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Mikko Laitinen is a Professor of English Linguistics at Linnaeus University, currently on leave of absence. He is a corpus linguist specializing in variation and change in English, particularly focusing on global English uses in Sweden. His research integrates historical linguistics, variationist sociolinguistics, and English as a lingua franca (ELF) paradigms. He leads projects like 'Global English uses in Sweden' and collaborates within the Linnaeus University Centre for Data Intensive Sciences and Applications (DISA). Key interests include digitizing historical texts, such as 19th-century pauper letters, and leveraging social media data for sociolinguistic analysis.
Research groups: Data Intensive Digital Humanities (DISA), Linnaeus University Centre for Data Intensive Sciences and Applications.
Completed projects: Seed project ODXVR x NTS (DISA-funded), focusing on external funding applications.
- Publications span corpus linguistics, sociolinguistics, and ELF, with a focus on social media discourse, language variation, and methodology.
- No explicit scientific awards mentioned.
- Advising and grants are central to his work, though specific students/grants are unspecified in the text.
Labs/teams: Active in DISA and the Department of Languages, contributing to interdisciplinary data-intensive research.
