Selcen Erten Johansson
Corpus linguistics, text varieties (registers), media discourse analysis, teaching Turkish and English as a foreign language.
Selcen Erten Johansson is a Turkish linguist with a background in languages, both personally and professionally. After completing her schooling in Türkiye, Latvia, and Sweden, where she conducted linguistic analyses and studied several languages, she worked and studied at Michigan State University as a Fulbright scholar. In December 2019, she earned her Master's degree in Linguistics from Mersin University, Türkiye. During her Master's studies, she focused on analyzing languages in digital contexts, specializing in applying digital methods to Turkish grammar. This specialization led her to the Digital Linguistics program at the University of Turku in August 2021. She investigates web text varieties with a focus on Turkish, by combining corpus linguistics with media discourse analysis at the University of Turku.
Currently, Selcen Erten Johansson is applying the study of Turkish web registers to recent political events featured in Turkish media. Specifically, she analyzes how Finland's NATO membership process is portrayed in Turkish media through news reports, newspaper columns, and internet forums.
This research is supported by a grant from the Eino Jutikkala Fund of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters for the period 2024–2026.
Corpus Linguistics and Language Technology course at the University of Turku, September 2024.
Turkish as a foreign language at Turun Suomenkielinen Työväenopisto, September 2023 - April 2024.
Automatic Text Processing course at the University of Turku, October - December 2023.
Automatic Text Processing course at the University of Turku, October - December 2022.
General English and English Academic Writing at Toros University, Türkiye, September 2016 - June 2020.
Turkish as a foreign language at Michigan State University, the USA, August 2015 - May 2016.
- Miksi suomen kielen oppiminen voi olla helppoa? (2025)
- Turun Seutusanomat
(E1 Popularised blog post) - Anla artık, anla beni…Patterns of mental verbs in Turkish (2024) Selected Essays on Turkish Linguistics: The Anadolu Meeting. Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Turkish Linguistics Erten,Selcen; Aksan, Mustafa
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - From Discrete to Continuous Classes: A Situational Analysis of Multilingual Web Registers with LLM Annotations (2024) Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Natural Language Processing for Digital Humanities Henriksson, Erik; Myntti, Amanda; Hellström, Saara; Erten-Johansson, Selcen; Eskelinen, Anni; Repo, Liina; Laippala, Veronika
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Linguistic variation beyond the Indo-European web: Analyzing Turkish web registers in TurCORE (2024)
- Register studies
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Turkkilainen Turkulainen: Linguistic observations of a teacher of Turkish and learner of Finnish (2024)
- Hiiskuttua: Turun yliopiston humanistisen tiedekunnan verkkolehti
(D1 Article in a professional journal) - Exploring Register Variation in Turkish Web Corpus (2023) Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on CMC and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities Erten Selcen
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Learning Finnish as a foreign language: Can it be easier than you think? (2023)
- Student Life at the University of Turku
(Other publication) - Mama mia, sono in Italia! My EC2U adventur-a at the University of Pavia! (2023)
- Student Life at the University of Turku
(Other publication) - Λanguages with a Дifferent AlΦabet * – It’s not all Greek to me anymore (2023)
- Student Life at the University of Turku
(Other publication) - Corpus profiles of Turkish mental verbs with reference to Pattern Grammar and Corpus-assisted Discourse Studies (2019) Erten Selcen
(G2 Master’s thesis, polytechnic Master’s thesis)
