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Thomas SamuelssonDoctoral Student

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Contact

Name and title: Thomas Samuelsson Doctoral Student

thomas.samuelsson@slav.su.se

Orcid

0009-0009-0341-5889

Workplace: Department of Slavic and Baltic Studies Finnish Dutch and German

Visiting address

Postal address

Institutionen för slaviska och baltiska språk finska nederländska

106 91 Stockholm

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.

I am responsible for research data in the department.

Teaching

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)

Research

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.

Research projects

Publications

A selection from Stockholm University publication database

A keymorph analysis of Russian political news reporting

2023. Thomas Samuelsson. Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Resources and Tools for Derivational Morphology, 99-108

Conference

This paper presents a diachronic study of Russian prefixes in the political news reporting. Theanalysis examines derivational prefixes in the Russian media discourse for each year in the timeperiod 2012–2020. The prefixes are analyzed using derivational keymorphs. The data materialconsists of a corpus of political texts from more than 60 Russian online media resources. Keymorphs have previously been used to investigate Czech presidential discourse (Fidler and Cvrček,2019), the Russian media resource Sputnik Czech Republic (Fidler and Cvrček, 2018; Cvrček andFidler, 2019) and Putin’s speeches (Janda et al., 2023). The use of keymorphs enables one to focuson morphological features and to capture general characteristics of the textual content in a language corpus. The work uses Corpus-assisted discourse studies (CADS) as the main frameworkand is a contribution to the understanding of Russian political discourse.

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The Russian adjectives antirossijskij, antirusskij and antisovetskij in Russian media

2018. Thomas Samuelsson. SlaviCorp 2018. 24–26 September 2018 Charles University, Prague. Book of Abstracts, 152-154

Conference

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