Sébastien Vandenitte

sevanden at jyu dot fi

Academic CV

My name is Sébastien Vandenitte. I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Sign Language Centre of the University of Jyväskylä, Finland.

I hold BA (Modern Languages & Literatures) and MA (Linguistics) degrees from Université Libre de Bruxelles. I completed my PhD (Languages, Literatures, and Translation Studies) at the LSFB-Lab of the University of Namur, Belgium, with the support of a Research Fellow grant from the Fund for Scientific Research (F.R.S.–FNRS).

 

Research interests

  • (Belgian) French and LSFB (French Belgian Sign Language)
  • comparative linguistics and semiotics
  • gesture and multimodality, depiction and iconicity
  • the building and use of comparable corpora
  • multi-method approaches to language research