375 Humanists Faculty of Arts University of Helsinki: In honour of the University of Helsinki's 375th anniversary 1640-2015, the Faculty of Arts presents 375 humanists.: Professor Pirjo Kukkonen, Department of Finnish, Finno-Ugrian and Scandinavian Studies

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Pirjo Kukkonen is the first professor of Swedish translation studies at the University of Helsinki. She is a semiotician and translation researcher at the Department of Finnish, Finno-Ugrian and Scandinavian Studies, where she is responsible for the teaching and research of translation for our national languages Finnish and Swedish and other Scandinavian languages. As a semiotician she works with the interplay of signs and meaning, studying how meaning is created and how different worlds are translated. Cf. http://375humanistia.helsinki.fi/en/humanists/pirjo-kukkonen

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375 Humanists: Faculty of Arts University of Helsinki: In honour of the University of Helsinki's 375th anniversary, the Faculty of Arts presents 375 humanists.