Publications / presentations / products

Presentations

Rathmann, C., Romanek, P. Z., & Pärgma, J. (2025, May 20-23). Multilingualism in Sign Language Communities: Language Choice [Paper presentation]. Multilingualism and minority languages in a global context - 10th conference of the international consortium “Multilingualism as a Chance”, Davos, Switzerland

Romanek, P. Z., Rathmann, C., & Pärgma, J. (2025, January 14–17).  Perspectives and approaches in grammar description of sign languages [Paper presentation]. Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research 15 (TISLR 15): Using Sign Language in Future; The Future Is Using Sign Language, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. https://www.etera.ee/zoom/204545/view

Rathmann, C., Quadros, R. M. de, Geißler, T., Peters, C., Romanek, P. Z., Condé, S., Fernandes, F. M. de, Loio, M. P., & França Viera, D. (2025, January 14–17). VisuoLab platform: Sign language documentation, sign language learning & teaching, Deaf studies and translation & interpreting [Paper presentation]. Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research 15 (TISLR 15): Using Sign Language in Future; The Future Is Using Sign Language, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. https://www.etera.ee/zoom/204542/view

Rathmann, C., Romanek, P. Z., Pärgma, J., & Laurimaa, S. (2024, August 20–24). Language choice in multilingually diverse settings in Austria, Estonia, Hungary and Germany: A comparative sociolinguistic study of sign language attitudes [Paper presentation]. Globalising Sociolinguistics 3: Language and Inequality, Tallinn, Estonia. https://www.etera.ee/zoom/204544/view

Romanek, P. Z., & Rathmann, C. (2024, October 7–11). Emerging practices in grammar description of sign languages [Paper presentation]. Congressos de Pesquisas em Línguas de Sinais, Florianópolis, Brazil. https://www.etera.ee/zoom/204546/view

Romanek, P. Z., & Rathmann, C. (2024, September 8–14). Perspectives in grammar description of sign languages [Paper presentation]. The 21st International Congress of Linguists, Poznań, Poland. https://www.etera.ee/zoom/204543/view

Quadros, R. M. de, Rathmann, C., Romanek, P. Z., Fernandez, F., & Sther, C. (2024, May 25). Signbank 2.0: Easy to administer, easy to use, easy to share [Paper presentation]. The 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation, Torino, Italy.
 

Publications

Pärgma, J. (2025). Systematic literature review of studies on Estonian Sign Language (forthcoming).

Romanek, P. Z., Pärgma, J., Laurimaa, S., & Rathmann, C. (2025). Language attitude and sign languages in a multilingual signed environment. In D. Sakman & K. Fedorova (Eds.), Globalising sociolinguistics 3: Language and inequality (forthcoming). Routledge.

Pärgma, J. (2025, March 10). Kuidas erinevad viibeldud eesti keel ja eesti viipekeel? Novaator. https://novaator.err.ee/1609627541/minutiloeng-kuidas-erinevad-viibeldud-eesti-keel-ja-eesti-viipekeel

Sandra Laurimaa: Viipekeelse kogukonna vajadustest ja ootustest. ERR. https://www.err.ee/1609569175/sandra-laurimaa-viipekeelse-kogukonna-vajadustest-ja-ootustest

Romanek, P., Rathmann, C., Pärn, Õ., & Pärgma, J. (2024). EVKUR-i soovitus: Eesti viipekeele hariduse professionaalse arengu edendamine [Recommendation]. Estonian Sign Language Research Lab, Tallinn University. https://doi.org/10.60518/etera/38

Estonian Sign Language Research Lab. (2024, May 31–June 1). Tallinn Declaration. First Symposium of Deaf Interpreting and Translation, Tallinn, Estonia. https://www.etera.ee/zoom/204547/view

Products / Reports

Quadros, R. M. de, Rathmann, C., Romanek, P. Z., Soares Neto, F. F., & Condé, S. (2024).
Signbank 2.0 (Version 2.0) [Software].
https://gitlab.com/levantelab-all/signbank/-/tree/dev?ref_type=heads