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- Löfström, Malin, 1978-
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Språklig stil och stajling bland finlandssvenskar i Stockholm : – ett mobilitetsdialektologiskt perspektiv
- 2022
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- I avhandlingen undersöker jag språklig stil och stajling bland västnyländska finlandssvenskar i Stockholm i ett material som består av intervjuer och smågruppssamtal med elva deltagare. Avhandlingens syfte är att undersöka den språkliga stilen när deltagarna samtalar med en sverigesvensk person. Syftet är också att söka rimliga förklaringar till varför de enskilda individernas språkliga stil och stajling ser ut som de gör i relation till deras identitet och till den sociala betydelse de tillskriver språk och språkförändring.Teoretiskt tar undersökningen avstamp i traditionell variations- och sociolingvistik och i modern sociolingvistisk teori. De två paradigmen speglas i analysmetoder och förklaringsmodeller. All språklig analys utförs på sekvenser ur intervjuerna, medan analys av identitetsaspekter och metaspråk utgår från både intervjuer och smågruppssamtal.Sammantaget tyder resultaten på att deltagarnas språkliga stil till övervägande del kan kategoriseras som finlandssvensk. De finlandssvenska varianterna förekommer stabilt i deltagargruppen, och analysen av samvariationen mellan varianter som representerar västnyländska, finlandssvenska och sverigesvenska illustrerar att finlandssvenskan kan sägas utgöra en övergångsvarietet eller en mellanvarietet mellan västnyländska och sverigesvenska. Bilden av att finlandssvenskan dominerar den språkliga stilen speglas även i deltagarnas metaspråkliga resonemang, och tolkningen av dessa tyder på att deltagarnas val att använda finlandssvenska i Stockholm i hög grad kan kopplas till identitetsfaktorer.Samtidigt visar variationsanalysen att språkförändring i form av stajling med sverigesvenska språkdrag förekommer hos alla deltagare, men i olika omfattning och med olika resurser hos olika individer. Den metaspråkliga analysen stödjer detta resultat. Den uttalade stajlingen går dels ut på att stajla helheten, dels på att använda sverigesvenska ord. Syftet med stajlingen är enligt metakommentarer främst att underlätta kommunikationen. På individnivå är stajlingen dock mer mångfasetterad och de språkliga valen kan kopplas till faktorer i den personliga identiteten och till den sociala betydelsen som deltagarna förknippar med olika språkdrag i Stockholmskontexten.En utvärdering av teori och metod indikerar att kombinationen av variationsanalys och tolkande innehållsanalys varit avgörande för att generera resultat som både ger en utförlig beskrivning av den språkliga stilen hos finlandssvenskar i Stockholm och dessutom ger nyanserade förslag på förklaringar till deltagarnas språkliga val i form av stajling.
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- Greggas Bäckström, Anna, 1973-
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"Ja bare skrivar som e låter" : En studie av en grupp Närpesungdomars skriftpraktiker på dialekt med fokus på sms
- 2011
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The thesis studies the literacy practices of a group of young people in Närpes in southern Ostrobothnia, Finland with focus on SMS (Short Message Service), both in Standard Swedish and in dialect, but for the most part written in dialect. The aim of the investigation is to describe this writing as a social marker (young people against adults) and its function as an identity act. In addition the study investigates the orthographic norms and conventions that the young people use in their writing. The material consists of 520 SMS and such material as was collected through inquiries and interviews. In Närpes, as in many other Finland Swedish dialect areas, the dialect has got widened areas of usage and is well established and accepted in more domains than before. It is used in the new media and is thereby also gaining larger scope in public space. This also applies to writing SMS in dialect. The theoretical points of departure are taken from sociolinguistics and literacy research. A central concept is the new writing, i.e. writing in electronic media such as e.g. SMS and e-mail, which are somewhere between speech and writing. This has given speech and writing new forms with new preconditions, forms that the new media have “triggered” forth and that the language is adapting itself to. In the first investigative chapter (Ch. 3) eleven literacy practices divided into five groups are analysed: I electronic literacy practices (SMS, e-mail, chat), II hand-written slips of paper (reminder slips, purchase lists, slips to parents and friends respectively), III picture postcards and letters, IV diaries and V school assignments. The informants participate with one exception, group V, in all literacy practices in dialect to a greater or lesser extent. The second investigative chapter (Ch. 4) accounts for the dialect features, diphthongs and consonant combinations that were concretely investigated in the SMS material. The young people’s writing in dialect is functional and shows that the dialect is an important identity marker. The lack of shared conventions for spelling is not conceived of as a problem but allows everyone to create their own conventions, which in its turn has resulted in the tolerance level for variations in orthography being high. One group think that they write as it sounds, while another think that they do not follow any rules. The dialect is reserved for everyday matters, while Standard Swedish is used in more formal writing situations. The literacy practice may be the same, but the choice of language variety varies with the aim, content and length.
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- Landqvist, Mats, 1960-
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Förhandlares kommunikativa kompetens
- 2006
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The subject of this study is language use in negotiations and the communicative competence of professional negotiators. The aim of the study is to make explicit the communicative competence through analysis of language use in four areas: levels of action, topical structure, meta-communication, and coherence. Negotiation ability has been identified and studied within a theoretical framework of linguistic pragmatics, outlined by participant perspective orientated and functional pragmatics, and by a socio-pragmatic perspective on joint action. Linguistic data have been analysed as parts of an activity type, a concept concerned with the connection between language use and the overall activity of which language forms a part. The data consist of a role play, dealing with an interstate diplomatic issue of monetary compensation after an environmental incident. The role play was performed by five different groups, with a total of twenty participants: ten Swedish and ten Russian negotiators. Two of the role plays were performed by well-experienced negotiators, and three role plays by participants without such experience. Three main variables have been used for comparison: experience, participant nationality and the assigned position of the negotiation. The data have been analysed both with quantitative and qualitative methods. Results show that competence is generally indicated by the special ways professional negotiators use communicative projects, create phase structures, and organize topics in local turns-of-talk and globally in the talk. Competence is also indicated by meta-communication, which is used for constructing participant roles and authority, as well as global coherence, all of which contribute to a formal level of interactive style. The interplay of power is performed within a frame of good relations, which is maintained in interaction. Professional negotiators seem to be aware of the importance of creating a common ground in interaction. What aspects contribute to the construction of a common ground can be based on a general premise that awareness and experience combine to create the main rationale for a person to act in a correct way. The results entail a professional network practice over-arching linguistic and cultural systems, where general norms of the activity type of negotiation are combined with specific institutional norms. Negotiators’ national background has however not appeared significant.
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- Wenner, Lena, 1973-
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När lögnare blir lugnare : En sociofonetisk studie av sammanfallet mellan kort ö och kort u i uppländskan
- 2010
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The phenomenon of an ongoing sound change leads in some cases to the pronunciation of short ö becoming more like that of short u. This thesis examines the relationship between short ö and u in Uppland Swedish. The localities included in the investigation were Uppsala, Norrtälje, Östervåla and Gräsö. In particular, the thesis examines the effects of age, gender and social status on the acquisition of a pronunciation where the phonemes are produced in a similar way, and whether the change occurs earlier in some words than others. The informants on Gräsö appear to have the highest occurrence of the merger, while those in Norrtälje are best at keeping ö and u apart. In general, men have a smaller difference between ö and u than women. Three different age groups were analysed and the results show that the oldest informants have the largest difference between ö and u and the youngest informants have the smallest difference. There are no significant differences between the three social status groups, but there is a tendency for those with the lowest social status to be better at keeping the phonemes apart than those with the highest social status. 13 minimal (or near-minimal) pairs were analysed to investigate whether the phonetic context has an effect on the degree to which ö and u are becoming more similar. The study shows that the smallest phonetic difference is found for word pairs with r occurring in the preceding or following context. The largest phonetic distance was found in word pairs beginning with a vowel. The study also examined whether there is a relationship between production, perception and attitude to u-sounding ö in Uppsala. By combining the production test results with the informants’ categorisation of u and ö in the perception test, the study shows that the informants with a small phonetic distance in their own speech were better at categorising stimuli correctly than the speakers who had a larger phonetic distance between ö and u in their own speech.
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- Ädel, Annelie, et al.
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In case of emergency : A responsibility perspective on evacuation practices
- 2020
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Risk communication research spans many domains, including the environment, healthcare, science and technology, law enforcement, banking, workplace health and safety (e.g. Chrichton et al. 2016). The EXIT project deals with issues of security and responsibility in relation to communication about evacuation, e.g. in fire hazards or terror attacks. Our study focuses both on what evacuation information to the general public looks like and on policies and attitudes behind specific evacuation information guiding the general public. We see evacuation information as a possible resource for the distribution of responsibility. The aim is to investigate how groups and individuals construe their sense of responsibility in relation to evacuation: (a) How do people discursively construe their sense of responsibility in the face of risk and evacuation situations?; (b) To what extent does their interpretation of what to do correlate with the intentions of the policy makers producing and sanctioning the evacuation information (on signs, websites)?; (c) What is the purpose of the meaning production in this field of discourse: is the primary function to make evacuation as efficient as possible in a risk situation; is it to educate the public in how to behave in situations of risk; or is the giving of evacuation information a mere ritual? As a first step of data collection, we have analyzed evacuation signs and conducted focus group discussions at a higher education institution in order to evaluate participants’ understanding of evacuation practices and individual responsibility within the institution. ReferencesCrichton, Jonathan, Candlin, Christopher N. & Firkins, Arthur S. (Eds). (2016). Communicating Risk. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
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- Ädel, Annelie, et al.
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Risks and responsibilities in the workplace: : Employees discussing evacuation situations
- 2022
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Ingår i: Journal of Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice. - : Equinox Publishing. - 2040-3658 .- 2040-3666. ; 16:3, s. 265-288
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study analyses experiences with and in relation to issues of risk, responsibility and evacuation in workplace settings as discussed in four focus groups in Sweden and Swedish-language Finland. The discussions, and in particular the participants’ positionings in their ‘small stories’, are analysed from two perspectives: that of narratives, and that of interpretive repertoires. The main question under investigation is how employees at different workplaces discursively construe their sense of responsibility in the face of risk and evacuation situations. The findings show that these issues are handled very differently in different workplaces, but at all in accordance with the participants’ implicit responsibility positionings and what we see as the interpretive repertoires (organisational, instinctual, skills-based and informational) they draw on. Whereas previous studies have considered workplaces with high-stakes settings, the present study is set in workplaces where risk is not thematised on a regular basis, making the results applicable not only to workplace scenarios, but to society at large.
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