Drawing on possible selves theory and role model theory, this article explores translation students' possibilities of envisioning their future as translators. Four MA students in a Swedish university were followed over two years through a longitudinal focus group study. The material was analyzed thematically following Braun a...

I det följande ska vi först göra några nedslag i svenskans utbredning i världen, både i nutid och historiskt. Det aktualiserar svenskans roll i relation till andra språk i en kontaktsituation och förhållanden mellan majoritets-och minoritetsspråk samt vilka möjligheter som finns för svensktalande att använda språket utanför d...

This study investigates the use of greetings in Sweden-Swedish and Finland-Swedish service encounters and the social meaning of different greeting forms. Situated within the framework of variational pragmatics, the study explores Swedish as a pluricentric language and investigates with interactional and statistical analyses t...

Systemic-Functional Linguistics often appears as a complete and altogether exhaustive theory of language. If widened with a multimodal perspective, social semiotics seems to contain all you need – but does it? The research project Health literacy and knowledge-formation in the information society has investigated com...

This thesis is concerned with Swedish translators and the society in which they work. It begins with an exploration of the concept of translatorship, leading up to a three-part distinction of 1) textual translatorship, 2) paratextual translatorship, and 3) extratextual translatorship. Adopting a mixed methods approach, the em...

De romanska språken är de indoeuropeiska språk som utvecklats från latinet. Beteckningen ”romanska språk” syftar även på den akademiska disciplin i vilken de romanska språken och litteraturen från de romanska språkområdena studeras. Denna disciplin, också kallad ”romanistik”, har en lång tradition i Sverige. Den akademiska ut...

Professionals working in international companies in Sweden are expected to speak, read, and write in Swedish and English in their daily work. This article discusses professional writing in different languages. Through the use of methods from linguistic ethnography, we aim to enrich the understanding of workplace literacy by s...

This chapter describes situations of distress and the working climate of healthcare interpreters in Sweden. A questionnaire focused on distressful situations was administered to interpreters with experience in healthcare interpreting. The results indicated that distress in healthcare interpreting could be traced back to ethic...

Intercultural healthcare refers to when people of different cultures and languages communicate and interact in the healthcare context. Intercultural competence is pivotal to provide congruent and meaningful care. The notion intercultural stresses that at least two cultures are involved; however, many use the...

Le rôle de l’interprète du secteur public est compris différemment dans les pays nordiques et par exemple en France. Dans les pays nordiques, la tâche de l’interprète est vue comme bi-partiale c’est à dire que l’interprète se tient à égale distance des parties en présence (Skaaden, 2016). Dans cet article, le rôle, la formati...

Retrospective verbal process tracing is a popular research method in Interpreting Studies, employed by a growing number of scholars, particularly in studies of conference interpreting, but, to date, it has not been widely employed in studies of dialogue interpreting. This paper begins by introducing process-tracing methodolog...

För 75 år sedan fick barn inte dua vuxna – ja, helst skulle de över huvud taget inte öppna munnen. Men en viss flicka vände helt upp och ner på språkbruket när hon 1945 gjorde entré.

Vet du vad en ”infodemi” är? Du är väl ingen ”covidiot”? Nya situationer föder nya ord – och i en tid präglad av den pågående pandemin smittar coronaviruset också av sig på språket.

Dialektens förändringstakt beror på attityden hos dem som talar den. Är man stolt över hembygden eller mer flyttbenägen – en ny studie visar vad som påverkar hur vi talar.

Värdeord som ska ge uttryck för myndigheters värdegrund – har de egentligen något värde? Ja, en ny studie visar att det faktum att orden är öppna för tolkning leder till diskussioner som stärker gemenskapen hos de anställda.

Anders Tegnell använder verbet ”bör” snarare än ”ska” och kommer med råd i stället för förbud. Betyder det att det är frivilligt att följa Folkhälsomyndighetens rekommendationer?

This article examines the unfolding of interaction in a growing and, so far, scarcely examined social and cultural practice – interpreter-mediated public literary conversations. In this context, the activity of interpreters, although indispensable when authors and audiences do not share a common language, is sometimes regarde...

In Sweden, numerous public conversations on literature featuring authors from abroad are held each year. Some of those are interpreted for the audience. Interpreting strategies evolve to cope with the formal constraints, as well as the amplification of a staged conversation, which is generated by the contextual setting and cu...

This dissertation investigates the occurrence and nature of public literary conversations within the discipline of Translation and Interpreting Studies. Alongside a macro-sociological exploration of public literary talks in Sweden from 1998–2018 ­– in relation to literary translations published during the same period – the di...

From a discourse analytic framework, the article analyses health blogs and patient’s forum discussions in which parents to children with congenital heart defects recontextualize medical professional knowledge and share their own experiences. The study show how the two types of online media may serve as a means for parents to ...

Native language (L1) processing draws on implicit expectations. An open question is whether non-native learners of a second language (L2) similarly draw on expectations, and whether these expectations are based on learners’ L1 or L2 knowledge. We approach this question by studying inverse preference effects on lexical encodin...

Over the past decade, the LLAMA language aptitude test battery has come to play an increasingly important role as an instrument in research on individual differences in language development. However, a potentially serious problem that has been pointed out by several scholars is that the LLAMA has not yet been carefully valida...

Ett övergripande mål för landets alla regioner är att vården i Sverige ska vara jämlik. Transkulturellt centrum (Region Stockholm) erbjuder vården utbildning i migration samt utbildning om vård och hälsa för nyanlända. Utbildningarna bidar tydligt till regionens mål.

I denna rapport beskrivs ett verksamhetsutvecklande p...

The chapter explores the lived experience of students with diverse linguistic and educational backgrounds in Swedish higher education through in-depth interviews with three students who migrated to Sweden. Reflections on language ideologies and practices across social spaces in multilingual university settings are discussed. ...

This video-ethnographic workplace study follows a theater rehearsal process, which to date is an under-researched professional setting. More specifically, the study investigates the process of  framing (Goffman 1974) contexts that together build up the theatrical framework (cf. MacLachlan and Reid 1994: 17)....

This thesis builds on three studies that explore a professional rehearsal process as situated interaction and as a longitudinal process. Primarily, the thesis contributes to the area of interactional linguistics, but it also seeks to contribute new knowledge to theatre studies. The empirical focus is on the participants’ inte...

The lay perception of those who work with interpreters in their professional conversations (and sometimes of interpreters themselves) is that translation of what they and their patients/clients say should be as close as possible. The very idea of close translation may seem simple, but the practice of rendering spontaneous tal...

The current study is carried out in an ethnically diverse three-semestervocational adult education programme in Sweden for those who aspire to registeras assistant nurses. The data is based on field notes taken during participantobservations and video-recordings of the classroom interaction in a course ondementia care in the ...

Do we conceptualise the future as being behind us or in front of us? Although this question has traditionally been investigated through the lens of spatiotemporal metaphors, new impetus was recently provided by the Temporal-Focus Hypothesis. This hypothesis holds that the mapping of temporal concepts onto the front-back axis ...

Det räcker att kasta en blick på olika slags skyltar för att se att svenskan är det språk som har högst status i Sverige. Det numera lagstadgade främjandet av flerspråkighet yttrar sig fortfarande oftast som upptejpade lappar.

This thesis is concerned with Swedish translators and the society in which they work. It begins with an exploration of the concept of translatorship, leading up to a three-part distinction of 1) textual translatorship, 2) paratextual translatorship, and 3) extratextual translatorship. Adopting a mixed methods approach, the em...

Vi är oense om hur ett inkluderande språk ser ut. Ibland kan rekommenderade termer till och med upplevas som exkluderande – för att de är så krångliga. Men lösningen kan inte vara att använda ord som upplevs som diskriminerande.

Standard language cultures are characterised by beliefs in idealised standard forms of the language in question. In this paper, these beliefs are connected to the concepts of referee design and speech community, through analysis of how Swedish adolescents reflect upon and self-assess their language proficiencies. The data con...

REPLIK DN DEBATT 12/1. För den som vill förändra normer i samhället är språket ett effektivt verktyg. Det är inte nödvändigtvis nya ord i sig som gör den stora skillnaden, utan de diskussioner som orden är en del av, där inövade tankar och mönster prövas mot andras sätt att tänka, skriver åtta språkforskare.

Many historians have asked themselves whether there was any direct contact between Catherine of Siena and Birgitta of Sweden. When speaking of Birgitta’s wisdom the preacher likens her to a wise architect who builds her house on a solid ground and foundation. Likewise, the preachers use two different strategies of demonstrati...

Corpus planning has attracted attention ever since Deborah Cameron's seminal Verbal Hygiene (1995). However, evaluations of corpus planning aimed at addressing linguistic discrimination have been surprisingly scarce. Because corpus planning costs energy, time and money, evaluations are important for future actions. This study...