Eija Suomela-Salmi EDUCATION and PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS

Eija Suomela-Salmi
EDUCATION and PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS
Ph.D., Doctor of Philosophy University of Turku [Finland], 1997: Le SN dans les discours
économiques français. Repères textuels. Annales Universitatis Turkuensis. Ser. B – Tom. 218. 284
p. Turku 1997.
University of Turku, Institute of Translation and Interpetation Lecturer (a.i.) 1982-1983
Lecturer 1983-1992
Junior researcher 1993-1996
University of Turku, French Department
Senior lecturer 1996-1997
Professor of Romance philology (a.i.) 1997-2001
Professor of French 2001 -
OTHER ASPECTS OF RELEVANCE
Langnet; the national graduate school of languages and linguistics in Finland:
Member of the program Meaning, Text and Discourse 1999-2002
Director (a.i.) of the program: Meaning, Text and Discourse 01.09.2000-31.12.2001.
Member of the executive board of Langnet II 2003-2006
Co-Director of the program Constructions and the Use of Language 2003-2006
Langnet III :Member of the program The Constructions of Language in Use 2007-2010
Member of the executive board of the doctoral school of languages at University of Turku 2001 –
2003
Head of the Department of the School of Classical and Romance Languages 2001-2006.
Head of the national project Assessing Language and Intercultural Competence in Frenh
Departmens at Finnish Universities (ECC-Lang) 2005-2008.
Head of the Department of French Studies and French Translation and Interpretation 2010-2012.
Responsible for the cooperation group of languages at the University of Turku 2007-2008
Member of the working group “Languages in the consortium” planning the cooperation of Schools
of Languages at the University of Turku and School of Economis of Turku 2007-2009.
Member of EU-project Language Learning and Social Media: 6 key Dialogues 2010-2012. Local
coordinator 2012.
Head of the collegium of the University of Turku 2010-2013
Vice-president of Turku Institute of Advanced Studies 2011-
Member of the project : Réseaux Sociaux dans la Presse Européenne 2012-2014.
SUPERVISED DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS AND OTHER ACADEMIC
THESIS :
Master’s theses (1997-2011): 130
Licentiate theses (DEA):
Maarit Mutta: La compétence lexicale des étudiants finnophones en français. Étude sur la
production des apprenants.180 p. Université de Turku 1999.
Carita Klippi: La vie du langage. Quelques aspects du paradigme dynamique dans la linguistique
d’expression française à la fin du 19e et au début du 20e siècle. 133 p. Université de Turku 2000.
Anita Moilanen: Ci, dar, însä, iar. Analyse syntaxique, argumentative, polyphonique et textuelle des
connecteurs roumains. 204 p. Université de Turku 2000.
Kari Bärlund : Le temps chronogénétique du subjonctif et l’emploi du mode en français
contemporain. 186 p. Université de Turku 2004.
Doctoral theses
Marjut Johansson: Recontextualisation du discours d’autrui. Discours représenté dans l’interview
politique médiatique. 243 p. Université de Turku 2000.
Maarit Mutta: Un processus cognitif peut en cacher un autre. Etude de cas sur l’aisance
rédactionnelle des scripteurs finnophones et francophones. 284 p. Université de Turku 2007.
Fred Dervin : Métamorphoses identitiares en situation mobile. 284 p. Université de Turku 2008.
Veronika Laippala:D’abord, ensuite,enfin, 0, De plus: organization textuelle par des séries
linéaires dans les articles de recherche. University of Turku 272 p. 2011..
Currently supervising 6 doctoral students
DUTIES AS SCIENTIFIC EXPERT
Member of the the examinaition board of the licentiate theses by Joanna Anckar : Validiteten och
andvändbarheten i flervalstest i franska som främmande språk. Åbo Aakdemi 2003
Member of the examination board of the Doctoral disseration by Emilie Sitzia : L’artiste et mythe
entre réalité dans trois œuvres de Balzac, Concourt et Zola. Åbo Akademi. 2005
Member of the jury of the Doctoral dissertation by Laurette Chateau, Analyse sémantique de la
construction discursive de l’identité européenne à travers des articles du Canard enchaîné sur
l’aimentation. Université de Nantes, France, December 2005.
Member of the jury of the Habilitation dissertation (Thèse d’habilitation pour diriger la recherche
HDR) by Aino Niklas-Salminen. Université d’Aix, December 2006.
Member of the examination board of the Doctoral dissertation of Andrea Hynynen : Pluralité et
fluidité antinormatives. Etude sur les transgressions sexuelles dans l'œuvre romanesque de
Marguerite Yourcenar, June 2010.
Expert for filling the position of Professor of French at the University of Tampere 2002
Expert for filling the position of lecturer of French at the Language Center, Åbo Akademi 2005.
Expert for filling the position of Professor of French language and literature at Åbo Akademi 2006.
Expert for filling the position of Professor of Romance languages at the University of Tallin May
2008.
Expert for filling the position of assistant professor (Dotsent) of Romance languages at the
University of Tallin, May 2008.
Member of the board for the evaluation of the Language Departments at the Pedagogical
University of Tallin and the Humanistic Institute of Estonia. April 2005.
Head of the board of the evaluation Committee of the Department of Romance Languages at Tallin
University, 2-7.12.2008.
Expert, the Scientific Academy of Estonia, research positions in cognitive and French linguistics.
May 2007 and December 2007.
Expert, the Scientific Academy of Estonia, research positions in comparative literary studies and
translation, April 2008.
Expert for Finland’s Cultural Foundation, research positions in Linguistics January 2010.
Member of the scientific board of the following journals :
Member of the scientific board of the journal Synergies no 4 2007, Pays Riverains de la Baltique.
Member of the scientific board of the journal Communication and Argumentation in the Public
Sphere, Mélanges francophones.
Member of the scientific board of Arena Romanistica
Pleanaries and other invited lectures
Pleanary speaker at the national Doctoral School Langnet, Title : Is genre a useful concept in
linguistic analysis, Tampere, November 2004
Invited lecturer at the Doctoral School in Linguistics at the University of Oulu, December 2004.
Pleanary speaker at the conference Academic Mobility – Blending Perspectives, Title: Effects of
stays abroad on students’ representations, Turku 21-23.9.2006.
Pleanary speaker at the conference Construction du sens et acquisition de la signification
linguistique en interaction. Title: Construire l’argumentation ensemble. Université de Nantes 2224.11.2007.
Invited lecturer at the Doctoral Seminar in French Linguistics at the University Paris XIII, March
2008.
Invited lecturer at the Doctoral Seminar in French Linguistics at the University of Nantes,
Département des sciences du langage / Département de Français Langue Étrangère, March 2009.
Pleanary speaker at the Doctoral School of the Humanities at the University of Strasbourg, Title:
Pratiques disciplinaires et culturelles des discours scientifiques : analyses pragmatiques et
linguistiques, December 2009.
Responsibilities as Conference Organizer
Head of the organizing committee :
75ème anniversaire de l’enseignement du français à l’Université de Turku,, Octobre 1999.
Cross-Linguistic and Cross-Cultural perspectives on Academic Discourse Turku, May 2005
Hybridité discursive et culturelle Turku, October 2009
Co-organizer of the following conferences:
Academic Mobility – Blending Perspectives, Turku September 2006.
Assessing Linguistic and Intercultural Competencies in Higher Education, Turku September 2008.
The 6th Annual EALTA Conference, Turku June 2009.