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Subject: 24.2401, FYI: Jyväskylä Discourse Hub, New Website that Connects Research and Multilingual Communities

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Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 10:44:17
From: Kati Kauppinen [kati.h.kauppinen at jyu.fi]
Subject: Jyväskylä Discourse Hub, New Website that Connects Research and Multilingual Communities

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Website Launched Connects Research and Multilingual Communities

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.

The website, Jyväskylä Discourse Hub (www.discoursehub.fi), includes

- examples of community and research-led initiatives to increase awareness of
language practices within minority and indigenous language communities,

- an invitation for individuals, communities, and researchers to share their
projects related to creative uses of language,
 
- a clearinghouse for research that investigates the ways in which language
practices change and how languages are managed and maintained in multilingual
communities, and

- responses to Frequently Asked Questions about Nexus Analysis, a discourse
analytic framework  taken up by the research team.

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.

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.”

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.

The website is accessible at www.discoursehub.fi. Information about the
Peripheral Multilingualism Project, lead by the Jyväskylä Discourse Studies
Research Team that supports the new website, is available at
www.peripheralmultilingualism.fi.

Press Contact
Sarah Compton
+358-40-8054800
sarah.e.compton at jyu.fi
 



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