sevanden at jyu dot fi
About
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 and a PhD degree (Languages, Literatures, and Translation Studies) from the LSFB-Lab of the Université de Namur, Belgium.
Research interests
- (Belgian) French
- LSFB (French Belgian Sign Language)
- comparative linguistics and semiotics
- gesture and multimodality
- depiction & iconicity
- the building & use of comparable corpora
- multi-method approaches to language as a phenomenon