I sitt bidrag till denna bok som bygger på en konferens i Jerusalem i februari 2020, berättar Roger Andersson om heliga Birgittas resa till Det heliga landet år 1372. De uppenbarelser om Jesu födelse och död hon fick under resan fick stor betydelse för hur dessa motiv återgavs i samtidens konst och litteratur. 

Den franske författaren Jean-Claude Mourlevat var i stort sett okänd i Sverige innan han fick Almapriset. När engelska dominerar översättningar av barn- och ungdomslitteratur är Almapriset viktigt för att lyfta böcker på andra språk, skriver Valérie Alfvén och Charlotte Lindgren.

It is well established that access to the bilingual lexicon is non-selective: even in an entirely monolingual context, elements of the non-target language are active. Research has also shown that activation of the non-target language is greater at higher proficiency levels, suggesting that it may be proficiency that drives cr...

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...

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...

Hur gynnar man bäst humaniora i Sverige och internationellt? Ska man ge röst åt muntergökens kvittrande eller olyckskorpens klagosång? Ska man påverka den kunskapspolitik som villkorar verksamheten eller uppmana till självrannsakan bland humanister?

Vad ska vi ha universiteten till? Hur sprids den akademiska kunskapen inom samhällsvetenskap och humaniora och hur används den, till vad? Det är angelägna frågor att ställa, eftersom de frammanar en diskussion som behöver föras fortlöpande. En sådan diskussion måste inkludera flertalet forskningsområden. Den måste vara framåt...

This study examines the interactional workings of multi-unit turns that have an initial turn-constructional unit that re-says the immediately prior single-unit turn produced by another speaker. Based on cases in English, Portuguese, and French, our analysis shows that resayings do confirming and also 1) index the speaker's ri...

For half a century or more, semilingualism has been a controversial – much debated and much derided – idea. The present paper engages with some facets of this history. It traces the formation and early circulation in its context of origin: Sweden's nascent fields of bilingualism research and minority education. The paper anal...

Utredningen om ett utvecklat innovationsstöd vid lärosätena riktar tydligt in sig på kommersialisering för industriell utveckling. Men nyttiggörande av forskning är ett bredare begrepp, skriver nio forskare vid den Vinnova­finansierade forskningsplattformen Making Universities Matter. 

This article presents an edited conversation between Kenneth Hyltenstam, Christopher Stroud, Linus Salö and David Karlander. Its main topic is the rise and consolidation of bilingualism research/multilingualism research as a demarcated subject area in Swedish academe. The article delves into this history via the professional,...

The present study investigates how the teacher in a show dance class demonstrates choreography to a group of learners (dancers) using imagery as a teaching strategy. The overall aim is to explore the pedagogical task of demonstrating with the help of imagery and to understand how different multimodal resources create prerequi...

This thesis comprises three separate studies that together explore how Swedish student teachers construct or produce professional identity in interaction while navigating different institutional and professional instances of teacher education. As a discourse analytical contribution to research on teacher identity, the main th...

It has recently been suggested that bilingualism, rather than age of acquisition, is what underlies less than nativelike attainment in childhood L2 acquisition. Currently, however, the empirical evidence in favor of or against this interpretation remains scarce. The present study sets out to fill this gap, implementing a nove...

This article reports on a longitudinal focus group study of two groups of translation students aimed at investigating their socialisation into the translation profession. The students followed the same MA programme in Translation Studies at a Swedish university but worked with different source languages (SL): Japanese and Eng...

This ethnomethodological (EM) and conversation analytic (CA) study explores the responsive behaviors of two Swedish volunteers during storytelling by two migrants in alanguage cafe in Sweden. The two stories revolve around employment and language proficiency, two topics that are often raised in the cafe as they invoke issues ...