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- Bianchi, Marco, 1974-
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Att vara eller att icke vara text : runtextens gränser
- 2012
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Ingår i: Språk och stil. - Uppsala : Adolf Noreen-sällskapet för svensk språk- och stilforskning. - 1101-1165 .- 2002-4010. ; 22:1, s. 31-52
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)
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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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Ingår i: Språk och stil. - 1101-1165 .- 2002-4010. ; 22:1:1, s. 135-161
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)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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Ingår i: Språk och stil. - 1101-1165 .- 2002-4010. ; 23, s. 175-204
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)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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- 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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Ingår i: Språk och stil. - 1101-1165 .- 2002-4010. ; 24, s. 33-71
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)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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- Borgström, Eric, 1982-
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Att skriva prov : om normer och textstruktur i gymnasieskolans skriftliga nationella prov.
- 2010
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Ingår i: Språk och stil. - Uppsala : Swedish Science Press. - 1101-1165 .- 2002-4010. ; 20, s. 132-164
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)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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Ingår i: Språk och stil. - Uppsala : Adolf Noreen-Sällskapet för Svensk Språk- och Stilforskning. - 1101-1165 .- 2002-4010. ; 24, s. 133-165
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- 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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- Eriksson, Olof, 1945-
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Den så kallade med-frasen i kontrastiv belysning
- 2010
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Ingår i: Språk och stil. - Uppsala. - 1101-1165 .- 2002-4010. ; 20:1, s. 51-80
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article addresses what in Swedish linguistic terminology is commonly known as the "med-phrase" ("with-phrase"). It is an attempt at showing that this phrase, although formally a prepositional phrase, is not functionally one. It is argued that its preposition is an exclusively grammatical element devoid of semantic content and that the phrase it introduces is syntactically an "absolute construction", incompatible with the adverbial function and distinguished only in form from its non-prepositional counterpart.The article consists of three case studies, each dealing with a particular type of the med/with-phrase: (I) A man entered the room with a book in his hand; (II) I think it's terrible with what happened at the World Trade Center; (III) Try looking at things from a new point of view just as you do with your writing. Apart from argumentation drawing on internally Swedish linguistic evidence, it adopts a contrastive perspective (Swedish-English-French-German) with the twofold purpose of supporting its findings as to the linguistic nature of the Swedish med-phrase and of looking into the existence of identical or similar constructions in the compared languages.
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- Gustafsson, Anna W
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Skriftpraktiker, diskursiva praktiker och analytisk konsekvens
- 2013
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Ingår i: Språk och stil. - 1101-1165 .- 2002-4010. ; 23, s. 85-106
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Literacy practice and discursive practice are two distinct concepts, belonging to different research traditions (new literacy studies, NLS, and critical discourse analysis, CDA). This article is an effort to enlighten the discussion of these concepts by comparing the history and scope of the concepts, the research interest and the different research methods used. Exemplifying with an analysis of 18th century political debate and an analysis of a graphic profile manual from the right-wing party in Sweden from 2010, the analytical consequences of focusing on the literacy practice or the discursive practice are demonstrated.Sometimes the assumption is made that CDA has a static concept of context and is less interested in the dynamics of practices involving texts. But the analysis of discursive practices involves analysis of the dynamic processes of meaning construction and mediation of discourse, of production, consumption and interpretation of texts as well as effects of discursive strategies. The analysis of literacy practice on the other hand is interested in dynamic processes affecting the literacy event, processes of text handling, attitudes towards and conversations about texts. There is a difference in methods as well as in research focus and the point is made that the analysis of discursive practices in CDA must necessarily involve linguistic analysis, while in NLS, linguistic analysis is complementary, not part of the analysis of literacy practices.
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- Hagren Idevall, Karin, 1984-
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"Politiskt korrekt" och normalisering av rasism : En diskursanalys av positioneringar och underliggande perspektiv i ett kommentarsfält
- 2014
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Ingår i: Språk och stil. - Uppsala. - 1101-1165 .- 2002-4010. ; :24, s. 101-132
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article shows the linking of the use of the negative expression politically correct (PC) to racist and anti-feminist discourses. I analyze the expression PC in an online newspaper editorial and the comments published in its comments section. The aim is to explore this linkage by determining who and what phenomena that are positioned as PC, what implicit assumptions these positionings are based on, and what power asymmetries are reproduced. Actor-network theory, with punctualization and black box as two key concepts, is used as a discourse analytical framework in order to analyze explicit and implicit relations between positions.The study shows that a majority of the commentators position themselves as marginalized “immigration critics” and use the negative expression PC to position a leftish and feminist PC elite as powerful. Immigration is positioned as a general threat supported by this elite. Racist sentiments are positioned as justifiable reactions to these presumed threats. Furthermore, when commentators accused of being PC defend anti-racism and feminism, they position immigrants and women as “others”, in need of help, and thereby divide “us” from “them”. Thus, the positioning of others as PC and the reaction to being positioned as such lead to a polarized debate with sharp divisions between left and right, extreme and democratic, and “us” and “them”, which seem to pave the way for a normalization of both explicit and implicit racist discourses.
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- Holmberg, Per, 1964, et al.
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Skrivpedagogik i praktiken. Textkedjor, textsamtal och texttypologier i tre svensklärares klassrum
- 2010
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Ingår i: Språk och stil. - Uppsala : Adolf Noreen-sällskapet. - 1101-1165 .- 2002-4010. ; NF 20, s. 105-131
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this article, we present an analysis of writing in the subject field of Swedish. We introduce how three teachers individually work with writing processes in their groups of thirteen or sixteen-year old students. The study is mainly based on classroom observations and video recordings. Our model of analysis has emerged from comparison of our data and consists of three points of departure: chains of text (reading and writing in the classroom), talk about text, and typologies of texts that are constructed in the classrooms. The results of the analysis show differences and similarities in various systematic ways, concerning the writing processes as well as the organisation of the classrooms. One of the teachers mainly focuses on the organisation of thought, another on the organisation of the world outside school, and the third on more general knowledge. The teachers’ didactic choices can be said to show the practical outcome of pedagogical theories based on process discourse, functional discourse and genre discourse. While the classrooms differ to a large extent, the teachers nonetheless abide by the national curricula for Swedish, but in their own way. The study is carried out as a part of the project “Text- and Knowledge Development in School”.
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- Jansson, Gunilla, 1950-
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Handledning i hybrida kontexter
- 2010
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Ingår i: Språk och stil. - Uppsala : Swedish Science Press. - 1101-1165 .- 2002-4010. ; 20, s. 189-219
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article is grounded in a dialogical and sociocultural tradition within research on talk and communication in institutional settings. It is concerned with discourses of merged or mixed kinds in contexts where working life encounters educational contexts. The data are drawn from spoken activities in vocational training for student nurses enrolled in a nursing programme within higher education in Sweden. The students are being trained in the practice of patient assessment on admission to hospital. Based on video recordings from conversations between patients, student nurses and their nurse preceptor on the ward, the article analyzes the complex hybridity in instructional sequences, where the participants focus on several goals simultaneously. The detailed analysis of five excerpts selected from these sequences shows how an experienced nurse preceptor masters multiple roles and tasks embedded within a pedagogical practice encompassing both care work through assessment talk and instructing student nurses. Using a combination of analytical tools from Goffmanian frame analysis and Conversation Analysis rooted in ethnomethodology, the analysis pays attention to the communicative and pedagogical resources drawn on by the participants in their interaction when coping with the differing demands imposed by the situation. The results of the analysis underline the importance of including the use of different modalities as constitutive parts that function together in minimizing the objectivation of the patient in frame shifts. Gaze direction in particular is proposed as a method for the preceptor in this work to enable her to orient simultaneously to both the student and the patient.
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- Karlsson, Anna-Malin, 1969-, et al.
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Text i verksamhet : mot en samlad förståelse
- 2012
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Ingår i: Språk och stil. - Uppsala : Swedish Science Press. - 1101-1165 .- 2002-4010. ; 22:1, s. 110-134
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The majority of text researchers today view text as deeply embedded in context. Still, the question of how context should be treated in analysis, in order to achieve a “thick” theoretical understanding, remains substantially unanswered. In this article, a focus on the meso-level of context, the activity, is suggested as a way of contextualizing texts. This level has shown to be fruitful for explaining patterns and variation in conversation. The meso-level of activity can also be expected to be relevant for the participants of textual communication, which is a key factor when striving for what is sometimes called ecological validity. In the article, previous research and specific examples are discussed in two thematic sections, focusing on texts in text-mediated activities (e.g. academic research and education) and texts in practical activities (e.g. health care work), respectively. Based on these overviews, a unified analytical perspective and a possible stance for researchers interested in grounding their text analysis in a less ‘text-biased’ understanding of context are proposed. This perspective combines activity theory with a semiotic focus on text artefacts inspired by New Literacy Studies. Once the role of a text in the activity is established, and when goals and possible conflicts are identified, context-based concepts such as genre and discourse are suggested for linking activity to linguistic text structure
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- Landqvist, Håkan, et al.
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If you ask, you'll get an answer. Two opening routines and their consequences for the beginning for emergency calls
- 2012
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Ingår i: Språk och stil. - 1101-1165 .- 2002-4010. ; 22:2, s. 127-152
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This is a conversation analytic study examining how two ways of answering emergency calls have different implications and consequences for the ensuing interaction. In an older corpus of 22 calls to a Swedish emergency center, the calls were routinely answered with an identification phrase "ninety thousand" (i.e. the telephone number 90 000) or "SOS ninety thousand", whereas the 52 calls in a recently collected corpus are routinely answered with an identification phrase followed by a question, taking the format "SOS 1-1-2, what has occurred?" The analysis shows how the different answering formats affect what is being brought up at different sequential positions during call beginnings, and also how the standardized relational pair of "help provider" and "help seeker", each with its respective rights and obligations, is constructed. The article concludes with a discussion of the benefits of the latter way of answering emergency calls, arguing that it helps making the distribution of responsibilities among the interactants clear, and that it allows for a truncation of an unnecessary sequence. In this way, the latter format enhances topical progression and promotes institutional relevance.
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- Landqvist, Håkan, 1965-, et al.
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Om man frågar får man svar : Två öppningsrutiner för SOS-ärenden och deras konsekvenser för samtalens inledning
- 2012
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Ingår i: Språk och stil. - Uppsala : Adolf Noreen-sällskapet för svensk språk- och stilforskning. - 1101-1165 .- 2002-4010. ; 22:2, s. 127-152
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This is a conversation analytic study examining how two ways of answering emergency calls have different implications and consequences for the ensuing interaction. In an older corpus of 22 calls to a Swedish emergency center, the calls were routinely answered with an identification phrase “ninety thousand” (i.e. the telephone number 90 000) or “SOS ninety thousand”, whereas the 52 calls in a recently collected corpus are routinely answered with an identification phrase followed by a question, taking the format “SOS 1-1-2, what has occurred?” The analysis shows how the different answering formats affect what is being brought up at different sequential positions during call beginnings, and also how the standardized relational pair of “help provider” and “help seeker”, each with its respective rights and obligations, is constructed. The article concludes with a discussion of the benefits of the latter way of answering emergency calls, arguing that it helps making the distribution of responsibilities among the interactants clear, and that it allows for a truncation of an unnecessary sequence. In this way, the latter format enhances topical progression and promotes institutional relevance.
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- Landqvist, Mats, 1960-
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Hörbart lyssnande : användning av stödsignaler i sjukvårdsrådgivning
- 2011
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Ingår i: Språk och stil. - Uppsala : Adolf Noreen-sällskapet för svensk språk- och stilforskning. - 1101-1165 .- 2002-4010. ; 21, s. 110-139
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Active listening in conversation is considered an important professional duty within nursing in general and in medical telephone advice service in particular. This can be accomplished in several ways, often by the use of minimal responses, such as in back channeling and short vocal feedback signals. The aim of this article is to explore the professional use of feedback signals in medical advice calls. Previous research has reported a variety of functions of feedback signals, both in professional contexts and in telephone calls, and such functions include continuers and empathic and channeling tokens. The results of my present study indicate that the feedback signals in telephone advice mainly belong to one of a number of information-oriented subtypes. Referential signals are the most frequent, but other commonly-used signals have regulatory, channeling, or phatic functions. Emotional- affective signals are also used, but to a less degree than in e.g. psychotherapy. The different functions can be distinguished and defined by prosodic features used in their production. Feedback signals usually appear at syntactic borders, except for empathic signals, which are uttered more freely. The signals seem to be part of a professional practice in which the nurse continuously and pedagogically adapts to the emergent situation and the caller. It is suggested that the form of feedback signals may be conventionalized to some degree, a finding that, however, needs to be further explored.
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- Larsson, Ida, 1977-
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Inte helt passiv : Konstruktion med få + particip i tal och skrift
- 2012
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Ingår i: Språk och stil. - Uppsala. - 1101-1165 .- 2002-4010. ; 22:2, s. 27-61
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper investigates constructions with få ‘get’ + participle in corpora of written and spoken Swedish, as well as in the regional dialects. Three different readings, with partly different structural properties, are distinguished: one causative, one benefactive/malefactive and one agentive reading (cf. e.g. Egerland 1996, Taraldsen 2010). The causative and benefactive/malefactive constructions allow both passive and active readings, in the sense that the subject of få can, but need not, be interpreted as the Agent of the participial verb. The two differ partly with respect to which participial verbs are possible, but are both restricted to passive participles of transitive verbs. The agentive construction always carries an active reading, and allows participles of (agentive) intransitive and reflexive verbs. Word order, agreement and particle placement typically distinguish the agentive construction from the other two, but some variation within the constructions can be noted in the corpora. In present-day Swedish, the agentive construction is not accepted by all speakers, and it is generally restricted to spoken language.
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- Larsson, Lennart, 1952-
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Stålbad - från medicamentösa bad till nedskärningspolitik
- 2013
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Ingår i: Språk och stil. - Uppsala : Adolf Noreen-sällskapet för svensk språk- och stilforskning. - 1101-1165 .- 2002-4010. ; :23, s. 9-30
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- During the past two decades, the Swedish word stålbad – a compound word combining stål (steel) and bad (bath) – has frequently been used as a designation for and summary of a neoliberal economic policy. The article traces the semantic development of the word, with its roots in two disparate, literal meanings, both of which – at least partially based on the German Stahlbad – were established in the middle of the nineteenth century: the first is a medicinal, curative bath in iron saltwater (a chalybeate bath), the other is a metallurgical term of art (steel melt). Common to both oft hese meanings is the notion of a positive result, that something good is generated in the course of events, and this semantic component is also found in the different metaphorical usages. At the earliest stage, the metaphor stålbad had solely positive connotations in most cases: It was applied to experiences that were not only invigorating but also quite pleasant. However, the metaphor later developed – here too in line with the use in German – to exclusively designate different kinds of painful but supposedly hardening experiences, such as poverty, unemployment and, not least, war. More and more marginalized after the second world war, the current – and for Sweden unique –use of the metaphor was apparently triggered by a speech given by the Minister of Finance in 1989, where he in rather archaic terms connected the word stålbad with the threat of growing unemployment.
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- Ledin, Per, 1962-, et al.
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Olika hen-syn : om bruket av hen i bloggar, tidningstext och studentuppsatser
- 2013
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Ingår i: Språk och stil. - 1101-1165 .- 2002-4010. ; :23, s. 141-174
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In 2012, efforts to launch hen as a gender-neutral pronoun in Swedish sparked a widespread and sometimes fierce debate. This article addresses the establishment of hen in actual usage, in particular in blogs, newspapers, and student essays. In general, the use of hen is fairly uncommon, and the majority of occurrences are meta uses, which means the word is discussed more than it is used. In certain areas, however, such as gender-oriented blogs and academic essays on Swedish, hen is somewhat more common. A comparison with alternative gender-neutral expressions is presented, based on different functions of hen, both generic and referentially specific types. Two functions unique to hen are distinguished, cross-gender specific reference and gender-neutral reference to subjects in scientific studies; with respect to other functions, hen is a stylistically marked alternative.
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- Lundin, Katarina, et al.
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Språkvård för språkutveckling. Språk, språknormer och elevspråkbruk ur ett utbildningsperspektiv
- 2013
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Ingår i: Språk och stil. - 1101-1165 .- 2002-4010. ; 23, s. 31-58
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The Swedish classroom of today displays linguistic, cultural, and social diversity. Hence, if a teacher is to be able to assist each pupil in a language development regarding the elaborated language as well as the private, a new kind of work with language care and deeper knowledge of language norms are required. Furthermore, the elaborated language is consistently changing as a result of the logic of change of post-modernism. Through interviews with and texts written by students studying to become teachers, the article aims at investigating how the students read and relate to texts written by pupils. The article, the result of a pilot study in a major research project, shows that the students, although almost graduated, solely focus on evaluation of the pupils’ texts. Accordingly, they have not appropriated the practice of reading the texts in order to contribute to the pupils’ language development. The two main reasons for this seem to be the students’ own school experiences, and non-appropriated knowledge from their present education. The students’ way of reading texts written by pupils must reflect the changing of the official, elaborated language as well as the linguistic inconsistencies of the pupils. This, in turn, requires a teacher who works with the language of the pupils in a differentiated way and also requires an elaboration and an expansion of the meaning of language development. The article presents some examples of the latter.
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- Malmberg, Anja, 1967-
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Interaktion för konflikt: hur dialogen upprätthåller teatertextens konfliktsituation : [Interaction for Conflict: How drama dialogue maintains a conflict situation]
- 2012
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Ingår i: Språk och stil. - Uppsala : Adolf Noreen-sällskapet för svensk språk- och stilforskning. - 1101-1165 .- 2002-4010. ; 22:2, s. 93-126
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Every drama needs a situation of conflict to get started. The characters interaction should be a metaphor for that conflict. When actors work with the drama's text during rehearsal it is their task to act out the conflict situation through body and voice. This article compares two dramas of Swedish drama writers, with dramas written by a student following a one-year long drama writing workshop. The analysis of the Swedish drama writers indicates that conflict is present throughout dramatical dialogue. The dialogue is not built up of initiation moves followed by response moves, but of initiation moves responded to by other initiation moves. Further, some initiation moves are not responded to, or other information than the one asked for is given. The characters constantly change subject as their different wishes and wills collide. This makes the surface of the dialogue to appear illogical, as the conversation does not develop in a linear way. In comparison texts from different stages of the student's development during the period of the drama writing workshop are analyzed. As a result four genre traits for drama dialogue are discussed. 1: Initiation moves are responded by new initiation moves. 2: The subject of discussion is constantly changing. 3: The dialogue surface gives an illogical impression. 4: The conversation is not developing linear. The comparison indicates that the student did not fully master the genre traits for the dramatic dialogue.
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- Milles, Karin
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En öppning i en sluten ordklass? : Den nya användningen av pronomenet hen
- 2013
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Ingår i: Språk och stil. - 1101-1165 .- 2002-4010. ; 23:1, s. 107-140
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The Swedish gender-neutral pronoun hen has occasionally been used since at least the 1960s. In the beginning of the new millennium its use increased among LGBT people and feminists. In 2012 a media debate concerning the pronoun attracted great public attention, making it clear that the pronoun had both friends and enemies. The aim of this article is to describe what happened in 2012 as a feminist reform initiative to promote gender inclusion and make language less sexist, and to map the use of the pronoun in public Swedish after the debate. The study draws on language planning theory, especially theoretical explorations of how to understand the link between language planning and larger political issues. To describe the feminist reform initiative, five circumstances were identified as having a major impact on the process: linguistic properties, central agents, political context, public language cultivation institutions, and media attention. To map the use of the pronoun four public written discourses were investigated: government agencies' web pages, motions from members of the Riksdag, academic papers and daily newspapers. The main results were that the reform initiative was deeply intertwined with the larger societal and political context, that the pronoun was used in the ongoing debate on gender equality and sexual politics, and that the pronoun is being used to some extent, especially in student essays.
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- Nord, Andreas, 1976-
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Varför textanalys? : Den språkvetenskapliga textanalysen i högre utbildning ur ett textforskningsperspektiv
- 2012
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Ingår i: Språk och stil. - 1101-1165 .- 2002-4010. ; 22:1, s. 187-212
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- By tradition in Swedish higher education, introductory or intermediate courses in the Swedish language include one or two modules that focus on textual analysis. The content of such modules and their relation to the relevant strands of research in ten Swedish universities are the subject of this article. The relevant research field is in this case the dynamic and multi-faceted ‘Text studies’ field, which encompasses different strands of discourse analysis, text linguistics, literary stylistics, as well as research on text comprehensibility and ethnographic and sociocultural perspectives on written discourse and literacy. The results of the survey show both similarities and discrepancies between the ‘textual interests’ within education and research. In education, a span of interests is discerned, which generally has some counterparts in the ‘Text studies’ field, although it does not mirror the current trends in ‘Text studies’, where critical approaches and ethnographic perspectives have gained increased attention. Instead, the main textual interest within the courses can be conceptualized as descriptive and functional: typical analysis aims at describing a text or a text group (genre) and relating the characteristic features in relation to its function. This shift in interest may, however, lead to a focus more on method than on the results of the analysis; this, in turn, has as the consequence that the university course modules cannot provide sufficient coverage of the models used in scholarly approaches.
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- Nyroos, Lina, 1979-
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”Om du har något annat ord för det?” : Hur deltagares skilda perspektiv kommer till uttryck i ett undervisningssammanhang
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Ingår i: Språk och stil. - Uppsala : Adolf Noreen-sällskapet för svensk språk- och stilforskning. - 1101-1165 .- 2002-4010. ; 20, s. 165-188
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper examines how participants interactionally display and construct their different orientationstowards an ongoing activity. On an overarching level, they participate in the same activity,but on a local level it can be demonstrated that they exercise activities with different goals. I referto their diverse orientations as different perspectives on the ongoing activity. The analytic emphasisis placed on how participants’ perspectives are interactionally accomplished. The two sequences analyzed in this paper are extracted from video recordings of Swedish universitytutorials. Through close analysis of the interaction, it is demonstrated that the request forscientific terms is used as a resource for the teacher to direct the scope of the interaction. Moreover,this action demonstrates how the teacher’s perspective expresses a preferred focus on an abstract‘scientific’ level. The teacher’s perspective diverges from several students’ perspectives, which inturn demonstrates different orientations towards the ongoing activity. From an educational point of view the study provides us with a deeper understanding of howstudents and teachers may perceive and treat the same activity in the classroom in diverging ways.In a wider context, the study also gives us insights into how different individuals interactionallyconstruct their different understandings of the same context.
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- Näslund, Shirley, 1971-
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I begynnelsen var ordet : tal genom ofödda och nyfödda på förlossningsavdelningen
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Ingår i: Språk och stil. - Uppsala : Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för nordiska språk. - 1101-1165 .- 2002-4010. ; 22:2, s. 185-214
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- The study examines the phenomenon of speaking through others in the specific context of labor and delivery at the birth clinic. Speech through a fetus or a newborn child is analyzed as a social act, receiving its meaning from the interactional and situational context. The data are drawn from a corpus of Scandinavian television documentaries. Previous research about speech through others has highlighted its function as face-work. This study shows that speech through fetuses and newborn children also can be regarded as a form of face-work, for instance as an indirect way of exhorting a woman in labor to mobilize more strength, or as an indirect way for finding out if a mother in the after-math of bearing-down contractions is ready to hold her newborn child. However, speech through fetuses and newborns does not merely serve as face-work. Above all it performs birth work: it verbalizes the birth and highlights the human, sociable character of the child.
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- Näslund, Shirley, 1971-
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”Jag orkar inte längre” – ”Du orKAr” : Språkliga bemötanden av föderskors modlöshet och förtvivlan
- 2014
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Ingår i: Språk och stil. - 1101-1165 .- 2002-4010. ; :24, s. 5-32
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This CA study unpacks some of the tacit knowledge that underpins the emotional work of the midwife. The analysis departs from four televised video-recordings of interaction during secondstage labor where the woman in labor expresses discouragement or despair. The aim is to show how expressions of emotions in a painful physical situation may be responded to in multiparty interaction. The expressions of discouragement, and eventually despair, are responded to in both affiliating and solution-oriented ways. This variation of approaches is facilitated by the presence of several participants. Through physical closeness, the partner may perform a supporting intimacy role. Thus the midwife can concentrate on being solution-oriented. Furthermore, the analysis shows that the partner helps her in her solution-oriented interaction with the woman in labor. In accordance with an earlier study, this study also suggests that the midwife’s breaking of the interaction pattern and giving of new instructions have positive effects on women in despair during second-stage labor.
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- Pettersson, Jonatan, 1971-
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Textforskningen och översättningarna
- 2012
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Ingår i: Språk och stil. - 1101-1165 .- 2002-4010. ; 22:1, s. 162-186
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Translations have often been treated as texts of less interest and importance within text research, more often considered a problem rather than a resource. This article discusses the potential of both the translation process and the translated texts for different kinds of text research. The role of translations and translation theory within text historical research is first discussed, with focus on theSwedish Sakprosa project. Secondly, conceptions of translation among text users are treated and connections are drawn to text ethnographic and genre oriented research. Thirdly, the focus is placed on to the text producer and the writing process, and the article turns to discussing how knowledge of the translation process might be helpful when investigating other kinds of writing processes. Translation is then discussed within a systemic-functional theoretical perspective and the article points out how a discussion of translation might be valuable for the theoretical description and understanding of different kinds of text processing. The article draws the conclusion that text research should not consider translation and translations a problem but rather as potential resources for deepening our knowledge of texts and writing in general.
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- Stenberg-Sirén, Jenny
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Skriftspråksnära talat standardspråk : En studie av uttalsdrag i upplästa finlandssvenska tv- och radionyheter 1970–2009
- 2014
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Ingår i: Språk och stil. - 1101-1165 .- 2002-4010. ; 24, s. 197-230
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The focus of this study is the pronunciation of the Finland Swedish standard language on television and radio news from 1970 to 2009. An analysis of several phonological features shows that the language has not evolved in any specific direction, and that the change in pronunciation of the variables investigated is not uniform. Throughout the time period studied, the pronunciation of the news readers was much closer to the written language than the vernacular is. The final -t in definite nouns (e.g. bordet ‘the table’) and in non-finite verb forms in -t (e.g. hittat ‘[has] found’) was pronounced clearly throughout, except in the 1980s when the final consonant was left out of 20 % of the possible cases. The final -r in verbs in the present tense (e.g. kommer ‘comes’) and in plural nouns (e.g. blommor ‘flowers’) was left out of 15–20 % of the words, with the exception of the 1980s when the final -r was left out of only 7 % of the words. Style sensitive words such as inte, skulle and måste (‘not, should, must’) were consistently pronounced in their full form, while short function words such as eller, med and till (‘or, with, to’) showed a shift towards more formal pronunciation in the 2000s. The study shows that no shift towards a more informal and commercial style can be seen in the Finland Swedish news readings. The high language awareness amongst Finland Swedish journalists, who represent a minority language, is suggested as one explanatory factor.
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- Svedjedal, Johan, 1956-
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Avsikter om avsikter
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Ingår i: Språk och stil. - 1101-1165 .- 2002-4010. ; 20, s. 221-222
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- Thelander, Mats, 1945-
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Gun Widmark 1920-2013
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Ingår i: Språk och stil. - Uppsala : Adolf Noreen-sällskapet. - 1101-1165 .- 2002-4010. ; :23, s. 255-256
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- Tolvanen, Eveliina
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Auktoritet i finlandssvenska och sverigesvenska myndighetstexter : En studie av lexikogrammatiska val och ergativa roller
- 2014
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Ingår i: Språk och stil. - 1101-1165 .- 2002-4010. ; 24, s. 166-196
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article discusses how the relationship between the institution producing texts and the intended reader of the text is construed in Swedish institutional texts about pensions from both Sweden and Finland. The texts are published in 2012 by Pensionsmyndigheten, the Swedish Pensions Agency, and Kela, the social security institution in Finland. The theoretical framework of the study is systemic-functional linguistics (see Halliday & Matthiessen 2004). The article studies what lexicogrammatic alterms are used to name the institution and the reader, what processes the institution and the reader are participants in and what ergative roles the institution and the reader are assigned in the processes.The results show that there are differences between the texts in all three cases. For example, in the Swedish texts the most common ergative role for both the institution and the reader is Medium, followed by Beneficiary and Agent. In the Finland-Swedish texts, however, the institution is most commonly Agent, followed by Medium and Beneficiary, whereas the reader is most commonly construed as Beneficiary, followed by Medium and Agent. The results show that the relationship between the institution and the reader is construed as more explicitly asymmetrical and authoritative in the Finland-Swedish texts than in the Swedish texts.
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- Vogel, Anna, 1969-
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Laddade ord : Hur nya uttryck, som kategoriserar människor, tas in i svenskan [Loaded words: How new expressions, categorizing people, are incorporated into Swedish]
- 2014
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Ingår i: Språk och stil. - 1101-1165 .- 2002-4010. ; 24, s. 72-100
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The study treats three language-planning actions in Sweden during 1990—2010, concerning expressions categorizing human beings. The expressions are person med intellektuell funktionsnedsättning ʻperson with intellectual impairment’, rom ʻRom’ and hbt-person ʻLGBT person’. The study is conducted within the framework of discourse analysis. Data comprise interviews, legal documents, information texts and minutes. The methodology includes analysis in three layers: intratextual, agent and transtextual. The following units are extracted: metalinguistic propositions about the new expressions, agents involved, what power can be attributed to these agents, media used, and the sociopolitical context influencing the processes. A pattern for common features of the three language-planning actions is proposed. According to this pattern, the process starts with dissatisfaction with an existing linguistic expression and a wish for change. The dissatisfaction originates from a mismatch between the linguistic expression and the concept it is supposed to name. This mismatch in turn can be traced to ideological change in society. Agents leading language-planning possess political power, or communicate with that power. The new expressions are spread by people in politics and administration, as well as by mass media.
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