Marge Käsper

Marge Käsper is Lecturer of French Language and Linguistics and Researcher in French Studies at the University of Tartu. In her research, contrastive linguistics meets socio-cultural discourse analysis. She has published a series of papers in Estonian-French contrastive linguistics studies (about deixis, modal verbs, and evidentiality markers); has developed the methodology for a contrastive discourse analysis (studying the academic book review text genre comparatively in Estonian and French socio-cultural and disciplinary contexts); and, working intensively on media discourse, she is open also to the digital humanities field. Her leading interest is to use linguistic material to study the socio-cultural reference and the representations made of the societies in discourse.

Selected publications:

• Marling, Raili; Käsper, Marge (2021). Communicating Covid-19: Framing Science and Affect in U.S., French and Estonian Traditional Media. ESSACHESS – Journal for Communication Studies, 14 (2), 15−32. 
• Käsper, Marge (2020). Hélas, un mot pour dire le confinement, la crise et le partage. Interstudia, 28, 71−83.
• Marling, Raili; Käsper Marge (2020). Prediscourses as a Discourse Analytical Tool: Tracing Specters of Marx in Estonian Media Discourse. In: Angelique Majory (Ed.). Understanding Discourse Analysis (117−149). New York: Nova Science Publishers.
• Käsper, Marge (2019). Une particule évidentielle dialogale et les discours académiques. Juhani Härmä, Eva Havu, Hartmut Lenk, Begoña Sanroman, Elina Suomela-Härmä. Studies in Comparative Pragmatics (105−121). Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 
• Käsper, Marge; Marling, Raili (2018). Diskursuseanalüüsi muutuv suhe kvantifitseerimisega inglis- ja prantsuskeelses traditsioonis. Keel ja Kirjandus, LXI (8-9), 728−746. 
• Käsper, Marge; Tohvri, Epi (2015). Georges Frédéric Parrot' prantsuse nimest, päritolust ja retoorikast: rektori tervituskõne keisrile ja selle lausumiskontekstid. Tuna. Ajalookultuuri ajakiri, 1, 36−50.
• Käsper, M. (2009). Marx dans la presse estonienne « quinze ans après ». Citations non prises en charge, caractère d’étiquette et autres emplois « décoratifs ». Carnets du Cediscor 11 | 2009 (Le nom propre en discours), 121−136. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/cediscor/800
• Käsper, Marge (2005). Deixis et anaphore dans la progression et la cohésion textuelles : différences d'emploi en estonien et en francais. Treikelder, A., Daniele Monticelli, D., Pajusalu, R. De l'énoncé à l'énonciation et vice-versa. Regards multidisciplinaires sur la deixis (383−401). Tartu: Tartu Ülikool. (Studia Romanica Tartuensia; IV).
   

Projects:

• PRG934 "Imagining crisis ordinariness: discourse, literature and image (1.01.2020−31.12.2024)", Raili Marling, University of Tartu, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, College of Foreign Languages and Cultures.

More publications and information in the Estonian Research Information System.

Research clusters:

• Contrastive Linguistics and Text and Discourse Studies in Linguistics.

Contact: marge.kasper@ut.ee
 

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