Rate My Professor Leena Kolehmainen

Her research examines the status of German language in Finland, covering language policy, ideologies, attitudes, multilingualism among individuals, communities, and institutions, and language-related cultural memory. Other areas include linguistic landscapes in urban public spaces, digital environments, museums, and cemeteries; linguistic accessibility; multilingual practices; text corpora; proper names; grammar phenomena such as meteorological events, valency, argument structure, and grammaticalization; and intersections between translation studies and language studies, including non-professional translation and minority language translation. She has authored or co-authored 105 research outputs, including 40 articles, 30 book chapters, 19 anthologies or special issues, and one book. Notable publications are 'The linguistics of weather: Cross-linguistic patterns of meteorological expressions' (2010), 'What is “language making”?' (2022), 'PRÄFIX-UND PARTIKEL VERBEN IM DEUTSCH-FINNISCHEN KONTRAST' (2006), 'Weather and language' (2012), 'Arjen näkymätön kääntäminen. Translatorisen toiminnan jatkumot' (2015), 'Introduction: Multiple roles of translation in the context of minority languages and revitalisation' (2017), and 'The world is raining: Meteorological predicates and their subjects in a typological perspective' (2015). Kolehmainen is an elected member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters (Section of Humanities, 2017–) and the Academy Club for Young Scientists (2009). She received awards for outstanding master’s thesis (1998) and studies in language pedagogy (1997), as well as the Germanicas Liebling Good Teacher Award (2023). Currently, she serves on the Scientific Council for Social Sciences and Humanities at the Research Council of Finland (2025–2027).