Welcome to SPREMI on Thursday 7 March, 2024, at 15:15-17 in Källan (C201, Arken, Fabriksgatan 2).

The speaker of the day is postdoctoral researcher Elizabeth Marsden (English Language and Literature, ÅAU.), who will present her topic “A multi-layered relationship: How GIF embedded text contributes to meaning in replies“.

Further information can be found in the abstract.

The seminar can also be attended online at: https://aboakademi.zoom.us/j/66312703059 (Meeting ID: 663 1270 3059)

Everyone is warmly welcome!

Welcome to SPREMI on Monday 13 November, 2023, at 16:15-18 in Helikon (A202, Arken, Tehtaankatu 2).

Professor Marta Dynel from Łódź University (Poland) will present her topic “Building political hashtag affinity spaces: #HaStatoPutin vs. #FuckPutin”.

Further information can be found in the abstract.

The seminar can also be attended online at: https://aboakademi.zoom.us/j/66312703059 (Meeting ID: 663 1270 3059)

Everyone is warmly welcome!

Welcome to SPREMI on Wednesday 19 October, 2023, at 15:15-17 in Helikon (A202, Arken, Tehtaankatu 2).

The speaker of the day is PhD candidate Kukka-Maaria Wessman from the University of Turku. Her topic is “Visual aphorisms as stance-driven multimodal Internet memes”.

Further information can be found in the abstract

The seminar can also be attended online at: https://aboakademi.zoom.us/j/66312703059 (Meeting ID: 663 1270 3059)

Everybody is welcome!

Welcome to SPREMI on Monday 2 October, 2023, at 4 pm in Källan (C201, Arken, Tehtaankatu 2).

The speaker of the day is professor emeritus Jan-Ola Östman (Scandinavian Languages, University of Helsinki). His topic is “Construction Grammar Forty Years After – Constructions all the way up!”.

Further information can be found in the abstract.

The seminar can also be attended online at: https://aboakademi.zoom.us/j/66312703059 (Meeting ID: 663 1270 3059)

Everybody is welcome!

Welcome to SPREMI on Thursday 23 March at 15.15-17 in Helikon (A202, Arken, Tehtaankatu 2).

The speaker of the day is docent Janne Skaffari (English Department, University of Turku). His topic is multilingualism in written texts, and the title of his talk is “Flags out for multilingualism: managing the ‘other’ language in manuscripts.” Abstract

The seminar can also be attended online at: https://aboakademi.zoom.us/j/66312703059 (Meeting ID: 663 1270 3059)

Everybody is welcome!

Welcome to SPREMI on Thursday 3 November, 2022, at 3 pm in Kramer (M220).

Associate Professor Carmen Lee from the Chinese University of Hong Kong will present her work on ¨Online Aggression as a Discourse Practice¨

Further information can be found in the abstract.

The seminar can also be attended online at: https://aboakademi.zoom.us/j/66312703059 (Meeting ID: 663 1270 3059)

Welcome to SPREMI on Thursday 7 April, 2022, at 3 pm.

Professor Christopher Schmidt (German Language and Literature, ÅA) will give a talk in English, entitled: “Culture-specific conceptualization in LSP: A cross-cultural study on cognitive models in German and Swedish organizational theory”

The abstract.

The seminar will take place online at: https://aboakademi.zoom.us/j/66312703059 (Meeting ID: 663 1270 3059)

Welcome to SPREMI this Thursday, 24 March, 2022, at 3 pm.

Aino Malmivirta (English Language and Literature, ÅA) is presenting ongoing research in a talk entitled:

“At the root of ‘corrupt forms of speaking’: exploring the origins of possessives have got and got”

Abstract

The seminar will take place ONLINE at https://aboakademi.zoom.us/j/66312703059

The programme of the linguistics research seminar for spring 2022 is available here (updated 17 February).

The SPREMI series of the autumn term will be rounded off by a seminar Thursday 16 December at 3 pm, in HELIKON (A202), Arken.

Dr Charlotte Stormbom will present recent research in a talk entitled:
“Attitudes towards gender-inclusive language in open access publishing”

Abstract of the presentation: SPREMI-16Dec2021

The seminar can also be attended online:
https://aboakademi.zoom.us/j/66312703059 (Meeting ID: 663 1270 3059)