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Research project IVIP, Interaction and Variation in Pluricentric Languages

Interaction and Variation in Pluricentric Languages – Communicative Patterns in Sweden Swedish and Finland Swedish is a research programme by partners Stockholm University, University of Helsinki , University of Turku and the Institute for Language and Folklore in Gothenburg.

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Theme

Language and Language Learning

Contact person at SU

Catrin Norrby

Prodekanus, Professor

The Department of Swedish Language and Multilingualism

08-16 35 97

catrin.norrby@su.se

Overview

Project period

01-01-2013 - 31-12-2020

Responsible

The Department of Swedish Language and Multilingualism The Institute for Language and Folklore (Isof) University of Helsinki University of Turku

Participants

The Swedish Language Bank (Språkbanken), Gothenburg University

Research subjects

Interaction in multilingual Sweden

Status

Completed

Funding

Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ)

Research groups

IVIP, Interaction and Variation in Pluricentric Languages

IntensiveSwedish

Through collaboration between researchers and teachers, the work within the project IntensiveSwedish has resulted in a goal-oriented, concrete and systematically laid out basic model for the education of newly arrived students of high school age. IntensiveSwedish has now entered a new phase! IntensiveSwedish 2.0.

Julia Backelin Forsberg, Helena Bani-Shoraka, Maria Lim Falk, Tomas Riad

Interaction and Multilingualism (Interfler)

Interfler is one of the regular research groups in the section Swedish and Scandinavian Languages in the Department of Swedish and Multilingualism. The group consists of researchers with interests in interaction and multilingualism, both in everyday life and different public domains such as education and working life.

Two young women having a coffee in the city.

Pluricentric languages are languages spoken in more than one country. In Europe alone there are many examples: English, French, German and Swedish. But do people interact the same way in different countries simply because they speak the same language? Or do the communicative patterns vary? We know very little about this, which is exactly what the programme Interaction and Variation in Pluricentric Languages investigates.

The IVIP group. Catrin Norrby, Camilla Wide, Jenny Nilsson, Jan Lindström.

Project description

The program compares the same type of interactions in similar environments in Sweden and Finland, focussing on the service, education and healthcare domains, where much of the interaction outside the private domain takes place. Conversations between people who know each other and ones who don’t will be recorded, to chart differences in communicative patterns between Sweden Swedish and Finland Swedish conversations. Moreover, a searchable database, also available for future research, will be created.

An important part of the program is to contribute to the international theory development for the study of pluricentric languages. Using theories and methods such as conversation analysis and ethnography of communication the program will be able to describe and explain pluricentric language phenomena that previous research has not been able to identify. In this way the program contributes to the development of the field of variational pragmatics while also gaining new insights into what are unique patterns in Finland Swedish and Sweden Swedish conversations.

Programme description IVIP with summary in Swedish and English (250 Kb)