Den här artikeln introducerar Ernesto Laclaus teori om populism för den skandinaviska retorikforskningen i syfte att adressera en befintlig brist på begrepps liga resurser för att analysera populistiska artikulationer. Laclaus teori om populism syftar till att förklara de retoriska processer inneboende i varje politisk kamp så...

Public literary conversations with writers, be they foreign or domestic, have gained increasing popularity in Sweden during the past decade. Conversations with foreign writers are mainly held by a few large official organizers, such as the annual Gothenburg Book Fair and the International Authors’ Scene in Stockholm. I employ...

The article sheds light on the impact of awards on the translation of children's literature into semi-peripheral and peripheral languages and its transnational circulation. In relation to literature for adults, it has been argued that awards instigate both translation and circulation. This article examines whether a similar c...

Roger Andersson skriver en minnestext om professor Barbro Söderberg som avled år 2019. Barbro spelade en stor roll för ämnets utveckling och skapade flera livaktiga forskningsmiljöer på vår institution.

Grammatik, ord, texttyper vänder sig främst till lärare i svenska som andraspråk och svenska som främmande språk. Det är ett referens- och stödmaterial när läraren vill lägga fokus på form. Perspektivet är funktionellt. Svenskans grammatik och ordförråd beskrivs selektivt men relativt utförligt, och kopplas till användning i ...

Den här artikeln handlar om en del av den undervisning som elevgruppen nyanlända elever i gymnasieåldern möter inom ramen för ämnet svenska som andraspråk.

En fråga som återkommer i båda svenskämnesdiskurserna rör grammatikundervisningens vara eller icke vara. Frågan grundar sig till stor del på den ambivalenta inställn...

Huvudsyftet med denna studie är att redogöra för den formativa läraråterkoppling som ges i samband med en kurs i akademiskt skrivande för ämneslärarstudenter. I kursen får studenterna praktisk övning i att själva skriva i olika vetenskapliga genrer, i att kritiskt läsa, bedöma och ge respons på andra studenters texter, samt i...

In geographically, economically and politically peripheral, but at the same, central space (Pietikäinen & Kelly-Holmes, 2013), individuals rely on certain multilingual practices to create own normativities and to manifest own identities. Crimean Tatars, an ethnic group pushed out to peripheries of the urban centres since ...

This special issue contains a peer-reviewed selection of paperspresented atMedia for All8: Complex understandings, a conferencewhich took place in Stockholm in 2019. This introduction links the 15articles included in this special issue to the conference theme, which isalso the theme of this volume:complex understandings. The ...

In geographically, economically and politically peripheral, but at the same, central spaces, individuals rely on certain multilingual practices to create their own normativities and to manifest their own identities. Crimean Tatars, as an ethnic group pushed out to the peripheries of the urban centres, ‘exercise their agency’ ...

Det som skrivs med stor bokstav – versal – uppfattas ofta som lite finare och viktigare. Antagligen är det därför vi gärna skriva ”God Jul och Gott Nytt År”. Men rätt är det inte.

Integrated university programs for deaf and hearing sign language interpreting students are rare. In Finland, deaf interpreting students have been integrated in the only university program for sign language interpreting since its beginning in the early 1990s. This article investigates the experiences of the deaf interpreting ...

Lärare tar ofta till pedagogiska lögner för att lära ut skriftens vanligaste konventioner. Om eleverna med tiden lyckas avslöja osanningarna, kan de bli riktigt goda stilister.

Om man beställer en öl i baren, tar en klunk och sedan gillar smaken, kan man utbrista ”Ölet är gott!”. Och därmed har en öl förvandlas till ett öl. Hur kan det komma sig?

This article investigates how a significant part of the learning process within show dance classes is performed, namely multimodal demonstrations. In particular, it focuses on how the mirror is used as a tool during demonstrations. The data consist of video recordings and ethnographic fieldwork among young adults practicing s...

Native (L1) and second-language (L2) sentence processing can sometimes be shallow. A Good-Enough approach suggests that speakers may engage in shallow processing if the task permits. This study tests English native speakers and native Chinese L2 learners of English to explore whether different task demands affect their senten...

Har översättnintgsvetenskapen något värde för samhället? Det finns åtminstone två sätt att närma sig den frågan. Svaret skulle kunna vara en reflektion över forskningens relevans för översättare och andra som jobbar med översättningar. Man kan då tänka sig att översättningsforskning har, eller i alla fall borde ha, ett värde ...

Denne bokomtalen, skriven for Tidsskriftet Mellom, tar for seg Idellea föreningen Autors essaysamling Autor chap II (2020), der omsettarar som på ulike vis jobbar med skandinaviske språk, skriv fram sine omsettingspoetikkar. Dei seks tekstane står støtt kvar for seg, der dei skildrar kjærleiken til språket og littera...

I forskningsprogrammet Interaktion och variation i pluricentriska språk. Kommunikativa mönster i sverigesvenska och finlandssvenska (IVIP) jämförs interaktionella och pragmatiska mönster i de två nationella varieteterna av svenska.2 Analyserna utgår från institutionella samtal som samlats in från tre domäner: servic...

Inom forskningsprogrammet Interaktion och variation i pluricentriska språk (IVIP) utforskas kommunikativa mönster i sverigesvenska och finlandssvenska i tre typer av institutionella samtal: servicesamtal, lärandesamtal och vårdsamtal (se t.ex. Norrby m.fl. 2014; Wide 2016). I denna artikel fokuserar vi på servicesamtalen, i v...

Denne bokmeldinga, skriven for Bokvennen Litterær Avis (BLA), tar for seg Kreativitet (2020) av Hilde Østby. Østby skapar nye koplingar ved å trekke på hjernevitskap så vel som kunst, litteratur og kreative menneskes erfaringar. Boka er særs lærerik, men har dystre undertonar.

I denne bokomtalen, skriven for Bokvennen Litterær Avis (BLA), tar for seg den norske poeten og redaktøren Nils-Øyvind Haagen si diktsamling Det uregjerlige (2020). I boka stiller Haagensen seg ufråvikeleg på sida til den svake parten, idet han bind saman det politiske, det poetiske og det personelege. Men er det så ...

Among the cultural fields censored under the Nazi rule of occupied Norway (1940-1945) during WWII, translated literature stands out as the most strictly controlled part of the literary field, censored by the Norwegian Literature and Library Office. Moreover, the Reich Commissariat (the highest German authority in occupied Nor...

This collectively authored reflection on translation began as a roundtable discussion by a group of feminists considering how translation can subvert, rewrite, or question hegemonic definitions of authorship, as well as how it can disrupt or dismantle intersecting regimes of power. Authorizing ourselves to explore a new form ...

This chapter examines the translation and reception of two Swedish young adult novels – Spelar död [Play Dead] and När tågen går förbi [When the Trains Pass By] – published in France in the 2000s. Both books use unprovoked violence in a realistic genre for adolescents, something no French author had dared to...

The present article examines the proposal that typology is a major factor guiding transfer selectivity in L3/Ln acquisition. We tested first exposure in L3/Ln using two artificial languages (ALs) lexically based in English and Spanish, focusing on gender agreement between determiners and nouns, and between nouns and adjective...

The article gives an account of research into the relationships that exist between varities of pluricentric languages, introducing central concepts and theoretical underpinnings of pluricentric research, covering power relationships, expressions of identity and attitudes as well as the debate on pluricentricity vis-à-vis plur...

Genom tidigare forskning vet vi relativt mycket om skolans roll för migranters vägar ini det svenska samhället. Vi vet mindre om civilsamhällets stöd och roll i integrationsprocessen,särskilt när det gäller språklig integration. I denna policy brief, skriven avGunilla Jansson, professor vid Institutionen för svenska och flers...

This thesis investigates the influence of age of acquisition on the long-term second language development of international adoptees. Because age of acquisition typically coincides with the onset of bilingualism, the study of maturational age effects in second language acquisition has been empirically and conceptually entangle...

Att mötas i tolkning av text – presentation från ett litteraturdidaktiskt projekt i gymnasieskolans båda svenskämnen Läsning av skönlitteratur innefattar tolkning, och att utveckla en litterärt tolkande förmåga kan anses vara ett av svenskämnenas grundläggande uppdrag. Även om nationellt jämförande studier har konstaterat til...

This chapter investigates the ways in which various discursive processes within and about Swedish Higher Education (HE) are rendering some value-laden linguistic practices and processes invisible. Previous studies in the field of Language Policy and Planning (LPP) have focused on the ‘internationalisation’ of HE with a pre-oc...

Based on three separate studies, this thesis explores diaspora identities among young adult Assyrians/Syrians in Sweden, mediated through language. The focus is on how multilingual young adults use their languages and reflect on their use of language. The young adults’ experiences of, and perceptions of, languages are studied...

This article aims to explore continuity and change in adult migrants’ experiences of Swedish for immigrants (SFI), a state-subsidised language programme for basic Swedish. The study has a longitudinal and comparative design, drawing on discourse analysis of qualitative interviews conducted with language learners in 2001/2002 ...

Using a discourse analytical method, this paper explores how Sweden and Swedish national identity are expressed in the yearbooks from the Swedish Tourist Association, and if there have been any changes in the discursive constructions during 127 years of publications. The results indicate changing discursive strategies during ...

This paper explores in what ways language – and multilingualism in particular – can be rethought in order to further epistemic justice. In order to situate the question of language in a broader decolonial project, it starts by critically reviewing three main strategies that have been proposed to address epistemic injustice in...

Lektor, språkforskare, genusforskningspionjär. Kerstin Nordenstam var docent i nordiska språk vid Göteborgs universitet och en pionjär inom svensk språkvetenskaplig genusforskning.

Previous studies have investigated the cognitive processes of simultaneous interpreting and translation using eye-tracking. No study has yet utilized eye-tracking to investigate cognitive load and cognitive effort in dialogue interpreting. An eye-tracking study was conducted on two groups of interpreters (experienced and inex...

Belarus president heter Lukasjenka på belarusiska – ändå envisas medierna med att skriva Lukasjenko. Hur går det ihop? Svaret är att landet använder både ryska och belarusiska och stavningen påverkas av vilket språk man utgår från.

Rapporter larmar om att vi läser och skriver sämre nu för tiden, men för att tolka sådana uppgifter behövs ett längre tidsperspektiv. Med tanke på den mängd text som produceras i dag jämfört med förr har läs- och skrivförmågan hos befolkningen antagligen förbättrats.

A commentary on the Special Issue ‘Grassroots participation and agency in bilingual education processes in Mozambique’. This Special Issue continues the decolonial task of making absences present: of bringing into the frame the linguistic and other knowledges traditionally excluded from educational policy and curricula, and p...

Studiemedvetenhet handlar bland annat om vilken typ av färdigheter och förmågor som värdesätts i det svenska skolsystemet, om vilka rättigheter och skyldigheter man har som elev har vad gäller ansvar, delaktighet med mera. Studiemedvetenhet handlar också om att kunna reflektera över sitt eget lärande, om att få en klarare upp...

This article utilizes Bourdieu’s sociology to grasp the relations between linguistic practice and spatiality, and, through that effort, to position language as a pivotal terrain in  internationalizing academe. Empirically, it explores Swedish academe and the linguistic practices of its dwellers: Swedish-speaking and non-Swedi...

Contributing to academic literacies research, this study investigates how counselors at university writing centers in Sweden and Finland handle the micro-level management of knowledge in advice-giving. While writing counselors are experienced in academic writing, they are not necessarily familiar with students’ subject areas ...

Based on a qualitative and quantitative survey of introduction and address and naming behaviour of Austrian academics at international conferences in linguistics and language studies, we compare reported strategies in Austrian German and in English as a lingua franca (ELF). The scenarios asked about are self-introduction, int...

Kollegialt lärande har kommit att bli en viktig del av arbetet inom lärarkollegiet som undervisar i svenska som främmande språk på Stockholms universitet. Genom ett nyskapat kollegialt utvecklingsprogram med auskultationer, samundervisning och kollegiala samtal har kollegiet och ledningen skapat nya sätt att mötas kring olika...

This paper investigates trends in the study of Modern languages or second foreign languages (SFLs) in Swedish lower secondary school between 2000 and 2018. Over the last decades, SFLs, i.e. French, German and Spanish, have been the target of several policy measures as a response to a declining interest. However, few reports o...

Språkvetenskapen har traditionellt undersökt det verbala språket, dess lexikon och grammatik. Exempel som konstruerats eller hämtats från skrivna texter fick länge stå för språket. Senare har talat språk studerats i sekvenser av initiativ och responser, men ofta med fokus på språkliga handlingar. Multimodal interaktionsanalys...

Social interaktion är alltid förkroppsligad och multimodal, det vill säga när vi interagerar med andra använder vi olika kommunikativa resurser där flera av dem utgår från vår kropp. En av de mest framträdande förkroppsligade kommunikativa resurserna är gester. Gester används frekvent och fyller olika funktioner i interaktion...

This chapter presents analyzed evidence of care workers’ fine-grained verbal and non-verbal management of private vs. public space in residential care facilities for older people in Sweden. Using conversation analysis and ethnographic observations, the chapter accounts for the methods that care workers adopt to order space in...

The aim of this article is to give an account of prepositional adverbial infinitives in the history of Swedish. Present Day Swedish shows a range of such adverbial infinitives, including purposive, abessive, substitutive, temporal, and instrumental infinitives. With the exception of purposive infinitives, such adverbial infin...

This article is an investigation of teachers’ corrections and comments on graduation essays from the 1870s. Our aim is to learn more about the linguistic norms in Swedish secondary schools at the time, such as they appear in this specific context. The study is based on 13 graduation essays (in total 7,184 words) from one seco...

The Middle Ages is usually seen as a period when the use of writing gained momentum in Europe. O en, the medieval town is mentioned as an arena for increasing literacy. In urban settlements one seems to have been more likely to be confronted with writing than elsewhere. e Swedish towns are no exception. e expansion in the u...

Drawing on possible selves theory and role model theory, this article explores translation students' possibilities of envisioning their future as translators. Four MA students in a Swedish university were followed over two years through a longitudinal focus group study. The material was analyzed thematically following Braun a...

I det följande ska vi först göra några nedslag i svenskans utbredning i världen, både i nutid och historiskt. Det aktualiserar svenskans roll i relation till andra språk i en kontaktsituation och förhållanden mellan majoritets-och minoritetsspråk samt vilka möjligheter som finns för svensktalande att använda språket utanför d...

This study investigates the use of greetings in Sweden-Swedish and Finland-Swedish service encounters and the social meaning of different greeting forms. Situated within the framework of variational pragmatics, the study explores Swedish as a pluricentric language and investigates with interactional and statistical analyses t...

Systemic-Functional Linguistics often appears as a complete and altogether exhaustive theory of language. If widened with a multimodal perspective, social semiotics seems to contain all you need – but does it? The research project Health literacy and knowledge-formation in the information society has investigated com...

This thesis is concerned with Swedish translators and the society in which they work. It begins with an exploration of the concept of translatorship, leading up to a three-part distinction of 1) textual translatorship, 2) paratextual translatorship, and 3) extratextual translatorship. Adopting a mixed methods approach, the em...

De romanska språken är de indoeuropeiska språk som utvecklats från latinet. Beteckningen ”romanska språk” syftar även på den akademiska disciplin i vilken de romanska språken och litteraturen från de romanska språkområdena studeras. Denna disciplin, också kallad ”romanistik”, har en lång tradition i Sverige. Den akademiska ut...

Professionals working in international companies in Sweden are expected to speak, read, and write in Swedish and English in their daily work. This article discusses professional writing in different languages. Through the use of methods from linguistic ethnography, we aim to enrich the understanding of workplace literacy by s...

This chapter describes situations of distress and the working climate of healthcare interpreters in Sweden. A questionnaire focused on distressful situations was administered to interpreters with experience in healthcare interpreting. The results indicated that distress in healthcare interpreting could be traced back to ethic...

Intercultural healthcare refers to when people of different cultures and languages communicate and interact in the healthcare context. Intercultural competence is pivotal to provide congruent and meaningful care. The notion intercultural stresses that at least two cultures are involved; however, many use the...

Le rôle de l’interprète du secteur public est compris différemment dans les pays nordiques et par exemple en France. Dans les pays nordiques, la tâche de l’interprète est vue comme bi-partiale c’est à dire que l’interprète se tient à égale distance des parties en présence (Skaaden, 2016). Dans cet article, le rôle, la formati...

Retrospective verbal process tracing is a popular research method in Interpreting Studies, employed by a growing number of scholars, particularly in studies of conference interpreting, but, to date, it has not been widely employed in studies of dialogue interpreting. This paper begins by introducing process-tracing methodolog...

För 75 år sedan fick barn inte dua vuxna – ja, helst skulle de över huvud taget inte öppna munnen. Men en viss flicka vände helt upp och ner på språkbruket när hon 1945 gjorde entré.

Vet du vad en ”infodemi” är? Du är väl ingen ”covidiot”? Nya situationer föder nya ord – och i en tid präglad av den pågående pandemin smittar coronaviruset också av sig på språket.

Dialektens förändringstakt beror på attityden hos dem som talar den. Är man stolt över hembygden eller mer flyttbenägen – en ny studie visar vad som påverkar hur vi talar.

Värdeord som ska ge uttryck för myndigheters värdegrund – har de egentligen något värde? Ja, en ny studie visar att det faktum att orden är öppna för tolkning leder till diskussioner som stärker gemenskapen hos de anställda.

Anders Tegnell använder verbet ”bör” snarare än ”ska” och kommer med råd i stället för förbud. Betyder det att det är frivilligt att följa Folkhälsomyndighetens rekommendationer?

This article examines the unfolding of interaction in a growing and, so far, scarcely examined social and cultural practice – interpreter-mediated public literary conversations. In this context, the activity of interpreters, although indispensable when authors and audiences do not share a common language, is sometimes regarde...

In Sweden, numerous public conversations on literature featuring authors from abroad are held each year. Some of those are interpreted for the audience. Interpreting strategies evolve to cope with the formal constraints, as well as the amplification of a staged conversation, which is generated by the contextual setting and cu...

Although consecutive interpreting of longer stretches of speech inevitably involves repetition and delays, it can also be regarded as a resource for engagement in storytelling. In an open, interpreted conversation on stage about a recently published piece of literature, the participants have to manage several tasks at once: a...

This dissertation investigates the occurrence and nature of public literary conversations within the discipline of Translation and Interpreting Studies. Alongside a macro-sociological exploration of public literary talks in Sweden from 1998–2018 ­– in relation to literary translations published during the same period – the di...

From a discourse analytic framework, the article analyses health blogs and patient’s forum discussions in which parents to children with congenital heart defects recontextualize medical professional knowledge and share their own experiences. The study show how the two types of online media may serve as a means for parents to ...

Native language (L1) processing draws on implicit expectations. An open question is whether non-native learners of a second language (L2) similarly draw on expectations, and whether these expectations are based on learners’ L1 or L2 knowledge. We approach this question by studying inverse preference effects on lexical encodin...

Over the past decade, the LLAMA language aptitude test battery has come to play an increasingly important role as an instrument in research on individual differences in language development. However, a potentially serious problem that has been pointed out by several scholars is that the LLAMA has not yet been carefully valida...

Ett övergripande mål för landets alla regioner är att vården i Sverige ska vara jämlik. Transkulturellt centrum (Region Stockholm) erbjuder vården utbildning i migration samt utbildning om vård och hälsa för nyanlända. Utbildningarna bidar tydligt till regionens mål.

I denna rapport beskrivs ett verksamhetsutvecklande p...

The chapter explores the lived experience of students with diverse linguistic and educational backgrounds in Swedish higher education through in-depth interviews with three students who migrated to Sweden. Reflections on language ideologies and practices across social spaces in multilingual university settings are discussed. ...

This video-ethnographic workplace study follows a theater rehearsal process, which to date is an under-researched professional setting. More specifically, the study investigates the process of  framing (Goffman 1974) contexts that together build up the theatrical framework (cf. MacLachlan and Reid 1994: 17)....

This thesis builds on three studies that explore a professional rehearsal process as situated interaction and as a longitudinal process. Primarily, the thesis contributes to the area of interactional linguistics, but it also seeks to contribute new knowledge to theatre studies. The empirical focus is on the participants’ inte...

The lay perception of those who work with interpreters in their professional conversations (and sometimes of interpreters themselves) is that translation of what they and their patients/clients say should be as close as possible. The very idea of close translation may seem simple, but the practice of rendering spontaneous tal...

The current study is carried out in an ethnically diverse three-semestervocational adult education programme in Sweden for those who aspire to registeras assistant nurses. The data is based on field notes taken during participantobservations and video-recordings of the classroom interaction in a course ondementia care in the ...

Do we conceptualise the future as being behind us or in front of us? Although this question has traditionally been investigated through the lens of spatiotemporal metaphors, new impetus was recently provided by the Temporal-Focus Hypothesis. This hypothesis holds that the mapping of temporal concepts onto the front-back axis ...

Det räcker att kasta en blick på olika slags skyltar för att se att svenskan är det språk som har högst status i Sverige. Det numera lagstadgade främjandet av flerspråkighet yttrar sig fortfarande oftast som upptejpade lappar.

This thesis is concerned with Swedish translators and the society in which they work. It begins with an exploration of the concept of translatorship, leading up to a three-part distinction of 1) textual translatorship, 2) paratextual translatorship, and 3) extratextual translatorship. Adopting a mixed methods approach, the em...

Vi är oense om hur ett inkluderande språk ser ut. Ibland kan rekommenderade termer till och med upplevas som exkluderande – för att de är så krångliga. Men lösningen kan inte vara att använda ord som upplevs som diskriminerande.

Standard language cultures are characterised by beliefs in idealised standard forms of the language in question. In this paper, these beliefs are connected to the concepts of referee design and speech community, through analysis of how Swedish adolescents reflect upon and self-assess their language proficiencies. The data con...

REPLIK DN DEBATT 12/1. För den som vill förändra normer i samhället är språket ett effektivt verktyg. Det är inte nödvändigtvis nya ord i sig som gör den stora skillnaden, utan de diskussioner som orden är en del av, där inövade tankar och mönster prövas mot andras sätt att tänka, skriver åtta språkforskare.

Many historians have asked themselves whether there was any direct contact between Catherine of Siena and Birgitta of Sweden. When speaking of Birgitta’s wisdom the preacher likens her to a wise architect who builds her house on a solid ground and foundation. Likewise, the preachers use two different strategies of demonstrati...

Corpus planning has attracted attention ever since Deborah Cameron's seminal Verbal Hygiene (1995). However, evaluations of corpus planning aimed at addressing linguistic discrimination have been surprisingly scarce. Because corpus planning costs energy, time and money, evaluations are important for future actions. This study...