Eveliina
Tolvanen
Senior Researcher, Finnish, Finno-Ugric and Scandinavian languages
PhD, Researcher

Contact

Arcanuminkuja 1
20500
Turku

Areas of expertise

Text research
institutional communication
Systemic-Functional Linguistics
spoken interaction
Interactional Linguistics
linguistic landscapes
institutional multilingualism
contrastive research.

Biography

2023-2024: Post-doctoral researcher, Swedish and other languages in the linguistic landscape of specialized healthcare (Svenska litteratursällskapet i Finland). University of Turku.

2019-2022: Post-doctoral researcher in EGS: Emergent Clausal Syntax for Conversation - Swedish in a Cross-Language Comparison (2018-2022, Academy of Finland). University of Helsinki.

2017-2019: Post-doctoral researcher (Svenska Kulturfonden). Affiliated with the research programme IVIP: Interaktion och variation i pluricentriska språk - Kommunikativa mönster i sverigesvenska och finlandssvenska (2013-2020, Riksbankens Jubileumsfond). University of Turku.

2010-2016: Doctoral student, Scandinavian Languages, University of Turku.

Research

Starting in 2023, I am investigating institutional multilingualism in my research project:

Swedish and other languages in the linguistic landscape of specialized healthcare (University of Turku, financed by the Society of Swedish Literature in Finland)

Starting in 2024, I will contribute to two research projects:

Communicative patterns in two languages (University of Turku, financed by The Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland)

Linguistic justice, global migration and the Nordic welfare state (Linnaeus University and Åbo Akademi University; financed by The Swedish Research Council)


Publications

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