Eveliina Tolvanen
PhD, Researcher
Text research; institutional communication; Systemic-Functional Linguistics; spoken interaction; Interactional Linguistics; linguistic landscapes; institutional multilingualism; contrastive research.
2024-2026: Researcher, University of Turku/Project researcher in Social Sciences, Åbo Akademi University.
2023-2024: Post-doctoral researcher, Swedish and other languages in the linguistic landscape of specialized healthcare (Svenska litteratursällskapet i Finland). University of Turku.
2019-2022: Post-doctoral researcher, EGS: Emergent Clausal Syntax for Conversation - Swedish in a Cross-Language Comparison (2018-2022, Academy of Finland). University of Helsinki.
2017-2019: Post-doctoral researcher (Svenska Kulturfonden). Affiliated with the research programme IVIP: Interaktion och variation i pluricentriska språk - Kommunikativa mönster i sverigesvenska och finlandssvenska (2013-2020, Riksbankens Jubileumsfond). University of Turku.
2010-2016: PhD candidate, Scandinavian Languages, University of Turku.
In 2025-2026, I am employed in two research projects/environments:
Communicative patterns in two languages (University of Turku, financed by The Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland, 2023-2026)
Linguistic justice, global migration and the Nordic welfare state (Linnaeus University and Åbo Akademi University; financed by The Swedish Research Council, 2023-2027)
In addition, I am active in the research network Svenskan i Åbo (Swedish in Turku), especially concerning Swedish in health care.
- AFinLA 2013
Suomen soveltavan kielitieteen yhdistyksen syyssymposium
Autumn Symposium of the Finnish Assocition of Applied Linguistics
Tulevaisuuden kielenkäyttäjä - Language Users of Tomorrow
Turun yliopisto 14.–16.11.2013
University of Turku November 14–16, 20
(2013) Ilmari Ivaska, AFinLA:n järjestelytoimikunta, Turun yliopiston Kieli- ja käännöstieteiden laitoksen projektiharjoitteluryhmä - Informerande myndighetstexter på webben i ett kontrastivt perspektiv (2013)
- VAKKI Publications
- Myndighetskommunikation på minoritetens språk. En jämförelse av några finländska och svenska myndighetsbroschyrer (2013)
- Svenskans Beskrivning
- Myndigheten och läsaren i myndighetstexter (2012)
- Språkbruk
- Textens sändare och mottagare i myndighetsbroschyrer på svenska och finska i Finland och Sverige (2012)
- Vaasan Yliopiston Julkaisuja: Selvityksiä Ja Raportteja
