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Department of Swedish Language and Multilingualism

Collaboration, reinvented tools and specialist knowledge. Professional crisis communication

Communication professionals have a paramount role in global crisis. What did they learn during the covid pandemic that could be used in future global crisis? In an article, Mats Landqvist and Mona Blåsjö identifies and analyzes strategy changes among communicators in municipalities and how their conceptions of communicated knowledge transformed during the pandemic.

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Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

Nordic-Baltic Korean Studies Days 2024

The Nordic Korean Studies Days (NKSD) were founded by the universities of Copenhagen, Helsinki, Oslo, Stockholm and Turku. Due to its huge success this international teaching collaboration was expanded to include teachers and students from universities in the Baltics.

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Centre for Research on Bilingualism

Natalia Volvach receives a scholarship for the project Ukrainian Voices in Sweden (2024–2025)

The Anna Ahlström and Ellen Terserus Foundation for PhD's has decided to award Natalia Volvach at Stockholm University a two-year research scholarship for Doctor of Philosophy 2024–2025: Ukrainian Voices in Sweden. "Countering Voicelessness: Lived experiences of language among war refugees from Ukraine in Sweden".

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Centre for Research on Bilingualism

New book: Making Universities Matter

In an era of rapid change and increasing societal demands, the role of universities as knowledge producers and catalysts for change has come under scrutiny. This open access book offers a fresh perspective on the significance of universities in society, shedding light on how their knowledge can truly matter beyond academia.

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Alice Pick Duhan
Department of Romance Studies and Classics

Alice Duhan, Romklass, awarded Swedish Research Council grant

Alice Duhan, currently postdoctoral research fellow at Romklass, has been awarded research funding from the Swedish Research Council in the annual call for humanities and social sciences. Her three-year project, "Translingual Writing post-1945 and the Multilingual Spaces of French Fiction", examines literary texts written by second language authors in French and asks how this literature can contribute to a re-reading of recent French literary history from the vantage point of multilingualism.

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Department of Romance Studies and Classics

Angolan writer José Eduardo Agualusa visits Sweden with Camões I.P. support

Program with Angolan writer José Eduardo Agualusa, both in The Gothenburg Book Fair (the 29th of September) and in Stockholm (1st of October), as part of the cultural activities plan of the Embassy of Portugal/leitorado Camões I.P. in Sweden (at Stockholm University) with the support of Camões I.P.

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Centre for Research on Bilingualism

Caroline Kerfoot, new editor of the Routledge book series ‘Critical Studies in Multilingualism’

In April, Caroline Kerfoot at the Centre for Research on Bilingualism became Editor of the Routledge book series ‘Critical Studies in Multilingualism’, together with Vally Lytra of Goldsmiths, University of London. They would like to pay tribute to the inspired leadership, vision, and commitment of the founding editors, Marilyn Martin-Jones and Joan Pujolar, in building and nurturing the series.

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Giada Brighi
Institute for Interpreting and Translation Studies

Summer School Scholarship 2023 to Giada Brighi at TÖI

Giada Brighi, a member of EST since March 2022, was thrilled to accept the EST Summer School scholarship for her coming participation in “Conceptualizing Histories of Translation: from your story to history”, a summer school organized by the Department of Translation Studies at the University of Graz, on 18–23 September 2023.

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Annie Ernaux with visitors

Nobel Prize laureate Annie Ernaux visited Stockholm University

Literature laureate Annie Ernaux visited Stockholm University on Friday to meet students and researchers. She candidly answered questions from the visitors who, among other things, wondered if she thinks we can escape our heritage and asked for her view of society's harsh treatment of the elderly. The conversation can be viewed digitally in French and Swedish in this article.

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A teen girl smelling a rose

Smell words differ primarily in terms of pleasantness and edibility

Most languages lack a specialized vocabulary to describe smell experiences. People instead use words from other domains, such as “heavy”, “good” or “fruity”, when talking about smells. But which words are really used and how do they relate to each other? This has been answered for English by researchers at Stockholm University by using a fully automatic method that is based on texts from the Internet.

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Research projects

A Lexicon of Medieval Nordic Law 2.0

LMNL is a unique lexicographic resource of the medieval legal language of the Nordic region and an important tool for internationalising research of the medieval laws and legal history of the Nordic countries.

Ruin of gallows hill in Visby, Gotland. Photo: Ulrika Djärv
AI in the service of runology

The project's main goal is to create an AI assistant that will find answer a user's questions with help of the Scandinavian Runic database.

Runstone with glowing grren runes. Made by Sofia Pereswetoff-Morath using AI.
Birgitta of Sweden: the texts in Old Swedish

The aim of the project is a critical edition of the entire Old Swedish text corpus of Birgitta’s (1303–1373) texts, both her revelations and other shorter texts. An additional goal is to provide transcriptions of all manuscripts including fragmentary material.

Heliga Birgitta, skulptur Vadstena klosterkyrka
CALL for Dynamic Assessment

The evolution within the information society has reshaped learning, offering benefits such as improved learner motivation and learner autonomy. Therefore, teachers must adapt to evolving technology trends. This PhD thesis examines the potential of text-chat mediated dynamic assessment for language development.

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Civic communication in the time of climate crisis

The project aims to deepen our understanding of the complex tasks that civic communication has in the transformation to a more sustainable society. The studies included utilize tools from sociolinguistics and discourse analysis to explore the role of language in societal change, and, more specifically, the role of linguistic messages in human action.

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Concurrent Collaboration

Reading development in newly arrived high school students addresses a well-defined educational need: the automatization of decoding in second language learner reading. Decoding is critical for comprehension and therefore for learning.

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DataLEASH: LEarning And SHaring under Privacy Constraints

With massive amounts of personal data being generated, privacy has become a great challenge. This project studies how machine learning can be used for sharing language models without risking to share information that may identify individuals.

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Federated Health: A Nordic Federated Health Data Network

Electronic health records are full of important information about diagnoses and treatments of patients. Sharing this information in a federated health data network, across hospitals in the Nordic countries, will improve the quality of health care.

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Health Bank de-identification tool and its practical use

The aim of this project is to enable the practical use of methods for de-identification of clinical free text written in Swedish. The HB Deid tool will be tested on textual patient data from Region Stockholm and not only in a laboratory environment at Stockholm University.

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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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Invisible process – cognition and working memory in dialogue interpreting

This project aims to lay the foundation for studying cognitive processes in interpreting dialogues. The research questions concern the nature of the interpreter’s cognitive resources, more specifically, the function of the monitoring processes as compared to other types of interpreting and the strategies applied to cope with cognitive load.

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L1 talkers’ adaptation to L2 speech

L1 talkers’ adaptation to L2 speech. Computational and experimental approaches to vowel perception. This project investigates how the speech perception system deals with the fact that we all differ in our pronunciation.

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Linguistic and Institutional Epistemic Dynamics in Multilingual Workplaces

This project explores linguistic and institutional dynamics in multilingual workplaces, examining interactional practices and identity construction. Using audio/video data, it focuses on backstage talk, leadership, and socio-technical practices in manager-employee meetings, employing EMCA, MCA, and socio-technical methods.

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Marie Franzos (1870–1941)

Marie Franzos (1870–1941): Independent, committed, successful. Translator, agent and cultural mediator of Swedish literature in German around 1900.

Modelling usage-based language learning

The interdisciplinary project brings together ideas and methods from linguistics, complex systems, machine learning, biology, and cultural evolution to seek answers to one of the big questions about humans.

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Multimodal text creation in the school's early years

The purpose of this project is to develop work processes and teaching methods where students learn from an early age to create multimodal texts. The work is carried out with inspiration from models and ideas taken from research and proven experience.

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Participant perspectives on professional language competence

The project focuses on internationally trained teachers and pre-school teachers and their experience and view of communication and language use in their work in Sweden. Their experience derives from their supplementary education (ULV) at universities in Sweden, and from their work as teachers in different parts of the Swedish school system.

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Professional Communication and Digital Media

Professional Communication and Digital Media. Complexity, Mobility and Multilingualism in the Global Workplace. The project studies communication in commercial enterprises, with a focus on digital media, multilingualism and internal communication.

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Reinterrogating Language Education in Adulthood

In this research project, we examine the significance of accommodated language education for adults in municipal adult education and folk high school, with a particular focus on Swedish language learning.

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Save the Children Sweden in changing times

In the process of expanding its activities in Sweden, from having worked primarily with influence and impact, to offering wealth fare services of education, employment and healthcare, the organisation Save the Children Sweden will need an increased awareness of how it frames its undertakings as well as of what stories it tells.

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Swedish Runestones for everyone

The projects aim is to make Swedish runestones accessible to the public by creating an application that shows which runestones are near the user. The user will receive reliable and up-to-date information on each stone's location, condition, reading, interpretation and dating.

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Traveling Voices

The diachronic development of the voice system in Baltic, Slavic, and Germanic branches from a migrational perspective.

Yoko Yamazaki
Ukrainian Voices in Sweden

Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine has forced millions of people to flee their homes and seek safety in neighboring countries, not least in the Nordic Region. This postdoctoral project investigates the lived experiences of language among those Ukrainians who have fled to Sweden since the outbreak of the full-scale invasion on 24 February 2022.

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Video Remote Interpreting (VRI)

Video Remote Interpreting (VRI): A study on Cognitive Load in Simultaneous and Dialogue Interpreting via video and interpreters' attitudes towards VRI in Sweden

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What do the school walls say – linguistic and visual messages

In the citizen science project “What do the school walls say” teachers and students will help scholars to investigate how the school system’s democratic mission is reflected in the signs, notes and messages on classroom walls, in corridors and other public spaces of schools.

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Research groups

Clinical Text Mining Group

The Clinical Text Mining Group is a creative research group of computer scientists, engineers, computational linguists and physicians. We perform research in both artificial intelligence, language technology and health informatics.

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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.

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Language and societal challenges

Language and Social Challenges is one of the permanent research groups within Swedish and Scandinavian Languages at the Department of Swedish and Multilingualism. It brings together sociolinguistically and discourse analytically oriented researchers who are interested in linguistic issues in relation to social, ecological and economic sustainability.

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Narratives: form and function

The research group Narratives: form and function takes an interest in stories and narrative from different times and places – from medieval legislative texts to contemporary lifestyle blogs – and aims at understanding why and how we choose to narrate.

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Network Language and Power

Language and power as a field of study has a long tradition, but it has become more relevant in recent years due to the rise of populism and societies becoming increasingly polarised.

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Scandinavian philology and language history

Scandinavian philology and language history is one of the research groups within Swedish and Scandinavian Languages. It brings together researchers interested in the study of language and literature from older times, preferably from the runic, Old Swedish, Old Icelandic and Early modern periods.

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TRISS (Translation in Societies) research group

The TRISS research group investigates translation as a fundamental social relation in our globalized and interconnected world, exploring the multifaceted role of translated texts, translation processes and agents in society, drawing on theories and methods from translation sociology, translation history, world literature studies, and network theory.

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The SVAN Network

Network of courses in Swedish for employees at higher education institutions in Sweden that are aimed at organizers and teaching teachers at higher education institutions in Sweden.

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Transcultural Literary Studies

Transcultural Literary Studies is a vibrant field that brings together several researchers in the Department of Romance Studies and Classics. Our research group focuses on a broad range of issues related to the translation, circulation and reception of literature, and also examines literary multilingualism in all its forms.

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