Interaction in multilingual Sweden

Classic interaction research study face-to-face conversations. Nowadays, other means of communication are also included. Utterances are seen as social action, and the participants’ perspective is of key interest.

Interpreting

Interpreting between different languages takes place in a variety of different contexts. This means that interpreting scholars gather their empirical data from various areas of society, e.g. from the domains of education, healthcare, and law, or from the organisations of the EU.

Multilingualism and society

In research on multilingualism and society, bi-/multilingualism are studied as a social phenomenon, both in multilingual Sweden and elsewhere in the world. Issues of globalization and transnational multilingualism are central to this research.

Swedish as a second language

Swedish as a second language is a multifaceted research area with high social relevance. Within this area, we conduct research on the multilingualism of children, young people and adults, language development and language use in school and other formal and informal educational contexts, in workplaces and in society.

Text and discourse in Swedish society

Linguistic text and discourse analysis study language as a tool for making meaning, often in writing but also through images and layout. We investigare the structure of important text types in society, as well as how identity, ideology and power is produced and reproduced in texts.

The bilingual individual

In research on the bilingual individual, bi-/multilingualism is studied primarily as a cognitive phenomenon, both in informal language acquisition in authentic language environments and in formal language learning in classrooms.

The history of Swedish and Scandinavian languages

This is the traditional core of Scandinavian linguistics. Today, researchers study both the grammatical system and language use in a societal perspective. Older texts, including runic inscriptions, are important objects of study.

The structure of Swedish and Scandinavian Languages

The study of language structure includes grammar, phonology and semantics. Our research concerns both modern and older Swedish – sometimes both. Often, the focus is on language change and variation.

Translation

Translation research is often multidisciplinary, and borrows models and methods from adjacent fields such as linguistics, literary studies, sociology, anthropology, didactics, film and media studies and cognitive science.