More and more people (both private individuals and scientists) see animals as subjects rather than objects. Pets are often viewed as family members, and we spend time trying to understand them and make them understand us. But how does communication between and within species work? This is something that linguistics is just beginning to explore.

How do L2 speakers' interactions shape their evolving grammar? This project explores how changes in interactional practices influence grammar-for-interaction over time. Analyzing 80 hours of L2 French conversations, we reveal the role of linguistic resources in developing interactional competence, offering fresh insights into SLA dynamics.

This project investigates drama-based language teaching in Swedish as a Second Language from a multimodal and interactional perspective.

Learning with robots? The project aims to explore how we can use and benefit from human-robot interaction in adult education in Sweden, with special focus on students with Swedish as a second language.

Interaction and Variation in Pluricentric Languages – Communicative Patterns in Sweden Swedish and Finland Swedish is a research programme by partners Stockholm University, University of Helsinki , University of Turku and the Institute for Language and Folklore in Gothenburg.

This project explores linguistic and institutional dynamics in multilingual workplaces, examining interactional practices and identity construction. Using audio/video data, it focuses on backstage talk, leadership, and socio-technical practices in manager-employee meetings, employing EMCA, MCA, and socio-technical methods.

This project investigates migrants’ experiences of language education and language learning from a longitudinal perspective.

The project focuses on internationally trained teachers and pre-school teachers and their experience and view of communication and language use in their work in Sweden. Their experience derives from their supplementary education (ULV) at universities in Sweden, and from their work as teachers in different parts of the Swedish school system.

This project investigates minority language education in two parallel educational settings in Sweden: mother tongue tuition (MTT), which forms part of the national curriculum, and the teaching of language and culture in complementary schools, organized by local communities.

Professional Communication and Digital Media. Complexity, Mobility and Multilingualism in the Global Workplace. The project studies communication in commercial enterprises, with a focus on digital media, multilingualism and internal communication.

How did communication specialists in Swedish municipalities work during the covid-19-pandemic? What did they learn that could be of use in future crisis?

The project ”The language café as a social venue and a space”for language training offers insights into the support provided by the civil society to the integration of adults, particularly in terms of offering non-formal, social settings for language practicing.

In the citizen science project “What do the school walls say” teachers and students will help scholars to investigate how the school system’s democratic mission is reflected in the signs, notes and messages on classroom walls, in corridors and other public spaces of schools.