RESEARCH SEMINAR
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PROGRAMME FOR SPRING 2011
Tuesday 1 February, Rosetta 217, 18:00
Alyson Pitts
When "not" isn't quite so logical, after all: A case study of natural language negation, courtesy of Disney/Pixar
Tuesday 22 February, Rosetta 217, 18:00
Joel Kuortti
Hybridity and literary works: Salman Rushdie's The Enchantress of Florence
Tuesday 8 March, Rosetta 217, 18:00
Tba
Tuesday 12 April, Rosetta 217, 18:00
Outi Paloposki
Translators as cultural ambassadors: Mediating British culture in Finland in the early 20th century
Tuesday 10 May, Rosetta 217, 18:00
Mari-Liisa Varila
Fuzzy borders, fluid text: Shared material in two early modern commonplace books
N.B. Please note that the Rosetta main doors are automatically locked at 18:00.
WELCOME!
Autumn 2009
Tuesday 28 September, Rosetta 1, 18:00
Keith Battarbee
The Politics of language: What happens when the politicians turn their attention to language?
Tuesday 12 October, Rosetta 1, 18:00
Dr. Clive Tolley
From Anglo-Saxon England to modern Finland: Linguistic, cultural and poetic challenges in translating Beowulf
Tuesday 11 November, Rosetta 1, 18:00
Vesna Kovacevic-Konttinen
Indian women: Reflections on Manju Kapur's Difficult Daughters
Tuesday 23 November, Rosetta 1, 18:00
Pekka Lintunen and Janne Skaffari
The applicant's best friend: Grammar in the entrance exam
Spring 2010
Tuesday 26 January, room 217 (Rosetta, 2nd floor), 18:00
George Elliott Clarke (University of Toronto)
Anti-Social Attitudes in African-Canadian Literature
Tuesday 9 February, room 217 (Rosetta, 2nd floor), 18:00
Ellen Valle
The Pursuit of 'happiness': An essay in historical semantics
Tuesday 23 February, room 217 (Rosetta, 2nd floor), 18:00
Jelena Selivanova (Moscow State Linguistic University)
Semantic Complexes in the Verbal System
Tuesday 23 March, room 217 (Rosetta, 2nd floor), 18:00
Nicholas Royle (University of Sussex)
Veerer: Reading Melville’s "Bartleby"
(Reading Melville’s story in advance is recommended)
Tuesday 13 April, room 217 (Rosetta, 2nd floor), 18:00
Hanna Salmi
Interaction and Its Textual Functions in "The Owl and the Nightingale"
Tuesday 11 May, room 217 (Rosetta, 2nd floor), 18:00
David Bergen
The Development of Translation Competence through Cognitive Conflict
Autumn 2009
Tue 8 September, H2, 18:00
M. Soraya García Sánchez (University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria)
Michèle Roberts's protagonists: A female, literary and narrative history
Tue 29 September, H1, 16:15
Manfred Markus (University of Innsbruck)
Spoken features in English dialect (based on Joseph Wright’s English Dialect Dictionary, 1898-1905)
Tue 13 October, room 217 (Rosetta, 2nd floor), 18:00
Marianna Sunnari
Defining features of professionalism and expertise in conference interpreting
Tue 10 November, room 217 (Rosetta, 2nd floor), 18:00
Alyson Pitts
Metamessages of denial: The pragmatics of English negation
Tue 8 December, room 217 (Rosetta, 2nd floor), 18:00
Riina Law
Classical and concessive repair in IRC
Spring 2009
Tue 24 February, H2, 18:00
Riina Law
Classical and concessive repair in IRC
Tue 17 March, H2, 18:00
Katalin Doró (University of Szeged)
Academic literacy demands and language proficiency: The experience of first-year students of English at a Hungarian university
Tue 31 March, H2, 18:00
Olga Zimina (Irkutsk State University)
Russian traditions of discourse studies
Tue 21 April, H2, 18:00
Maija S. Peltola
Productional training and neural plastisity (– new memory traces emerge for English words in just three days)
Tue, 28 April, H2, 18:00
David Savola (Visiting Fulbright Lecturer)
‘Another uninhabitable planet’: Upper Michigan in the works of Jim Harrison
Tue, 5 May, H2, 18:00
Minna Ruokonen
Interpretive possibilities of allusions in the Finnish translations of Dorothy L. Sayers’ detective novels
Tue, 19 May, H2, 18:00
Marianne Suutari
The identification and production of the English sibilants and affricates by Finnish learners
Autumn 2008
Tue, 30 September, H2, 19:00
Ruth Carroll
Et cetera, and manega oþre þylce ðing: Extender Tags and Historical English PhraseologyCheese and wine will be available in H3 before the seminar at 18:00.
Tue, 28 October, H2, 18:00
Anna Orhanen
Obsolescing Oppositions: The Function of Paradox in Oscar Wilde’s Philosophy of Art
Tue, 25 November, H2, 18:00
Helena Halmari (Sam Houston State University, Texas)
Grammatical Aspects of Codeswitching in Late Medieval Macaronic Sermons
Tue, 9 December, H2, 18:00
Elina Siltanen
Voices of Others: Redefining Communication in Contemporary American Experimental Poetry
Spring 2008
Tue, 19 February, H1, 18:00
Risto Hiltunen and Matti Peikola
“The prologue declareth to whom this volume appertyneth": Prologues and Epilogues in Early English Books
Tue, 18 March, H1, 18:00
Marjut Johansson, Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen and other members of the Interaction Research Group
Communication Problems in Technologically Mediated Interaction
Tue, 1 April, H1, 18:00
Päivi Pietilä, Heini-Marja Järvinen, Pekka Lintunen, Leena Taanila-Hall and Sonja Vainio
Accuracy or Fluency? Cross-Linguistic Influence on Second Language Speaking Skills
Tue, 22 April, H1, 18:00 Lydia Kokkola, Tuomas Huttunen and Janne Korkka
Silence as Voice: Reempowering the disempowered in contemporary English literatures
Autumn 2007
Tue, 25 September, H2, 18:00
Pauliina Savola
Analysing Political Manifestos: Language and Structure of Educational Policies of the British Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrat Parties
Tue, 16 October, H2, 18:00
Janne Skaffari
Profiling the Good Grammarian
Tue, 13 November, H2, 18:00
Xiao-Jie Qin
Exchange of Attitudinal Meaning in American and Chinese Online Consumer Complaints
Tue, 11 December, H2, 18:00
Päivi Pietilä
Lexis vs Grammar in Advanced L2 English
Spring 2007
Tue, 30 January, H1, 18:00
Licentiate defence: FM Raita Merivirta-Chakrabarti
The Novelist as Historian: History and Historiography in Shashi Tharoor’s The Great Indian Novel
Examiners: Prof. Auvo Kostiainen (TY) and Prof. John Skinner (TY)
Tue, 6 February, H2, 18:00
Dr Jacob Thaisen (Adam Mickiewicz University, Pozna)
Did Chaucer authorize the inclusion of the Tale of Gamelyn in Canterbury Tales?
Tue, 13 March, H2, 18:00
FM Sonja Vainio
Textbook washback of the Finnish matriculation examination in English
Tue, 17 April, H2, 18:00
FM Heli Harsunen
Metaphors in sports media discourse – a cognitive approach
Autumn 2006
Tue, 12 September, H1, 18:00
Dr Klára Szabó (University of Szeged)
Themes in American Poetry
Dr Anikó Nemeth (University of Szeged)
Work and Labour in Female and Male Art
Tue, 10 October, H1, 18:00
Dr Kai Mikkonen (University of Helsinki, the author of Kuva ja sana)
Tue, 14 November, H2, 18:00
Dr Ana E. Martínez Insua (University of Vigo)
Indirect Speech Acts in Early Modern English Speech
Tue, 12 December, H2, 18:00
Leena Taanila-Hall, M.A.
Pragmatic Features in Finnish High School English Textbooks