Research interests in the English Section reflect the diversity of staff and graduate student activity. Subjects include lexicography; LSP communication; the translation of adult and children's literature, the pedagogy of interpreting; text typologies; discourse analysis, cognitive linguistics and pragmatics, as well as practical research in intercultural area studies, the influence of information and communications technologies on translation and interpreting and the wide variety of topics relevant to the Technical Communications Programme.

Current research interests and areas include (presented in alphabetical order):

• U.S. English Sociolectics, Comparative Area Studies, and Student Resources and Capability to Use Information and Communications Technologies
  Lecturer John D. Hopkins (John.D.Hopkins [at] uta.fi)

  John Hopkins' research is focused on the sociolectics of American English and comparative area studies of the United States and Finland, with findings channeled into the administration and development of the FAST Area Studies Program. A project begun in 1996 longitudinally charts student ICT capability. Data collection is integrated into the TRENPK5 Digital Literacy and Academic Knowledge Management course.

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• Translating Children's Literature: the Verbal, Visual and Auditive in Translation
  Lecturer and Docent Riitta Oittinen (Riitta.Oittinen [at] uta.fi)

  Riitta Oittinen's research is currently focused on the verbal, the visual, and the auditive in translation. At the moment, she is also co-editing three books: the Finnish-language book Olennaisen äärellä. Johdatus audiovisuaaliseen kääntämiseen, with Tiina Tuominen; the Meta special issue on the verbal and the visual in translation with Klaus Kaindl, University of Vienna; and the English-language book Translating the Verbal and the Visual in Children's Literature, based on two courses Riitta Oittinen gave at the University of Vic, Spain, together with Maria González Davies, University of Ramon Llull, Barcelona. Oittinen also conducts research on translating picture books and translating for children.

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• History of Technical Communication in Finland
  Lecturer and Coordinator Tytti Suojanen (Tytti.Suojanen [at] uta.fi)

  Tytti Suojanen's Ph.D. research deals with the development of technical communication in Finland. The main question is how the production of technical communication products and technical documents themselves reflect changes in Finnish society after the Second World War. Ms. Suojanen's other research interests are related to the interaction of theory and practice within technical communication (popularization, research dissemination and utilization).

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• The Sociology of Translation
  Docent Kaisa Koskinen (Kaisa.A.Koskinen [at] uta.fi)

  Kaisa Koskinen's present research interests largely fall within the sociology of translation. They include institutional translation, retranslation as a phenomenon, and methodology in Translation Studies. She has also worked and published on the role of translators and the ethics of translation.