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
Machine learning in modeling historical registers – A new perspective to text linguistics (2026)
(G5 Article dissertation )Avoin Avustaja vastaa suomenkielisen kielimallin kysyntään (2025)
Kiekaus
(D1 Article in a professional journal)
Assessing the Relevance of the 1992 Namibian Language in Education Policy (NLiEP) Document (2025)
Language Matters: Studies in the Languages of Africa
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Addressing linguistic and social sustainability: morphological awareness among multilingual students with varying first-language literacy levels (2025)
European Journal of Applied Linguistics
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
100 Jahre Deutsch an der Universität Turku (2025)
Aktuelles: Suomen Saksanopettajat ry:n jäsenlehti
(D1 Article in a professional journal)