Introduction

Mari Uusk眉la poseesses a MA and PhD degrees from University of Tartu and has also studied at the E枚tv枚s 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