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Early Research on Finnish Sign Language : In the Footsteps of Great Role Models (2024)

Rissanen, T., Rainò, P., & Takkinen, R. (2024). Early Research on Finnish Sign Language : In the Footsteps of Great Role Models. Sign Language Studies, 24(2), 362-375. https://doi.org/10.1353/sls.2024.a920116

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Julkaisun kaikki tekijät tai toimittajat: Rissanen, Terhi; Rainò, Päivi; Takkinen, Ritva

Lehti tai sarja: Sign Language Studies

ISSN: 0302-1475

eISSN: 1533-6263

Julkaisuvuosi: 2024

Volyymi: 24

Lehden numero: 2

Artikkelin sivunumerot: 362-375

Kustantaja: Gallaudet university press

Julkaisumaa: Yhdysvallat (USA)

Julkaisun kieli: englanti

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sls.2024.a920116

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Research on Finnish Sign Language (FinSL) started in 1982 at Helsinki University. The main drivers behind it were Professor Fred Karlsson, then head of the Department of General Linguistics at Helsinki University and Liisa Kauppinen, who was the executive director of the Finnish Association of the Deaf (and who, in later years, received honorary doctorates from Gallaudet University, the University of Jyväskylä in Finland, and Trinity College in Ireland). The first paid researchers in this new endeavor were a linguistics student, Terhi Rissanen, together with Thomas Sandholm, a native FinSL signer. Their combined experiences are recounted in the first section of this article. In the second section, Päivi Rainò, who grew up in a signing family, recounts how she joined this team as a student intern. The third section is by Ritva Takkinen, who describes how she became interested in signing while studying to be a speech therapist in the early 1970s and went on to do research on the acquisition of FinSL while working on her MA thesis and later her PhD thesis.

YSO-asiasanat: viittomakieli; suomalainen viittomakieli; kielentutkimus; tutkimushistoria; oppihistoria

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