Mari Uusküla Explained

Mari Uusküla
Birth Date:	January 23, 1980
Birth Place:	Tallinn, Estonia
Nationality:	Estonian
Occupation:	Linguist

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

Early life and education

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 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

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

• 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

• 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]}

Notes and References

1. Uusküla . Mari . Loetelukatse ja nimeandmiskatse psühholingvistika meetodina. Eelised ja kitsaskohad . Keel ja Kirjandus . August 2018 . 2018 . 8–9 . 696 . January 20, 2024.
2. Web site: Mari Uusküla . Estonian Research Information System . Ministry of Education and Research . January 23, 2024.
3. Web site: Mari Uusküla . Tallinna Ülikool . June 3, 2020 . January 23, 2024.
4. News: Käbi ei kuku... Georg Bogatkin ja Mari Uusküla . January 23, 2024 . Vikerraadio . Eesti Rahvusringhääling . April 12, 2020.
5. Web site: Mari Uusküla: "Mu vanaema oli kunstnik, kes meeldis inimestele. Ja tema armastas inimesi." . Meediavärav . Humanitaarteaduste instituut, Tallinna Ülikool . January 23, 2024 . Tallinn . November 4, 2021.
6. News: Lapselaps Mari Uusküla: "Mana armastas tohutult tormist merd" . January 23, 2024 . Virumaa Teataja . 117 . June 17, 2016 . 2.
7. News: Inglise keele õpetaja . January 23, 2024 . Õpetajate Leht . 10 . March 17, 2023 . 13.
8. News: Konrad . Marju . Ilm sai raamatu. Aga miks? . January 23, 2024 . Õpetajate Leht . 25 . August 21, 2020 . 16.
9. Web site: Soome-ugri keelte ja murrete osakond . Eesti Keele Instituut . January 23, 2024 . Tallinn.
10. News: Poolsada aastat kestnud töö tulemusena ilmus vadja keele sõnaraamat . January 23, 2024 . ERR . February 12, 2014.
11. News: Huvitaja. Värvide mõju . May 2, 2024 . ERR . May 2, 2024.
12. News: Teaduse populariseerimise elutööpreemia pälvis Tõnu Viik . January 23, 2024 . ERR . November 11, 2021.
13. Teaduse populariseerimise elutööpreemia on pälvinud astronoom Tõnu Viik . Horisont . November–December 2021 . 55 . 6 . 7 . January 23, 2024.