Anna Puupponen

I'm a linguist working as a senior lecturer at the Sign Language Centre (SLC) in the Department of Language and Communication Studies at the University of Jyväskylä in Finland. In May 2019, I defended my doctoral thesis about the embodied communication of signers of Finnish Sign Language (FinSL), with a special focus on the semiotic features in the signals produced with the signer's face, head and torso. In my research I've been working with FinSL and Swedish SL corpus data as well as kinematic data. My current research focuses on SL depiction of signers of different ages and it includes methods of corpus linguistics, linguistic ethnography and cognitive neuroscience.

Specialties: Sign Language corpora, Sign Language semiotics, Motion Capture, Computer Vision, kinematic analysis

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An interview of my past and current research in the Researcher of the Month series of Fin-Clarin's The Language Bank of Finland in English and suomeksi.

Information about the ongoing ShowTell project on SLC TV Youtube channel [in FinSL]. 

An interview about the contents of my PhD thesis on SLC TV Youtube channel [in FinSL, incl. Finnish subtitles]. The interview has been published also in Viittomakielinen kirjasto [Finland's Sign Language Library].

An article in JYUnity JYUMagazine about my colleague Juhana Salonen, me, and our paths towards working at the Sign Language Centre in JYU [in Finnish]

IN PROGRESS:

Puupponen, A., Hodge, G., Anible, B., Salonen, J., Wainio, T., Keränen, J., Hernández, D. & Jantunen, T. (forthcoming). Opening up Corpus FinSL: enriching corpus analysis with linguistic ethnography in a study  of constructed action.

Puupponen, A., Kanto, L., Kronqvist, A. & De Weerdt, D. (under review). Sociolinguistic studies into Finnish Sign Language

Hernández, D., Puupponen, A., Keränen, J., Ortega, G. & Jantunen, T. (forthcoming). Between bodily action and conventionalized structure: the neural mechanisms of constructed action in sign language comprehension.