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
Do all politicians sound the same? Comparing model explanations to human responses (2026)
DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Cultivating commitment : exploring motivational dynamics in Finnish university students pursuing Chinese language studies (2026)
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book)Teaching sustainability in Higher Education language courses: language teachers’ practices, attitudes and justifications (2026)
Language Learning in Higher Education
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Kestävää kehitystä edistävä kielten opetus: Tehtäväpaketti espanjan kielen opetukseen (2026)
(D5 Text book, professional manual or guide or dictionary )« Il est assez facile pour moi d’écrire un texte »: la fluidité chez les scripteurs multilingues au niveau universitaire (2026)
Mémoires de la Société Néophilologique
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication )