June 13, 2013

Website Launched Connects Research and Multilingual Communities



The University of Jyväskylä’s Discourse Studies Research Team has announced the launch of a new website that brings together research and multilingual minority language communities to showcase creative uses of language in everyday life.

The website, Jyväskylä Discourse Hub (www.discoursehub.fi), includes

* examples of community and research-led initiatives to increase awareness of language practices within minority and indigenous language communities
* an invitation for individuals, communities, and researchers to share their projects related to creative uses of language
* a clearinghouse for research that investigates the ways in which language practices change and how languages are managed and maintained in multilingual communities, and
* responses to Frequently Asked Questions about Nexus Analysis, a discourse analytic framework  taken up by the research team.