Maiju Strömmer
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General description
My areas of expertise are language and work, multilingualism, and Finnish as a second language. In my current project, I explore multilingual freelancers who sell their skills through digital labour platforms. My dissertation focused on learning Finnish in cleaning work. Further, I have explored multilingualism and language practices in the contexts of the mining industry, tourism, and vocational education. I have taught courses in Finnish language, discourse studies, and language expert lines. I supervise dissertations in the field of Finnish language and applied linguistics.
Active JYU affiliations
- Department of Language and Communication Studies, Grant Researcher
Previous, inactive or other affiliations
- Department of Language and Communication Studies (University of Jyväskylä), University Teacher, Inactive
- Department of Language and Communication Studies (University of Jyväskylä), Grant Researcher, Ended
- Department of Language and Communication Studies (University of Jyväskylä), University Teacher, Ended
- Department of Language and Communication Studies (University of Jyväskylä), Postdoctoral Researcher, Ended
- Department of Language and Communication Studies (University of Jyväskylä), Postdoctoral Researcher, Ended
Research interests
I investigate language questions in working life from the viewpoints of critical sociolinguistics and discourse studies that see language as interwoven with social structures and political economy. I do mostly ethnographic research which aims at rich description of the research phenomenon in a certain time and place. At the moment, I focus especially on multilingual freelancers who do text work via digital labor platforms.
Fields of science
Follow-up groups
Personal keywords
Finnish as a second language; multilingualism; platform work; language requirements; language in working life; vocational education and training, discourse studies; nexus analysis; critical sociolinguistics
Keywords (YSO)
Projects as Principal investigator
- 9th research seminar of the Language & Work research network: Navigating discourses and practices of
employability- Federation of Finnish Learned Societies
- Multilingual text work in the platform economy - freelancers developing their multiliteracies and employability
- Kone Foundation
