An Interview with Honorary Doctor – Sandra Thompson

In the second episode of “An Interview with Honorary Doctor” podcast, Simo Kekäläinen interviews Professor Sandra Thompson, who is an internationally recognized pioneer in interactional linguistics and an expert in functional linguistics. Sandra’s work has regenerated the field of linguistics both theoretically and methodologically. For example, Sandra has documented many endangered and already extinct languages such as Wappo that was spoken in Northern San Francisco until 1990.

An Interview with Honorary Doctors is a new podcast series, in which we will get to know the honorary doctors. The conversations will cover interesting stories about the life and achievements of the guests and their connections to the University of Oulu.