Lieven Vandelanotte

Lieven Vandelanotte is associate professor of English linguistics at UNamur and research fellow in linguistics at KU Leuven. He is currently a Francqui Research Professor (2023-2026).

In addition to over 40 journal articles or book chapters, he published, in 2009, the monograph Speech and Thought Representation in English: A Cognitive-Functional Approach (De Gruyter Mouton). A joint monograph with Barbara Dancygier entitled The Language of Memes: Patterns of Meaning across Image and Text is forthcoming (Cambridge UP, 2025).

He was the editor responsible for the areas of linguistics (2010-2019) and literature (2012-2019) of the journal English Text Construction (Benjamins), and has co-edited 10 books or journal special issues to date: 

• Subjectification, Intersubjectification, and Grammaticalization (De Gruyter Mouton, 2010)
• Textual Choices in Discourse: A View from Cognitive Linguistics (Benjamins, 2012)
• Corpus Interrogation and Grammatical Patterns (Benjamins, 2014)
• Recent Advances in Corpus Linguistics: Developing and Exploiting Corpora (Brill, 2014)
• Viewpoint Phenomena in Multimodal Communication (Cognitive Linguistics 28:3, 2017)
• Grammar, Usage and Discourse: Functional Studies offered to Kristin Davidse (English Text Construction 10:2, 2017)
• Multimodal Artefacts and the Texture of Viewpoint (Journal of Pragmatics 122, 2017)
• Signs and wonders: Liber amicorum for Kristin Davidse (KU Leuven, 2022)
• Complement and Parenthetical Constructions: Theory and Description (Language Sciences, 2023) 
• Cahier DD: Multilingual mélanges voor Dirk Delabastita (Presses universitaires de Namur, 2024)

Activities in professional service include board membership (2006-2019) of the Belgian anglicists' association BAAHE, as webmaster and as ETC representative. Conferences (co-)convened include BAAHE's conference (Namur, 2008), the 33rd ICAME conference (Leuven, 2012), and international workshops on Communicative Dynamism (Namur, 2016) and on Reviewing viewpoint (Namur, 2019).

At UNamur, admin activities to date include a term as Vice-Dean of Arts (2009-2013), membership of the university-wide Teaching (2013-2019) and Further Education (2016-2019) Committees, membership of the general assembly (2007-2017) of the development NGO FUCID, secretary of the admissions and examination jury (2016-2023), head of the Germanic languages and literatures department (2021-2024) and of the English Unit (2018- ), and member of the NaLTT institute steering board (2021- ).