Interesting workshop on the expression of emotions in #signlanguages in Hamburg (July 4-5, 2024). idgs.uni-hamburg.de/en/forschung/t…

Deadline extended until May 31 - please apply if interested, and spread the word to those who might be!

📜 Call for Papers: Dive into the world of palm-up gestures at the “Palm-up in Gesture and Sign” symposium, Lund, Sweden, Oct 9-10, 2024. 📅 Abstract deadline: June 12. Don't miss out! konferens.ht.lu.se/palm-up-sympos…

Very happy to be hosting Assoc. Prof. Neil Cohn of the Tilburg University as MPI Colloquim speaker on Tuesday, 21 May 2024 at 15.45 (CET). "Reimagining language in multimodal paradigm" Wondering what is multimodal language? here it is :) abstract :mpi.nl/events/mpi-col…

Pleased to share cover of our new edited volume International Perspectives on Sign Language Translator & Interpreter Education - available later this year (pre-order link forthcoming). Co-edited with Dr. Stacey Webb, PhD & Robert Adam & published with Gallaudet University Press. Features 23 chapters!

Amazing work in Finnish #signlanguage combining corpus analysis with interviews of deaf participants in the corpus. This approach embeds quantitative data in deaf people’s lived experiences.

It's a wrap ! What FANTASTIC 4 days it was ! Everything we wish to happen did happen, we couldn't be more proud of this very first project : so many talented colleagues, so many great research going on or about to start, what a moment for SL T&I studies, thanks to all !#SLTIFSS

What a treat to spend the first evening in Nijmegen with these lovely people with amazing Turkish food! 😍What a fantastic start of the MEDAL @medallinguist.bsky.social summer school

Reception is the part of translation where we have the most to discover. For the EST congress, propose a paper alongside @liu_minhua Hu Bei at Panel 34: "Testing the Changing Faces of Translation Reception: Challenges and Approaches"!

“Multilingualism and minority languages in a global context” in Davos, Switzerland from 21 to 23 May 2025. Abstracts are due August 31, 2024. phgr.ch/sub/forschung-…

Happy to have joined the Editorial Board of Glossa, Journal of General Linguistics !!!, @glossa_oa . send your multimodal language papers along :) glossa-journal.org/editorialteam/

FNRS .news 131 Dossier - La recherche au-delà des frontières : collaborations, mobilité, réseaux ➡️ 1er article : instruments et services du FNRS contribuant à l'internationalisation de la recherche 🔗frs-fnrs.be/fb/FNRS-NEWS13…………… ➕frs-fnrs.be/FLIP/

Job alert! 📢📢📢

Join us 12th September at 14:00 HK time. Online talk for ISGS HK by Prof. Naomi Sweller - Why are gestures not always helpful? - Register here: polyu.hk/BrJAK

🚨 Call for Papers: Workshop on “Dimensions of Iconicity in the Visual Modality”, Exploring iconicity across spoken, written, and signed languages, 13-14 Feb 2025, Uni Göttingen Submission deadline: 1 Oct 2024 , More info uni-goettingen.de/de/dimensions+…

So Han Sloetjes, part of the team that created ELAN at the MaxPlanck-Psycholinguistics is retiring. The field of sign language research owes him and his colleagues so much! I wish him all the best, and thank him for being part of a methodological revolution in linguistics. archive.mpi.nl/tla/elan

🎉 Congratulations to Professor Dr. Pamela Perniss on the #ERC Synergy Grant 👏 Together with partners from Norway, the USA and France, the Cologne linguist is investigating the relationship between language and thought in different cultures.🧠 🌍 👇 uni.koeln/CYRFM

🚨 Publication Alert! 🚨 Thrilled to share that the article "Crossing boundaries: Using French Belgian Sign Language (LSFB) and multimodal French corpora for contrastive, translation and interpreting studies" is finally out! 🌐 doi.org/10.1556/084.20… 📢 Open access! 🧵

🙌new paper!⬇️🥸very happy and honored to have been given the chance to work with Sílvia Gabarró López & Laurence Meurant. The potentialities of cross corpora studies are fascinating & I'm happy that we can contribute a bit to the study of co-interpreting from this rare perspective⤵️⤵️

We are currently offering 2 three-year PhD position at the LaCAM Lab ISTC CNR in Rome Marie Sklodowska-Curie-UKRI Doctoral Network “SCALA - Spatial Communication and Ageing across Languages” (scala-project.eu).