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Pekka Posio is a Professor of Ibero-Romance Languages at the University of Helsinki's Faculty of Arts, Department of Languages. He holds roles in Spanish and Portuguese Philology, coordinating teaching for Portuguese, Basque, and Galician languages. His research focuses on pragmatics, sociolinguistics, and variation in Spanish and Portuguese, particularly language and gender dynamics. He edits the Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics and leads projects like Linguistic Variation in Postcolonial Contexts (LiVaPoCo) and Gender, Society, and Language Use.
Research Interests: Functional linguistics, corpus-based studies, grammaticalization of referential devices, and discourse analysis. Notable contributions include the CoLaGe corpus for gender studies and analyses of pronoun usage in Spanish/Portuguese. Awards include the 2012 Best Presentation Award at the Finnish-Estonian Linguistics Conference.
He supervises PhD theses (e.g., Carmen Acosta Vicente) and organizes conferences like the 2023 Language, Gender, and Sexuality event. His work integrates experimental methods and cross-linguistic comparisons, with projects funded through Finnish and international grants. Active in academic networks including the Societas Linguistica Europaea and the Ibero-American Foundation.
