Helsingin yliopisto - Englantilainen filologia

Jukka Tyrkkö

MA, postgraduate researcher, part-time instructor

Consultation: by appointment

Telephone national: (09) 191 23519
Telephone international: +358 9 191 23519

E-mail: jukka.tyrkko(at)helsinki.fi
Website: http://www.helsinki.fi/varieng/people/varieng_tyrkko.html

Research

I am currently finishing my PhD on coherence in hypertext narratives. With the aims of examining how coherence is created in hypertexts and how, if at all, this differs from more conventional texts, the approach combines text linguistics, discourse analysis and interactional pragmatics with a cognitive model of narrative structure arising from text world theory.

All my research projects focus on written text, ranging diachronically from LME to PDE. Most recently, I have been interested in the representation of abstract concepts in Early medical writing. I have a keen interest in corpus linguistics and digital humanities, and especially in applications and resources that preserve and make available historical texts. I am one of the editors of the forthcoming Early Modern English Medical Texts corpus and a project member of EuDaBaDEET, a new corpus database project. I also have an interest in early lexicography, principally in the production circumstances of medical dictionaries from the 17th and 18th centuries.

My teaching at the department has focused on corpus linguistics, with occasional forays into discourse analysis, lexicography and translation.

When not doing research or teaching, I work as the online resources planning officer of the Research Unit for Variation, Contacts, and Change in English (VARIENG). Some of our recent projects include CoRD and the new eSeries entitled Studies in Variation, Contacts and Change in English.

Teaching 2008-2009

Corpus Linguistics