De Knop, S. and T. De Rycker (Eds.)(2008): Cognitive Approaches to Pedagogical Grammar: A Volume in Honour of René Dirven. (Applications of Cognitive Linguistcs 9). Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter.

De Knop, S. and T. De Rycker (2008): "By Way of Introduction". In: S. De Knop and T. De Rycker (Eds.), Cognitive Approaches to Pedagogical Grammar: A Volume in Honour of René Dirven. (Applications of Cognitive Linguistcs 9). Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1-4.

De Rycker, T. (2007): "A task-based approach to improving students' data-reporting skills in writing for academic or business purposes". In: K. Pelsmaekers and C. Rollo (Eds.), Economically speaking: Essays in honour of Chris Braecke. Antwerpen/Apeldoorn: Garant, 13-29.

De Rycker, T. (2006): "Teachers Exploring Tasks edited by C. Edwards and J. Willis (2005)". [book review] Belgian Journal of English Language and Literatures New Series 4: 216-219.

De Rycker, T. (2006): "The impact of international business games on improving cultural awareness and writing proficiency: An evaluation of the 'Course in International Business Writing' (1994-2004)." Scripta Manent 2:2.3-13.

De Rycker T. (2006): "A multi-skill strategy for helping students communicate numerical information." In Online Proceedings of the International Conference on Task-Based Language Teaching K.U.Leuven, 21-23 September 2005, Leuven, www.tblt.org.

De Rycker, T. (2005): "Word Power by B. Rudzka-Ostyn (2003)". [review article] ITL - International Review of Applied Linguistics 149/150: 93-101.

De Rycker, T. (2005): "What Works For Me: Sash Windows". Business Issues [IATEFL "Business English Special Interest Group" Newsletter] 2: 14-15. [article]

Davis K.W., De Rycker T., and Verckens, J.P. (2005): “Manage Your Global Writing: The Case of the Belgian French Fries.” In: K.W. Davis (Ed.), The McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Course in Business Writing and Communication: Manage Your Writing. [reprint] New York: McGraw-Hill Education, 185-188.

Davis K.W., De Rycker T., and Verckens, J.P. (2005): “Manage Your Global Writing: The Case of the Belgian French Fries.” In: K.W. Davis (Ed.), The McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Course in Business Writing and Communication: Manage Your Writing [Chinese translation: J. Chen]. Singapore: McGraw-Hill Education (Asia), 271-276.

De Rycker, T. (2004): "Lists, Boxes or Maps? Recording and Retrieving Collocations in an ELT/ESP Context". Belgian Journal of English Language and Literatures New Series 2: 315-328.

De Rycker, T. (2003): "Measuring Pragmatic Meaning: How Vast is a Vast Majority?" In: A. Remael and K. Pelsmaeker (Eds.), Configurations of Culture: Essays in Honour of Michael Windross. Antwerpen: Garant, 127-136.

De Rycker, T. (2003): "My Favorite Assignment: Analyzing Tables, Graphs, and Charts: A Four-Step Approach". In: Th. Lillis and C. McKinney (Eds.), Analysing Language in Context: A Student Workbook. Stoke on Trent, UK: Trentham Books, 73-84.

De Rycker, T. (2001): "My Favorite Assignment: Analyzing Tables, Graphs, and Charts: A Four-Step Approach". Business Communication Quarterly 64:4.72-82.

De Rycker, T. (1999): "Gap-fill Practice: Sentence Grammar, Classroom Discipline and the Lexical Approach". In: B. Devriendt, S. Geukens and G. Tops (Eds.), Thinking English Grammar: To Honour Xavier Dekeyser, Professor Emeritus. Leuven: Uitgeverij Peeters, 359-368.

Verckens, J. P., T. De Rycker and K. Davis (1998): "The Experience of Sameness in Differences: A Course in International Business Writing". In: S. Niemeier, Ch. Campbell and R. Dirven (Eds.), The Cultural Context in Business Communication. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 247-261.

De Rycker, T. (1998): "Teaching Business Lexis through PIX, ABC and 123". In: Ildikó Polyák (Ed.), IATEFL "Business English Special Interest Group" Conference Report, Budapest, Hungary, November 1998. BESIG (IATEFL) 25-26.

De Rycker, T. (1998): "Designing Lexical Exercises on the Theme of Public Finance for Advanced-Level Students of Economics". In: J. Van der Auwera, F. Durieux and L. Lejeune (Eds.), English as a Human Language: To Honour Louis Goossens. Munich: Lincom Europa, 132-143.

De Rycker, T. (1997): "Business English = Business + English". IATEFL "Business English Special Interest Group" Newsletter 1:7-8.

Connor, U., K. Davis, T. De Rycker, E. M. Phillips and J. P. Verckens (1997): "An International Course in International Business Writing: Belgium, Finland, the United States". Business Communication Quarterly 60:4.63-74.

De Rycker, T. (1996). "Improving Non-Native Students’ Business Writing Skills through Internationalization". In: Judith Fortey (Ed.), IATEFL "Business English Special Interest Group" Conference Report, Potsdam, November 1996. BESIG (IATEFL), 25-27.

Connor, U., K. Davis and T. De Rycker (1995): "Correctness and Clarity in Applying for Overseas Jobs: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of US and Flemish Applications". Text 15:4.457-475.

Cnops, J. and T. De Rycker (1994): Het Economisch Beleid van Margaret Thatcher: Een ‘Public Choice’ Benadering aan de Hand van de Verkiezingsprogramma's [Margaret Thatcher’s Economic Policies: A ‘Public Choice’ Approach on the Basis of the Election Manifestos]. (= CEVO Onderzoeksrapport, 6). Antwerp: Centrum voor Economische Vorming en Onderzoek, 28p.

Davis, K., T. De Rycker and J. P. Verckens (1994): "Dear Personnel Manager: Some ELT/ESP Aspects of Developing Cross-Cultural Awareness through Interactive Writing". In: H. Pürschel (Ed.), Intercultural Communication: Proceedings of the 17th International L.A.U.D. Symposium Duisburg, 23-27 March 1992. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 233-259.

De Rycker, T. (1993): "Stop Me if Anybody Has Said This Before: The Sequential Implicativeness of Imperatives Functioning as Pragmatic Formatives". In: H. Löffler (Ed.), Dialoganalyse IV: Referate der 4. Arbeitstagung Basel 1992. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer, 323-338.

De Rycker, T. (1993): "A Corpus-Based Analysis of ’Elliptical’ Imperatives in Conversational Discourse". Linguistica Antverpiensia XXVII.109-130.

De Rycker, A. and J. P. Verckens (1993): "The Antwerp-Indianapolis Project: Motiverende Authenticiteit en Authentieke Motivatie" [The Antwerp-Indianapolis Project: Motivational Authenticity and Authentic Motivation]. In: G. Van Rompuy (Ed.), Liber Amicorum Aline Van Melkebeke. Antwerp: Handelshogeschool Antwerpen/CEVO, 359-390.

De Rycker, T. (1990): "Pragmatic Clarity and Non-Coerciveness in Imperative Utterance Types". Interface: Journal of Applied Linguistics 5:1.1-23.

De Rycker, T. (1990): "Morphological Productivity: Unpredictable Word-Formations as Inputs to Compounding, Derivation and Conversion". Linguistica Antverpiensia XXIV.71-83.

De Rycker, T. (1989): "The Conversational Distribution of Negative Imperative Utterances in English". In: E. Weigand and F. Hundsnurscher (Eds.), Dialoganalyse II, Band 2: Referate der 2. Arbeitstagung Bochum 1988. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer, 409-422.

De Rycker, T. (1989): "Classificatiesystemen van de Engelse Imperatiefzin" [Classifying English Imperatives]. Handelingen van de Koninklijke Zuidnederlandse Maatschappij voor Taal- en Letterkunde en Geschiedenis XLIII (1989), 33-64.

De Rycker, T. (1987): "Turns at Writing: The Organization of Correspondence". In: J. Verschueren and M. Bertuccelli-Papi (Eds.), The Pragmatic Perspective: Selected Papers from the 1985 International Pragmatics Conference. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 613-647.

De Rycker, T. (1984): Imperative Structures: Form and Function in Conversational English. (= Antwerp Papers in Linguistics, 38). Antwerp: Department of Germanic Philology, University of Antwerp, UIA, vi + 147p.

Contribution, as lexicographer/co-editor, to W. Martin and G. Tops (1984/1986): Van Dale Groot Woordenboek Engels-Nederlands/Nederlands-Engels. Utrecht: Van Dale Lexicografie.

De Rycker, T. (1982): The Expanded Form: A Dynamic Synchronic Approach. (= Antwerp Papers in Linguistics, 27). Antwerp: Department of Germanic Philology, University of Antwerp, UIA, iix + 138p.

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De Rycker, T. and G. Van Rompuy (1991): Honda Power Products Lawn-Mowers: Consumers and Dealers Market Survey. Antwerp: Centrum voor Economische Vorming en Onderzoek. xi + 158p.

Daxhelet, A., T. De Rycker and G. Spaepen (1989): Dockx: Marktonderzoek 1989. Antwerp: Centrum voor Economische Vorming en Onderzoek. iv + 60p.

Daxhelet, A., T. De Rycker and G. Spaepen (1988): Dockx: Marktonderzoek 1988. Antwerp: Centrum voor Economische Vorming en Onderzoek. v + 54p.

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15th World Congress of Applied Linguistics "Multilingualism: Challenges and Opportunities", University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, 24-29 August 2008. Title: "Deep definitions and their role in foreign language vocabulary development: An analysis of students' perceptions and defining skills".

32nd International L.A.U.D. Symposium "Cognitive Approaches to Second/Foreign Language Processing: Theory and Pedagogy", University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany, 10-15 March 2008. Title: ''A Cognitive Linguistic Approach to Pedagogical Grammar: Current Results and Future Directions" [with Sabine De Knop].

ABLA Conference, KULeuven, 23-24 March 2007. Title: "Should Business Students be Taught How to Say "No"? A Comparison of Flemish and US Rejection Letters in English" [presentation].

IATEFL "Business English Special Interest Group" Annual International Conference, British Council, Milan, Italy, 8-10 December 2006. Title: "Turning Down Business-to-Business Proposals Diplomatically".

Guest lecture. Hogeschool Gent, Departement Vertaalkunde en Departement Handelswetenschappen en Bestuurskunde, 6 December 2006. Title: "Sollicitatie- en afwijzingsbrieven: Een genre-analytische benadering" [Application and Rejection Letters: A Genre-Analytical Approach]. [by invitation]

SIG Writing, 10th International Conference of the EARLI Special Interest Group on Writing, Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium, 20-22 September 2006. Title: "Choice and Convention in US and Flemish Rejection Letters". [Poster presentation together with J. Piet Verckens]

Multilingualism & Applied Comparative Linguistics Conference, VUB, Brussels, Belgium, 8-10 February 2006. Title: "Increased Reading Comprehension through Deep Definitions? The Case of Business English Texts and Visuals".

IATEFL "Business English Special Interest Group" Annual International Conference, University of Monaco, Monaco, 11-13 November 2005. Title: "Improving Definitional Skills in Business Learners: Useful Strategy or Waste of Time?"

International Conference on Task-Based Language Teaching, Leuven, Belgium, 21-23 September 2005. Title: "A Multi-Skill Strategy for Helping Students Communicate Numerical Information".

2nd International Online Conference on Second and Foreign Language Teaching and Research, www.readingmatrix.com, 16-18 September 2005. Title: "Enhancing Fluency and Learner Autonomy through Word and Verb Mapping". [PowerPoint presentation with audio]

2003 BAAHE (Belgian Association of Anglicists in Higher Education) Annual Conference, Universiteit Gent, Belgium, 22 November 2003. Title: "Lists, Boxes or Maps: Recording and Retrieving Collocations in an ELT/ESP Context".

IATEFL "Business English Special Interest Group" Annual International Conference, Hogeschool Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 14-16 November 2003. Title: "Word Mapping".

IATEFL "Business English Special Interest Group" Annual International Conference, International House London, UK, 15-17 November 2002. Title: "A Worksheet-Based Approach to Improving Quantitative Business Analysis".

2001 BAAHE (Belgian Association of Anglicists in Higher Education) Annual Conference, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Campus Kortrijk, Belgium, 1 December 2001. Title: "From Numbers to Words and Back: Data Analysis for Students of Business English".

IATEFL "Business English Special Interest Group" Annual International Conference, Siemens AG Technik Akademie, Munich, Germany, 17-19 November 2000. Title: "Small Talk: A 50-Minute Confidence-Building Workshop".

2000 Association for Business Communication Europe & ENCoDe Conference, Handelshogeschool Antwerpen and Katholieke Vlaamse Hogeschool, Antwerp, Belgium, 25 May 2000. Title: "Shop Talk and Small Talk: Teaching Social English to Non-Native Businesspeople".

1999 Annual Meeting of the Belgian Association of Anglicists in Higher Education, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium, 13 November 1999. Title: "Getting Long-Lasting Benefits from Short Texts".

IATEFL "Business English Special Interest Group" Annual International Conference, College of Management and Business Studies, Budapest, Hungary, 15 November 1998. Title: "Teaching Business Lexis through PIX, ABC and 123".

1997 Annual Meeting of the Belgian Association of Anglicists in Higher Education, Institut Supérieur de Traducteurs et Interprètes [School for Translators and Interpreters], Brussels, Belgium, 22 November 1997. Title: "A Lexical Approach to Teaching Public Finance Vocabulary".

IATEFL "Business English Special Interest Group" Annual International Conference, Universität Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany, 16 November 1996. Title: "Business English Writing Skills: Improving Students’ Performance through Internationalization".

1995 Annual Conference of the Belgian Linguistic Association on "Political Linguistics", University of Antwerp, UFSIA, Belgium, 8 December 1995. Title: "Political Promises and the UK Economy under Mrs Thatcher: A World-to-Word Analysis of the Conservative Party's General Election Manifestos of 1979, 1983 and 1987".

21st International Systemic Functional Congress, University of Ghent, Belgium, 2 August 1994. Title: "Shortlisting as a Function of Performance Errors in Written Job Applications".

Guest lecture, Department of English, Institut für Anglistik, Rhein.-Westf. Technische Hochschule Aachen, Aachen, Germany, 24 June 1993. Title: "Will the Real McCoy Please Stand Up? Providing Advanced Students of Business English with Authentic Job Application Tasks". [by invitation]

Staff seminar, Department of English, IUPUI, Indianapolis, USA, 6 April 1993. Title: "To Be Cautious on the Side of Errors: The Writing Performance of US and Flemish Job Applicants as a Shortlisting Criterion". [by invitation]

17th International L.A.U.D. Symposium on "Intercultural Communication", Universität Duisburg, Germany, March 1992. Title: "Dear Personnel Manager: Some ELT/ESP Aspects of Developing Cross-Cultural Awareness through Interactive Writing" [with Ken Davis, IUPUI, Indianapolis, USA and Piet Verckens, Antwerp Business School].

4. Arbeitstagung "Dialoganalyse", Deutsches Seminar der Universität Basel, Switzerland, March 1992. Title: "Stop Me if Anybody Has Said This Before: Degrees of Sequential Implicativeness in Imperatives Functioning as Pragmatic Formatives".

Imperatives, Requests and Conversational Interaction (graduate course), University of Antwerp, UIA, Belgium, 26 February 1990. Title: "The Conversational Distribution of Imperative Utterances". [by invitation]

Spring meeting of the Koninklijke Zuidnederlandse Maatschappij voor Taal- en Letterkunde en Geschiedenis [The Royal Flemish Society for Language, Literature and History], Brussels, 18 March 1989. Title: "Classificatiesystemen van de Engelse Imperatiefzin" [Classifying English Imperatives].

2. Arbeitstagung "Dialoganalyse", Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany, March 1988. Title: "The Conversational Distribution of Negative Imperative Utterances in English".

Imperatives and Requests for Action (graduate course), University of Antwerp, UIA, Belgium, 22 February 1988. Title: "Imperative Utterance Patterns in Conversational English". [by invitation]

1987 International Pragmatics Conference, University of Antwerp, UIA, Belgium, August 1987. Title: "Imperative Utterance Patterns and the Accomplishment of Conversational Coherence".

Sociolinguistics Symposium 6, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK, April 1986. Title: "Talk, Calls and Letters: Aspects of Contrastive Discourse Analysis".

International Pragmatics Conference, Viareggio, Italy, September 1985. Title: "Turns at Writing: The Organization of Correspondence".

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