Research output per year
Research output per year
Personal profile
Description of research and teaching
Turo Hiltunen is a Senior University Lecturer (tenured) at the Department of Languages, University of Helsinki, where he teaches corpus linguistics and other digital approaches to the study of English. His main interests are corpus linguistics, grammar, phraseology, and scientific discourse, past and present. Hiltunen is a member of Democratization, Mediatization and Language Practices research project (Academy of Finland, 2017–2020) Hiltunen has extensive experience of corpus development, and has worked in such projects as The Corpus of Early Modern English Medical Writing, the ARCHER corpus, the corpus of Late Modern English Medical Writing (forthcoming), and the Hanken Corpus of Student Writing in Economics.
Education/Academic qualification
English philology, PhD, Docent
Fields of Science
- 6121 Languages
- corpus linguistics
- grammar
- phraseology
- english for academic purposes
- english for specific purposes
- discourse analysis
- digital humanitites
- pragmatics
International and National Collaboration
Publications and projects within past five years.
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Grammar and disciplinary culture: A corpus-based study
Hiltunen, T., 19 Nov 2010, Helsinki: Turo Hiltunen. 394 p.Research output: Thesis › Doctoral Thesis › Monograph
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The expression of stance in early publications of the Philosophical Transactions and other contemporary medical prose: Innovations in a pioneering discourse
Gray, B. E., Biber, D. & Hiltunen, T., 2011, Medical Writing in Early Modern English. Taavitsainen, I. & Pahta, P. (eds.). Cambridge University Press, p. 221-247 (Studies in English Language).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review
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“There are good reasons for this”: Disciplinary Variation in the Use of Existential There Constructions in Academic Research Articles
Hiltunen, T., 2010, Constructing Interpersonality: Multiple perspectives on written academic genres. Lorés-Sanz, R., Mur-Dueñas, P. & Lafuente-Millán, E. (eds.). 1 ed. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Vol. 2010. p. 181-204 24 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review
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A corpus-pragmatic analysis of linguistic democratisation in the British Hansard: Comparing the two Houses
Hiltunen, T. & Vartiainen, T., 2024, (Accepted/In press) In: Journal of historical pragmatics.. 25, 2Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
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Democratisation – how can historical corpus pragmatics contribute to understanding changes in the recent history of English?
Hiltunen, T., Vartiainen, T. & Räikkönen, J., 2024, (Accepted/In press) In: Journal of historical pragmatics.. 25, 2Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Open AccessFile
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Putting 'pliis' in its place
Peterson, E., Vaattovaara, J. & Hiltunen, T.
01/06/2011 → …
Project: Research project
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Research Unit for the Study of Variation, Contacts and Change in English (VARIENG)
ben-Aaron, D., Heikkinen, K., Fodor, A., Hall, A., Hintikka, M., Honkapohja, A., Juvonen, T., Kahlas-Tarkka, L., Kaislaniemi, S., Kerttula, S., Kilpinen, P., Kilpiö, M., Korhonen, M., Laitinen, M., Lehto, A., Lähdesmäki, S. M., Marttila, V., Mauranen, A., Mäkinen, M. S., McConchie, R., Meurman-Solin, A., Nevala, M., Nevalainen, T., Nurmi, A., Nuutinen, T., Paananen-Porkka, M., Paatola, U., Pahta, P. I., Palander-Collin, M., Peitsara, K., Ratia, M., Raumolin-Brunberg, H., Rissanen, M., Sairio, A., Sorva, E., Suhr, C., Stenvall, M., Säily, T., Taavitsainen, I., Hiltunen, T., Timofeeva, O., Tissari, H., Tyrkkö, J., Valtonen, I., Vartiainen, T., Vasko, A. & Österman, A.
01/01/2005 → …
Project: Research project
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Scientific thought-styles: The Evolution of English Medical Writing
Taavitsainen, I., Pahta, P., Mäkinen, M., Hiltunen, T., Ratia, M., Suhr, C., Tyrkkö, J., Marttila, V., Lehto, A. & Andersson, W.
01/01/1995 → …
Project: Research project
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Development of Digital Teaching project of the BA Programme in Languages
Lennes, M., Flanagan, J., Hiltunen, T., Creutz, M., Aunio, L., Buchart, M., Gruzdeva, E., Jakubek, I., Keinänen, N., Kim, J., Kittilä, S., Kopotev, M., Kraenker, S., Länsisalmi, R., Nieuweboer, R., Peterson, E., Tiedemann, J., Tuori, R., Autere, M. J. & Lindstedt, J.
01/05/2017 → 31/12/2018
Project: Other project
Datasets
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Late Modern English Medical Texts: The Corpus
Taavitsainen, I. (Creator), Hiltunen, T. (Creator), Lehto, A. (Creator), Marttila, V. (Creator), Pahta, P. (Creator), Ratia, M. (Creator), Suhr, C. (Creator) & Tyrkkö, J. (Creator), John Benjamins, 2019
Dataset
Activities
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EnTRetextos, University of Valencia, 23-25 October 2024. (Event)
Turo Hiltunen (Board member)
2024Activity: Membership types › Membership or other role in review committee
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Universitat De Les Illes Balears
Turo Hiltunen (Visiting researcher)
3 May 2023 → 10 May 2023Activity: Visiting an external institution types › Academic visit to other institution
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Corpus linguistics, digital humanities, and the problem of register
Turo Hiltunen (Speaker)
8 May 2023Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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Modern Language Society, University of Helsinki (Publisher)
Turo Hiltunen (Reviewer)
15 Sep 2023 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Peer review of manuscripts
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Exploring the identify as Construction in The Reddit LGBTQ+ Corpus
Laura Hekanaho (Speaker), Turo Hiltunen (Speaker) & Minna Palander-Collin (Speaker)
13 Oct 2023Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
Press/Media
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Wikipedia tieteen lähteenä – Ei kai nyt sentään? Onko se edes sopivaa?
09/02/2018
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media
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Miksi englantia osataan niin monessa maassa?
17/03/2017
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media
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