Nina Pilke

Director, Language Centre Linginno 1.8.2017-

Professor in Swedish, professional communication 11/2008-07/2017

Expertice

Professional communication, terminology, bilingualism and multilingualism in organizations, teaching and learning of LSP in multilingual contexts.

Recent expert assignments

• Coordinator and chair of of KiVANET 2024-2027
• Steering group of DIGIJOUJOU 2017-2020
• Steering group of KIVAKO 2018-2021
• Chair of FINELC 2021-2022
• Member of The Coordinating Committee, CercleS 2021-2022
• Steering group of The Helsinki Term Bank for the Arts and Sciences 2021-
• Steering group of The Finnish Network for Language Education Policies 2021-2024
• Member; Yleisten kielitutkintojen tutkintotoimikunta (Finnish National Agency for Education) 2020-2024
• Member of the International Terminology Awards (ITA) Jury (European Association for Terminology) 2015-2023
• Chair of cluster 11; quality evaluation at Treklövern 2019
• Guest Editor: Special Issue of Terminology. International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Issues in Specialized Communication 2021
• Expert evaluations (professor, docent) 2020-21: University of Gothenburg, University of Helsinki, Linnaeus University

Research and projects

My research focuses on concept analysis as well as on language choices, language strategies and language planning in organizations and on national level. Current research contexts: bilingual meetings, upper secondary and higher education, service organizations, Finland's comprehensive security and defence.

Frames of reference: Research network Termer och terminologisering i svenskt fackspråk, Nordterm, EAFT, Langnet

Teaching

My 30 years long teacher experience in higher education covers a wide spectrum of different language courses.

Publications, examples, for more see SoleCris:

Pilke, Nina, Niina Nissilä & Hans Landqvist (2021). Organising terminology work in Sweden from the 1940s onwards: Participatory expert roles in networks. Terminology 1, vol 27, 80-109.

Landqvist, Hans & Nina Pilke (2021). Intresse och engagemang: Kungliga Tekniska högskolans insatser inom ett svenskt terminologiskt nätverk 1941-1983. Folkmålsstudier 59, 103-133.

Järlström, Maria, Rebecca Piekkari, Nina Pilke & Hanna Turpeinen (2020). Perceptions of language (mis)fit at a multilingual workplace: the case of the University of Vaasa. In: Kuteeva, M., Kaufhold, K. & Hynninen, N., Language perceptions and practices in multilingual universities, 293-322. Palgrave Macmillan.

Vik, Gun-Viol & Nina Pilke (2017). Tvåspråkig mötespraxis inom kommunalpolitiken. "Det är fantastiskt att vi kan använda vårt eget modersmål och att vi förstår varandra". Folkmålsstudier 55.

Koskela, Merja, Kaisa Koskinen & Nina Pilke (2017). Bilingual Formal Meeting as a Context of Translatoriality. Target.

Pilke, Nina (2016). Muodikas meemi? Super-alkuisten sanojen merkityspiirteistä, käyttöyhteyksistä ja levinneisyydestä. Sananjalka 58, 69–88.

Pilke, Nina & Niina Nissilä (eds.) (2016). Tänkta termer. Terminologihänsyn i nordiskt perspektiv. VAKKI Publications 5. Vasa: Vakki.

Nuopponen, Anita & Nina Pilke (2016). Ordning och reda. Terminologilära i teori och praktik. 2:a upplagan. Lund: Studentlitteratur.

Media contacts

Vasabladet 2019, Pohjalainen 2017, 2016, 2010, Helsingin Sanomat 2013, Yle 2015, 2013

Julkaisut ja asiantuntijatehtävät