Showing and telling in Finnish Sign Language (ShowTell)
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Funder's project number: 339268
Funds granted by main funder (€)
- 482 279,00
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Project timetable
Project start date: 01/09/2021
Project end date: 31/08/2025
Summary
This project investigates how showing the meaning is connected to telling the meaning. This is done by analyzing the relationship between bodily enactments – constructed action – and traditional lexical language use – regular telling – in Finnish Sign Language. Until now, the concrete ways constructed action is connected to regular telling in social language use, physical movement production and brain-based meaning processing have largely remained uninvestigated. To produce new information on these connections and, consequently, to help researchers to better understand the nature of language this project investigates these aspects with multidimensional corpus, motion capture and neuroimaging (EEG) data. The research will be carried out in the Sign Language Centre of the University of Jyväskylä in Finland. For more in English, see Jantunen, T. (2017). Constructed action, the clause and the nature of syntax in Finnish Sign Language. Open Linguistics 3, 65-85.
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Related publications and other outputs
- Between bodily action and conventionalized structure : The neural mechanisms of constructed action in sign language comprehension (2024) Hernández, Doris; et al.; A1; OA
- Corpus research on signed languages in the Nordic countries (2024) Jantunen, Tommi; et al.; A2; OA
- Evaluation of Head Pose Estimation Algorithms for Sign Language Analysis (2024) Sargano, Allah Bux; et al.; A4; OA; 979-8-3315-0446-5
- Opening up Corpus FinSL : enriching corpus analysis with linguistic ethnography in a study of constructed action (2024) Puupponen, Anna; et al.; A1; OA
- A cross-linguistic comparison of reference across five signed languages (2023) Ferrara, Lindsay; et al.; A1; OA
- Cross-modal iconicity and indexicality in the production of lexical sensory and emotional signs in Finnish Sign Language (2023) Keränen, Jarkko; A1; OA
- Kieli on muutakin kuin puhetta : ei-äänellinen merkityksenvälitys ja viittomakielet osana kieli-ilmiötä (2023) Jantunen, Tommi; A4; OA; 978-952-68723-9-1
- The Contribution of Event-Related Potentials to the Understanding of Sign Language Processing and Production in the Brain : Experimental Evidence and Future Directions (2022) Hernández, Doris; et al.; A2; OA
- Use of Sign Language Videos in EEG and MEG Studies : Experiences from a Multidisciplinary Project Combining Linguistics and Cognitive Neuroscience (2022) Hernández, Doris; et al.; A4; OA; 978-951-39-9450-1
- Variation in the use of constructed action according to discourse type and age in Finnish Sign Language (2022) Puupponen, Anna; et al.; A1; OA
