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- Avery, Helen
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Teaching in the 'edgelands' of the school day : The organisation of Mother Tongue Studies in a highly diverse Swedish primary school
- 2015
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Ingår i: Power and Education. - : SAGE Publications. - 1757-7438. ; 7:2, s. 239-254
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- To promote attainment and inclusion, Sweden offers tuition in migrant pupils’ mother tongues as a regular school subject. However, the formulation of learning aims is problematic, and resources allocated to the subject do not correspond to ambitions expressed in steering documents. This case study presents an analysis of the organization of Mother Tongue Studies at a highly diverse urban primary school, based on interviews with teachers and head teachers. The practical organization of Mother Tongue Tuition affects how mother tongue teachers and pupils are perceived, but also potentially provides opportunities for empowerment and educational development. Results indicate that in the investigated case, such opportunities are not exploited, placing mother tongue teachers in a state of continuous structural stress, while limiting the forms their teaching relationships can take. Additionally, scheduling the school subject Mother Tongue Studies at the ‘edgelands' of the school day contributed to further marginalizing languages taught as mother tongue and minimized interaction with class teachers.
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- Siméus, Jenny, 1982-
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Black Lives, White Quotation Marks : Textual Constructions of Selfhood in South African Multivoiced Life Writing
- 2018
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This thesis focuses on South African multivoiced and collaborative life writing. The analysed primary texts are The Long Journey of Poppie Nongena (1980) by Elsa Joubert, The Calling of Katie Makanya: A Memoir of South Africa (1995) by Margaret McCord, Finding Mr Madini (1999) by Jonathan Morgan and the Great African Spiderwriters, David’s Story (2000) by Zoë Wicomb, and There Was This Goat: Investigating the Truth Commission Testimony of Notrose Nobomvu Konile (2009), co-written by Antjie Krog, Nosisi Mpolweni and Kopano Ratele. All of these primary texts are either collaborative autobiographies about black lives, multivoiced life writing texts about black lives, or a text that problematises this kind of life writing where predominantly disadvantaged, black life writing subjects either have had their lives narrated or have had their narration steered by well educated, advantaged, Westernised and usually white writers.The analyses of the primary texts are carried out by problematising them in the light of the South African historical and cultural context within which they were produced. The focus of the analyses is on the effects on and the consequences for textual constructions of selfhood when the writers tell or include the life writing subjects’ lives in the life writing texts. The involvement of the writers in the life writing projects is argued to greatly have impacted the textually represented selves that were created in the resulting multivoiced life writing texts.Drawing on theory rooted in postcolonial studies, life writing in general, and self-narration in particular, this thesis concludes that the examined black South African life narratives to various extents are told on white, Western terms and thus inserted in white quotation marks. White quotation marks are defined in this thesis as a certain Western perception of self-narration and selfhood, consisting of components rooted in language, racial tropes, narrative form, and Western autobiographical traditions. Both writers and life writing subjects have been involved in creating or employing these white quotation marks. In some cases this has been an unintentional result and in other cases it has been a conscious effort.
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- Lindberg, Ylva, et al.
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Culture on the move : Language and literature as vectors for cultural empowerment in Swedish education
- 2024
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Ingår i: Educare. - : Malmö universitet. - 1653-1868 .- 2004-5190. ; :1, s. 1-10
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This special issue consists of five position papers, four articles and two essays covering diverse aspects of the theme Culture on the Move that foregrounds language and literature both as pedagogical tools and disciplinary fields necessary for learning to live and work in a culturally diverse world. The contributions stem from the initial activities within the graduate school “Culturally Empowering Education through Language and Literature” (CuEEd-LL). Centre-staging teaching and learning in Swedish education, the texts in this issue present a range of inroads into how language and literature can be used to support cultural diversity among pupils, students and teachers since cultural diversity is steadily gaining attention both as a resource and a challenge in education and society.
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- Lindberg, Ylva, et al.
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La lecture de la littérature francophone à la lumière d’un contexte nordique : Réflexions sur la recherche universitaire actuelle en littérature
- 2017
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Ingår i: Le roman français vu de l’étranger. - Paris : Classiques Garnier. - 9782406070436 ; , s. 201-224:9, s. 201-224
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- À travers cette contribution, les auteurs présentent un aperçu de la lecture de la littérature en langue française dans le contexte universitaire littéraire suédois. Plus spécifiquement, cet article relève les romanciers de langue française figurant dans les thèses écrites en littérature dans les départements d’études françaises et dans les revues suédoises spécialisées en langue romane entre 2005 et 2016. Même si la représentativité des romans de la France hexagonale s’impose dans ce corpus, le roman francophone semble en voie d’autonomisation. La recherche universitaire se situe indéniablement à l’avant-garde.
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- Lindberg, Ylva
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Calixthe Beyala - écrit-elle pour les Scandinaves?
- 2009
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Ingår i: Mondes Francophones. Revue mondiale des francophonies. Créolisations.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Cette étude met au centre la circulation de la littérature dans le monde et s’interroge sur ce qui dans l’œuvre de Beyala attirent les lecteurs en Scandinavie. L’exotisme semble ici être une des raisons les plus importantes. Le développement de sa complexité amène ensuite à observer comment l’exotisme dans l’œuvre de Beyala est reçu en France et en Scandinavie, surtout en Suède. Les différences d’accueil sont en premier à trouver dans la politique du marché du livre, dans les valeurs culturelles et dans la tradition littéraire. Ces critères s’avèrent dicter les prémisses de l’interprétation de l’œuvre.
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- Lindberg, Ylva
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De l’actrice fictionnelle à l’acteur réel. : La féminité politique dans la littérature suédoise du XIXème siècle
- 2011
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- From fictional actress to real actor: The political female in Swedish literature from the 19th century.This study compares three classical authors in Swedish literature from the 19th century: August Strindberg, Carl Jonas Love Almqvist and Anne-Charlotte Leffler. By using the image of the actress, they have contributed in different ways to women’s emancipation, and their works stem from one question: Who is the woman of modern times?1.With Miss Julie, 1888 Strindberg shows his ideas of the intimate theater. In order to make the woman face herself he dissects the female psychology. By using the attributes of the actress he describes the woman as by nature a pretender, without contours and only an imperfect version of Man.2.Almqvist introduces in his novel The Queen’s Tiara, 1834, Tintomara, an androgynous actress who becomes the desire of everyone. He critiques caustically but subtly a gendered society that frustrates both sexes and he demonstrates, long before the gender studies, the virtuality of masculinity and femininity in human beings.3.Leffler explores in the play The Actress, 1873, the oppressiveness of conventions upon women, for example the incompatibility between art and the female. Her feministic approach reveals the tensions between the patriarchy and the claims from a new generation of women. The three authors turn the actress into a symbol, which can describe three perspectives on gender: 1. The man as the only gender of which the woman depends. 2. Gender as a social construction. 3. A society divided in two genders.This fictionalization of the female actress – sometimes admired, sometimes despised – has led to a debate in Sweden about women’s social status. The study is showing that this scenic literature, accessible to a larger number of readers and spectators than before, give way for women who want to become real actors, not only on the scene, but also in the society.
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- Kjellander, Björn
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Building American entrepreneurs : male commercial selves and the road to success in the US 1873-1914
- 2005
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The thesis investigates the origins of the American entrepreneur, what popularly has been called the self-made man. It traces the building of the self-made man as a commercial ideal self, leading to the narratives of US entrepreneurship and the road to ‘success’. With the demands and opportunities that grew out of the US move from mercantilism to capitalism, model male commercial self behaviour surreptitiously split into two sides during the 19th century. The idealised side comprised a rhetoric of hard work, self-improvement and thrift, whereas the economic/pragmatic side embraced evolutionary theory and laissez faire. American society in general held on to idealised narratives of the self-made man and failed to expose the destructive side, which was to form the economic/pragmatic self. In the analyses of literary texts emerging between 1873-1914 in the US, the thesis mainly focuses on the narration of the masculine achiever, or the self-made man. American realist and naturalist authors were certainly part of the American post-1865 bourgeois, professional culture, and they also witnessed the professionalisation of literature. However, in the distribution of notions of idealised self, the binary link between destruction and creation, prevalent in the economic/pragmatic side of male commercial selves, is not recognised by realist authors. Further, it is primarily in Theodore Dreiser’s fiction that the boundaries between these two aspects of late 19th century male selves are psychologised and, in effect, rendered meaningless. Whilst realist texts build characters that exercise responsibility and choice, naturalist fiction more successfully targets the destructive side of the economic/pragmatic self.
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- Allwood, Jens, et al.
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On the semantics and pragmatics of linguistic feedback
- 1992
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Ingår i: Journal of Semantics. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 0167-5133 .- 1477-4593. ; 9:1, s. 1-26
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper is an exploration in the semantics and pragmatics of linguistic feedback, i. e. linguistic mechanisms which enable the participants in spoken interaction to exchange information about basic communicative functions, such as contact, perception, understanding, and attitudinal reactions to the communicated content. Special attention is given to the type of reaction conveyed by feedback utterances, the communicative status of the information conveyed (i. e. the level of awareness and intentionality of the communicating sender), and the context sensitivity of feedback expressions. With regard to context sensitivty, which is one of the most characteristic features of feedback expressions, the discussion focuses on the way in which the type of speech act (mood), the factual polarity, and the information status of the preceding utterance influence the interpretation of feedback utterances. The different content dimensions are exemplified by data from recorded dialogues and by data given through linguistic intuition. Finally, two different ways of formalizing the analysis are examined, one using attribute-value matrices and one based on the theory of situation semantics. ©1992 N.I.S. Foundation (1992).
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- Taubner, Helena, 1977-, et al.
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Signs of aphasia : Online identity and stigma management in post-stroke aphasia
- 2017
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Ingår i: Cyberpsychology. - Brno : Masarykova Univerzita. - 1802-7962. ; 11:1
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study aimed to investigate online strategies for re-negotiating identity, in terms of stigma management, developed by working-age Swedish Internet users with post-stroke aphasia, i.e., acquired language impairment caused by brain injury. Interviews were conducted with nine individuals (aged 26-61, three men and six women) with post-stroke aphasia. In addition, a total of 1,581 screenshots of online posts (e.g., photos, videos, text, emoticons) created by the same participants were collected. Drawing on social semiotics (specifically the three dimensions of online communication mentioned by Kress (2003), i.e., composition, content and context) and Goffman’s theory of stigma (1963, specifically the concepts of stigma management and passing), qualitative thematic analysis was performed. Regarding composition, three themes emerged: Relying on others or technology, Beyond speaking and writing, and Controlling speed and timing. The participants rarely posted content about aphasia, but some of them used the Internet to raise awareness. Different online contexts had different meaning to the participants in terms of identity. Being open about the aphasia in one forum did not imply the same behaviour in another forum (e.g., dating sites). For the participants to pass (Goffman, 1963), should they want to, they needed to control all three dimensions. If the context or the composition revealed the stigma, controlling the content was not enough to pass. The multimodality of the Internet enabled the participants to manage their stigma in a variety of ways and to choose whether to be perceived as persons with aphasia or not.
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