{"id":8,"date":"2016-05-12T10:11:39","date_gmt":"2016-05-12T10:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/users.utu.fi\/skaffe\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2026-02-24T12:36:40","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T12:36:40","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/skaffe\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-110 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/skaffe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2016\/05\/beanilla2-300x236.jpg\" alt=\"beanilla2\" width=\"252\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/skaffe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2016\/05\/beanilla2-300x236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/skaffe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2016\/05\/beanilla2-768x605.jpg 768w, https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/skaffe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2016\/05\/beanilla2-1024x807.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/skaffe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2016\/05\/beanilla2-676x532.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 252px) 100vw, 252px\" \/>I am a Senior University Lecturer at the Department of English, School of Languages and Translation Studies, University of Turku, Finland. I hold the title of Docent in English Language at \u00c5bo Akademi University.<\/p>\n<p>At Turku, I teach descriptive grammar, history of English and various linguistics courses. In my research I mainly focus on contact linguistics and medieval English, particularly code-switching and other multilingual practices in England c. 1100 to 1300, but I also work on later periods and today&#8217;s language.<\/p>\n<p>I am the author of <em>Studies in Early Middle English Loanwords: Norse and French Influences<\/em>, and many articles and book chapters. Moreover, I have co-edited several books: <em>Multilingual Practices in Language History: English and Beyond<\/em>; <em>Verbal and Visual Communication in Early English Texts<\/em>; <em>Instructional Writing in English;<\/em> <em>Opening Windows on Texts and Discourses of the Past;<\/em> <em>Discourse Perspectives on English: Medieval and Modern<\/em>; and <em>The Language of the Peterborough Chronicle<\/em>. I am a member of the Turku Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.utu.fi\/en\/university\/faculty-of-humanities\/tucemems\">TUCEMEMS<\/a>), the Turku University Network for Code-switching and Language Contact Research, the Helsinki Society for Historical Lexicography, the Finnish Society for the Study of English and the Modern Language Society.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a Senior University Lecturer at the Department of English, School of Languages and Translation Studies, University of Turku, Finland. I hold the title of Docent in English Language at \u00c5bo Akademi University. At Turku, I teach descriptive grammar, history of English and various linguistics courses. In my research I mainly focus on contact [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/skaffe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/skaffe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/skaffe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/skaffe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/skaffe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/skaffe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2355,"href":"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/skaffe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions\/2355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/skaffe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}