Stockholm university
Department of Swedish Language and Multilingualism

Research

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New doctoral thesis in Scandinavian Languages

In 2025 Ana Rodríguez González defended her doctoral thesis From Morphology to Syntax. A Diachronic Study of the Swedish Possessive, with Special Focus on the Impact of Variation and Ambiguity.

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The Multilingualism Laboratory

The Multilingualism Laboratory at the Centre for Research on Bilingualism has available space and equipment for experimental data collection.

Centres and other units

Centre for Research on Bilingualism, Institute of Interpreting and Translation Studies (TÖI), Swedish and Scandinavian Languages, Swedish as a Foreign Language.

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Higher seminars and colloquia

At our Higher seminars and colloquia, invited scholars and members of the faculty present their research. They are usually held in Swedish.

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Conferences, symposia and workshops

We arrange/co-arrange national and international conferences, symposia and workshops. Most of them are held in Swedish, some in English.

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Research projects

We have lots of ongoing projects in Swedish and Scandinavian Languages, in Bilingualism and in Translation Studies.

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Publications

Botanize among our recent publications in Swedish and Scandinavian Langugages, Swedish as a Foreign Language, Bilingualism, Interpreting and Translation.

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News

Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

The reading group of Speculative Fiction during fall semester 2025

On December 11th the reading group of Speculative Fiction within the open seminar series of the Master's Programme in Environmental Humanities will have it's fourth meeting of fall semester 2025. It is lead by professor Andrew Jones, Department of Archaeology and Classical studies and Elisa Viteri Márquez, PhD student at the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies.

Speculative fiction
Climate and Environment - Theme page Language, Literature and Culture - Theme page Worldviews, Ethics and Philosophy - Theme page History, Archeology and Cultural Heritage - Theme page
Institute for Interpreting and Translation Studies

New book: Metaphors in Audiovisual Translation

In this monograph, Jan Pedersen investigates how metaphors are handled in three different genres of televisual light entertainment. Jan Pedersen conducts research on subtitling and is Associated Professor in Translation Studies at the Institute for Interpreting and Translation Studies, Stockholm University.

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Language, Literature and Culture - Theme page

Calendar

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December

Seminar

Centre for Research on Bilingualism

Higher sem. Biling. Andreas Nuottaniemi: The Ghost in the Green Machine

Higher seminar in Bilingualism. The Ghost in the Green Machine: On the Fetishisation of Labour in the Re-industrialisation of the Swedish North. Andreas Nuottaniemi, Associate Professor, Centre for Research on Bilingualism, Department of Swedish Language and Multilingualism, Stockholm University.

Centre for Research on Bilingualism

Higher sem. Biling. Andreas Nuottaniemi: The Ghost in the Green Machine

Higher seminar in Bilingualism. The Ghost in the Green Machine: On the Fetishisation of Labour in the Re-industrialisation of the Swedish North. Andreas Nuottaniemi, Associate Professor, Centre for Research on Bilingualism, Department of Swedish Language and Multilingualism, Stockholm University.

Language, Literature and Culture - Theme page

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