{"id":96,"date":"2016-02-27T17:26:33","date_gmt":"2016-02-27T17:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/users.utu.fi\/ahpmak\/?page_id=96"},"modified":"2020-01-27T15:22:01","modified_gmt":"2020-01-27T13:22:01","slug":"projects","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/ahpmak\/projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"
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These are the most central\u00a0projects and\u00a0other things\u00a0I have been working on recently (I use the term project<\/em> in an informal sense):
\nPhD project<\/a><\/strong>
\n The Orationes project<\/a><\/strong>
\n The learner beliefs trilogy<\/a><\/strong>
\n Other projects<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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PhD project<\/strong><\/p>\n

In my PhD project A Pragmaphilological Approach to Multilingual Practices in the Early Modern English Period<\/em>, I\u00a0focus on\u00a0the functions of language choice and code-switching.\u00a0My aim is to<\/p>\n

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  1. develop a new ‘pragmaphilological’ method for analysing the functions of language choice and code-switching<\/li>\n
  2. apply this method to concrete data in order to test its applicability<\/li>\n
  3. arrive at a better understanding of language choice and code-switching as (linguistic) strategies, particularly in relation to their functional potential<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The core of my material consists\u00a0of the Orationes<\/em> manuscript (CCA Lit. Ms E41, Canterbury Cathedral Library), which includes plays and speeches performed (and probably partly composed) by the students of the King’s School, Canterbury, in the second half of the 17th century. Some of the texts are monolingual (English or Latin), but many of them contain switching between English, Latin, Greek and some other languages (see the separate Orationes<\/em>\u00a0project description below for more information).<\/p>\n

    The theoretical framework adopted in my study could be described as eclectic. At the centre of the framework\u00a0are the concept of face<\/em> and facework <\/em>(e.g. Goffman 1967; Brown & Levinson 1987),\u00a0\u00a0but\u00a0it also\u00a0includes various\u00a0ideas\u00a0and concepts adopted\u00a0from\u00a0many different\u00a0fields,\u00a0including\u00a0linguistics, pragmatics, philology, sociology and philosophy.\u00a0Preliminary versions of the method and the theoretical framework were developed as part of my MA thesis, and I have developed some of the ideas further in a\u00a0few\u00a0recent publications. Although\u00a0I focus on\u00a0theoretical and methodological questions in particular, the philological part of my study ensures that the discussion is based on in-depth analyses of actual texts.<\/p>\n

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    The Orationes project<\/strong><\/p>\n

    The Orationes<\/em> manuscript (CCA Lit. MS E41, Canterbury Cathedral Library) is a unique source of Restoration school drama. \u00a0Running up to 656 folio pages, the manuscript contains plays, speeches and poems performed and partly composed by the students of the King’s School, Canterbury, during the headmastership of Rev. George Lovejoy (i.e. 1665-1684).<\/p>\n

    The texts in the manuscript \u2013 written in English, Latin and Greek \u2013 are divided into four subgenres according to the occasion of performance. On Oak Apple Day (May 29th) the students celebrated the birthday and restoration of King Charles II; on Guy Fawkes Day (November 5th) they recounted and re-enacted the events of the ‘Gunpowder Plot’ of 1605; in December they pleaded with the Dean and Chapter for a short Christmas break; and in Lent they engaged in rhetorical battles in the form of riddles and aenigmata. The Orationes<\/em> manuscript contains the texts of these performances arranged in yearly cycles, with 17 cycles and 68 individual performances in total. On a few occasions, however, the students performed plays by well-known authors (ranging from Plautus to James Shirley), making the number of ‘original’ plays approximately 54 in total.<\/p>\n

    The whole manuscript is being digitised\u00a0as part of the on-going Orationes<\/em> project, the first stage of which was funded by the Academy of Finland (2011\u20132015). In addition to the digital edition, the project will also produce printed commentaries of the plays, as well as research into more detailed topics and questions around individual plays and subgenres, their linguistic and literary features, and their socio-historical relevance.<\/p>\n

    Other scholars working on the Orationes<\/em> manuscript and collaborating with me include Prof. Anthony W. Johnson<\/a> (the project leader) and Mr. Tommi Alho<\/a>, both from the \u00c5bo Akademi University.\u00a0A commentary of a collection of Christmas plays is currently\u00a0in preparation\u00a0by Prof. Johnson with Dr. Paul V. Sullivan <\/a>(University of Texas at Austin)\u00a0and Prof. Jyri Vaahtera<\/a> (University of Turku). As an example of recent activities, the project organised a panel at the RSA conference in Boston in April 2016.<\/p>\n

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    The learner beliefs trilogy<\/strong><\/p>\n

    I\u00a0have been\u00a0working\u00a0in collaboration with\u00a0Dr. Pekka Lintunen<\/a> on learner beliefs about various aspects of pronunciation and phonetics teaching. We conducted studies on<\/p>\n

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    1. learner beliefs about pronunciation teaching, including its effect on pronunciation development<\/li>\n
    2. learner beliefs about and attitudes towards phonetics as a field of study<\/li>\n
    3. learners’ model accent preferences and factors affecting accent choice<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Our aim has been to investigate learner beliefs and attitudes from many different perspectives in order to answer questions such as the following: How can we improve pronunciation\/phonetics teaching\u00a0and facilitate learning? How do learners’ beliefs change and develop? Are learner beliefs different from researchers’ and teachers’ beliefs? For more information, see Publications<\/a> and Presentations<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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      Other projects<\/strong><\/p>\n

      I\u00a0have been\u00a0a member\u00a0of the\u00a0Pragmatics on the Page<\/a><\/em> (PoP) project (more information can be found on its website).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      [under construction] These are the most central\u00a0projects and\u00a0other things\u00a0I have been working on recently (I use the term project in an informal sense): PhD project The Orationes project The learner beliefs trilogy Other projects PhD project In my PhD project […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-96","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/ahpmak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/ahpmak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/ahpmak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/ahpmak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/ahpmak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/ahpmak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":744,"href":"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/ahpmak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96\/revisions\/744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/ahpmak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}