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<td>Website launched connects research and multilingual
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<td>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 09:21:36 +0000</td>
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<td>CAL Language Policy Research Network
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<p class="ecxmsonormal" style="background:white"><strong><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"
lang="EN-US">Website Launched Connects Research and
Multilingual Communities</span></strong><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="ecxmsonormal" style="background:white"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"
lang="EN-US">JYVÄSKYLÄ, Finland, June 11, 2013 – The
University of Jyväskylä’s Discourse Studies Research Team
announced today the launch of a new website that brings
together research and multilingual minority language
communities to showcase creative uses of language in
everyday life.
</span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="ecxmsonormal" style="background:white"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"
lang="EN-US">The website, Jyväskylä Discourse Hub (</span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.discoursehub.fi/"
target="_blank"><span style="color:blue" lang="EN-US">www.discoursehub.fi</span></a></span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"
lang="EN-US">), includes</span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white"><span
style="color:black" lang="EN-US">-examples of community and
research-led initiatives to increase awareness of language
practices within minority and indigenous language
communities,
<br>
-an invitation for individuals, communities, and researchers
to share their projects related to creative uses of
language,
<br>
-a clearinghouse for research that investigates the ways in
which language practices change and how languages are
managed and maintained in multilingual communities, and<br>
-responses to Frequently Asked Questions about Nexus
Analysis, a discourse analytic framework taken up by the
research team.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="ecxmsonormal" style="background:white"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"
lang="EN-US">The aim of showcasing community-led projects is
to increase awareness of languages, their speakers and
signers, and how languages are used in different contexts.
The launch includes projects like multilingual storybooks
written in languages used at home and at school by Sámi
school children in Lapland, Finland, as well as a license
plate campaign in Texas, USA, that displays the expression
“I love you” in American Sign Language.</span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="ecxmsonormal" style="background:white"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"
lang="EN-US">Visitors to the site are encouraged to submit
projects from their communities and research that focus on
how minority and indigenous languages are used in everyday
interactions. The project’s director, professor Sari
Pietikäinen, described the impetus for developing the
website: “Our team wanted to create a space where
individuals, communities, and researchers could connect with
each other to share their experiences and insights into how
multilingualism is encountered and how languages are managed
and maintained in changing communities.”</span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="ecxmsonormal" style="background:white"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"
lang="EN-US">Also included on the website is a clearinghouse
of research that investigate language practices within
minority and indigenous language communities. Lastly, the
website houses a list of responses to Frequently Asked
Questions about one of the discourse analytic approaches
used by the team: Nexus Analysis.</span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="ecxmsonormal" style="background:white"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"
lang="EN-US">The website is accessible at
</span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.discoursehub.fi/"
target="_blank"><span style="color:blue" lang="EN-US">www.discoursehub.fi</span></a></span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"
lang="EN-US">. Information about the Peripheral
Multilingualism Project, lead by the Jyväskylä Discourse
Studies Research Team that supports the new website, is
available at
</span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.peripheralmultilingualism.fi/"
target="_blank"><span style="color:blue" lang="EN-US">www.peripheralmultilingualism.fi</span></a></span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"
lang="EN-US">.
</span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="ecxmsonormal" style="background:white"><strong><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Press
Contact</span></strong><b><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><br>
</span></b><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Sarah
Compton<br>
+358-40-8054800<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:sarah.e.compton@jyu.fi" target="_blank"><span
style="color:blue" lang="EN-US">sarah.e.compton@jyu.fi</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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