Mandana Seyfeddinipur | |
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 Mandana Seyfeddinipur in 2017 | |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | |
| Thesis | Disfluency: Interrupting speech and gesture (2006) |
| Doctoral advisor | Stephen Levinson |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Linguist |
| Sub-discipline | Language documentation |
| Institutions | SOAS University of London Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities |
Mandana Seyfeddinipur is a linguist,author,and educator. She is also the Head of the Endangered Languages Archive. [1]
Seyfeddinipur grew up in Germany. [2] She studied linguistics and Persian studies at the Free University of Berlin and graduated with a Master's degree. She received her doctorate at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics at Radboud University Nijmegen from 2000 to 2005. Her dissertation was entitled Disfluency:Interrupting speech and gesture. [3] [4] She then worked as a Marie Curie postdoctoral work Stanford University from 2006 to 2009. [5]
After another short stay at the Max Planck Institute,Seyfeddinipur moved to the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London in 2010,where she became head of the Endangered Languages Documentation Programme, [6] which has been awarding grants for the documentation of endangered languages worldwide since 2002,financed by the private Arcadia Foundation. [7] Since 2014 she has headed the Endangered Languages Archive (ELAR),which deals with the digital preservation of endangered languages and makes digital collections of endangered languages digitally accessible worldwide. [8] [9] Seyfeddinipur moved with the Endangered Languages Documentation Programme to the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy in 2021. [10]
As an expert in the fields of language use,multimedia and digital technology for documentation,she trains scientists to develop multimedia collections of endangered languages.
Seyfeddinipur teaches courses in Visual Mode of Language,the use of videos in field research on endangered languages,language psychology and language use. Her research interests focus on (audiovisual) language documentation,cultural and linguistic diversity in language use,psycholinguistics and language production. [8] She is also involved in work on the preservation of poetry and other literature in endangered languages. [11]
Adam Kendon was one of the world's foremost authorities on the topic of gesture,which he viewed broadly as meaning all the ways in which humans use visible bodily action in creating utterances including not only how this is done in speakers but also in the way it is used in speakers or deaf when only visible bodily action is available for expression. At the University of Cambridge,he read Botany,Zoology and Human Physiology,as well as Experimental Psychology for the Natural Sciences. At the University of Oxford,he studied Experimental Psychology,focusing on the temporal organization of utterances in conversation,using Eliot Chapple's chronography. Then he moved to Cornell University to study directly with Chapple on research leading to his D. Phil. from Oxford in 1963. His thesis topic—communication conduct in face-to-face interaction—spelled out the interests he would pursue in subsequent decades. He is noted for his study of gesture and sign languages and how these relate to spoken language. After completing the D. Phil.,he accepted a position in the Institute of Experimental Psychology at Oxford,where he worked in a research group with Michael Argyle and E.R.W.F. Crossmann. He initially focused on sign systems in Papua New Guinea and Australian Aboriginal sign languages,before developing a general framework for understanding gestures with the same kind of rigorous semiotic analysis as has been previously applied to spoken language.
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