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- Amundin, Mats, et al.
(författare)
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A proposal to use distributional models to analyse dolphin vocalisation
- 2017
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Vocal Interactivity in-and-between Humans, Animals and Robots, VIHAR 2017. - 9782956202905 ; , s. 31-32
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper gives a brief introduction to the starting points of an experimental project to study dolphin communicative behaviour using distributional semantics, with methods implemented for the large scale study of human language.
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- Salö, Linus, 1980-, et al.
(författare)
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Två- och flerspråkighet : Ett samtal om forskningsinriktningens uppkomst och konsolidering i Sverige
- 2021
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Ingår i: Språk och stil. - Uppsala : Uppsala University. - 1101-1165 .- 2002-4010. ; 1, s. 13-43
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article presents an edited conversation between Kenneth Hyltenstam, Christopher Stroud, Linus Salö and David Karlander. Its main topic is the rise and consolidation of bilingualism research/multilingualism research as a demarcated subject area in Swedish academe. The article delves into this history via the professional, scholarly trajectories of Hyltenstam and Stroud. By mapping and discussing their involvement in the field of bilingualism/multilingualism, the article offers analytical perspectives on the formation of the field, and on the general atmosphere surrounding this process. The account focuses on past and current research themes, institutional settings and modes of knowledge exchange. The creation of the Centre for Research on Bilingualism at Stockholm University in the 1980s emerges as a significant event in the evolving account of the research area. The conversation also makes clear that the history of bi/multilingualism research encompasses a variety of agents and interests. The subject area maintains mutable connections to numerous other scientific disciplines and is susceptible to various forms of intellectual influence. It has likewise been shaped in relation to various scholarly and societal values and concerns. By clarifying some of these dynamics, the article contributes to the yet-to-be-written history of bi/multilingualism research. It also comments on conversation as a scholarly method, and clarifies the scope and strength of its claims.
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- Ganuza, Natalia, 1977-, et al.
(författare)
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Boundary-work and social closure in academic recruitment : Insights from the transdisciplinary subject area Swedish as a Second Language
- 2023
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Ingår i: Research Evaluation. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 0958-2029 .- 1471-5449. ; 32:2, s. 515-525
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article explores practices of evaluation in academic recruitment in Swedish as a Second Language (SSL), an expanding and transdisciplinary subject area. As is common elsewhere, Swedish academia relies on a tradition of external expert review intended to ensure a meritocratic pro- cess. Here, we present an analysis of 109 written expert reports concerning recruitment to 57 positions in SSL during 2000–20. Because SSL lacks institutional autonomy, and is spread across several sub-disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, the material encompasses experts with diverse academic backgrounds. The SSL reports are broadly characterized by qualitative assessment. In contrast to other fields, the SSL experts seldom use quantitative proxy measures. Instead, they mainly rely on received conceptions of the boundaries of SSL as a means of justifying their inclusion and exclusion of candidates. This dominant regularity consists of attempts to define and delimit SSL and its core re- search areas, to locate the candidates in a core-to-periphery scheme with respect to these boundaries, and to rank them accordingly. This mech- anism of social closure serves to restrict access to SSL to candidates with qualifications that conform to the experts’ own conceptions of SSL. As we show, the experts’ internally ambiguous conceptions of SSL tend to be constructed in relation to their own scientific habitus and invest- ments. Beyond evaluating applicants’ possession of scientific capital, their distinctive style of reasoning around research qualifications and skills thus involves power-laden boundary-work, which leaves ample room for individual, yet habitus-specific arbitrariness.
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- Salö, Linus, 1980-, et al.
(författare)
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Semilingualism : The life and afterlife of a sociolinguistic idea
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- For half a century or more, semilingualism has been a controversial – much debated and much derided – idea. The present paper engages with some facets of this history. It traces the formation and early circulation in its context of origin: Sweden’s nascent fields of bilingualism research and minority education. The paper analyzes semilingualism as a ‘traveling idea’, which has moved through networks of actors over an extended period of time. In Sweden from the late 1950s to the early 1980s, semilingualism was a key theme a range of discursive exchanges. It circulated in scholarly discussions about bilingualism and linguistic competence, and surged as a central theme in political debates on minority education, immigration and language policy. It likewise recurred in the media, and in various articulations of public opinion. In the course these travels, the idea of semilingualism became more and more implicated in the processes of revising Sweden’s policies on linguistic minorities. By the 1970s, as the paper argues, the idea had begun to function as a ‘policy-driver’, which aided the 1977 nation-wide introduction of the school subject of mother tongue instruction (MTI) for minority students. While most linguists have come to dismiss semilingualism as a scientifically flawed concept, the idea of semilingualism, as the paper shows, had nevertheless a decisive impact in policy making. This impact is still visible the inclusion of MTI in Sweden’s national curriculum. This societal impact of this sociolinguistic idea, as well as the lasting consequences thereof, points to the importance of a reflexive sociolinguistics, which takes interest in the life and afterlife of the ideas it produces. The paper contributes to this endeavor.
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- Dahlberg, Leif, 1962-
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Spacing Law and Politics : The Constitution and Representation of the Juridical
- 2016. - 1
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Bok (refereegranskat)abstract
- Examining the inherent spatiality of law, both theoretically and as social practice, this book presents a genealogical account of the emergence and the development of the juridical. In an analysis that stretches from ancient Greece, through late antiquity and early modern and modern Europe, and on to the contemporary courtroom, it considers legal and philosophical texts, artistic and literary works, as well as judicial practices, in order to elicit and document a series of critical moments in the history of juridical space. Offering a more nuanced understanding of law than that found in traditional philosophical, political or social accounts of legal history, Dahlberg forges a critical account of the intimate relations between law and politics that shows how juridical space is determined and conditioned in ways that are integral to the very functioning – and malfunctioning – of law.
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- Berglund, Karl, FD, 1983-, et al.
(författare)
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Digital humaniora, datorisering och litteraturvetenskap i en digitaliserad värld
- 2022
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Ingår i: Tidskrift för litteraturvetenskap. - : Foreningen for utgivande av Tidskrift for litteraturvetenskap. - 1104-0556 .- 2001-094X .- 0282-7913. ; 51:3-4
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- De senaste decennierna har ”digital humaniora” nämnts i otaliga sammanhang och kommit att påverka litteraturvetenskaplig utbildning och forskning – trots att begreppets innebörd alltjämt är omdebatterad. Är det en ny disciplin eller specialisering av forskning och undervisning som redan bedrivs? På vilka sätt hänger digital humaniora ihop med samhällets och universitetens datorisering? Är det ett svar på hur litteraturen kan förstås i en digitaliserad värld, eller en fingervisning om litteraturvetenskapens framtid? För att reda i begreppen bjöd TFL-redaktionen in till ett panelsamtal via videolänk, av och med Karl Berglund (Uppsala universitet), Oscar Jansson (Lunds universitet) och Lina Rahm (KTH).
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- Arvidsson, Klara, 1983-, et al.
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The Perceived Importance of Language Skills in Europe — The Case of Swedish Migrants in France
- 2022
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Ingår i: Languages. - : MDPI AG. - 2226-471X. ; 7
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In a European context, where member states of the European Union share a common language policy, multilingualism and foreign language (FL) learning are strongly promoted. The goal is that citizens learn two FLs in addition to their first language(s) (L1). However, it is unclear to what extent the multilingual policy is relevant in people’s lives, at a time when the English language is established as a lingua franca. This survey-based study contributes insights into the relevance of the EU multilingual policy in an intra-European migration context, by focusing on Swedish migrants (n = 199) in France, who are L1 speakers of Swedish. We investigated the perceived importance of skills in FL French, FL English, and L1 Swedish, for professional and personal life. The quantitative analyses showed that participants perceive skills in French and in English to be equally important for professional life, whereas skills in Swedish were perceived to be less important. For personal life, skills in French were perceived as the most important, followed by skills in English, and then Swedish. In conclusion, the European multilingual language policy appears to be reflected in Europeans’ lives, at least in the case of Swedish migrants in France.
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- Salö, Linus, 1980-
(författare)
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Seeing the point from which you see what you see: : An essay on epistemic reflexivity in language research
- 2018
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Ingår i: Multilingual Margins. - : University of the Western Cape Library Service. - 2221-4216. ; 5:1, s. 24-39
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This essay deals with epistemic issues in language research, focusing particularly onthe field of language planning and policy (LPP). It outlines Pierre Bourdieu’s principleof epistemic reflexivity as a device for understanding what the view of the researchobject owes to the researcher’s past and present position in social space. I hold thatdeveloping such an understanding is particularly vital for LPP scholars, by virtueof the ways in which the objects investigated here tend to linger in the borderlandsbetween science and politics. Accordingly, the essay unearths the philosophical rootsof epistemic reflexivity and highlights some of its implications in the research practicewith examples from Swedish LPP research. It also examines the value of a reflexivestance in interviews as a way of pinpointing the relevance of epistemic reflexivity inevery moment of the scholarly investigation. In conclusion, the argument is that sinceepistemic reflexivity is a useful device for any critical researcher who wishes to grasp theknowledge he or she produces, it is so also for language researchers, and particularlyso in relation to the ideologically normative practices of LPP scholarship. Therefore, areflexive gaze is a pivotal driver for yielding better language research.
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- Pecorari, Diane, 1964-, et al.
(författare)
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English Textbooks in Parallel-Language Tertiary Education
- 2011
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Ingår i: TESOL quarterly (Print). - : Wiley. - 0039-8322 .- 1545-7249. ; 45:2, s. 313-333
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Tertiary education in many countries is increasingly bilingual, with English used in parallel with the national language, particularly as a reading language. This article describes the results of a survey of student attitudes toward, and reading practices regarding, English language textbooks. Over 1,000 students at three Swedish universities responded to a questionnaire asking about their experiences with English textbooks. Textbooks written in English were generally unpopular, and the perception was widespread that they placed a greater burden on students. However, respondents were divided about whether their reading behavior and their learning outcomes were affected by having a textbook in English, and about whether English texts were desirable. The findings of this study have implications for teaching practices in contexts in which students are asked to read, or are being prepared to read, in a second language. Implications for the English as a foreign language or English as a second language classroom are discussed.
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- Falk Erhag, Hanna, et al.
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Concluding Remarks
- 2022
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Ingår i: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Capability in Age and Ageing. - Chem : Springer. - 9783030780654 ; 18:2, s. 143-144
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