
MIKKO LAITINEN
Professor
English language and culture, digital humanities, PhD
I work as Professor of English Language. Prior to this, I was in Linnaeus University in Sweden, where I am one of the two founding members of the Center of Data Intensive Sciences and Applications (DISA), a multidisciplinary big data consortium. My research focuses on the role social networks in language variation and change in English, computational sociolinguistics, and on digital humanities.
We currently have two research projects. First, EvolvE is a research consortium that brings together experts from the UEF and TUNI, and it investigates the extent to which second language and non-native uses of English in the digital age are shaped by the same natural evolutionary processes that affect the established native varieties. Second, SOCOS is a digital humanities project that combines the methodologies of sociolinguistics and computer sciences at UEF. The objective is to improve access to and use of real-time language data in Twitter and to use these data to test how social network theory works on big data. The project has collaborators in the School of Computing at the UEF and in the Alan Turing Institute in London.
Contact info
Organization
School of Humanities, Foreign Languages and Translation Studies
mikko.laitinen@uef.fi
Phone
+358 50 441 2389
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Publications
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Towards Visual Sociolinguistic Network Analysis. Kucher, Kostiantyn; Fatemi, Masoud; Laitinen, Mikko / Proceedings of the 16th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications. 2021. 2021
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Laitinen, Mikko. 2020. Cambridge Handbook of English Historical Linguistics, ed. Merja Kytö & Päivi Pahta. (Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics) Neuphilologische mitteilungen 2019; 120 1: 213-217. 2020
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Laitinen, Mikko. 2020. Empirical perspectives on English as a lingua franca (ELF) grammar World englishes 39 3: 427-442. 2020
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Laitinen, Mikko; Fatemi, Masoud; Lundberg, Jonas. 2020. Size matters: Digital social networks and language change Frontiers in artificial intelligence and applications 3: 46. 2020
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Lundberg, Jonas; Laitinen, Mikko. 2020. Twitter trolls: a linguistic profile of anti-democratic discourse Language sciences 79 May 2020: 101268. 2020
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Samaan aikaan somessa - havaintoja englannin kielen käytöstä itäsuomalaisessa tviittivirrassa. Laitinen, Mikko; Paulasto, Heli; Meriläinen, Lea / Ääniä idästä - Näkökulmia Itä-Suomen monikielisyyteen. 2020. 2020
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ELF, language change and social networks: Evidence from real-time social media data. Laitinen, Mikko; Lundberg, Jonas / Language Change: The Impact of English as a Lingua Franca. 2020. 2020
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Auer, Anita; Laitinen, Mikko. 2019. Preface: Mobility, Variability and Changing Literacies in Modern Times Neuphilologische mitteilungen 2018; 119 1: 13-20. 2019
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Charting New Sources of elf Data: A Multi-Genre Corpus Approach. Laitinen, Mikko; Levin, Magnus; Lakaw, Alexander / From Data to Evidence in English Language Research. 2019. 2019
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Mobility, Variability and Changing Literacies in Modern Times. Auer, Anita; Laitinen, Mikko. 2019 2019