Linnea Hanell

When I teach, it is mainly in sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, and writing. I have supervised and examined BA and MA theses on subjects such as sociolinguistics, learning, discourse analysis, and civic communication. I have also supervised one PhD candidate: Ida Melander at Örebro University (finished 2022). 

My main research interest concerns normative civic information, understood as discourse aimed at shaping behavioral patterns in the population.

Since October 2020, I am working half-time with a six-year postdoctoral project on climate communication. The project, Civic Communication in the Time of Climate Crisis, is funded by the Åke Wiberg foundation. 

My doctoral thesis The Knowledgeable Parent (2017) is concerned with the communication of health knowledge among new parents in Sweden.

In my research I draw on concepts and methods from sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, and linguistic anthropology. My research is fundamentally inspired by the conceptual framework Mediated Discourse Analysis. 

Recent publications

Blåsjö, M., Christensson, J. & Hanell, L.. 2024. Medierad diskursanalys: Att studera nexus mellan språkbruk och handling [Mediated discourse analysis: Studying the Nexus between Language and Action]. Studentlitteratur.

Perez Vico, E., Sörlin, S., Hanell, L. & Salö, L. 2024. Valorizing the humanities: Impact stories, acting spaces, and meandering knowledge flows. I: Mattson, P., Perez Vico, E. & Salö, L. (Eds.) Making Universities Matter: Collaboration, Engagement, Impact. Springer. (pp. 211–232)

Clarén, A. & Hanell, L. 2023. Det gröna språket på den blågula språkmarknaden: Språkliga erfarenheter av respekt, trevlighet och artighet för danskar i Sverige [The green language in the blue and yellow linguistic market: Linguistic experiences of respect, pleasantness and politeness among Danes in Sweden]. Nordand 18 (1), 1–16.

Hanell, L. 2023. Förändringens ord: Samtidshistoriska nyord om miljö, klimat och omställning [Words of change: New words about environment, climate and transformation]. In: Nelson, M., Michanek, M., Rydell, M., Sayehli, S., Skogmyr Marian, K. & Sundberg, G. (Eds.), Språk i praktiken – i en föränderlig värld. Rapport från ASLA-symposiet, Stockholms universitet, 7–8 april 2022. (pp. 202–222)

Rydell, M. & Hanell, L. 2022. Language for work and work for language: Linguistic aspirations in the marketing of domestic work. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 275, special issue: ”Spaces of upset in the Nordic region: Sociolinguistics beyond cohesion and consensus in Denmark, Finland, and Sweden”, 89–109.

Salö, L., Holmes, L., & Hanell, L. 2021. Language assets, scientific prestige, and academic power: The efficacy of national linguistic capital in internationalizing career trajectories. In: Apelgren, B.M., Eriksson, A.M. & Strömberg Jämsvi, S. (Eds.), Language Matters in Higher Education Contexts: Policy and Practice. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers. (pp. 112–129)

Hanell, L. 2021. Klarspråk som kommunikationsideologi. En länk mellan nordistik och statsbyråkrati [Plain language as an ideology of communication]. In: Salö, L. (Ed.), Humanvetenskapernas verkningar. Kunskap, samverkan, genomslag. Stockholm: Dialogos. (pp. 92–119)

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