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- Abrahamsson, Niclas, 1968-, et al.
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Ligger »nästan inföddlikhet» i tvåspråkighetens natur? : Om ålders- vs tvåspråkighetseffekter vid andraspråksinlärning
- 2021
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In: Språk och stil. - : Uppsala University. - 1101-1165 .- 2002-4010. ; NF 31:1, s. 108-142
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The relatively recent insight, that the ultimate attainment of childhood L2 learners does not always – or, in fact, does not very often – converge fully with that of native speakers, has called into question age of acquisition (AoA) as the cause of such near-native (rather than nativelike) ultimate attainment. An alternative, increasingly popular, interpretation is that the subtle differences between near-native and nativelike language knowledge and behavior arise, not as an effect of AoA, but merely as an artefact of the customary, allegedly biased comparison between monolingual and bilingual speakers. Along similar lines, it is commonly held that it is the monolingual acquisition (made possible through total L1 loss and ‘neural resetting’) that makes it possible for internationally adopted children to become fully nativelike in their L2 (or “new L1”). With data from a recent series of studies, we challenge these views. In these studies, speakers of Swedish, who were either L1 monolinguals, L1 (simultaneous) bilinguals, early L2 (sequential) monolinguals, or early L2 (sequential) bilinguals, were tested on a total of 13 measures of language representation and processing in Swedish, covering both production and perception of phonetics, morphosyntax, and lexis. The results show consistent effects of AoA but next-to-neg- ligible effects of bilingualism on ultimate attainment, suggesting that AoA – not bilingualism– is the primary determinant of L2 ultimate attainment.
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- Aktürk Drake, Memet, 1977-, et al.
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Inledning : flerspråkighet
- 2021
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In: Språk och stil. - : Uppsala University. - 1101-1165 .- 2002-4010. ; 31:1, s. 5-12
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- Anward, Jan, 1947-
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Att
- 2003
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In: Språk och stil. - 1101-1165 .- 2002-4010. ; 13, s. 65-85
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- Bergman-Claeson, Görel
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Språkriktighetsboken
- 2005
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In: Språk och stil. - 1101-1165 .- 2002-4010. ; , s. 3-
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- Bertils, Klara, et al.
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Att koka ihop ett beslut : En multimodal interaktionsanalys av gemensamt beslutsfattande i vardagen
- 2019
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In: Språk och stil. - : Uppsala University. - 1101-1165 .- 2002-4010. ; NF 29, s. 73-98
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This study explores the social organization and the necessary involvement in accomplishing sharedness in joint decision-making, by adopting a members’ perspective on food preparation. Prior research on joint decision-making has mostly focused on verbal analysis of institutional interactions, e.g. medical encounters. In contrast, the current study carries out a multimodal interaction analysis of joint decision-making in everyday informal cooking among friends. The analysis demonstrates a crucial function of embodied actions, such as bodily stance, eye gaze and manipulation of objects, in organizing and coordinating decision-making sequences. Since the decisions in this particular setting often are based on a multisensory access to the objects of decision, establishing and displaying epistemic access comprise a constitutive part of joint decision-making. In line with this, we show that not allowing for an epistemically equal point of departure, the participants may be sanctioned when not accessing the empirical object of decision, e.g., not tasting the sauce. In addition to shedding light on the temporal organization of actions and the epistemic ac- cess central to organizing joint decision-making, the study offers an understanding of how partici- pants as social actors constitute themselves as friends and family by means of making decisions shared in the midst of a mundane activity that constitutes daily life.
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- Bijvoet, Ellen, et al.
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Förortsförankrat tal – ett inifrån- och ett utifrånperspektiv
- 2021
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In: Språk och stil. - : Adolf Noreen-sällskapet - Uppsala University. - 1101-1165 .- 2002-4010. ; NF 31:1, s. 166-200
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This article discusses attitudes towards and perceptions of different kinds of suburban-sounding Swedish – ranging from new urban youth styles (here called suburban slang) to a more formal Swedish with a “suburban touch”, due to, in particular, phonological features indexing suburb (here called suburban Swedish). Special attention is paid to the question of how these ways of speaking are labeled, and whether they should be labeled at all. Empirical data from our previous and ongoing studies will be used to illustrate an inside as well as an outside perspective on these issues.Our data confirm that there are a number of labels for the slang language; labels employed both by language users with a suburban background (“insiders”) and by language users who are not familiar with linguistically and culturally heterogenic suburban areas (“outsiders”). This indicates that the slang language is enregistered. By contrast, there is no established label yet for the formal suburban-sounding Swedish. However, this kind of language variation is perceived, discussed and described by the insider participants in our studies. The outsider participants on the other hand do not seem to perceive these nuances within suburban-sounding Swedish. For many of them, the “suburban touch” triggers cognitive and evaluative reactions, commonly associated with the slang language.Since the slang variety is stigmatized in the majority society, such confusion may have neg- ative consequences for young suburban residents – especially when this occurs in situations that are crucial to their opportunities for social inclusion (e.g. in institutional conversations concern- ing access to education, labor and housing). Thus, our stance is that we must talk about risks of exclusion, and that the strategic distinction between slang and “suburban touch” can be helpful in arguing for the acknowledgment of suburban Swedish as simply one of many ways to speak a more formal Swedish with some kind of sociodialectal sound.
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- Bijvoet, Ellen
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Förortssvenska i grindvakters öron : Perceptioner av migrationsrelaterad språklig variation bortom inlärarspråk och förortsslang
- 2018
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In: Språk och stil. - : Uppsala University. - 1101-1165 .- 2002-4010. ; NF 28, s. 142-175
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In Sweden, over the few past decades, a large amount of research has been conducted on new urban youth styles, here called suburban slang. More recently, some researchers have begun to focus on the way young individuals from multilingual suburbs speak in more formal situations, here called suburban Swedish – i.e. Swedish close to standard but with a suburban touch, due to, in particular, phonological features indexing suburb. Among the general public, these two ways of speaking are often lumped together under popular labels such as immigrant Swedish or Rinkeby Swedish. As a result, widespread negative attitudes towards the well-known suburban slang risk “rubbing off” on suburban Swedish. This may cause serious problems for the speakers, e.g. if this occurs in a job interview.This danger of negative evaluation was investigated in a folk-linguistic listener study on gatekeeper perceptions. Ten speech stimuli from young adult speakers (among which two samples each of suburban Swedish and suburban slang) were evaluated by 95 gatekeepers (employment officers, student counselors and teachers). A range of data types was analyzed: attitude scales, variety labeling, assessments of the speakers’ occupational level and linguistic background, as well as group discussion data. Results show, among other things, that suburban-sounding speech (slang as well as suburban Swedish) correlates highly with gatekeepers’ low ratings of the speakers’ occupational level. Moreover, the participating gatekeepers lack adequate terminology to differentiate between these two ways of speaking. This implies that sociolinguistic awareness raising should receive more critical attention within the educational sector, including the training for various professions in the public and private sector.
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- Björkvall, Anders, 1972-
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Text- och resursorientering inom multimodalitetsforskningen : En teoretisk diskussion om förklaringsvärden
- 2012
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In: Språk och stil. - 1101-1165 .- 2002-4010. ; 22:1:1, s. 135-161
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This article discusses the explanatory value of two theoretical orientations within multimodal research on texts and communication, and it explores the potential benefits of combining them. Firstly, the multimodal text (involving other semiotic modes than language) can be taken as a point of departure for the analysis and understanding of meaning making. This has been a common approach within text and discourse analysis. Secondly, there is an orientation toward the multimodal resources being employed when people make meaning, placing the interests of sign-/text-makers and processes of text creation just as much in focus as the textual products that emerge from them.The discussions in the article primarily make reference to the broader framework of social semiotic multimodality research, taking the theoretical assumptions made in Kress & van Leeuwen’s influential book Reading images: The grammar of visual design (2006) as one important point of departure. In particular, research categorised under the tentative labels of multimodal discourse analysis, social semiotic multimodal analysis and multimodal interactional analysis is reviewed and related to the status the authors ascribe to texts and semiotic resources. The text analytical implications of text and resource orientations and combinations of the two are finally illustrated by a sample analysis of multimodal texts created by children in educational contexts.
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- Blensenius, Kristian, 1980
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En pluraktionell progressivmarkör? Hålla på att jämförd med hålla på och
- 2013
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In: Språk och stil. - 1101-1165 .- 2002-4010. ; 23, s. 175-204
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The article concentrates on two Swedish verbal constructions: hålla på att + infinite verb and hålla på och + finite verb. Both are considered progressive markers in the literature, and the difference between them is considered primarily stylistic (the former is neutral whereas the latter is judged asinformal).The aim of the article is to argue that there is more to the difference. It is claimed that sentences with hålla på och constructions often have pluractional meaning, i.e., express some sort of iteration of the (sub)events. This makes the status of hålla på och as a “genuine” progressive marker questionable.Moreover, the article discusses some implications of tense on telicity and event structure.
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- Blåsjö, Mona, 1960-
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Text, tid och handling i ett reglerat rum : En diskursanalys av mediering i hybrid arbetslivskommunikation
- 2022
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In: Språk och stil. - : Uppsala University. - 1101-1165 .- 2002-4010. ; 32, s. 5-37
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Calls have been raised for more research on the use of texts and other types of in real-life communicationin real-life situations, which are often complex and hybrid. This study is based on data from a meeting at a hospital ward where a Key Account Manager from a pharmaceutical business informs staff about a medical product during their lunch hour. Mediated discourse analysis is applied to map the mediating trajectories of the texts used in the meeting and to reveal the role of people in this mediation. The analysis shows that the situation can be regarded as a mediation of a discourse concerning the marketing of medical products and of actual legaltexts, stating that pharmaceutical businesses cannot offer doctors values such as expensive dinners. Besides a PowerPoint document, other material resources and practices such as a modest meal contribute to the situation. In the texts, a medical-scientific discourse, a commercial discourse and an administrative discourse are mixed. Doctors’ actions of prescribing the productare anticipated by the Key Account Manager’s actions of 1) constructing an ‘historical body’ of trust, 2) emphasizing certain textual messages at the same time and offering these texts in adurable material form. This manner of simultaneous and/or durable material forms is introduced as discursive layering. The study presents an empirical case of how ‘big discourses’ are mediated into local actions which, in turn, are targeted to affect future actions.
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- Bohnacker, Ute, 1969-, et al.
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Fundament, formellt subjekt och frekvens : Ordföljdsmönster i svenska, nederländska och hos vuxna inlärare av svenska
- 2014
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In: Språk och stil. - 1101-1165 .- 2002-4010. ; 24, s. 33-71
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This paper investigates distributional patterns concerning the prefield and expletive subjects in two closely related languages, Swedish and Dutch, and in nonnative learners of Swedish. Native (Swedish, n=17; Dutch, n=17) and nonnative speakers (adult Dutch-speaking learners of Swedish, n=17) completed an oral picture description task and an unedited informal writing task. The overall frequencies with which constituents (subject vs. adverbial vs. object) occurred in the prefield were similar for all three groups in the oral data, though expletive subjects were more frequent in Swedish. In the written data, Swedish showed a more pronounced subject-initial pattern than Dutch. Distributional differences between Swedish and Dutch were smaller than previously reported for Swedish vs. German (Bohnacker & Rosén 2008, Bohnacker 2010). Learners mostly produced syntactically well-formed utterances but overused elliptic V1 clauses with overt postverbal subject (unattested in native Swedish), which can be attributed to syntactic transfer from L1 Dutch. Learners underused certain other word orders, namely prefield doubling (place adverbial + resumptive så) and postverbal expletive subjects, which in the oral genre were extremely frequent in native Swedish. The extent to which L2 learners produced postverbal expletives was found to be related to individual patterns in L1 Dutch, and for Dutch to be affected by regional origin (Netherlands vs. Flanders) and transferred to L2 Swedish.
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- Bohnacker, Ute, 1969-, et al.
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Fundamentet i svenskan och tyskan - Syntax och informationsstruktur : Ett problemområde för språkinlärning och undervisning
- 2009
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In: Språk och stil. - 1101-1165 .- 2002-4010. ; 19, s. 142-171
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This paper investigates the influence of the first language (L1), here Swedish, on the acquisition of syntax and discourse pragmatics in a closely related second language (L2), here German, by looking at the information structure of Verb-Second clauses. Even though almost any type of element can occur in the so-called ‘prefield’, i.e. the clause-initial preverbal position of V2 declaratives, we document language-specific patterns for native-speaker corpora: The frequencies of prefield constituent types differ substantially between German and Swedish, and Swedish postpones new (‘rhematic’) information and instead fills the prefield with given (‘thematic’) elements and elements of no or low informational value (e.g. expletives) to a far greater extent than German. Using oral production data from Bohnacker (2005, 2006) and new written production data from Rosén (2006), we compare Swedish learners of German at beginner, intermediate and advanced levels to native controls, matched for age and genre. These learners master the syntactic properties of V2, but start their sentences in nonnative ways. They overapply the Swedish principle of “rheme later” in their L2 German, indicating L1 transfer at the interface of syntax and information-structure, especially for structures that are frequent in the L1 (e.g. subject-initial clauses, expletive-initial clauses, fronted thematic objects das ‘it/this’). Implications of these findings for language teaching are discussed.
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- Bohnacker, Ute, 1969-, et al.
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Ordförrådsutveckling hos arabisk-svensktalande och turkisk-svensktalande barn i förskoleåldern och vid skolstart
- 2021
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In: Språk och stil. - : Uppsala University. - 1101-1165 .- 2002-4010. ; 31:1, s. 75-107
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This paper investigates the receptive and expressive vocabulary skills of 202 Arabic/Swedish-speaking and Turkish/Swedish-speaking bilingual children aged 4-7 growing up in Sweden, in their home/minority language (Arabic, Turkish) and in Swedish. We explore how vocabulary is affected by age, age of onset, socio-economic status (SES), and minority language exposure in the family (via parents) and via home-language (mother tongue) instruction. The comprehension and production of nouns and verbs was assessed with the Arabic, Turkish and Swedish versions of the Cross-linguistic Lexical Tasks (CLTs, Haman m.fl. 2015). Background information was collected via a parental questionnaire. In this cross-sectional study, there was a clear and positive effect of age on receptive and expressive vocabulary scores, though the effect was more pronounced for the majority language Swedish, and less so for the home language. Length of exposure had a positive effect on Swedish scores. For minority language vocabulary, language use in the home played an important role: Children whose parents mostly spoke Arabic or Turkish to them had significantly higher vocabulary scores in Arabic/Turkish than other children. For neither language was there any effect of SES (parental education). These results from a Swedish context complement vocabulary studies of other language combinations and reveal the importance of input for the development of receptive and expressive vocabulary in bilingual children.
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- Borgström, Eric, 1982-
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Att skriva prov : om normer och textstruktur i gymnasieskolans skriftliga nationella prov.
- 2010
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In: Språk och stil. - Uppsala : Swedish Science Press. - 1101-1165 .- 2002-4010. ; 20, s. 132-164
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The focus of this article is the national writing tests administered in Swedish upper secondaryschools. One important role of these tests is to serve as an interpretation and concretization of thecurriculum. The aim of this article is therefore to examine the textual consequences of the testsituation. The article takes a critical stance towards the test construction. The instructions say thatwhen assessing the pupils’ writing abilities, the teacher is to judge to what extent the pupils’ textscould function in the fictitious situation and genre specified in the writing task. I argue that thepupils’ texts should be understood as actions situated in a test context. Through an analysis of linearand hierarchical global text structure in pupils’ texts, I show how the writing task regularizes whatis historically institutionalized as a good text in the test situation: namely the expository essay.
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- Borgström, Eric, et al.
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Bedömarvariation : Balansen mellan teknisk och hermeneutisk rationalitet vid bedömning av skrivprov
- 2014
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In: Språk och stil. - Uppsala : Adolf Noreen-Sällskapet för Svensk Språk- och Stilforskning. - 1101-1165 .- 2002-4010. ; 24, s. 133-165
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- It is well known from studies of inter-rater reliability that assessments of writing tests vary. In order to discuss this rater variation, we depart from two research questions: 1. How can rater variation be conceived of from a professional, i.e. teacher, perspective? 2. What characterises Swedish (mother-tongue) teachers’ assessments of writing tests? The first question is addressedi n a meta-study of previous research, and the second question is answered in a study of 14 Swedish teachers’ rating of texts from a national written composition test in upper secondary school. The results show that teachers in the same subject assess better, i.e. have less rater variation, than other groups. It is also clear that writing tests are notoriously difficult to rate. It is very rare that the correlation coefficients reach the desirable 0.7, a number that means that 50 % of the variance could be explained by shared norms. Another main result concerns criteria and tools for assessment. Such tools should be grounded in teachers’ professional expertise, in their expectations for different levels of performance. Our study reveals several situations where teachers’ professional expertise clashes with assessment criteria. The article concludes that valid assessments of tests that are high-stakes must handle both a technical rationality, i.e. the grading should be predictable from rater to rater, and a hermeneutic rationality, i.e. the grading must be based on teachers’ professional judgment
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- Bylin, Maria, 1974-
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Adjektivböjningens -a och -e : Ett seglivat variationstillstånd
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In: Språk och stil. - Uppsala : Adolf Noreen-sällskapet för svensk språk- och stilforskning. - 1101-1165 .- 2002-4010. ; 26, s. 69-100
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- The adjectival agreement of noun phrases referring to human individuals in Swedish is renowned for its complex pattern of variation between -a and -e. This article reports three studies on the subject. The first one maps the use of the marked form -e, and finds it to be mainly used for males and generic individuals, but occasionally also for other animates, such as animals, women, and nonpersonal agents. The variation between -a and -e for males has often been thought of as regionally governed, but the second study, based on blog texts, suggests that region plays a subordinate role (or possibly no role at all) in writing. Many factors have been said to influence the variation, and the third study reported in the article tests their impact with statistical methods on modern data. The results indicate that the variation in noun phrases referring to specific male individuals is more influenced by pragmatic and semantic factors, as compared to the variation in noun phrases referring to generic individuals, which is more affected by formal and lexical factors. This difference is interpreted as a consequence of how the referents are conceptualized. The variation between -e and -a is often assumed to reveal an ongoing change. However, when the results of these studies are compared to a thorough description of the system from 1892, the emerging picture is one of enduring variation, influenced by the very same factors today as over a century ago.
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- Bylund, Emanuel
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Flerspråkighet och tanke
- 2021
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In: Språk och stil. - : Uppsala University. - 1101-1165 .- 2002-4010. ; NF 31:1, s. 143-165
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Does language influence the way we think and reason about reality? If so, what happens if you speak more than one language? These questions have been at the centre stage of the field of psycholinguistics since the early 2000’s. The aim of this article is to review the state-of-the-art in research on language and thought, focusing particularly on multilingualism. First, a historical overview of the field is provided, which serves as the backdrop against which current findings on multilingualism and cognitive processing are discussed. Subsequently, the article analyses how biographical variables, such as language proficiency, age of acquisition, and frequency of language use, may modulate the way in which language influences multilingual thought. The article closes by discussing specific issues in research on language and thought that merit further study.
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- Collberg, Philippe, 1986-, et al.
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Svenskans obestämda plurala artikel ena : Lexikon, syntax och pragmatik
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In: Språk och stil. Tidskrift för svensk språkforskning. - Uppsala : Uppsala universitet. - 1101-1165 .- 2002-4010. ; 32:32, s. 104-136
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- The Mainland Scandinavian languages have variants of two indefinite singular articles, en (`a'/`an') and någon (`any'). In these languages, the article någon also has a plural form, några, but Swedish differs from Danish and Norwegian in that en also has a plural form: ena. Thus, Swedish has a system of two indefinite plural articles. However, the use of ena is restricted and not thoroughly clarified. This study investigates the use of ena as an indefinite plural article in modern Swedish by comparing it to the use of några.Approximately 500 occurrences of noun phrases with ena and några were excerpted from text corpora and analysed with respect to lexical, syntactic, and pragmatic aspects. The analyses are combined with acceptability judgements of ena in different contexts. The results show that ena is less frequent than några in the corpora, and that its use is affected by the lexical context, the information structure, as well as the clause type. Firstly, noun phrases with ena are exclusively evaluative, and the article itself seems to give rise to an evaluative reading. Secondly, ena is principally used in noun phrases describing a referent and accordingly appears with information-structural focus. Finally, ena does not appear in negative polarity contexts, i.e. questions, negative statements and conditionals. Therefore, the analysis suggests that the plural indefinite article ena should be treated as a positive polarity item.
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- Coussé, Evie, 1980, et al.
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Hur används de, dem och dom i nutida skriftspråk? En storskalig korpusundersökning av nyheter och sociala medier : How are the spelling variants de, dem och dom used in contemporary written Swedish? A large-scale corpus study of news texts and social media
- 2023
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In: Språk & Stil. - 1101-1165 .- 2002-4010. ; NF 33, s. 39-70
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This study ties in with a longstanding debate on the Swedish spelling variants de, dem and dom for personal pronouns (third person plural) and definite articles (plural). It charts the usage of de, dem and dom in five large corpora with news and social media texts over the past 25 years. The corpora contain more than 1.5 billion tokens, which rules out manual handling of the data. Instead, this study makes use of computational methods (including an AI language model) to automatically identify and classify relevant observations. Analysis of the news corpora shows a relatively stable usage of de, dem and dom over the past 25 years. The forms de and dem are predominantly used according to the norm: de for pronouns in subject position and as a definite article; dem for pronouns in object position. The colloquial form dom is hardly found in news texts. Analysis of the social media corpora shows more variation and change. The colloquial form dom is used in 5–25% of all instances instead of de or dem and has decreased after an initial rise. The forms de and dem are sometimes used in a non-standard way: de occurs in object position in 4–10% of the observations; dem is found in subject position or as a definite article in 1–7% of the cases. Non-standard dem is potentially on the rise with younger writers. The corpus analysis also provides details on the usage of de and dem in relative clauses, and on the users’ ratings of posts containing de, dem and dom on the social media platform Reddit
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