Department of Modern Finnish and Translation

Nykysuomen ja kääntämisen laitos Institutionen för modern finska och översättning Department of Modern Finnish and Translation

Project: Finnish for special purposes

Aims of the project Teaching Postgraduate studies Publications

Other projects

Contrastive Linguistics and Translation Theory Finnish for Special Purposes Idioms and Collocations Language Acquisition and Testing Bilingual Lexicography

• To promote research in and teaching of Finnish for special purposes (most important areas: medicine and nursing, technology, business, law, administration)
  
  

Continued interaction of teaching and research is seen especially in the implementation of the following courses:

• Theory of Finnish for General and Special Purposes SUO.119
• The Origins of Terms SUO. The Analysis of LSP texts SUO.118
• Business communication SUO.
• Proseminar or B.A. Thesis SUO.120
• Seminar SUO.309 / Translation Seminar (for Swedish-speaking students) SUO.305-306
• M.A. Thesis and Thesis Seminar SUO.398

Seminars etc.:

• The annual VAKKI seminar at Vöyri in April (jointly with the other Departments of the Faculty of Humanities)
• Postgraduate seminar during the academic year

Work in progress includes the following doctoral and licentiate theses:

• Ulla-Helena Kapiala: Psykiatrian kieli, käsitteet ja käsitejärjestelmät (doctoral thesis)
• Ulrika Granqvist-Hedvik: Kalastuselinkeino ja kalastusvälineet (licentiate thesis)

Monographs:

• Oili Karihalme (1996): Muotoilun teoriasanaston termistyminen. (doctoral thesis)
• Antero Niemikorpi (1996): Liekepostista tuikeilmaisimeen ja sulhasesta kuraenkeliin.
• Ulla-Helena Kapiala: Tarttuvat taudit: termistön tutkimus. 1989. (licentiate thesis)
  
  
  Articles: Ulla-Helena Kapiala, Antero Niemikorpi, Johanna Ketola