Johanna Mesch

Associate Professor, PhD
Director, Sign Language Section.
Universitetslektor/avdelningsföreståndare

Office: C344
Fax: +46-8-155389
Email: johanna.mesch@ling.su.se

Research interests

Tactile sign language, corpus building for Swedish Sign Language, corpus-based studies in sign language, conversational analysis, creative sign language

Research projects

Earlier project:
The Swedish Sign Language Corpus 2009-2011

Member of the Sign Linguistics Corpora Network research group, a project funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) 2008-2010 http://www.ru.nl/slcn/

Language as cultural heritage: a pilot project with sign languages 2003-2004 http://www.let.kun.nl/sign-lang/echo/

Cooperation:
Metaphor in creative sign language 2009-2012 (for cooperation)
http://www.bristol.ac.uk/deaf/english/research/active/active03.html

Publications

See Johanna Mesch's Publications

Dissertation:

My doctoral dissertation completed in 1998 and describes how turn-taking and interrogative sentences are marked in tactile sign language. Deaf-blind signers are in continuous contact by holding one another's hands in monologue or dialogue position. In tactile conversation, non-manual characteristics, the essential markers in visual sign languages, are effectively replaced by various hand movements.

Administrative responsibilities

Director, Sign Language Section
Member of the board of the Department of Linguistics
The editorial board of Rapportserie Forskning om teckenspråk (FOT)

Conference organizing

5th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Interactions between Corpus and Lexikon, LREC 2012, May 27 2012, Istanbul (in organizing committee with Crasborn, Efthimiou, Fotinea, Hanke and Kristoffersen)

The third workshop of the Sign Linguistics Corpora Network: Annotation, June 14-16 2010, Stockholm (with Onno Crasborn)

Rikskonferens för teckenspråkiga akademiker 2008, Stockholm

Nordiskt korpusseminarium Teckenspråken i Norden - korpusarbete, den 7-8 november 2008, Stockholms universitet

The 3rd International Deaf Academics Conference, Stockholm 2006 (with Krister Schönström & Hilde Haualand)

Committees & consultations

DCAL Advisory Committee member 2011-2012

Member of the board of the Department of Linguistics 2009-2014

Member of the Sign Linguistics Corpora Network research group, a project funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). http://www.ru.nl/slcn/ 2008-2010

Member, Editorial Board, Sign Language Studies 2010-

International president in commission on Sign Language, 15th World Congress of the World Federation of the Deaf, Madrid, Spain, July 16-22, 2007

Ad-hoc Journal Reviewing:
- Language in Society

Grant Reviewing:
- The National Science Foundation
- The Economic and Social Research Council UK (ESRC)

Teaching

Spring 2012
Teckenspråk II, Analys av teckenspråkstextanalys, 7,5 hp
Dövblindas kommunikation, 7,5 hp
Teckenspråk - magisterkurs, Examensarbete – magisteruppsats, 15 hp

Fall 2011
Teckenspråk I, Språk och kultur i teckenspråkssamfundet, 7,5 hp (LIT100, LIT121)
Teckenspråkigt korpusarbete, 7,5 hp (LIT710)
Arbete med två språk, 7,5 hp. I samarbete med Stockholms Dramatiska Högskola, Skådespelarprogrammet på svenskt teckenspråk.

Spring 2011
Kognitiv teckenspråksteori II, 7,5 hp (LIT312)

Fall 2010
Teckenspråk kandidatkurs, Uppsats, 15 hp

Lectures also at other universities in Jyväskylä, Trondheim, Örebro, Malmö and Eastern Kentucky University 2000-2010.