My first venture into the 17th century, in collaboration with Jukka Tyrkkö, is now available in Graphic Practices and Literacies in the History of English, ed. by M. Peikola, J. Tyrkkö & @mlvarila.bsky.social (Brepols).
Today I was given the 'Lighthouse' award by the School of Languages and Translation Studies @uniturku.bsky.social, for services to teaching, supervision and various types of curricular work. Many thanks to whoever nominated me, the selection committee and the community I work in! #lecturerslife
Wrote with Minna Hjort about commercial and non-commercial uses of English in the oldest town in Finland. Our chapter is part of a new Finnish book on #linguisticlandscapes in Turku, ed. by Lantto et al. @sksfinlit.bsky.social
Janne Sk
Janne Sk
Janne Sk
Reading Visual Devices in Early Books conference starting this morning @uniturku.bsky.social. Exciting days ahead!
Talked to alumni about codeswitching throughout the history of English, not just something Finns do today. (Photo: Inkeri at kieliaturussa IG)
Last day of Reading Visual Devices conference, organised by @emodgral.bsky.social project. Talked about pronouns in E Mod #grammar books and learnt a lot from my fellow presenters. Great session!
I should hope not!
Never knew Old English could take you places, but there we were, Alpo Honkapohja and I, on live radio today, interviewed by Nicklas Wancke about the new collection of OE literature translated into Finnish.
