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Mikko Laitinen (born 1973[1]) is a Finnish linguist and Professor of English Language and Culture at the University of Eastern Finland. Laitinen previously held positions at the University of Helsinki, the University of Jyväskylä, and Linnaeus University, where he was appointed Professor of English in 2012.[2]
His research focuses on language variation and change in English, social network theory in sociolinguistics, and World Englishes in Finland and the Nordic countries. His work involves computational and data-intensive methods.[2][3][4]
In 2022, Laitinen was elected a member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.[5][6]
With Martin Schweinberger, he is co-editor of the Bloomsbury Academic book series Language, Data Science and Digital Humanities, which focuses on interdisciplinary research on language, digitalisation, and computational methods in the humanities.[2]
Selected publications
[edit]- Laitinen, Mikko (2020). "Empirical perspectives on English as a lingua franca (ELF) grammar". World Englishes. 39 (3): 1–16.
- Laitinen, Mikko; Fatemi, Masoud; Lundberg, Jonas (2020). "Size matters: Digital social networks and language change". Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence. 3 (46).
- Lundberg, Jonas; Laitinen, Mikko (2020). "Twitter trolls: A linguistic profile of anti-democratic discourse". Language Sciences. 79.
- Laitinen, Mikko; Rautionaho, Paula, eds. (2025). Data-Intensive Investigations of English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
External links
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References
[edit]- ↑ "GND 174015755" (in German). German National Library. Retrieved 20 May 2026.
- 1 2 3 "Mikko Laitinen". University of Eastern Finland. Retrieved 20 May 2026.
Mikko Laitinen on the website of the University of Eastern Finland
- ↑ Eskanen, Jukka (2018-05-03). "Oli jo aikakin, että asiasta puhutaan – professorin mielestä olemme antaneet some-dataa liian vapaamielisesti yrityksille". Yle (in Finnish). Retrieved 20 May 2026.
- ↑ Massinen, Tuomas (2019-05-08). "Tuore keksintö narauttaa somen valetilit – pian voivat paljastua myös valheita levittävät trollit". Keskisuomalainen (in Finnish). Retrieved 20 May 2026.
- ↑ "Professori Mikko Laitinen Suomalaisen Tiedeakatemian jäseneksi". University of Eastern Finland (in Finnish). 2022-04-25. Retrieved 2026-05-20.
- ↑ "Kotimaiset jäsenet". Finnish Academy of Science and Letters (in Finnish). Retrieved 20 May 2026.
Laitinen, Mikko, jäseneksi 2022, humanistinen osasto, fil. toht., Itä-Suomen yliopiston englannin kielen ja kulttuurin professori
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