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
Kestävää kehitystä edistävät pedagogiset materiaalit kielten opetuksessa (2026)
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book)Nachhaltige Themen im Deutschunterricht vermitteln : die EKKO-Lernmaterialien. (2026)
Aktuelles: Suomen Saksanopettajat ry:n jäsenlehti
(D1 Article in a professional journal)
En quoi un « organisme manipulé » diffère-t-il d’un « organisme modifié » ? (2026)
Mémoires de la Société Néophilologique
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication )
Review of Le Foll (2024): Textbook English: A multi-dimensional approach (2026)
(Other publication)Muutoksia yliopistojen saksan, ranskan ja venäjän kielen tutkintokoulutukseen. (2026)
Opinto-ohjaaja
(D1 Article in a professional journal)