Members A-K

Areas of interest:

• literary multilingualism and translingualism
• Italian dialects and Romance minority languages
• Italian contemporary literature and literary translation

Areas of interest:

• Experimental linguistics
• Multilingualism
• French language
• French as a foreign language
• Applied linguistics
• Phonetics
• Pragmatics
• Psycholinguistics
• Language disorder
• Speech impairment

Doctoral research project:

French as a foreign language: The case of linking by Finnish-speaking learners of French

Areas of interest:

• pragmatics
• discourse analysis
• discourse studies
• philosophy of language
• politics
• political philosophy

Areas of interest:

• Language contacts including creole languages
• Sociolinguistics and the Sociology of Language
• Language Policy and Planning
• Critical Discourse Analysis
• Spanish and Portuguese Morphosyntax

Areas of interest:

• Psycholinguistics
• Language acquisition 
• Generalization 
• L1, L2 and L3 among infants and adults
• Comparing languages from different languages families

Areas of interest:

• Didactics of French as a Foreign Language
• Intercultural Communication
• Discourse Analysis
• Language Policies

Areas of interest:

My doctoral research project is: “Rasgos morfosintácticos del español coloquial andino contemporáneo: Entre lo escrito y lo hablado, RAMECAC-EH. ("The morphosyntactic features of current Spanish spoken in the region of the Andes - in written and oral language use" - Andien alueen nykyisen espanjan puhekielen morfosyntaktiset piirteet: puhutussa ja kirjoitetussa kielessä)”

Other areas of interest are: Pragmatics of Spanish, interlanguage and intercultural communication; Spanish politeness; Colloquial Spanish (pronunciation, lexicon and morphosyntax); E-Learning (teaching); Spanish foreign /second language acquisition and its pedagogical teaching; New technologies in the Spanish language teaching and its influence on Colloquial Spanish.

Areas of interest:

• cognitive linguistics
• construction grammar
• contrastive linguistics
• preposition, case and verb semantics
• grammaticalization

Areas of interest:

• History of literature
• Cultural and literary contact between linguistic cultures
• Medieval European literature
• Post-medieval Danish and Icelandic literature
• The effect of linguistic, cultural and technological changes on the transmission and development of old(er) literature to new(er) audiences

Areas of interest:

• Autism Spectrum Disorder (including Asperger) 
• The interface between Semantics and Pragmatics 
• Language development
• Social cognition
• Cross cultural differences
• Non-hegemonic language varieties 

Areas of interest:

• Grammar teaching
• Teaching methods
• Foreign language teaching and acquisition
• Cognitive Linguistics

Areas of interest:

• production of texts and media (applied – journalism etc. – and theoretical in research about media-adequateness of publications in different media)
• history of language(s)
• (historical) semantics (Michel Bréal)
• pragmatics
• media linguistics
• literature and media analysis
• media effects
• E-Learning

Areas of interest:

• Linguistics
• Applied Linguistics
• Teaching Portuguese as Additional language
• Portuguese Language

Areas of interest:

• Diachrony and contrastive analysis of (Ibero)Romance languages
• Grammaticalisation and lexicalisation
• Prepositions and prepositional locutions
• Polysemy, synonymy, and so-called alternations
• Functional and Cognitive Linguistics
• Construction Grammar

Areas of interest:

• Finnish prosody, French prosody, Autism spectrum speech [current PhD project]
• The Finnish sandhi phenomenon of rajageminaatio (boundary gemination) [MA thesis]
• Finnish southwestern dialects [BA thesis]
• Possessive noun phrases, 3pl number agreement or lack thereof in Finnish dialects, Universal Dependencies treebanks [for the Linguistic Adaptation (GramAdapt) project]

Areas of interest:

• contrastive linguistics
• text linguistics
• subjectivity
• expression of cause
• French and Finnish causal connectives and their translation equivalents

Areas of interest:

• Germanic studies
• Enlightenment
• European (continental) cultural history

Areas of interest:

• interlanguage and cross-cultural pragmatics
• sociolinguistics
• second/foreign language acquisition
• politeness
• speech acts
• addressing

Areas of interest:

Diachronic linguistics and the history of the French language; French as a lingua franca in Finland; research on historical letters; interaction, dialogue and terms of address in older written materials

Areas of interest:

One of my main interests concerns the polysemy of light verbs in general, and particularly the verbs expressing transfer and the wide range of metaphorical meanings associated to them.  I have focused on the comparison between Italian and Finnish verbs seeking to evaluate possibilities of a cognitive linguistic-based analysis to be applied to contrastive purposes of Italian light verbs, e.g. dare, mettere, portare, prendere, togliere and their Finnish counterparts. 

I am also interested in examining the effectiveness of an explanatory approach based on cognitive linguistics (theories of embodiment, image schemas, force dynamics) in order to teach the different metaphorical extensions of the above mentioned verbs and other verb constructions to Finnish-speaking students.

Areas of interest:

My post doctoral research project “Finnish and French politeness” is funded by the Finnish Kone foundation 2017–19. My other areas of research interests include forms of address, and verbal violence.

Areas of interest:

• autobiographical discourse
• Postcolonial and Post-Communist literature
• translation studies
• literary translations
• creative multilingualism
• prismatic translations
• translingualism and translanguaging
• slanguages

Areas of interest:

Sociolinguistics; Intercultural / transcultural pragmatics and communication; Identity research; Comparative linguistics (German - Finnish); Multilingualism; Corpus linguistics

Areas of interest:

Spanish and other Romance languages, verbal and prepositional syntax, contrastive grammar

Areas of interest:

• Individual and societal multilingualism
• Linguistic landscapes
• Language ideologies
• Industrial communities
• German-Finnish contrastive linguistics
• Syntax & valency
• Translation (minority language translation, non-professional translation, linguistic features of translated texts)

Areas of interest:

Phraseology, lexicography and historicals syntax of German: see project „HSVW – Historisch syntaktisches Verbwörterbuch des Deutschen“,  https://histvw.wordpress.com/

Areas of interest:

The focus areas of my transdisciplinary research (in German: Bildkonstitution und Kunstkommunikation: Analysen zur visuellen Sinnstiftung im Kontinuum von Alltag und Kunst) are situated at the intersection of aesthetics, visual arts, and German philology:

• German language in visual arts and communicating about visual arts
• German as a language of image studies and philosophy of art
• hermeneutics, phenomenology, everyday aesthetics
• images, image-making, and the visual constitution of meaning in the continuum of everyday life and art
• multimodality, especially in the visual arts
• transgenerational communication

Areas of interest:

• Contemporary French literature, autobiography, diary, personal correspondence
• Representations of Japan in modern French literature
• Representations of the Second World War in French cinema and literature
• Ordinary writing (diaries, letters) from men who did their military service in Algeria in the fifties and sixties

Areas of interest:

• German as a Foreign Language
• Multi-/plurilingualism
• Cross-linguistic interaction and receptive competence
• L2-motivation

Areas of interest:

History of grammar, History of Learning, Grammaticography, European Grammars, Renaissance Grammars, Humanism in Europe, Parts of Speech, Adverbs in Grammars, Particles in Grammars