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- Aijmer, Karin, 1939
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"You're absolutely welcome, thanks for the ear": The use of absolutely in American soap operas
- 2016
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In: Nordic Journal of English Studies. - : University of Gothenburg - Department of Languages and Literatures. - 1654-6970. ; 15:2, s. 78-94
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The aim of the paper is to discuss the syntax and uses of absolutely in recent American soap operas. It is shown that absolutely can be used both as an intensifier and with an emphasising meaning where it has scope over the entire clause. Absolutely was also found as a stand-alone marker with the function to respond to yes–no questions and to speech acts such as requests and thanking.
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- Airey, John, et al.
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Bilingual Scientific Literacy? : The Use of English in Swedish University Science Courses
- 2008
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In: Nordic Journal of English Studies. - 1502-7694 .- 1654-6970. ; 7:3, s. 145-161
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- A direct consequence of the Bologna declaration on harmonisation of Europeaneducation has been an increase in the number of courses taught in English at Swedishuniversities. A worrying aspect of this development is the lack of research into the effectson disciplinary learning that may be related to changing the teaching language to Englishin this way. In fact, little is known at all about the complex inter-relationship betweenlanguage and learning. In this article we attempt to map out the types of parameters thatour research indicates would determine an appropriate language mix in one section ofSwedish higher education—natural science degree courses. We do this from theperspective of the overall goal of science education, which we suggest is the productionof scientifically literate graduates. Here we introduce a new term, bilingual scientificliteracy to describe the particular set of language-specific science skills that we hope tofoster within a given degree course. As an illustration of our constructs, we carry out asimple language audit of thirty Swedish undergraduate physics syllabuses, listing thetypes of input provided for students and the types of production expected from students inboth languages. We use this information to map out an ‘implied student’ for the courseswith respect to bilingual scientific literacy. The article finishes by identifying issues forfurther research in this area.
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- Allan, Rachel, Docent, 1966-, et al.
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Building a Corpus of Written Tasks of Swedish National Tests in English : Motivation, Method and Research Applications
- 2023
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In: Nordic Journal of English Studies. - : Umeå University/Nordic Association of English Studies. - 1502-7694 .- 1654-6970. ; 22:2, s. 128-154
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This article describes a collaborative project involving the construction of a corpus of graded year 9 National Tests in written English. National Tests are standardized high stakes tests which are an important part of the Swedish education system because the results provide an indication of performance at national level, and also feed into pupils’ overall assessment. The grading of National Tests in written English has been found to be problematic for teachers, and a need for assessment training identified (Erickson and Tholin 2022). By providing a searchable database of graded written texts, together with the teacher feedback, this project aims to create a resource to support pre- and in-service teachers in interpreting knowledge requirements and assessment guidelines, and providing effective feedback. The corpus will also provide a resource for research into the features of student writing at different grade levels. To create the corpus, past papers from collaborating schools have been anonymized, digitized and coded. As a result, pupils’ texts can be easily sorted by a range of criteria, for example, year, gender, education type, grade achieved on the written paper and overall grade for the National Test. Teacher feedback can be accessed similarly. We outline potential research areas provided by this resource, and demonstrate how some of these might be explored. We also give examples of how the developing corpus has already been used as a resource for English teacher training programmes, and outline future plans for the project.
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- Allan, Rachel, Docent, 1966-
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Reserved for Research? Normalising Corpus Use for School Teachers
- 2023
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In: Nordic Journal of English Studies. - : University of Gothenburg - Department of Languages and Literatures. - 1502-7694 .- 1654-6970. ; 22:1, s. 68-92
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- There has been much discussion about the persistent gap between research and practice in the use of corpora in the classroom (Frankenberg-Garcia 2012; Chambers 2019 among others), despite strong evidence of its benefits (Boulton 2017). The majority of studies into data-driven learning (DDL) have been carried out by those with a particular interest and skill level, predominantly in higher education, and the need to complement these with a broader base of studies involving practising language teachers in a school environment has been highlighted (e.g., Boulton 2010; Chambers 2019). For such studies to take place, however, more school teachers need to be made aware of DDL and its potential for use in the classroom.This article discusses what we can learn from research into DDL with younger learners and teacher training in this context in order to shape a teacher training programme. It describes a pilot project introducing DDL to a group of secondary school student teachers (STs) of English at a Swedish university, and their responses to it regarding the feasibility of including it in their future teaching practice. The need for further training, particularly in practical pedagogical applications suitable for their learners, was apparent, echoing the outcomes of previous studies. It is suggested that integrating a range of classroom-focused DDL activities throughout their remaining course may be an effective approach. This also provides an opportunity to raise awareness of pre-prepared resources and novel approaches to DDL more likely to appeal to their learners, and practical examples of this are discussed.
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- Avril, Chloé, 1979
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Introduction
- 2010
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In: Nordic Journal of English Studies. - 1654-6970. ; 9:3, s. 1-9
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- Avril, Chloé, 1979
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"Why can’t y’all be like Perry Mason?": Black Panther Autobiography Meets Crime Fiction
- 2020
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In: Nordic Journal of English Studies. - : University of Gothenburg - Department of Languages and Literatures. - 1654-6970. ; 19:5, s. 65-96
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In this study, I examine the autobiographies of four activists associated with the Black Panther Party, namely, Angela Davis, Huey P. Newton, Assata Shakur and Elaine Brown, investigating their use of a number of conventions taken from crime fiction. Crime fiction as a genre has often been discussed as reproducing conservative ideas about law and order. In light of this, and considering the fact that the connection between criminality and the Party is something these activists seek to challenge, I ask why they might nonetheless want to use the grammar of crime fiction in order to retell their lives. Focusing on a number of crime fiction elements evident in their texts, including in medias res openings and the courtroom drama, I show how these tropes allow them to perform powerful political reversals that further their critique of the U.S. justice system as well as pose questions about the nature of crime itself. Worth noting is also that the texts under study do not all emerge from the same historical and political moment, something that I argue has consequences for how we interpret them today.
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- Bell, Wade
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"The new messiah of the battlefields”: The Body as Discursive Strategy in Dalton Trumbo’s Johnny Got His Gun
- 2020
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In: Nordic Journal of English Studies. - : University of Gothenburg - Department of Languages and Literatures. - 1654-6970. ; 19:5, s. 47-63
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This article discusses the discursive significance of the body in Dalton Trumbo’s classic anti-war novel, Johnny Got His Gun (1939). With its political rants, depictions of working-class life, symbolic imagery, and vivid descriptions of the dismembered torso of its protagonist, the human body emerges in Trumbo’s novel as our primary vehicle for being-in-the-world, as well as the figurative weight that grounds us in it. Following this logic, human freedom and autonomy appear to be curtailed by our own corporeal limitations, coupled with our involvement in a world of oppressive hierarchal systems and reified social relations. Building on the works of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Mikhail Bakhtin, Georg Lukàcs and others, this study reveals a dialectic at work within Johnny between what can best be described as the phenomenal, reified, and grotesque bodies. While the phenomenal body of Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology emphasizes relative autonomy and embodied subjectivity, the reified body represents humankind in a completely objectified state. My analysis illustrates how Trumbo’s text creates a tension between these two conceptions of being, while employing grotesque realism—a subversive literary mode utilizing the degraded image of the body—to inspire change in the real world.
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- Bergh, Gunnar, 1956, et al.
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From National to Global Obsession: Football and Football English in the Superdiverse 21st Century
- 2020
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In: Nordic Journal of English Studies. - : University of Gothenburg - Department of Languages and Literatures. - 1654-6970. ; 19:5, s. 359-383
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Today’s football enjoys an unprecedented global status, as the world’s favourite sport as well as a mass cultural phenomenon. To a significant degree, it transcends national, social and cultural boundaries. European top teams are characterized by a striking ethnic and linguistic diversity; Manchester United fans may be found across the globe. Today’s football can thus be seen as a special example of ‘superdiversity,’ a notion introduced following far-reaching changes in migration patterns since the 1990s, in Britain and elsewhere. Its emergence coincided with a vastly increased media coverage of football worldwide, in turn contributing to greatly increased use of football language, on television and the internet. Football language—involving communication at various levels among players, spectators, fans and commentators—represents a conceptual sphere shared by the (‘imagined’) global community of all those who take an interest in the ‘people’s game.’ Consequently, due to football’s present-day status, millions of people across the globe are also familiar with football language. Sociolinguistically, it makes up a special part of a person’s linguistic repertoire, independently of more conventional sociolinguistic variables. Against this background, we argue that today’s football and football language—especially football English as a register of Global English—may serve as a communicative link across barriers related to nationality, culture and language. In this regard, certain parallels are noted between the early social history of British football and the potential of today’s football and football English to promote integration and a sense of identity in superdiverse societies, not least by providing opportunities for communicative interaction.
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- Bergh, Gunnar, 1956, et al.
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Iniesta passed and Messi finished clinically: Football verbs and transitivity
- 2016
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In: Nordic Journal of English Studies. - : University of Gothenburg - Department of Languages and Literatures. - 1654-6970. ; 15:2, s. 19-38
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Football language, like other special languages, is not only of lexical interest. It is also special by virtue of various syntactic and semantic features, related to the situational context of football. Two areas of verb syntax, involving transitivity, are in focus: the omissibility of certain contextually recoverable “football objects” (e.g. Iniesta passed [the ball], Messi finished [the attack]) and the occurrence of “unconventional” objects of certain verbs (e.g. Their third goal killed the match, Manchester United sold Ronaldo to Real Madrid). Thus, like other special subject areas, football creates its own semantic-pragmatic framework, paving the way for constructions and collocations that deviate from those applying in general language.
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- Bergmann, Helena, 1950-
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Aiming for a Middle Ground : Mary Hays's Appeal to the Men of Great Britain in Behalf of Women
- 2020
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In: Nordic Journal of English Studies. - Göteborg : University of Gothenburg - Department of Languages and Literatures. - 1502-7694 .- 1654-6970. ; 19:5, s. 244-261
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In 1798, a year after the death of the renowned feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, her friend, the Unitarian writer and polemist, Mary Hays, authored her own tract on the subject of women’s liberation. Entitled Appeal to the Men of Great Britain in Behalf of Women, the publication was not intended to compete with Wollstonecraft’s fiery A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Hays wished to address the major societal issue of inequality between the sexes from a less adversarial angle. As opposed to Wollstonecraft, in her introduction, Mary Hays assumes a posture of humility when stating her ambition: ‘to restore female character to its dignity and independence.’ This paper discusses the rhetorical devices employed by Hays to modify the engrained ideas of her anticipated male readers. Her tract is divided into a set argumentative sequences in the shape of seven chapters. The first of these calls in question the reliance on the Scripture as a foundation for the acceptance of the male-female hierarchy. The second seeks to invalidate the conviction that the subjection of women’s in society could be condoned through rational causes. The third and fourth chapters give an overview of some major, misconceptions of men with regard to women’s capabilities. Chapter five and six illustrate plentiful examples of unsavoury realities of female existence. In the last chapter of the Appeal, Mary Hays delivers a set of exhortations and hopeful recommendations for effectuating a change. The overall aim of the paper is to identify and analyse Hays’s strategy for converting the opposite sex, not through revolutionary ferocity or meek supplications, but through constructive persuasiveness. In a concluding section some supportive male intellectuals are introduced to illustrate Hays’s achievement of a middle ground on which to communicate.
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- Björkén-Nyberg, Cecilia, 1962-
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Vocal Configurations of Friday : Six Audiobook Versions of Robinson Crusoe
- 2024
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In: Nordic Journal of English Studies. - Umeå : Umeå University. - 1502-7694 .- 1654-6970. ; 23:1, s. 106-127
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- Robinson Crusoe is a novel obsessed with voice. Shipwrecked on his island, Crusoe teaches a parrot to speak and engages in silent conversations with God and himself and, when he finally meets Friday, he communicates in the discourses of master, educator, and companion. In silent reading of the print text, the reader subvocalises and dramatises the grammar, syntax, and pronunciation of Friday’s speech and more or less unconsciously creates a cohesive whole out of the dialogue sections and the passages narrated by Crusoe. In audiobook narration this process is externalised in the actual vocalisation of the text. The performing narrator has to make conscious choices depending on how he construes the Crusoe-Friday relationship and in what genre conventions he places it. Moreover, since Friday does not appear until two thirds into the text, the performing narrator needs to fit the last third into the overall vocal profile to produce a cohesive effect. This article focuses on the vocal configurations of Friday as manifest in six audiobook recordings of the novel. Material voice characteristics, such as quality, rhythm, and diction, as well as contextualising aspects of ethnicity, age, and nationality are taken into account. The rhetorical situation in which the performing narrator intensifies intentionality is also foregrounded. © Cecilia Björkén-Nyberg 2024
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- Björkman, Beyza
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English as the lingua franca of engineering : the morphosyntax of academic speech events
- 2008
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In: Nordic Journal of English Studies. - 1502-7694 .- 1654-6970. ; 7:3, s. 103-122
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- English today is frequently used as an international means of communication among its non-native speakers from different L1 backgrounds. Research on English as a lingua franca (ELF) has already revealed commonalities and common processes from a variety of settings. It is important that research continues and that lingua franca usage in different environments is described to find ways to optimize communication. This paper will focus on the morphosyntax of spoken ELF, reporting the results of a study that investigates spoken lingua franca English in tertiary education (engineering) in Sweden, where English is increasingly becoming the language of instruction. The morphosyntax of non-native-like usage is investigated in dialogic and monologic speech events. Cases of non-native-like usage are grouped as ‘disturbing’, i.e. causing comprehension problems and ‘non-disturbing’, i.e. causing no comprehension problems. Findings from this corpus-based study show that the most consistent idiosyncrasies in lingua franca usage in this setting are observed in redundant features of the language and that there is very little disturbance, i.e. breakdown in communication. Engineers seem to opt for function and reciprocal intelligibility over redundant features of the language and accuracy when they speak English in academic contexts.
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- Cananau, Iulian, Dr. 1975-
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Critical Thinking and English Literature in Higher Education : The Theoretical Models and the Swedish Syllabi
- 2021
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In: Nordic Journal of English Studies. - : Department of Languages and Literatures, University of Gothenburg. - 1502-7694 .- 1654-6970. ; 20:2, s. 99-128
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Critical thinking is an ever-growing interdisciplinary field of research. This paper introduces key aspects of the vast scholarship on critical thinking in higher education to the academic community of English literary studies in Sweden. Its aim is to provide a sound framework for research-based discussions of the potential for critical thinking in literature courses. To achieve this goal, the paper first presents a synopsis of the main theoretical models of critical thinking in higher education: as cognitive-argumentative skills, as cognitive-argumentative skills and psychosocial dispositions, as resistance to oppression, and as a crucial step toward critical acting and being. These models and approaches are then used to identify the conceptions of critical thinking that inform the learning objectives in undergraduate-level English literature syllabi in Sweden. The study finds that the cognitive-argumentative-skills approach dominates the conceptualization of critical thinking in English literature syllabi, but the other three models are also present in various degrees. The article ends with a call for a systematic discussion of the curricular and teaching practices that cultivate critical thinking in English literary studies.
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- Champion, Margrét Gunnarsdóttir, 1953
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Technologies of Affect in D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover
- 2020
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In: Nordic Journal of English Studies. - : University of Gothenburg - Department of Languages and Literatures. - 1654-6970. ; 19:5, s. 155-179
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- As stated in ‘A Propos of Lady Chatterley’s Lover,’ Lawrence’s novel depicts the ‘counterfeit emotional life’ as symptomatic of the post-war capitalist nation and hegemonic machine culture. Not only do lords of industry such as Lord Chatterley reify and exploit the working class but the various state apparatuses, in the form of housing development, landscaping, publishing and the media, ideologically interpellate citizens by manufacturing taste, sensation and affect. An early conversation at Wragby Hall among ‘the young intellectuals of the day’ affirms that all social formations of the day, the bourgeois state as well as bolshevist Russia, operate according to the laws of the machine, driving even the younger generation to value display of success and power over the vital principles of life. Even the artists are duped, manipulating the publishing industry to produce images of themselves as ‘the most modern of modern voices.’ Perhaps, in Lady Chatterley’s Lover, the human body itself has been most severely devalued, turned into a field of thrills, flirtings, coquetries, games and ‘sex things.’ My essay primarily examines how Lawrence’s novel both diagnoses this ‘imaginary body’ and manufactures an alternative desiring machine through attention to, what Brian Massumi calls, ‘pre-signifying’ affect, motilities of flesh, rhythm, touch, musical sound, gropings toward the other. Although the lovers, Connie Chatterley and Oliver Mellors, are at the center of such an investigation, habitats of nature interface with the human world. What I emphasize is the expression of the complex ecological awareness in the novel: it is possible to view the connection to nature through Connie’s perspective as a ‘becoming,’ an approximation, which educates and opens up the human body to life-sustaining affect: tenderness, pleasure, sorrow, courage and passion.
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- Deutschmann, Mats, 1964-, et al.
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‘To my surprise, I don’t particularly like my own opinions’ : Exploring Adaptations of the ‘Open-Guise’ Technique to Raise Sociolinguistic Language Awareness
- 2023
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In: Nordic Journal of English Studies. - : Unipub forlag. - 1502-7694 .- 1654-6970. ; 22:1, s. 113-143
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- The following study describes a data-driven learning scenario aimed at raising sociolinguistic awareness of matters related to gender, language and stereotyping. The design is inspired by the matched-guise technique (MGT), a quantitative data driven experimental method that has been used extensively to investigate language attitudes. In the scenario, differences in respondents’ response patterns to two gender-manipulated versions (male-female vs. female-male dyads) of the same recorded dialogue were used as a starting point for awareness-raising activities aimed at highlighting how gender stereotypes may affect perceptions of a dialogue. The main focus of the article is a comparison of the learning outcomes of two variants of the setup: a traditional undisclosed MGT-inspired setup, where the design and purpose of the experiment was kept secret until after the response phase, and a so-called open-guise design, where respondents were informed of the design and purpose of the experiment prior to the response phase. Preliminary results suggest that respondents adjust their assessments of a speaker depending on the guise, even when they know it is the same speaker they are listening to. Moreover, the open-guise design seemed to lead to greater pedagogic impact than the scenario based on the undisclosed design. However, further studies are needed to confirm these findings.
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- Dodou, Katherina
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How Swedish Curricula Legitimise the Engagement with Literature in English
- 2021
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In: Nordic Journal of English Studies. - 1502-7694 .- 1654-6970. ; 2, s. 129-159
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Literary works are read and studied in English across the different parts of the Swedish education system, primary education, secondary education, highereducation and teacher education. This article considers the rationale—the purposes and benefits—for doing so that are implicitly or explicitly pointed to incurricular documents, with special focus on the kinds of engagement withliterature that are authorised by the academic English subject community for the Swedish academic and school contexts. By juxtaposing and synthesising findings from three previous curricular studies, the article identifies substantive justifications and, drawing on linguistic legitimation theory, discursive forms of legitimation that interoperate in syllabi and in other steering documents to claim the validity of engaging with literature in English. It shows that the rationale that remains constant across the education system relies on the links between literature and cultural learning, or analysis, and likewise on the potential of engagement with literature in English for furthering an understanding of the world and for fostering a desired democratic citizen ethos. The cross-educational perspective of the article shows that the interdependence between the different parts of the education system has both thematic and conceptual consequences for the kinds of engagement with literature that are given the status of official legitimations.
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- Dodou, Katherina
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Introduction : On Literature Education
- 2021
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In: Nordic Journal of English Studies. - 1502-7694 .- 1654-6970. ; 20:2, s. 1-28
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- Dodou, Katherina, et al.
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Literary scholar, teacher educator? : English staff profiles and attitudes to teacher education
- 2021
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In: Nordic Journal of English Studies. - 1502-7694 .- 1654-6970. ; 2, s. 59-98
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- Over the past decade, what it means to be an academic teacher of English-language literature in Swedish institutions of higher education has changed. As a result of recent political reforms, many literature staff have come to assume the role as teacher educators. To better understand the implications of this development, the article maps the academic qualifications and research interests of English staff who teach on teacher education (TEd) literature courses nationally and their attitudes to TEd teaching. The article is based on data gathered via a semi-closed questionnaire and analysed using content and discourse analysis. It shows that a majority of the study participants are PhD holders in English with a specialisation in literature. Although few staff are qualified teachers and/or are engaged in literature teaching and learning scholarship, several have school teaching experience. Respondent attitudes to the teacher educator role vary, as do the conditions for TEd teaching at different institutions. The findings suggest that respondent expertise and self-identification and their previous TEd teaching experiences are consequential for their attitudes, as is the matter of whether the role requires that they address areas, such as school-oriented teaching and learning theories and practices, in which they lack competence. These findings, the article suggests, have bearing on future strategic discussions in English studies.
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- Dodou, Katherina
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The Value of Studying Literature : A Review of the English Higher Education Curriculum in Sweden
- 2020
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In: Nordic Journal of English Studies. - 1502-7694 .- 1654-6970. ; 19:1, s. 257-298
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- The article addresses the academic study of English literature as an educational project, with special focus on knowledge mediation and its vindication. It is based on an examination of the academic curricula from all universities and university colleges that offered English studies in Sweden in 2016. The article shows that, despite local variations at the level of theme, there was a widespread consensus nationally about the goals of literary studies and largely also about the underlying conceptions of literature and of the value of its study. The latter, it concludes, relied mainly on the perceived affordances of literary reading and on the potential of literature to provide worldly knowledge.
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- Donovan, Stephen, 1970-, et al.
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Introduction
- 2017
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In: Nordic Journal of English Studies. - 1502-7694 .- 1654-6970. ; 16:2
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- Falk, Erik
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‘That little space’ : Locating Abdulrazak Gurnah in the Global Literary Marketplace
- 2020
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In: Nordic Journal of English Studies. - Karlstad : University of Gothenburg - Department of Languages and Literatures. - 1502-7694 .- 1654-6970. ; 19:4, s. 150-168, s. 143-160
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- The transformation of the publishing world in recent decades—which includes, among other things, the increasing significance of large retail outlets, the emergence and establishment of literary agents, and the merger of publishing houses into large media corporations—has been amply documented. Among the consequences for postcolonial literary fiction, and African English-language fiction, which is the subject here, are increasing use of the author as a public figure and marketing device, and heightened expectations on cultural representativity that link authors to particular places and cultures. With a focus on the initial and middle phases of his career, this article discusses the ways in which East African author Abdulrazak Gurnah has responded to such pressures in his novels and in essays and articles. It shows how both the form and the content of Gurnah’s writing exemplify a double effort to complicate ideas which frame authors and their texts through culture-specific identities and the seemingly opposite, generalizing notion of the postcolonial’ author which flattens history—a strategy of ‘self-authorization’ which can be seen as Gurnah’s critical resistance towards received categories used in both book marketing and postcolonial authorship. In a further twist, this resistance is in some tension with Gurnah’s choice to write in English and use an unmarked linguistic style and register since these seemingly align with marketing interests and enable easy translation which facilitates the global circulation of his books.
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- Fåhraeus, Anna, 1963-
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Cultural Materialism in the Production and Distribution of Exploitative Lesbian Film : A Historical Case Study of Children of Loneliness (1935)
- 2020
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In: Nordic Journal of English Studies. - Göteborg : Göteborgs universitet. - 1502-7694 .- 1654-6970. ; 19:5, s. 121-154
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- Raymond Williams developed a vocabulary and framework for analyzing the ideological forces at work in literature and art, as objects, but also in terms of their production and distribution. This article looks back at his elaboration of cultural materialism and its relationship to film in Preface to Film (1954), written with Michael Orrin, as a way of understanding the media traces of the lost film Children of Loneliness (dir. Richard C. Kahn). The film was an early sex education about homosexuality and this article explores its connections to early exploitation films as a cinematic form, and the dominant and emergent discourses that were used to promote it, as a well as at structures of feeling that these discourses reflect.
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- Garcia-Yeste, Miguel
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The presence and roles of English in Swedish print advertising : an exploratory study
- 2013
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In: Nordic Journal of English Studies. - : University of Gothenburg - Department of Languages and Literatures. - 1502-7694 .- 1654-6970. ; 12:1, s. 65-85
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- Despite the ubiquity of English in the Nordic societies, little attention has been paid to the presence of English in advertising texts. Thus, the present study aims at surveying the reality of the use of English in Swedish print advertising. A sample of Swedish magazine advertisements targeted at different audiences is analysed in two phases: a quantitative account of the actual presence of English in the sampled texts; and a qualitative exploration of its purposes, audiences, and functions. The findings shed some light on the groups most likely to be targeted in English, as well as the significance of English in Swedish press advertising in terms of presence, purpose, and users.
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- Gilsenan Nordin, Irene, 1947-
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Introduction
- 2014
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In: Nordic Journal of English Studies. - Göteborg : Göteborgs universitet. - 1502-7694 .- 1654-6970. ; 13, s. 1-5
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- This special issue of Nordic Journal of English Studies is devoted to the research in Irish Studies being carried out in Scandinavia by a group of scholars based in Denmark, Norway and Sweden, as well as scholars associated—in one way or another—with Scandinavia. Denmark is represented by the University of Aalborg; Norway, by scholars affiliated to the Universities of Agder, the Artic University of Norway, Bergen, and Stavanger; and Sweden is represented by scholars from the universities of Dalarna, Göteborg, Stockholm, Södertörn and Umeå. Included also in this special issue is the work of two former students, who completed their Masters’ degree in Irish literature at DUCIS (Dalarna University Centre for Irish Studies), Sweden—from Norway and China respectively. The collection also contains an article by Dara Waldron, Limerick Institute of Technology, Ireland, whof recently presented his research at the Higher Seminar in Dalarna. Contributions by the Irish poet, Mary O’Donnell, who participated in the Nordic Irish Studies Network (NISN) conference, hosted by DUCIS in December 2012, are also included.
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- Gilsenan Nordin, Irene, 1947-
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The place of writing in the poetry of W.B Yeats and Patrick Kavanagh
- 2014
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In: Nordic Journal of English Studies. - Göteborg : Gothenburg University; Nordic Association of English Studies. - 1502-7694 .- 1654-6970. ; 13:2, s. 43-56
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- This article addresses the theme of place in the poetry of W. B. Yeats and Patrick Kavanagh, focusing on the concept of place as a physical and psychological entity. The article explores place as a creative force in the work of these two poets, in relation to the act of writing. Seamus Heaney, in his essay “The Sense of Place,” talks about the “history of our sensibilities” that looks to the stable element of the land for continuity: “We are dwellers, we are namers, we are lovers, we make homes and search for our histories” (Heaney 1980: 148-9). Thus, in a physical sense, place is understood as a site in which identity is located and defined, but in a metaphysical sense, place is also an imaginative space that maps the landscapes of the mind. This article compares the different ways in which Yeats and Kavanagh relate to their place of writing, physically and artistically, where place is understood as a physical lived space, and as a liberating site for an exploration of poetic voice, where the poet creates his own country of the mind.
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- Glotova, Elena, 1983-, et al.
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Metaphors of tinnitus as an acoustic environment
- 2022
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In: Nordic Journal of English Studies. - Umeå : Umeå University. - 1502-7694 .- 1654-6970. ; 21:2, s. 138-165
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- This paper is a qualitative study of metaphors at the levels of lexico-encyclopedic conceptual (LEC) metaphors (Johansson Falck 2018, forthc.) in nineteenth-century medical records of tinnitus and hearing disorders by English-speaking (the UK and the US) practitioners. Metaphor is essential for the linguistic and conceptual expression of illness (Semino 2008: 175) and, as we observe, remains endemic for the description of tinnitus in medical records. Our primary aim is to identify the metaphors used to describe the sounds of tinnitus, the kinds of experiences involved in these metaphorical conceptualizations and the cognitive and affording presence of tinnitus metaphors. The results suggest that metaphor provides a framework for the analogical reasoning about tinnitus and the methods of its treatment. Nineteenth-century accounts of ear diseases reference the sounds of biological and non-biological natural categories, transport and industrial sounds, the sounds of domestic interiors and music. Metaphorical descriptions of tinnitus sounds connect with the affordances of the environment (Gibson 2015) and are inherent to the location and occupation of the patient. As our findings support the historical explorations of tinnitus accounts, they make it possible to contribute to our current understanding of tinnitus by highlighting the importance of a patient-centered approach and establishing the significance of metaphor analysis in tinnitus studies.
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- Granath, Solveig, 1951-
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The Syntax and Semantics of the Double-faced Prepositions besides and beyond
- 2023
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In: Nordic Journal of English Studies. - : Umeå University. - 1502-7694 .- 1654-6970. ; 22:2, s. 81-100
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- Over time, lexical items are recycled and take on different or additional meanings from the ones they originally had. Somewhat surprisingly, items may take on converse meanings. This is the case with the prepositions besides and beyond, which may signal either inclusion or exclusion, depending on the context. An etymological examination shows that over time, both words have undergone semantic extension from their original spatial meanings. Syntactically, the primary functions of the two are as prepositions and adverbs. Quantitative results show that while nowadays beyond functions primarily as a preposition, besides functions equally often as an adverb and a preposition. The converse meanings of besides and beyond are shown here to depend on whether the context is assertive or non-assertive. Both words form part of a large group of prepositions of inclusion and exclusion which share both semantic and syntactic features. Syntactically, what is remarkable about all of them is their ability to occur not only with nominal complements but also with that-clauses, bare infinitives, and adjective phrases. One of the issues discussed in this article is what is the best syntactic analysis of these structures.
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- Gregersdotter, Katarina, 1970-
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The doctor and the murderess : a discussion of knowledge and ignorance in margaret atwood's alias grace
- 2022
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In: Nordic Journal of English Studies. - Umeå : Umeå University. - 1502-7694 .- 1654-6970. ; 21:2, s. 73-89
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- Grace Marks was a convicted double murderer in nineteenth-century Canada. Her case was well known at the time thanks to its sensationally violent and sexual details. The novel Alias Grace (1997) by Margaret Atwood engages in a discussion about the relationship between fact and fiction, scientific objectivity and power. This article analyses the relationship between Atwood’s fictional Grace Marks and Dr Simon Jordan, an American doctor who visits her in prison hoping to find out the truth about Grace and the murders. Both Grace and Dr Jordan are formed by the existing norms of the time period, norms which govern how men and women of their particular class should act. However, what makes their meetings noteworthy is that Grace Marks possesses knowledge of the norms and expectations and can therefore use them to her advantage, whereas Dr Jordan does not, despite being an educated and professional man. In the end, this leads to Grace’s ability to tell her own story, and Dr Jordan’s failure as a man of science.
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- Hansen, Julie, Associate Professor, 1970-
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Space, Time and Plane Travel in Walter Kirn's Novel Up in the Air
- 2012
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In: Nordic Journal of English Studies. - 1502-7694 .- 1654-6970. ; :3, s. 18-35
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- This article applies Mikhail Bakhtin’s concept of the literary chronotope to an analysis ofthe depiction of corporate air travel in Walter Kirn’s novel Up in the Air (2001). Theanalysis shows how the novel positions itself in relation to the genre of road narratives, atthe same time transforming it by exchanging the car and the road for airplanes andairports. It further examines how the “airworld” chronotope is characterized by adisjunction between space and time. This contributes to a critique of commercializationand reification of space and time in contemporary American society, and also serves toquestion ideals traditionally associated with the American road genre.
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- Hansson, Heidi, 1956-
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English Literary Studies in Sweden 1950-2019 : Doctoral Research Projects and Disciplinary Renewal
- 2021
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In: Nordic Journal of English Studies. - : Department of Languages and Literatures, University of Gothenburg. - 1502-7694 .- 1654-6970. ; 20:2, s. 29-58
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- The focus of doctoral research is of great significance for the development of an academic discipline and the potential for innovation. A significant number of PhD graduates however expect to be employed as university teachers, and the correlation between competence needs as suggested by the undergraduate curriculum and PhD research appears to be weak. Based on library catalogue data and digital archives, this study investigates interrelations between the initial research orientation of individual scholars and the development of English as a university subject in Sweden. Dissertation topics 1950-1999 indicate a gradual shift from a dominance of linguistics in the earlier decades to a dominance of literary studies towards the end of the period. Dissertations in the field of English-language literature between 2000 and 2019 demonstrate a growing interest in literatures outside England and the United States, a predominance of studies of prose and a move towards contextual modes of criticism centred on social or political theories. Studies of modern or contemporary literature dominate greatly whereas there are few dissertations on older literature. Undergraduate course plans and literature lists for 2020 from the major research universities show a strong connection between first-term literature courses and current research, as indicated by the topics of PhD dissertations from the first two decades of the twenty-first century. The teaching of older literature is not supported by new research to the same extent, however, which means that it may become increasingly difficult to ensure the close links between research and study programmes stipulated in the Swedish Higher Education Act (1992:1434).
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- Hansson, Heidi, 1956-
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Kinship : people and nature in Emily Lawless’s poetry
- 2014
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In: Nordic Journal of English Studies. - 1502-7694 .- 1654-6970. ; 13:2, s. 6-22
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- In both her prose writing and her poetry the Irish writer Emily Lawless (1845-1913) considers a number of environmental subjects, from mothing and dredging for shellfish and mollusks to gardening and the decline of the Irish woodland. A recurrent theme in her poetry is the concern for threatened environment, but dystopian images are balanced by portrayals of landscape as a source of spiritual wisdom and healing. Lawless’s focus is often on more insignificant examples of the natural world such as moths, crustaceans or bog-cotton rather than more conventional representations of natural beauty. Lawless was a Darwinist, and several of her poems thematise the interaction between the human and the natural world, frequently reversing the power relationship between humans and natural phenomena. A re-contextualisation of her poetry within the framework of nineteenth-century natural history, Darwinism and early ecological thought brings to the fore her exploration of the connections between nature, self and national belonging
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- Herriman, Jennifer, 1947
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Don't get me wrong! Negation in argumentative writing by Swedish and British students and professional writers
- 2009
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In: Nordic Journal of English Studies. - 1654-6970. ; 8:3, s. 117-140
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- Negation is a means by which writers take their readers into account, anticipate their expectations and what inferences they may make, and dismiss those which are in conflict with their own. This is a pilot study comparing negation in argumentative writing in English by Swedish advanced learners, British students and professional writers in the British broadsheet press. The findings suggest that Swedish advanced learners use negation to negate interpersonal meanings (i.e. interactional and attitudinal meanings) more frequently than British students, a tendency which can be attributed to a high degree of subjective involvement generally found in Swedish advanced learners’ essays. In comparison to the professional writers, both categories of student writers use negation less frequently to negate meanings on the content level of their texts. This can be attributed to the difference in the tenor relations which professional and student writers have to their readers.
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- Herriman, Jennifer, 1947
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“I’m stating my case” Overt authorial presence in English argumentative texts by students and professional writers
- 2007
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In: Nordic Journal of English Studies. - 1654-6970. ; 6:1
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- By first person reference, writers construct an overt authorial presence in their texts. On the content level they construct their “Autobiographical Self”. On the writer-reader level they construct their “Self as Author” identity by making metalinguistic and evaluative comments. This study compares first person reference in English argumentative texts by Swedish and native speaker students writing in an educational setting and professional writers writing in the public sphere. It finds that the student writers (both Swedish and native speakers), in contrast to the professional writers, tend to construct a strong “Self as Author” presence by predominantly referring to themselves as opinionholders and writers of their texts.
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