Auli Talvikki Hakulinen (born 10 March 1941 in
Helsinki
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) is a
Finnish
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* Something or someone from, or related to Finland
* Culture of Finland
* Finnish people or Finns, the primary ethnic group in Finland
* Finnish language, the national language of the Finnish people
* Finnish cuisine
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researcher and professor
emerita. She worked as professor of Finnish at the
University of Helsinki
The University of Helsinki ( fi, Helsingin yliopisto, sv, Helsingfors universitet, abbreviated UH) is a public research university located in Helsinki, Finland since 1829, but founded in the city of Turku (in Swedish ''Åbo'') in 1640 as the ...
from 1991 to 2006. From 2001 to 2004, she was an
academy professor
In some countries, an academy professor is a scientist appointed to function as professor and/or conferred to the official professor rank by the academy of sciences of that country, rather than by any university establishment.
Such scientists are ...
.
Hakulinen was the head editor of . The main extent of her research has been in
syntax
In linguistics, syntax () is the study of how words and morphemes combine to form larger units such as phrases and sentences. Central concerns of syntax include word order, grammatical relations, hierarchical sentence structure ( constituency) ...
and
text linguistics
Text linguistics is a branch of linguistics that deals with texts as communication systems. Its original aims lay in uncovering and describing text grammars. The application of text linguistics has, however, evolved from this approach to a point in ...
. She had also introduced
conversation analysis
Conversation analysis (CA) is an approach to the study of social interaction, embracing both verbal and non-verbal conduct, in situations of everyday life. CA originated as a sociological method, but has since spread to other fields. CA began with ...
to Finland and has also had an interest in
women's studies
Women's studies is an academic field that draws on feminist and interdisciplinary methods to place women's lives and experiences at the center of study, while examining social and cultural constructs of gender; systems of privilege and oppress ...
. As an organiser in linguistics and manager of various confidential posts, Hakulinen has been a notable contribution to the development of Finnish linguistics.
Auli Hakulinen's father was
Lauri Hakulinen, a researcher of Finnish.
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External links
Auli Hakulinen's homepage(in Finnish)
Auli Hakulinen in 375 humanists Faculty of Arts, University of Helsinki. 1.7.2015.
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Living people
1941 births
Linguists from Finland
Academic staff of the University of Helsinki
Finnish women academics