Thomas Samuelsson Doctoral Student

Research group

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.

About me

I am a PhD student in Slavic linguistics within the doctoral schools Language and power and Digital humanities. My reseach is focused on morphology, discourse analysis (CADS, Discourse linguistics), corpus linguistics, distributional semantics (FastText, Elmo, Bert) and Russian media.

Previous teaching:
Introductory Course in Russian (SLRNY)
Course in Russian Social Studies (Politics and Economy) (RySPE)
Russia yesterday and today (RIOI)
Ukraine yesterday and today (SLUIOI)

My PhD project deals with word formation in Russian media. Many important problems are still unsolved despite a lot of intensive work in this field of research. This research is important because it can tell us how changes in the political society are reflected in the Russian language.

I have been responsible for research data and the Slavic library in the department.


Research group

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.