Marjut Johansson
 

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, espcially 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) 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).

3) 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.


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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