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Division of Language, Culture and Interaction (SKI)

The department includes professional languages, English as well as research and teaching in the field of interaction studies.

We offer professional language courses in French, German, Spanish and English.

Research and doctoral studies

Le mur des je t'aime. Place des Abbesses, Paris. By Britchi Mirela [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], from Wikimedia Commons.

The Language and Culture research environment

The Language and Culture research environment is a meeting place for linguistic and literary research in a cultural context.

Doctoral Studies in Language and Culture

Doctoral studies in language and culture are multi- and interdisciplinary. Our doctoral students have typically studied modern foreign languages, Swedish, Swedish as a second language, general linguistics or comparative literature.

Doctoral programme

Doctoral programme

The doctoral programme in language and culture is multi- and interdisciplinary. It comprises 90 ECTs of courses and a doctoral dissertation of 150 ECTs.

The programme takes in the following three perspectives as its point of departure: a culture and media analytical perspective, a literature analytical perspective and a language and interaction analytical perspective. The doctoral programme is run within the research environment Language and Culture which spans the subjects general linguistics, comparative literature and different languages including English, Modern Languages (e.g. French, German, Spanish), Swedish and Swedish as a Second Language.

Education

A Degree in English

English consists of three parts: language, literature and culture. There is a clear focus on developing one’s own language proficiency, and an increasing emphasis on the American and British social, cultural and historical context.

News

Fawlty Towers - the invisible subtitlers revealed

Swedes read a lot - especially if you include film and TV subtitles. But does the subtitler themselves play any role? In search of an answer, researcher Lars Jämterud has looked at the translation of the classic British comedy series Fawlty Towers.
Eiko Yasui.

Japan meets Sweden in linguistic research

Eiko Yasui is from Japan. For a year, she has been researching language, grammar, and movements at Linköping University. Her work has provided new insights into how we communicate and interact, and she has thoroughly enjoyed the Swedish work culture.
Emile Farmer Bellewes.

Emile Farmer would like a greater Scrutiny of Ecological Narratives

”We are in a biodiversity and climate crisis, society needs to be able to both critique and celebrate narratives relating to our relationship with nature. Ecolinguistics can play a crucial role in education at the university level and in schools.”

Seminars and conferences

Robot

AI in Society Seminar

An interdisciplinary forum for discussing Humanities and Social Science perspectives on AI. We trace the historical fascination with building smart machines and discuss implications that machine learning has on everyday lives, culture and society.

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Head of Division

 
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Julien Renard

Lecturer, Head of Division

Staff

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Emile Bellewes
PhD student
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Sophia Björsner
Lecturer
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Mathias Broth
Professor
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Burak Alp Çakar
PhD student
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Gwenaelle Clairet
Lecturer
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Rusalina Ehnvall
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Cathryn Halverson
Associate Professor, Docent
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Emily Hofstetter
Associate Professor, Docent
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Amanda Hoskins
PhD student
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Mikael Jungevall
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Lars Jämterud
Head of Department, Lecturer
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Leelo Keevallik
Deputy Head of Department, Professor
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Daniel Kjellander
Lecturer
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Silvia Kunitz
Associate Professor
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Elin Käck
Senior Associate Professor
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Lars Liljegren
Associate Professor
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Agnes Löfgren
Associate Professor
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Louise Mullavey
PhD student
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Nigel John Musk
Senior Associate Professor
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Sergio Passero
PhD student
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Hannah Pelikan
Assistant Professor
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Julien Renard
Lecturer, Head of Division
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Jonas Rentner
Lecturer
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Wolfgang Schmidt
Associate Professor
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Michael Smith
Associate Professor
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Maria Strääf
Associate Professor
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Lars-Håkan Svensson
Professor Emeritus
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Mikael Svensson
Lecturer
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Victoria Thörnryd
Associate Professor
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Shelley Torgnyson
Lecturer
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Therese Örnberg Berglund
Associate Professor

Organisation

Department of Culture and Society (IKOS)

At the Department of Culture and Society (IKOS), social sciences and the humanities gather in environments where research and education work together.

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