Projects per year
Personal profile
Diplomas
I did both my Bachelor’s Degree in Modern Languages and Literatures and my Master’s Degree in Linguistics in Brussels at Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB). Currently I work as a doctoral researcher at the LSFB-Lab of the University of Namur (UNamur) within the Namur Institute of Language, Text and Transmediality.
Introduction
My research interests lie at the intersection between linguistics and gesture studies as I compare, from a multimodal perspective, sign languages to spoken languages and the gestures produced by speakers. The data I use in my PhD project are retrieved from the LSFB Corpus and the FRAPé Corpus, a multimodal corpus of Belgian French, to which I am contributing by collecting data.
Portal presentation
- My PhD research project, which started in 2019, is funded by an F.R.S-FNRS Research Fellow grant.
- Thesis project: ‘Making referents seen and heard: comparing constructed action in LSFB and Belgian French’
- From January until July 2022, thanks to the support of the Sofina Boël grant, I had the opportunity to go to Finland, as a visiting researcher at the University of Jyväskylä, to compare constructed action in LSFB and suomalainen viittomakieli (Finnish Sign Language) and act as a collaborator to the ShowTell project.
External responsibilities
- Member of the Scientific Committee of the Namur Institute of Language, Text and Transmediality
- Co-editor of the Papers of the Linguistics Society of Belgium (LSB) 2021
- Teaching experience: Classes/Workshops on the comparison of LSFB and French at UNamur
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Making referents seen and heard: Comparing constructed action in LSFB signers and Belgian French speakers
Vandenitte, S., Meurant, L. & De Brabanter, P.
1/10/21 → 30/09/23
Project: Research
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Rendre les référents visibles et audibles : Comparaison des pratiques d'action construite des signeurs de la LSFB et des locuteurs du français belge
Vandenitte, S., Meurant, L. & De Brabanter, P.
1/10/19 → …
Project: PHD
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Making Referents Seen and Heard Across Two Signed Languages: Comparing constructed action in FinSL and LSFB.
15/01/22 → 15/07/22
Project: Research
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Making referents seen and heard: Comparing constructed action in LSFB signers and Belgian French speakers
Vandenitte, S., Meurant, L. & De Brabanter, P.
1/10/19 → 30/09/21
Project: Research
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(Re-)constructing words and gestures in Belgian French: A multimodal look at utterance reports in the FRAPé Corpus
Vandenitte, S., 2022.Research output: Contribution to conference › Poster › peer-review
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Making Referents Seen and Heard Across Signed and Spoken Languages: Documenting and Interpreting Cross-Modal Differences in the Use of Enactment
Vandenitte, S., 22 Jul 2022, In: Frontiers in psychology. 13, 784339.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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One and the same or two of a kind ? Comparing constructed action in FinSL and LSFB narratives
Vandenitte, S., Puupponen, A., Wainio, T. & Jantunen, T., 14 Oct 2022.Research output: Contribution to conference › Poster › peer-review
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Construire l’action pour rendre les référents visibles en LSFB: Une étude pilote des mouvements corporels dépictifs
Vandenitte, S., 2021, Travaux du Cercle belge de linguistique. Vol. 15.Research output: Contribution in Book/Catalog/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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Papers of the Linguistic Society of Belgium (2021)
Vandenitte, S. (ed.), LEPEUT, A. (ed.) & Meurant, L. (ed.), 2021, (Papers of the Linguistic Society of Belgium; vol. 15)Research output: Book/Report/Journal › Journal
Open Access
Prizes
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Best Presentation by a PhD student (3rd Prize), awarded by the Societas Linguistica Europaea
VANDENITTE, Sebastien (Recipient), 3 Sep 2021
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Prix du public - Ma thèse en 180 secondes (finale universitaire)
VANDENITTE, Sebastien (Recipient), 24 Mar 2021
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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SofinaBoël Fund for Education and Talent
VANDENITTE, Sebastien (Recipient), 2021
Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively
Activities
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Cross-disciplinary Perspectives on Quoting and Speech Reporting
Sebastien Vandenitte (Contributor)
7 Oct 2022Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
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New tools on hand to compare signed and spoken languages: Building a directly comparable multimodal corpus of LSFB and French
Sebastien Vandenitte (Speaker), Alysson LEPEUT (Speaker), Clara Lombart (Speaker) & Laurence Meurant (Speaker)
14 Jul 2022Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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Comparable corpora of spoken and signed languages: Towards a pluri-semiotic perspective on language
Laurence Meurant (Speaker), Alysson LEPEUT (Speaker), Clara Lombart (Speaker) & Sebastien Vandenitte (Speaker)
30 Jun 2022Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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Montrer l'autre qui signe : l’expression d’attitudes langagières par l’action construite en LSFB
Sebastien Vandenitte (Speaker)
29 Apr 2022Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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Revisiting constructed action through different semiotic repertoires: Insights from comparisons across signed and spoken languages
Sebastien Vandenitte (Speaker)
5 Apr 2022Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
Press / Media
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Participation au concours "Ma thèse en 180 secondes"
24/03/21
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities