Nordic Innovations in Linguistics: Multi-method approaches for understanding language (LINNORD)

Welcome to this two-day workshop, which aims to explore and discuss the benefits of multi-method approaches for language research.
Info
Event date
20.03.2025 10:30 - 21.03.2025 16:30
Event type
Workshops, courses and camps
Event language
Finnish Sign Language
English
Event organizer
Department of Language and Communication Studies
Event payment
Free of charge

Signed language linguists of the Ä¢¹½Ö±²¥ (JYU) and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) invite you to their joint two-day workshop entitled:

LINNORD: Nordic Innovations in Linguistics: Multi-method approaches for understanding language

Event Languages:

  • Finnish Sign Language,
  • Norwegian Sign Language,
  • English

Venue:

  • On 20 March, we will meet in the Vanha juhlasali, Building S (Seminarium), room S212
    Seminaarinkatu 15, 40100 Jyväskylä
  • On 21 March, we will be gathering in room RUU D104 (Helena), in the Ruusupuisto building
    Alvar Aallon katu 9, 40600 Jyväskylä

The following link leads you to a map of the JYU campus areas. By inserting the name/code of a building or a room, you will be able to locate it in the city:

For any questions or additional information: linnord@jyu.fi

In recent years, two large-scale projects related to (corpus) linguistics have been carried out in Finland and in Norway:

• The ShowTell project: ‘Showing and telling in Finnish Sign Language’

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Capitalizing on these two leading Nordic projects in signed language linguistics, this two-day workshop aims to unite researchers working with multimodal SL corpora from a cognitive functional linguistic perspective. In particular, the event will spotlight the outcomes of these two projects, exploring how diverse and innovative methodologies — including empirical corpus analysis, ethnography, brain imaging, and motion capture — can be integrated with theoretical insights. This combination of approaches will help to further refine our understanding of specific signed language ecologies as well as our broader theories of human languaging. The event will take place at the Ä¢¹½Ö±²¥ on 20-21 March 2025. The first day of the workshop will focus on SL corpus approaches and the second day of the event will host a broader discussion about the insights provided by diverse methodologies in the language sciences.

Registration / Enrollment

The event is open to everyone but registration is required (see Registration Tab).

Please register by 21 February so that we can reserve enough seats at the University restaurants for all workshop attendees.

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Programme structure:

Keynote presenters

Panel: "Tackling the BIG questions: What is language, how to study it, and how to talk about it?"

Panelists: