An Vande Casteele

An Vande Casteele is a Researcher at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) in the Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies. Active in the Brussels Centre for Language Studies, Vande Casteele's research spans multiple dimensions of Spanish language studies, including pragmatic markers, heritage language varieties, code-switching phenomena, and metaphorical language processing.

• Institution: Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium)
• Department: Linguistics and Literary Studies

Research Focus: Current projects include Tracing Sibilance (2024-2028) examining Spanish heritage language variation in Brussels, and Bueno, pues... (2023-2027) investigating pragmatic marker usage in L2 Spanish. Their work intersects sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, and psycholinguistics, with particular attention to multilingual interaction patterns and metaphor comprehension in language learners.

Publication Trends: Research outputs demonstrate sustained engagement with Spanish language acquisition, discourse structuring, and sociophonetic variation. Recent works (2024-2025) emphasize pragmatic competence development and heritage language maintenance in Brussels' multilingual context.

Collaborations: Key collaborations include joint doctoral projects with Universidad de Sevilla and interdisciplinary research with VUB-UGent Alliance. Vande Casteele co-organizes academic events like the CROS International Congress (2024) and chairs symposia on L2 discourse syntax.