Johanna Viimaranta
PhD
johanna.viimaranta@utu.fi Hämeenkatu 1 A 14 Office: B432 ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9640-3394 |
Areas of expertise
Russian language; Slavic languages; cognitive linguistics; comparative linguistics; grammar; linguistic methodology
Russian language; Slavic languages; cognitive linguistics; comparative linguistics; grammar; linguistic methodology
Biography
I defended my doctoral dissertation at University of Helsinki in 2006. In 2007-2018 I worked at University of Turku as lecturer (2007-2014) and professor (2014-2018) of Russian studies. I have the title of docent at the University of Turku (2013). Since August 2018 I have held the position of full professor of Russian language at the University of Helsinki.
Research
- onomatopoeic interjections in different languages
- case systems
- prefixes
- conceptual metaphors and metonymies
Teaching
No teaching at the University of Turku at the moment.
Publications 
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- Slavistiikan opetuksen polttavat haasteet – Slavistipäivä 2015 Tampereella (2015)
- Idäntutkimus
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal) - Ustnyj korpus NKJÂ kak istočnik informacii o konceptualizacii (2015) Âzyk i metod: Russkij âzyk v lingvističeskih issledovaniâh XXI veka, tom 2: Lingvističeskij analiz na grani metodologičeskogo sryva Viimaranta Johanna
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - The meaning and use of podportit' on the basis of the Russian National Corpus (2014)
- Russian Linguistics
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - The Russian prefix pod- from the viewpoint of lexical concepts (2014)
- Language and Cognition
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Analogy or Conceptual Metaphor? Coming Concretely and Abstractly Close in Uses of the Russian Prefix pod- (2012)
- SKY Journal of Linguistics
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - The metaphors and metonymies of domination: explaining the different meanings of the Russian prefix pod- (2012)
- Russian Linguistics
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Aika kielitieteellisen tutkimuksen kohteena (2011)
- Idäntutkimus
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Metaphoric Expressions on Vertical Axis Revisited: An Empirical Study of Russian and French Materia (2010)
- Metaphor and Symbol
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - O sub'ektnosti, ob'ektnosti i resursah v metaforah vremeni (2010)
- Russian Linguistics
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Metodologiaa ja ideologiaa (2009) Viimaranta Johanna
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal)
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