Tiina Räisänen

In my work as a University Lecturer (Linguistics and Discourse) I teach basic, intermediate and advanced level courses in English and supervise Bachelor's, Master's and Doctoral theses.

Academic year 2024-2025

Autumn:

• 682376P Approaches to English Language Studies

Spring:

• 682431A English Grammar
• 682434A English as a Lingua Franca
• 682437S The Study of Professional Discourse
• HG00AI89 Multicultural Communication

Räisänen, T., N. Hynninen & A. Kankaanranta (in press). English as a business lingua franca. International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 3rd edition. Elsevier.

Kankaanranta, A. & T. Räisänen (forthcoming). English as a lingua franca and business communication. The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of World Englishes.

Mendes de Oliveira, M., T. Räisänen & T. Oittinen (2024). Multimodal team-building practices and English as a lingua franca in a virtual intercultural game. Pragmatics & Society. https://doi.org/10.1075/ps.23025.men (open access)

Räisänen, T. & N. Hynninen. (2024). Making new technology understandable through multimodal instruction: A digital mobility stick in customer training interaction. Special issue “Understanding technology use in face-to-face interaction”, eds. F. Oloff & J. Råman, Prologi - Journal of Communication and Social Interaction. https://doi.org/10.33352/prlg.120940 (open access)

Frick, M., T. Räisänen & J. Ylikoski (Eds.) (2023). Language Contacts and Discourses in the Far North. Palgrave MacMillan. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-42979-8 (open access)

Räisänen, T. (2023). “Somewhere Between Engineering and Humanities”: Discourses of Investment in Additional Language Learning Among Students of Higher Education in Finland. In Frick, M., Räisänen, T. & Ylikoski, J. (Eds.). Language Contacts and Discourses in the Far North. Palgrave MacMillan. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-42979-8_3 (open access)

Karhunen, P., A. Kankaanranta & T. Räisänen. (2023). Towards a richer understanding of language and identity in the MNC: Constructing cosmopolitan identities through “English". Management International Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11575-023-00504-6

Räisänen T. & A. Kankaanranta (2023). Ethnographic study of a manager’s engagements with written ‘English’ workplace genres in an MNC. In Lecomte, P., Vigier, M. , Gaibrois, C. and Beeler, B. (Eds.) Understanding the Dynamics of Language and Multilingualism in Professional Contexts: Advances in Language‐Sensitive Management Research (pp. 83–99). Edward Elgar Publishing.

Oittinen, T., J. Háhn & T. Räisänen. (2022). University students’ (dis)engagement experiences in synchronous sessions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Digital Culture & Education, 14(3), 16–34 URL: https://www.digitalcultureandeducation.com/volume-14-3

Räisänen, T. & T. Oittinen. (2022). Bad news delivery as an interactional context for constructing professional identities and social relations: multimodal approach. In Alarauhio, J., Räisänen, T., Toikkanen, J. & Tumelius, R. (Eds.). (2022) Shaping the North Through Multimodal and Intermedial Interaction (pp. 41–65). Palgrave MacMillan.

Alarauhio, J., T. Räisänen, J. Toikkanen & R. Tumelius. (Eds.). (2022) Shaping the North Through Multimodal and Intermedial Interaction. Palgrave MacMillan.

Räisänen, T. & A. Kankaanranta. (2020). The use of English as corporate language in global knowledge work over a 15-year business career. European Journal of International Management. DOI: 10.1504/EJIM.2020.10028833

Räisänen, T. (2020). The Use of Multimodal Resources by Technical Managers and Their Peers in Meetings Using English as the Business Lingua Franca. IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, 63(2), 172–187, DOI: 10.1109/TPC.2020.2988759.

Räisänen, T. (2019). Discursive identity work and interculturality during blue-collar work practice abroad : Finnish engineering students as language learners and users. In Howard, M. (Ed.) Study Abroad, Second Language Acquisition and Interculturality. Bristol: Multilingual Matters, 75-102. Pre-print version available at: https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/65359

Räisänen, T. (2019). Cultural knowledge as a resource in BELF interactions : a longitudinal ethnographic study of two managers in global business. Iperstoria, 13, 34-46. Open access: https://iperstoria.it/article/view/234

Räisänen, T. & Karjalainen, M. (2018). Monikielisyys ja viestintätaidot: työelämään siirtyneet diplomi-insinöörit ja tekniikan alan korkeakouluopiskelijat kielten oppijoina ja käyttäjinä [Multilingualism and communication skills: Master of Science graduates and engineering students as language learners and users]. Kieli, koulutus ja yhteiskunta, 9(2). Saatavilla: https://www.kieliverkosto.fi/fi/journals/kieli-koulutus-ja-yhteiskunta-huhtikuu-2018/monikielisyys-ja-viestintataidot-tyoelamaan-siirtyneet-diplomi-insinoorit-ja-tekniikan-alan-korkeakouluopiskelijat-kielten-oppijoina-ja-kayttajina

Räisänen, T. (2018). Translingual practices in global business – a longitudinal study of a professional communicative repertoire. In Mazzaferro, G. (ed.) Translanguaging as everyday practice. Springer, 149–174. DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-94851-5. Pre-print version available at: https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/60176

Räisänen, T. (2016). Finnish engineers’ trajectories of socialisation into global working life: from language learners to BELF users and the emergence of a Finnish way of speaking English. In F. Dervin & P. Holmes (eds.), The cultural and intercultural dimensions of English as a lingua franca, Multilingual Matters. 157–179. Pre-print version available at: https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/56761

Räisänen, T. (2014). Haasteita ja onnistumisia – suomalaisen insinöörin ajan myötä rakentuva viestintärepertuaari [Challenges and successes – A Finnish engineer’s communicative repertoire construction over time]. Mutta, M., P. Lintunen, I. Ivaska & P. Peltonen (Eds.) AFinLA-e: Soveltavan kielitieteen tutkimuksia nro 7.

Räisänen, T. (2014). Työelämän kielitaito kehittyy todellisissa tilanteissa. TEMPUS 2/2014, 12–13.

Räisänen, T. (2013). Professional communicative repertoires and trajectories of socialization into global working life. Jyväskylä Studies in Humanities 216, Jyväskylä. [PhD dissertation]

Blommaert, J., S. Leppänen, P. Pahta & T. Räisänen (Eds.). (2012). Dangerous multilingualism: Northern perspectives on order, purity and normality, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Räisänen, T. (2012). Discourses of proficiency – endangering aspects of English in an individual’s biography of language use. In J. Blommaert, S. Leppänen, P. Pahta & T. Räisänen (Eds.) Dangerous multilingualism: Northern perspectives on order, purity and normality, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 207–227.

Räisänen, T. (2012). Processes and practices of enregisterment of business English, participation and power in a multilingual workplace. Sociolinguistic Studies 6(2), 309–331.

Leppänen, S., A. Pitkänen-Huhta, T. Nikula, S. Kytölä, T. Törmäkangas, K. Nissinen, L. Kääntä, T. Räisänen, M. Laitinen, P. Pahta, H. Koskela, S. Lähdesmäki & H. Jousmäki. (2011). National survey on the English language in Finland: Uses, meanings and attitudes. Studies of Variation, Contacts and Change in English 5. Available at: http://www.helsinki.fi/varieng/series/volumes/05/

Virkkula-Räisänen, T. (2010). Linguistic repertoires and semiotic resources in interaction: A Finnish manager as a mediator in a multilingual meeting. International Journal of Business Communication 47 (4), Special issue Language matters: Corporate language in international business operations, 505–531.

Virkkula, T. & T. Nikula. (2010). Identity construction in ELF contexts: a case study of Finnish engineering students working in Germany. International Journal of Applied Linguistics 20 (2), 251–273.

Virkkula, T. (2008). Työntekijöiden kokemuksia englannista yritysmaailman yhteisenä kielenä. In Leppänen, S., T. Nikula & L. Kääntä (Eds.) Kolmas kotimainen : lähikuvia englannin käytöstä Suomessa, 382-420.

GLOBUS - Translingual Communication Practices in Global Business (with Dr. Niina Hynninen/University of Helsinki)

University Students’ Experiences in Participating in Online Lectures during the COVID-19 Pandemic (with Dr. Tuire Oittinen/University of Oulu and Dr. Judit Háhn/University of Jyväskylä)

International Collaboration on a Virtual Game (with Dr. Milene Mendes de Oliveira/University of Potsdam, Germany and Dr. Tuire Oittinen/University of Oulu)