Marjut Johansson
 professori, ranska /Professor of French language

Professori, ranskan kieli/Professor, French

marjut.johansson@utu.fi

+358 29 450 3318

+358 50 328 9207

Arcanuminkuja 1

Turku

Office: 315


ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9515-0586

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Areas of expertise
interactional (socio)linguistics, sociocultural linguistics, discourse analysis, interaction with social robots, digital discourse, computer-mediated communication, political media discourse, language use in professional and expert contexts, multilingualism and language practices, language learning and language expertise

Biography

I work as Professor of the French Studies, my expertise is in applied language studies.  

I have served as the Head of the School of Languages and Translation Studies during 2017-2024.

Previously I have worked as a university teacher and as a lecturer at the Universities of Tampere and Turku, as a visiting scholar at the Université de Provence, France (1997)  and as a senior scientist at the Academy of Finland (2009-2010). 

I have completed MA studies at the Université de Provence and at the University of Turku where I also defended my PhD thesis (2000).



Research

My recent research interests cover three major topics:


1) Interaction based on artificial intelligence, especially human-robot interaction. The main topic here is human-robot interaction in foreign language situations. Read more on the site of RoboLang -research team: https://sites.utu.fi/robolang/

2) Language use in professional and expert contexts, multilingualism, language practicies and policies.

At present, I work on the research topic of Finnish foreign language education policies, French among other languages.

Project: SARAVE is a project for developing university degree programmes in the fields of German, French and Russian languages. Within this project, we

  1. Open a new path to degree programmes in German, French and Russian for applicants with no previous knowledge of these languages
  2.  Develop teaching cooperation between universities, which enables cross-institutional studies for students of German, French and Russian.

The SARAVE project is coordinated by the University of Jyväskylä and funded by the Ministry of Education and Culture.


3) Sociopolitical media discourse. I have worked on a variety of topics in socio-political media discourse, including  work that examines transformations of online news discourse, social media discussions, and multimodal digital texts. I have co-edited several volumes and special issues pertaining to these topics: Analyzing Digital Discourses (Johansson, Tanskanen, Chovanec, 2021),Special issue on Mediatizing emotion: Networked Practices of Stance-taking in Reactions to  Global Events and Crises ( Giaxoglou and Johansson, 2020).



Teaching
Teaching: courses on discourse and interaction studies as well courses on sociolinguistics,especially on topics related to the French-speaking world,  multilingualism and language policies.

Supervision: Supervision of MA and doctoral theses. I am interested in supervising projects whose theoretical and methodological approaches are related to any of topics described above.


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