QUESTIONS · EVIDENCE · METHODS
Investigating multilingual communication through corpus-based translation and interpreting research.
ARCTIS brings together questions about multilingualism, translated texts and interpreting. This page outlines the centre’s research focus and the kinds of evidence relevant to it. Individual projects, activities and outputs document specific work; the thematic scope below is not a list of funded studies.
Research Directions & Questions
Multilingualism
How do people choose and combine languages in different settings? How do contact, variation, identity and language policy shape multilingual communication across communities and over time?
Corpus Translation Studies
What patterns emerge when original and translated texts are compared? How do terminology, phraseology and translation choices vary across languages, genres and specialist domains?
Interpreting Studies
How is meaning conveyed and negotiated in real-time mediation? What can speech, interpreting performance and service contexts reveal about the decisions and constraints involved?
Methods & Data
Methods relevant to these questions include corpus compilation and comparison, concordance and terminology analysis, qualitative examination of discourse, and analysis of speech and interpreting. The choice of method must follow the research question and the characteristics of the available evidence.
Across these areas, AI and language technologies raise questions about quality, bias, transparency and the role of human judgement, including in specialist and legal communication. They are a cross-cutting research theme rather than a substitute for linguistic evidence.
Research involving recordings, personal data or contributed texts requires appropriate permissions and applicable ethical review. Data provenance, sampling decisions, analytical procedures and limitations should be documented. Access to corpora and other resources remains subject to their own terms.
Current Research & Academic Exchange
The Projects section presents documented initiatives and their individual aims, periods and institutional roles. The Team page identifies the people connected with the centre. These records provide the context for specific work within the broader research focus.
Selected contributions by the centre’s director illustrate these research interests. Event reports and their institutional context are available in the archive.
Language relationships
DIRECTOR’S ACADEMIC PARTICIPATION
Research on Nostratic language relationships presented at the Finnish Conference of Linguistics.
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Interpreting services
DIRECTOR’S ACADEMIC PARTICIPATION
An online presentation on language interpretation services for Ukrainians in Finland at Languages and People 2025.
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Research Outputs
Publications and other available results are presented separately in Outputs, with links to the relevant sources. Project pages provide additional context for results associated with particular initiatives. A research interest, event presentation and published result represent different stages of academic work.
Connecting Research and Learning
The Teaching & Learning section explains how students engage with questions, methods and evidence. The Laboratory is a supporting resource for relevant speech and interpreting work. For a research collaboration enquiry, contact the centre.
