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Johanna
Viimaranta

Docent, School of Languages and Translation Studies
PhD

Contact

Hämeenkatu 1 A 14

Areas of expertise

Russian language
Slavic languages
cognitive linguistics
comparative linguistics
grammar
linguistic methodology

Biography

I defended my doctoral dissertation at University of Helsinki in 2006. In 2007-2018 I worked at University of Turku as lecturer (2007-2014) and professor (2014-2018) of Russian studies. I have the title of docent at the University of Turku (2013). Since August 2018 I have held the position of full professor of Russian language at the University of Helsinki.

Teaching

No teaching at the University of Turku at the moment. 

Research

- onomatopoeic interjections in different languages

- case systems

- prefixes

- conceptual metaphors and metonymies

Publications

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Introduction (2017)

Milla Luodonpää-Manni, Esa Penttilä, Johanna Viimaranta
(Vertaisarvioitu artikkeli kokoomateoksessa (A3))