Research project Innovating methods in signed language corpus linguistics: a Nordic approach (NSLCN)
Lena Katarina Johansson/Stockholms universitet
Within this project we organize a series of three workshops which will bring together a network of Nordic signed language (SL) researchers: the Nordic Signed Language Corpus Network, NSLCN. These researches all work with multimodal SL corpora using a cognitive-functional linguistic approach.
The workshops arranged within the project will develop empirical corpus methods for SLs and contribute to the planning of a corpus-exploiting international research project that will focus on similarities and differences between Swedish, Finnish, Finland-Swedish and Norwegian SL.
Workshop 1: 9–10 June 2022, Stockholm
The first workshop focused on metadata and research questions.
Workshop 2: End of 2022, Jyväskylä, Finland
The second workshop will focus on annotation and on theoretical background.
Workshop 3: 2023, Trondheim
The final workshop focuses on statistics and on research plan.
All workshops include collaboration between junior and senior researchers, as well as between academia and local SL communities.