Sébastien Vandenitte

Sébastien Vandenitte

Postdoctoral Researcher
Unit
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Department / Division
Department of Language and Communication Studies
Room number
Email
sebastien.j.f.vandenitte@jyu.fi
Mobile
+358504141730
Postal address
Seminaarinkatu 15

Biography

My name is Sébastien Vandenitte. I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Sign Language Centre of the Ä¢¹½Ö±²¥ (JYU), Finland, working as a member of the ShowTell project.

Research interests

My research interests include the comparison of signed and spoken languages, in particular LSFB (Langue des Signes de Belgique Francophone or French Belgian Sign Language) and Belgian French, semiotic diversity across communities and communication contexts, depiction and iconicity, and the creation and use of multimodal language corpora.

Publications

Publication
2025

Neuroscience
Hernández, Doris
Puupponen, Anna
Keränen, Jarkko
Vandenitte, Sébastien
Anible, Benjamin
Ortega, Gerardo
Jantunen, Tommi
Publication
2024

International Conference on IT and Industrial Technologies
Sargano, Allah Bux
Vandenitte, Sébastien
Jantunen, Tommi
Kimmelman, Vadim

Projects

Project

ShowTell – Showing and telling in Finnish Sign Language

ShowTell – A multidisciplinary research project investigating the relationship between bodily enactment and traditional language use with lexical items in Finnish Sign Language FinSL.