Research group Interaction and Multilingualism (Interfler)

Interfler is one of the regular research groups in the section Swedish and Scandinavian Languages in the Department of Swedish and Multilingualism. The group consists of researchers with interests in interaction and multilingualism, both in everyday life and different public domains such as education and working life.

Two young women having a coffee in the city.

Photo: Arne Trautmann, MostPhotos

The research group focuses on how people act and communicate in authentic situations with the resources they have at their disposal – various languages and multimodal resources. These include spoken and written language as well as digital and embodied expressions. The researchers often base their investigations on recorded data and observations on site. Current projects involve e.g., multilingual workplaces, language cafés for recent migrants, minority language instruction, as well as Swedish in everyday situations, such as service encounters. The researchers apply a range of theories and methods, including interactional sociolinguistics, Conversation Analysis (CA), multimodal interaction analysis, linguistic ethnography, social semiotics and discourse analysis.

Group members

Group managers

Mona Blåsjö Stefan Norrthon

Members

Helena Bani Shoraka Gunilla Jansson Maria Lim Falk Marie Nelson Azar Raoufi Masouleh Maria Rydell Klara Skogmyr Marian Gunlög Sundberg Cecilia Wadensjö Karolina Wirdenäs

Research projects

Att leda yrkessamtal i samarbete med tolk Communication between humans and other animals Developing an L2 grammar-for-interaction: Elaborations on interactional competence Interaction with social robots for education IVIP, Interaction and Variation in Pluricentric Languages Linguistic and Institutional Epistemic Dynamics in Multilingual Workplaces Migration, learning and social inclusion Participant perspectives on professional language competence Policies, practices, and perceptions of minority language education: teaching Greek in Sweden Professional Communication and Digital Media Professional crisis communication in practice – lessons learned The language café as a social venue and a space for language training What do the school walls say – linguistic and visual messages

News

2024-03-08

Department of Swedish Language and Multilingualism

Collaboration, reinvented tools and specialist knowledge. Professional crisis communication

Communication professionals have a paramount role in global crisis. What did they learn during the covid pandemic that could be used in future global crisis? In an article, Mats Landqvist and Mona Blåsjö identifies and analyzes strategy changes among communicators in municipalities and how their conceptions of communicated knowledge transformed during the pandemic.

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