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
Kvänska – ett språk med osäker framtid och nytt hopp (2026)
Språkbruk
(E1 Popularised article)
Gatekeeping and gate-opening: Ethical and reflexive research with LESLLA stakeholders: A response to “Why should I care? Research ethics in the field of adult L2 literacy”. (2026)
Dutch journal of applied linguistics
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal)
Sata vuotta saksan kieltä. Saksan kielen oppiainetta juhlittiin Turun yliopistossa (2026)
Tempus
(D1 Article in a professional journal)
The significance of distance: an imagological analysis of the images of Italians in Finnish, Swedish and French travelogues in the second half of the nineteenth century (2026)
Studies in Travel Writing
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Muutoksia yliopistojen saksan, ranskan ja venäjän kielen tutkintokoulutukseen. (2026)
Opinto-ohjaaja
(D1 Article in a professional journal)