Timo Savela
FT, PhD
timo.savela@utu.fi Arcanuminkuja 1 Turku |
Discourse analysis; dispositive analysis; pragmatics; schizoanalysis; sociolinguistics; semiotics; geography; landscape research; sociology; philosophy; aesthetics; photography; videography; virtual reality
I was a university teacher and lecturer at the University of Turku from 2021 to 2025. I specialize in pragmatics, discourse analysis, dispositive analysis and landscape research. My background is in English and geography. As a doctoral researcher I further broadened my horizons, studying linguistics, semiotics, philosophy, sosiology and geography.
I am interested in landscapes, nightscapes and virtual reality. I utilize photography, videography and virtual reality technology.
My research is interdisciplinary. I draw from a broad range of fields, including but not limited to linguistics, semiotics, geography and sociology. My work is influenced by continental philosophy (Deleuze, Foucault, Guattari) and sociology (Bourdieu, Tarde).
My most recent research focuses on landscapes, nightscapes and virtual reality. In the past I have studied use of language in politics and in the media.
I have been responsible for several courses:
- Academic Writing and Speaking (ENGL2016)
- Critical Discourse Analysis (ENGL3147)
- Discourse Studies and Pragmatics (ENGL2007)
- Language, Meaning and Action (ENGL2021)
- Spoken English (ENGL1010)
I have also teached three courses in collaboration with my colleagues:
- English Language and Linguistics (ENGL1013)
- Texts and Contexts I (ENGL3156)
- Texts and Contexts II (ENGL3157)
I have also been responsible for seminars, maturity tests and thesis supervision:
- Proseminar + BA thesis (ENGL2011)
- BA degree Finnish language maturity test (HTDK0009)
- Discourse and Philology Thesis Seminar (ENGL3180) + MA thesis (ENGL4116)
My responsibities have also included handling matters related to interships:
- Internship (working life) (KKLT0047)
- Internship (project) (KKLT0050)
In addition, I have held guest lectures on landscape research.
- From monosensory to multisensory: how forests transform people’s understanding of landscape (2025)
- Landscape Research
- Detecting deviance: Exploring a controversy surrounding a rainbow crossing through a Deleuzo-Guattarian lens (2024)
- Geoforum
- Like night and day: channelling desires through landscapes and nightscapes (2023)
- Landscape Research
- More than writing on the wall: An examination of writing and image in a Finnish primary and secondary level learning environment (2022) Savela Timo
- Materialized discourses in the landscape : language, multimodality and agency in a school in Southwest Finland (2021) Savela Timo
- One, two or more? – an examination of the apparition of language and discourse in a Finnish landscape of primary education (2021)
- International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism
- Book review: Mark Fifer Seilhamer: Gender, Neoliberalism and Distinction through Linguistic Capital: Taiwanese Narratives of Struggle and Strategy. 2019. ISBN: 978-1-78-892301-9. (2019)
- Language discourse & society
- Seeing Things Unreel: From Appearance to Apparition (2019) Working on it: PhD Research at the Department of English Savela Timo
- They appear missing – An examination of the apparition of language, discourse and agency in a Finnish landscape of education (2019)
- Language discourse & society
- The advantages and disadvantages of quantitative methods in schoolscape research (2018)
- Linguistics and Education