THE PROJECT TEAM
prof. dr. Christan Burgers
Project Leader and Supervisor Britta Brugman and Ellen Droog
Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Science at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and a Professor by special appointment in the Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR) at the University of Amsterdam His research focuses on indirect language, in particular on figurative language such as metaphor, hyperbole and irony.
Britta Brugman
PhD Candidate
PhD Candidate in the Department of Communication Science at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Britta's project is called: 'Satiric news across media: Linguistic features and communicative impact'.
Ellen Droog
PhD Candidate
PhD Candidate in the Department of Communication Science at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Ellen's project is called: 'Figurative language and figurative images in satire: Use and processing'.
COLLABORATORS
prof. dr. Gerard Steen
Supervisor Ellen Droog
Professor in Language and Communication at the Department of Dutch Studies at the Universiteit van Amsterdam (UvA). His research focuses on metaphor, genre, and language in discourse.
prof. dr. Elly Konijn
Supervisor Britta Brugman
Professor in Media Psychology at the Department of Communication Science at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Her research focuses on social robots, emotions and media-based reality perceptions and media use among adolescents.
dr. Camiel Beukeboom
Co-supervisor Britta Brugman
Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Science at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. His main research focuses on how prejudice and stereotypes about social groups are subtly expressed in language use.
INTERNATIONAL ADVISARY BOARD
Department of English