Tommi Jantunen

Tommi Jantunen

Professor
Unit
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Department / Division
Department of Language and Communication Studies
Room number
A 337.1.3
Email
tommi.j.jantunen@jyu.fi
Mobile
+358408053185
Postal address
Seminaarinkatu 15
Fields of science
6121 Languages

Research interests

In particular, my research deals with the regularities in the structure and use of Finnish sign language, which I approach with the help of corpus data and various technologies. The knowledge gained from my research can be used directly, for example, in sign language education and will also benefit the sign language community's efforts to promote sign languages as a minority language among other languages. For more information, see http://users.jyu.fi/~tojantun.

Publications

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Projects

Project

Corpus of Finland-Swedish Sign Language: translating sign language into Swedish, Signbank videos and a signed user manual

The project will produce a Swedish translation of the Finland-Swedish sign language corpus, a lexical database and a signed user manual.
Project

Nordic Signed Language Corpus Network (NSLCN)

The project will organize three workshops and bring together a network of Nordic signed language researchers, who all work with multimodal SL corpora using a cognitive-functional linguistic approach.
Project

ShowTell – Showing and telling in Finnish Sign Language

ShowTell – A multidisciplinary research project investigating the relationship between bodily enactment and traditional language use with lexical items in Finnish Sign Language FinSL.