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- Nilsson, Jenny, 1978-, et al.
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What is in a greeting? The social meaning of greetings in Sweden-Swedish and Finland-Swedish service encounters
- 2020
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Ingår i: Journal of Pragmatics. - : Elsevier BV. - 0378-2166 .- 1879-1387. ; 168, s. 1-15
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- 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 to what extent the variable nation affect variation in greeting forms. While nation indeed is an important factor, the study also illustrates how social variables such as age, gender and participant roles as well as situational variables such as medium, region and venue impact the greeting choices participants make. Further, by applying an interactional analytical perspective the study contributes to the methodological development of variational pragmatics. This analysis shows how the sequential position of a greeting plays a part in the choice of greetings, and demonstrates that pragmatic variation emerges in interaction. The article suggests that greetings can be a resource for indexing the degree of social distance between interlocutors, and thereby manifest recurring cultural patterns.
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- Salö, Linus, 1980-, et al.
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Language assets, scientific prestige, and academic power : The efficacy of national linguistic capital in internationalizing career trajectories
- 2022. - 1
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Ingår i: Language Matters in Higher Education Contexts. - Leiden/Boston : Brill. - 9789004507906 - 9789004507913 - 9789004507920 ; , s. 112-129
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this chapter we examine the value held by national languages, here Swedish, in the scholarly career trajectories in non-Anglophone countries. To this end, we analyse the language policies of Swedish higher education institutions and the narrated perceptions of two international recruits. Adopting Pierre Bourdieu’s distinction between scientific and academic capital, we argue that Swedish language skills constitute a vital asset in processes of accruing power in Sweden’s scientific world. Hence, as we maintain, English is not all that matters, despite internationalization being high on the agenda.
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- Skeppstedt, Maria, et al.
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Topic modelling applied to a second language : A language adaption and tool evaluation study
- 2020
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Ingår i: Selected Papers from the CLARIN Annual Conference 2019. - : Linköping University Electronic Press. - 9789179298074 ; , s. 145-156
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The Topics2Themes tool, which enables text analysis on the output of topic modelling, was originally developed for the English language. In this study, we explored and evaluated adaptations required for applying the tool to Japanese texts. That is, we adapted Topics2Themes to a language that is very different from the one for which the tool was originally developed. To apply Topics2Themes to Japanese texts, in which white space is not used for indicating word boundaries, the texts had to be pre-tokenised and white space inserted to indicate a token segmentation. Topics2Themes was also extended by the addition of word translations and phonetic readings to support users who are second-language speakers of Japanese. To evaluate the adaptation to a second language, as well as the reading support, we applied the tool to a corpus consisting of short Japanese texts. Twelve different topics were automatically identified, and a total of 183 texts representative for the twelve topics were extracted. A learner of Japanese carried out a manual analysis of these representative texts, and identified 35 reoccurring, fine-grained themes.
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- Löfdahl, Maria, 1969-, et al.
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Navigating whiteness from the margins: Finnish, Somali, and Arabic speakers’ experiences of racialization, (in)visibility, and (im)mobility in Gothenburg, Sweden
- 2023
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Ingår i: Multilingua - Journal of Cross-cultural and Interlanguage Communication. - : Mouton de Gruyter. - 0167-8507 .- 1613-3684. ; 0:0
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper examines the relationship between language, (in)visibility, and (im)mobility in racialized spaces, focusing on Finnish, Somali, and Arabic speakers in Sweden. Using a theoretical framework based on hegemonic whiteness and intersectionality, the study explores how multilingual practices and subjectivities intersect with race, religion, gender, and class to shape social visibility and mobility. The research draws on linguistic ethnographic data, including interviews, linguistic landscape documentation, and an analysis of the media discourse. The study finds that while Finnish speakers have become invisible due to assimilation policies, Somali and Arabic speakers are hypervisible in Swedish public spaces and discourse, although Arabic speakers are sometimes, and in relation to other migrants, nearing Swedish whiteness. However, all three languages and their speakers are constrained by a white normativity that reproduces inequality. The paper challenges simplistic notions of mobility/immobility and visibility/invisibility in the context of a changing racial order in Sweden, where whiteness serves as a binary sorting mechanism that perpetuates inequality. Overall, this research sheds light on the complex entanglement of language, visibility, and mobility in white spaces and contributes to a more nuanced understanding of the intersectional dynamics of race and language.
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- Andréasson, Maia, 1960, et al.
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På jakt efter amerikasvenskan
- 2013
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Ingår i: Svenskans beskrivning / [SvB.] 32, Förhandlingar vid trettioandra sammankomsten för svenskans beskrivning, Karlstad den 13-14 oktober 2011 / redigerade av Björn Bihl, Peter Andersson & Lena Lötmarker. - Karlstad : Karlstads universitet. - 1102-3619. - 9789170634901 ; 32, s. 82-91
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- Domeij, Rickard, 1958-, et al.
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Exploring the archives for textual entry points to speech - Experiences of interdisciplinary collaboration in making cultural heritage accessible for research
- 2020
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Ingår i: CEUR Workshop Proceedings. - Riga : CEUR-WS. ; , s. 45-55, s. 45-55
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Tilltal (Tillgängligt kulturarv för forskning i tal, 'Accessible cultural heritage for speech research') is a multidisciplinary and methodological project undertaken by the Institute of Language and Folklore, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, and The Swedish National Archives in cooperation with the National Language Bank and SWE-CLARIN [1]. It aims to provide researchers better access to archival audio recordings using methods from language technology. The project comprises three case studies and one activity and usage study. In the case studies, actual research agendas from three different fields (ethnology, sociolinguistics and interaction analysis) serve as a basis for identifying procedures that may be simplified with the aid of digital tools. In the activity and usage study, we are applying an activity-theoretical approach with the aim of involving researchers and investigating how they use - and would like to be able to use - the archival resources at ISOF. Involving researchers in participatory design ensures that digital solutions are suggested and evaluated in relation to the requirements expressed by researchers engaged in specific research tasks [2]. In this paper we focus on one of the case studies, which investigates the process by which personal experience narratives are transformed into cultural heritage [3], and account for our results in exploring how different types of text material from the archives can be used to find relevant sections of the audio recordings. Finally, we discuss what lessons can be learned, and what conclusions can be drawn, from our experiences of interdisciplinary collaboration in the project.
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- Eriksson, Gunnar, 1954-, et al.
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Features for modelling characteristics of conversations : Notebook for PAN at CLEF 2012
- 2012
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Ingår i: CLEF 2012 Evaluation Labs and Workshop Online Working Notes.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this experiment, we find that features which model interaction andconversational behaviour contribute well to identifying sexual grooming behaviourin chat and forum text. Together with the obviously useful lexical features —which we find are more valuable if separated by who generates them — weachieve very successful results in identifying behavioural patterns which maycharacterise sexual grooming. We conjecture that the general framework can beused for other purposes than this specific case if the lexical features are exchangedfor other topical models, the conversational features characterise interaction andbehaviour rather than topical choice.
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- Henricson, Sofie, et al.
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You and I in Sweden-Swedish and Finland-Swedish supervision meetings
- 2015
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Ingår i: Pluricentric languages. - Frankfurt am Main : Peter Lang Publishing Group. - 9783631664339 ; , s. 127-139
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper presents a study of pronouns used in Sweden-Swedish and Finland-Swedish supervision meetings. In both countries, supervisors use similar sets of pronouns when commenting on an academic essay written by a student. Often, the supervisor addresses the student directly, e.g. but you could write x, or uses an indefinite pronoun, e.g. perhaps one could simply write x. Sometimes, the supervisor makes suggestions while referring to herself as a writer, e.g. I would write x. The supervisor may also use an inclusive we-authorship, e.g. well we cannot write x. This use of we is predominantly found in the Sweden-Swedish data. In relation to politeness strategies, our analysis indicates that pronouns appear in a more direct and clear-cut way (cf. respect strategies) in Finland-Swedish, and with a stronger focus on creating common ground and fostering group membership (cf. solidarity strategies) in Sweden-Swedish. Throughout, we point to differences and similarities between the dominant and the non-dominant variety of Swedish.
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