies and former colonial powers : a comparative discursive study.

I teach various Spanish linguistics courses in the bachelor and master at Faculté de Philosophie, Arts et Lettres.

I also teach the didactics of Spanish.

Since 2023, I hold a Circle U. chair in the Knowledge hub on Democracy. 

Year Label School
2010 Docteur en linguistique Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgique)
2004 Advanced Master of Arts in European Studies. Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgique)
2003 Licenciée en langues romanes Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgique)
2003 Agrégation Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgique)
2001 Candidate en langues romanes Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgique)

I contribute to science communication to a broader audience by answering regularly to questions from the presse concerning political discourse, discours on social media, and the Spanish-speaking world. I have also given talks or participated in roundtable discussions organised by associations. 

I have co-organised or contributed to various Circle U. Open Conversation on societal themes:

The politics of poverty and hope

Confronting poverty - how interdisciplinary collaboration can offer new routes to fight poverty

Pesticides, health and the fight for freedom of speech

Finally, in the context of the cours immersifs UCLouvain for secondary school students, I teach a class on the linguistic analysis of political discourses and social media.