
Mikko Laitinen
Professor
English language and culture, digital humanities, PhD
School of Humanities, Foreign Languages and Translation Studies
mikko.laitinen@uef.fi | +358 50 441 2389
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.
Publications
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Big and rich social networks in computational sociolinguistics
Laitinen, Mikko; Fatemi, Masoud. Teoksessa: Rautionaho, Paula; Parviainen, Hanna; Kaunisto, Mark; Nurmi, Arja, 2022. Social and Regional Variation in World Englishes : Local and Global Perspectives. s. 166-190. Routledge A3 Book section, Chapters in research books -
Individual sensitivity to change in the lingua franca use of English
Taipale, Irene; Laitinen, Mikko. 2022. Frontiers in communication. 6: A1 Journal article (refereed), original research -
Sofia Rüdiger and Daria Dayter (eds.), Corpus approaches to social media (Studies in Corpus Linguistics 98). Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2020. Pp. vi + 210. ISBN 9789027207944
Laitinen, Mikko. 2022. English language and linguistics. 2023; 27: 209-214 B1 Non-refereed journal articles -
Actually in Nordic tweets
Tyrkkö, Jukka; Levin, Magnus; Laitinen, Mikko. 2021. World englishes. 40: 631-649 A1 Journal article (refereed), original research -
Self-Similarity of Twitter Users
Fatemi, Masoud; Kucher, Kostiantyn; Laitinen, Mikko; Franti, Pasi. Teoksessa: Kucher, Kostiantyn, 2021. Proceedings of the 2021 Swedish Workshop on Data Science (SweDS). : 1-7. IEEE A4 Conference proceedings -
Towards Visual Sociolinguistic Network Analysis
Kucher, Kostiantyn; Fatemi, Masoud; Laitinen, Mikko. Teoksessa: Hurter, Christophe; Purchase, Helen; Braz, Jose; Bouatouch, Kadi, 2021. Proceedings of the 16th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - IVAPP (Volume 3). : 248-255. SCITEPRESS Science And Technology Publications A4 Conference proceedings -
Cambridge Handbook of English Historical Linguistics, ed. Merja Kytö & Päivi Pahta. (Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics)
Laitinen, Mikko. 2020. Neuphilologische mitteilungen. 2019; 120: 213-217 B1 Non-refereed journal articles -
ELF, language change and social networks: Evidence from real-time social media data
Laitinen, Mikko; Lundberg, Jonas. Teoksessa: Mauranen, Anna; Vetchinnikova, Svetlana, 2020. Language Change: The Impact of English as a Lingua Franca. s. 179-204. Cambridge University Press A3 Book section, Chapters in research books -
Empirical perspectives on English as a lingua franca (ELF) grammar
Laitinen, Mikko. 2020. World englishes. 39: 427-442 A1 Journal article (refereed), original research -
Samaan aikaan somessa - havaintoja englannin kielen käytöstä itäsuomalaisessa tviittivirrassa
Laitinen, Mikko; Paulasto, Heli; Meriläinen, Lea. Teoksessa: Kolehmainen, Leena; Riionheimo, Helka; Uusitupa, Milla, 2020. Ääniä idästä - Näkökulmia Itä-Suomen monikielisyyteen. s. 229-269. Suomalaisen kirjallisuuden seura A3 Book section, Chapters in research books