Mandana Seyfeddinipur

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Mandana Seyfeddinipur

Mandana Seyfeddinipur (* 1967 ) is an Iranian linguist. Seyfeddinipur works at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London and has headed the Endangered Languages ​​Archive since 2014 .

Life

Seyfeddinipur grew up in Germany. After completing school, Mandana Seyfeddinipur studied, among other things, linguistics and Persian studies at the Free University in Berlin , she graduated with a master's degree. She then did her doctorate from 2000 to 2005 at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, her dissertation was entitled "Disfluency: Interrupting speech and gesture". She then worked as a postdoc at Stanford University from 2007 to 2010 . After another short stay at the Max Planck Institute, Seyfeddinipur switched to the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London in 2010 , where he became head of the Endangered Languages ​​Documentation Program, which has been awarding grants for the documentation of endangered languages ​​worldwide since 2002, financed by the private Arcadia Foundation. Since 2014 she has headed the Endangered Languages ​​Archive (ELAR), which deals with the digital preservation of threatened languages ​​and makes digital collections of threatened languages ​​digitally accessible worldwide. As an expert in the areas of language use, multimodality and digital technology for documentation, she trains scientists to develop multimedia collections of endangered languages.

Seyfeddinipur teaches courses in the field of symbolic language ( Visual Mode of Language ), the use of videos in field research on languages ​​threatened with extinction, language psychology and language use. Her research interests focus primarily on (audiovisual) language documentation, cultural and linguistic diversity in language use, psycholinguistics and language production.

Works

Monographs

  • Disfluency: Interrupting speech and gesture. Nijmegen: MPI-Series in Psycholinguistics; 2006. (dissertation)

items

  • with Dale Barr: The role of fillers in listener attributions for speaker disfluency , in: Language and Cognitive Processes , (25), pages 441-455; 2010.
  • with Sotaro Kita and Peter Indefrey: How speakers interrupt themselves in managing problems in speaking: Evidence from self-repairs, in: Cognition , (108) 3, pages 837-842; 2008.
  • with Sotaro Kita: Gestures and speech disfluencies , in: Proceedings of the 27th Conference of the Berkeley Linguistic Society, (BLS) Berkeley, February 2001 .; 2003.
  • with Sotaro Kita: Gesture as an indicator of early error detection in self-monitoring of speech , in: Proceedings of the ISCA (International Speech Communication Association) Tutorial and Research Workshop. DiSS'01: Disfluency in spontaneous speech 'University of Edinburgh, Scotland; 2001.

additional

  • with Marianne Gullberg: From gesture in conversation to visible action as utterance. Amsterdam: Benjamin; 2014.
  • Reasons for Documenting Gestures and Suggestions for How to Go About It . In: Nicholas Thieberger (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Fieldwork . Oxford: Oxford University Press; 2011.
  • Meta-discursive gestures from Iran: Some uses of the 'Pistolhand' , in: Cornelia Mueller and Roland Posner (eds.). The Semantics and Pragmatics of Everyday Gestures: Proceedings of the Berlin Conference April 1998 . Berlin: Weidler Verlag; 2004.
  • with Sotaro Kita: Gestures and repairs in speech , in: Christian Cavé, Isabelle Guaïtella and Serge Santi (eds.): Oralité et Gestualité. Interactions and comportements multimodaux in communication. Actes du colloque ORAGE 2001 . Paris: l'Harmattan, pp. 266-279; 2001.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fiona Macdonald: The people saving 'lost' words. In: BBC Culture. October 13, 2017, accessed June 13, 2018 .
  2. MPI Dissertation series - Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on June 13, 2018 ; accessed on June 13, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mpi.nl
  3. a b Dr Mandana Seyfeddinipur. SOAS University of London, accessed June 13, 2018 .