Anna Mauranen

ANNA MAURANEN is Professor of English at the University of Helsinki. Her research interests include academic discourse, corpus linguistics, contrastive rhetoric, and translation studies; her current research focuses on English as a lingua franca and modelling spoken language. She has served on the editorial board of English for Specific Purposes, TESOL Quarterly, International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Languages in Contrast, International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, Studies in Corpus Linguistics.

Her major publications include Linear Unit Grammar (co-authored with Sinclair, 2006), Translation Universals - Do They Exist (co-ed. with Kujamäki, 2004), Academic Writing. Intercultural and Textual Issues (co-ed. with Ventola1996), Cultural Differences in Academic Rhetoric (1993). She is currently running a corpus-based research project on spoken English as a lingua franca (the ELFA corpus).

Titles

Linear Unit Grammar: Integrating speech and writing
Sinclair, John McH. and Anna Mauranen
Studies in Corpus Linguistics 25
2006. xxii, 185 pp.

Translation Universals: Do they exist?
Mauranen, Anna and Pekka Kujamäki (eds.)
Benjamins Translation Library 48
2004. vi, 224 pp.

Academic Writing: Intercultural and textual issues
Ventola, Eija and Anna Mauranen (eds.)
Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 41
1996. xiv, 258 pp.

Series

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics
Editorial Board

Languages in Contrast
Editorial Board

Studies in Corpus Linguistics
Advisory Board

Articles

(Note: some contributions may not appear in this list)
Fairclough, Norman and Anna Mauranen 1997. “The conversationalisation of political discourse: A comparative view”. Political Linguistics, Blommaert, Jan and Chris Bulcaen (eds.), 89 ff.
Mauranen, Anna. 2005. “Contrasting languages and varieties with translational corpora”. Contrast in Context, Aijmer, Karin, Hilde Hasselgård and Stig Johansson (eds.), 73–92.
Mauranen, Anna. 2004. “Speech corpora in the classroom”. In Corpora and Language Learners, Aston, Guy, Silvia Bernardini and Dominic Stewart (eds.), 195–211.
Mauranen, Anna. 2004. “They’re a Little Bit Different… Observations on Hedges in Academic Talk”. In Discourse Patterns in Spoken and Written Corpora, Aijmer, Karin and Anna-Brita Stenström (eds.), 173–197.
Mauranen, Anna. 2004. “Spoken - general: Spoken corpus for an ordinary learner”. In How to Use Corpora in Language Teaching, Sinclair, John McH. (ed.), 89–105.
Mauranen, Anna. 2004. “Review of “Information Structure in Cross-Linguistic Perspective” by Hilde Hasselgård, Stig Johansson, Bergljot Behrens, and Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen (eds)”. Languages in Contrast 4:2, 319–324.
Mauranen, Anna. 2004. “Corpora, universals and interference”. In Translation Universals, Mauranen, Anna and Pekka Kujamäki (eds.), 65–82.
Mauranen, Anna. 1999. “What Sort of Theme is there?: A Translational Perspective”. Information Structure in Parallel Texts, Hasselgård, Hilde, Stig Johansson and Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen (eds.), 57–85.
Mauranen, Anna. 1999. “Will ‘translationese’ ruin a contrastive study?”. Languages in Contrast 2:2, 161–185.
Mauranen, Anna. 1996. “Discourse Competence — Evidence from Thematic Development in Native and Non-Native Texts”. In Academic Writing, Ventola, Eija and Anna Mauranen (eds.), 195 ff.
Mauranen, Anna. 1993. “Theme and Prospection in Written Discourse”. In Text and Technology, Baker, Mona, Gill Francis and Elena Tognini-Bonelli (eds.), 95 ff.

HOw to contact her

Anna Mauranen
Professor anna.mauranen@uta.fi
consultation: Thu 14-15 tel: 215 6127
room: B5004