Timo Savela
FT, PhD
timo.savela@utu.fi Arcanuminkuja 1 Turku Student advising available on campus and online. Book a time via email. |
Discourse analysis; dispositive analysis; pragmatics; schizoanalysis; sociolinguistics; semiotics; geography; landscape research; sociology; philosophy; aesthetics; photography; videography; virtual reality
I am a university lecturer at the University of Turku. 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.
My current research focuses on landscapes, nightscapes and virtual reality. In this work, 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 current research focuses on landscapes, nightscapes and virtual reality. In the past I have studied use of language in politics and in the media.
I am currently responsible for several courses:
- Academic Writing and Speaking (ENGL2016)
- Critical Discourse Analysis (ENGL3147)
- Language, Meaning and Action (ENGL2021)
- Spoken English (ENGL1010)
I also teach two courses in collaboration with my colleagues:
- Texts and Contexts I (ENGL3156)
- Texts and Contexts II (ENGL3157)
I am also currently 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 current responsible also include handling matters related to interships:
- Intership (working life) (KKLT0047)
- Internship (project) (KKLT0050)
In the past I have also been responsible for other courses:
- English Language and Linguistics (ENGL1013)
- Discourse Studies and Pragmatics (ENGL2007)
In addition, I have held guest lectures on landscape research.
- Detecting deviance: Exploring a controversy surrounding a rainbow crossing through a Deleuzo-Guattarian lens (2024)
- Geoforum
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Like night and day: channelling desires through landscapes and nightscapes (2023)
- Landscape Research
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - More than writing on the wall: An examination of writing and image in a Finnish primary and secondary level learning environment (2022) Savela Timo
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Materialized discourses in the landscape : language, multimodality and agency in a school in Southwest Finland (2021) Savela Timo
(G5 Article dissertation ) - 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
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - 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
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal) - Seeing Things Unreel: From Appearance to Apparition (2019) Working on it: PhD Research at the Department of English Savela Timo
(D2 Article in a professional compilation book) - They appear missing – An examination of the apparition of language, discourse and agency in a Finnish landscape of education (2019)
- Language discourse & society
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - The advantages and disadvantages of quantitative methods in schoolscape research (2018)
- Linguistics and Education
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)