Research at the Department of Chinese
The Department of Chinese conducts research on contemporary Chinese linguistics, focusing on digital communications, corpus linguistics, cognitive linguistics, sociolinguistics, and second language acquisition. Our research explores language use in modern Sinophone societies, the intersection of language and technology, the interaction between language and cognition, and the role of language in social change.
The research activities of the department have been focusing on the following areas:
- Chinese construction grammar
- Digital platform-mediated communication
- Chinese language and gender
- East Asian languages and human bodily experience
- Discourses regarding emerging social phenomena
- Chinese language learning and teaching
Recent Publications
Text and context revisited within a multimodal framework (2024)
Babel
(A2 Refereed review article in a scientific journal )
Kielitaito on osa kansallista huoltovarmuutta — Suomi tarvitsee jatkossakin useiden vieraiden kielten osaajia (2024)
Turun Sanomat
(E1 Popularised article)
Towards Automatic Register Classification in Unrestricted Databases of Historical English (2024)
(Refereed article in compilation book (A3))Puheen tutkimuksen uusia suuntia – Aineistona vapaasti tuotettu puhe. New directions in speech research – Freely produced speech as data. (2024)
AFinLA-teema
(C2 Editorial work for a scientific compilation book)