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Mari Uusküla
Mari Uusküla at the presentation of Vadja keele sõnaraamatut (Votic Dictionary) at St. Catherine's Monastery, 2014
Born (1980-01-23) January 23, 1980 (age 44)
Tallinn, Estonia
NationalityEstonian
OccupationLinguist

Mari Uusküla (until July 1, 2005 Mari Bogatkin;[1] born January 23, 1980)[2] is an Estonian linguist.[3]

Early life and education

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Uusküla is the daughter of the ceramist Georg Bogatkin and the granddaughter of the artists Vladimir Bogatkin and Valli Lember-Bogatkina.[4][5][6]

Uusküla graduated from Tallinn Õismäe Humanities High School [et] in 1998 and from the University of Tartu's Faculty of Arts and Humanities in 2003, majoring in Hungarian. Both her master's thesis and doctoral dissertation were supervised by Urmas Sutrop at the University of Tartu. She defended her dissertation, Basic Colour Terms in Finno-Ugric and Slavonic Languages: Myths and Facts, in 2008 at the Department of General Linguistics.[2]

Career

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Uusküla teaches psycholinguistics, anthropological linguistics, semantics, and pragmatics at Tallinn University. She has taught at several other European universities, in Roskilde, Verona, Milan, and Budapest.[2][3] She is the head of the Western European Studies program at Tallinn University's Institute of Humanities, where she is an associate professor of linguistics and translation studies.[1][2][7][8] She is the head of the Department of Language History, Dialects, and Finno-Ugric Languages at the Institute of the Estonian Language.[9][10] Much of her research has focused on linguistic aspects of colors.[11]

Publications

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  • 2008: Basic Colour Terms in Finno-Ugric and Slavonic Languages: Myths and Facts
  • 2011: Värvinimede raamat (A Book of Color Names)
  • 2015: "Applying Points-of-View Analysis to Individual Variations in Colour Sorting Data," in Journal of Cognition and Culture 15
  • 2016: Color Language and Color Categorization (coeditor)
  • 2020: "When Does 'Bright' Mean 'Prototypical'? Color-Term Modifiers in Eight European Languages, Examined with Color-Survey Data," in: Journal of the Optical Society of America 37
  • 2023: "Is Purple Lost in Translation? The Affective Meaning of Purple, Violet, and Lilac Cognates in 16 Languages and 30 Populations," in: Journal of Psycholinguistic Research 52
  • 2024: "The Purple Mystery: Semantic Meaning of Three Purple Terms in French Speakers from Algeria, France, and Switzerland" (coauthor), in: Color Research & Application 49

Awards and recognitions

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  • 2000: Estonian National Culture Foundation Scholar[2]
  • 2020: Professor of the Year, Tallinn University School of Humanities[2]
  • 2021: Achiever of the Year, School of Humanities of Tallinn University[2]
  • 2021: Estonian Science Communication Award (incentive prize)[12][13]

References

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  1. ^ a b Uusküla, Mari (August 2018). "Loetelukatse ja nimeandmiskatse psühholingvistika meetodina. Eelised ja kitsaskohad". Keel ja Kirjandus. 2018 (8–9): 696. Retrieved January 20, 2024.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g "Mari Uusküla". Estonian Research Information System. Ministry of Education and Research. Retrieved January 23, 2024.
  3. ^ a b "Mari Uusküla". Tallinna Ülikool. June 3, 2020. Retrieved January 23, 2024.
  4. ^ "Käbi ei kuku... Georg Bogatkin ja Mari Uusküla". Vikerraadio. Eesti Rahvusringhääling. April 12, 2020. Retrieved January 23, 2024.
  5. ^ "Mari Uusküla: "Mu vanaema oli kunstnik, kes meeldis inimestele. Ja tema armastas inimesi."". Meediavärav. Tallinn: Humanitaarteaduste instituut, Tallinna Ülikool. November 4, 2021. Retrieved January 23, 2024.
  6. ^ "Lapselaps Mari Uusküla: "Mana armastas tohutult tormist merd"". Virumaa Teataja. No. 117. June 17, 2016. p. 2. Retrieved January 23, 2024.
  7. ^ "Inglise keele õpetaja". Õpetajate Leht. No. 10. March 17, 2023. p. 13. Retrieved January 23, 2024.
  8. ^ Konrad, Marju (August 21, 2020). "Ilm sai raamatu. Aga miks?". Õpetajate Leht. No. 25. p. 16. Retrieved January 23, 2024.
  9. ^ "Soome-ugri keelte ja murrete osakond". Eesti Keele Instituut. Tallinn. Retrieved January 23, 2024.
  10. ^ "Poolsada aastat kestnud töö tulemusena ilmus vadja keele sõnaraamat". ERR. February 12, 2014. Retrieved January 23, 2024.
  11. ^ "Huvitaja. Värvide mõju". ERR. May 2, 2024. Retrieved May 2, 2024.
  12. ^ "Teaduse populariseerimise elutööpreemia pälvis Tõnu Viik". ERR. November 11, 2021. Retrieved January 23, 2024.
  13. ^ "Teaduse populariseerimise elutööpreemia on pälvinud astronoom Tõnu Viik". Horisont. 55 (6): 7. November–December 2021. Retrieved January 23, 2024.
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