
Mari Uusküla
Associate Professor of Linguistics and Translation Theory
School of Humanities
Introduction
Mari Uusküla poseesses a MA and PhD degrees from University of Tartu and has also studied at the Eötvös Lorand University Budapest, Hungary and at Universita degli studi di Firenze, Italy. Her research interests include linguistics, lexical semantics, semantic typology, color naming, categorization and perception, field linguistics, and psycholinguistics. She has published research articles on color semantics and categorization in a range of European languages including Hungarian, Italian, Russian, Finnish, Czech, and others. She teaches psycholinguistics, anthropological linguistics, semantics and pragmatics at Tallinn University. She supervises at BA, MA and PhD levels. She has also lectured at a number of European Universities in Perugia, Roskilde, Verona, Milano, Budapest and others.
Main tasks
teaching several courses (Language and Culture in English, supervision of LIFE courses)
research in projects (landscape in language, machine translation literacy)
supervision on BA, MA and PhD level
Head of Western European Studies Study Area
Areas of research
linguistic typology (semantic fields)
semantics
psycholinguistics
the language of landscape
machine translation literacy
translation process