Kaj Borg
Lehtori yp., FL
kborg@utu.fi +358 29 450 3307 +358 50 328 9073 Arcanuminkuja 1 Turku |
Linguistics; the Swedish language; onomastics; anthroponomastics; socio-onomastics
I work as a lecturer of the Swedish language at the Department of Nordic languages in the School of Languages and Translation Studies. In my undergraduate degree, I majored in Germanic philology, but I also completed advanced studies in Nordic philology. After my master's degree, before my current post, I worked as an assistant in Germanic philology, as a research assistant at the Academy of Finland and as an assistant in the Nordic languages. After completing my licentiate degree, I have also studied educational science and completed my pedagogical studies as a teacher.
My research is related to onomastics, i.e. name studies. Above all, I am interested in anthroponomics, or research on personal names. I have studied e.g. the Christian name giving of the German S-t Gertrud parish in Stockholm and the Swedish-speaking municipality of Dragsfjärd in the Turku archipelago. My current research interest lies in the baptism in the bilingual (Swedish-Finnish) city of Kokkola. I am interested in naming both as a linguistic system and as a system that enables meanings.
I teach Swedish normative grammar, modern Swedish literature, Swedish literary production, and give proseminars and supervise bachelor's theses. I also take book exams on literature analysis and stylistics, as well as Swedish translation. I have also taught my speciality, onomastics.
- Identitet i ljuset av interpersonella metafunktioner i ett historiskt
dopnamnsmaterial (2017) Namn och identitet Borg Kaj
(Refereed article in conference proceedings (A4)) - Kielitietoisuuden kautta kohti ihmiskunnan suuria kysymyksiä (2017)
- Kieli, Koulutus Ja Yhteiskunta
(Article in trade journal or blog post (D1)) - En färd i språket. Festskrift till Marketta Sundman på 60-årsdagen den 12 mars 2009 (2009) Berg Kirsten M., Borg Kaj, Ingman Eva, Sandelin Minna, Åberg Anne-Ma
(Editorship of a scientific special issue, book or conference proceedings (C2))