http://www.bslcorpusproject.org BSL Corpus Project Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:26:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The BSL Corpus Project final report to the Economic and Social Research Council is now available. The final report provides a project overview, summarises the methodology and major findings, and early and anticipated impacts within academia and the community. http://www.bslcorpusproject.org/2012/bsl-corpus-project-final-report-available/ The BSL Corpus Project (Jan 2008 - June 2011) would not have been possible without the BSLCP team or the BSLCP participants. Thank you!! http://www.bslcorpusproject.org/2012/thank-you-to-all-bsl-corpus-project-team-members-and-participants/ Starting in January 2011, Dr. Adam Schembri has taken up a new post as the Director of the National Institute for Deaf Studies at LaTrobe University in Melbourne, Australia. The team wishes him the best of luck! Adam will stay on as a Co-Investigator on the project and so ... http://www.bslcorpusproject.org/2011/congratulations-and-good-luck-to-adam-schembri-welcome-to-kearsy-cormier/ We are delighted to announce that the ESRC have granted the BSL Corpus Project a 6-month extension until 30 June 2011. This will enable us to continue our important work on sociolinguistic variation in BSL for a few months more. http://www.bslcorpusproject.org/2011/6-month-extension-till-june-2011/ Jordan Fenlon and Robert Adam (DCAL) received £12,000 from UCL's Beacon Bursary for the DCAL Roadshow. The roadshow will visit the following cities: Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Glasgow, Manchester, and Newcastle. These events will run for one afternoon each time and will feature a series of lectures delivered in BSL by ... http://www.bslcorpusproject.org/2011/dcalbsl-corpus-project-uk-roadshow-march-%e2%80%93-july-2011/ Some of the first results from the BSL Corpus Project have been published in the March 2010 issue of the 'British Deaf News', in an article by BSL Corpus Project PhD student Rose Stamp, Adam Schembri, Jordan Fenlon and BSL Corpus Project co-investigator Bencie Woll. If you'd like to read ... http://www.bslcorpusproject.org/2010/first-published-research-results-in-british-deaf-news/ Phase 1 of data collection for the BSL Corpus Project is now complete! We have filmed an amazing 249 Deaf people from London, Bristol, Cardiff, Birmingham, Manchester, Newcastle, Belfast and Glasgow, which is a record number of participants recorded in a single sign language corpus project. Each of these participants were filmed telling ... http://www.bslcorpusproject.org/2010/filming-completed/ A big thank you to Sarah Lawrence and Jordan who successfully filmed another 10 Deaf participants in Wales last week. The total number of people filmed for the BSL Corpus Project now stands at 247, which is 7 more than our original target of 240. Later this month, we will ... http://www.bslcorpusproject.org/2010/well-done-sarah-and-jordan-247-deaf-people-filmed/ A short article about the BSL Corpus Project, and a mini-lecture by Adam Schembri on sign language, appeared on the University College London webpage recently: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/1001/10011803 . http://www.bslcorpusproject.org/2010/story-and-video-clip-on-the-ucl-website/ We have now filmed 237 people across the UK, and are aiming for a final target of 250 participants. Jordan is currently working in Wales with our new Cardiff Deaf Community fieldworker, Sarah Lawrence, filming the last group of Welsh participants. Sarah has stepped up to take Jeff Brattan-Wilson's place ... http://www.bslcorpusproject.org/2010/almost-there-237-people-filmed-14-to-go/