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LEARNME Conference 2015
Acknowledgements for the support of International Visegrad Fund
Pictures: Sign languages as mother tongues
The pictures which were taken at the conference are available on the following webpage:
Archive film about the American Sign Language (ASL)
http://theweek.com/articles/549445/what-american-sign-language-looked-like-100-years-ago
„Multilingualism, diversity – sign language of the Deaf – linguistic minorities”
The Research Centre for Multilingualism of the Department of Psycho-, Neuro- and Sociolinguistics of the Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences is honoured to invite you to its open day organized on the occasion of the Celebration of Hungarian Science.
The visible language – SIGNificant Chance project, theoretical and practical steps of the standardisation of the Hungarian Sign Language
The Research Centre for Multilingualism of the Department of Psycho-, Neuro- and Sociolinguistics of the Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences is honoured to invite you to its program organized on the occasion of the Celebration of Hungarian Science.
Flash mob Szegeden
Oláh Ibolya Nem kell című számát jelelték el a szegedi Nagyállomás előtti flash mob résztvevői szombaton. Részletek a delmagyar.hu oldalon olvashatók:
http://www.delmagyar.hu/szeged_hirek/siket_flash_mob_a_nagyallomasnal_jelnyelven_enekeltek/2399886/
European Language Label
Dr Csilla Bartha, the project leader of the SIGNificant Chance project has been awarded the European Language Label as the course leader of the Hungarian Sign Language Specialization held at Eötvös Loránd University Faculty of Humanities. More information on the following link:
http://www.tpf.hu/pages/newslist/index.php?page_id=3011
Workshop on minority languages and digitalisation
Thomas Moring, professor of communication and journalism at University of Helsinki, held a workshop on the effects of digitalisation on minority languages on 8th July 2014. Thomas Moring was member of the professional committee of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages, as well as he carried out comparative researches in the fields of minorities and media, election campaigns, political communication and television/radio broadcast.
The professor highlighted that the Charter is primarily supporting traditional media, and prosumption, the new type of media usage based on the duality of production and consumption is less promoted. Thomas Moring presented the situation of the Swedish minority in Finland and the situation of Scottish Gaelic speakers as examples and showed the characteristic proportion of appearance of each language on, inter alia, the social media sites. Alarming data in terms of minority languages emerged especially concerning the young generation – not only the majority language but also English is becoming overrepresented in sharing information on community sites, therefore, the Swedish as well as the Gaelic languages are being superseded on important communication areas of the young.
In case of sign languages due to their modality only the television is available from among traditional media, however, very few programmes are accessible in sign language in Hungary, subtitling – being useful for many people, however, providing no real aid in several cases – is a good excuse for programme suppliers. Maybe this is the reason for the high popularity of video sharing sites in the Deaf community. Therefore, it is highly important to analyse the sites enabling prosumption from the viewpoint of researches concerning the minority using Hungarian Sign Language.
In the end Thomas Moring and the workshop participants mutually agreed that it would be cardinal to put the theoretical opportunities provided by the Charter into practise efficiently and promoting language use.