The Language and Culture research environment

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 research environment Language and Culture is a meeting place for linguistic and literary research, which is unified by an interest in the interplay between language and culture in everyday, literary, medial, artistic and professional contexts. Our research deals with anything from everyday conversations and multimodal interaction to literary texts and media ecology.

Since its inception in 2000, the research environment Language and Culture has provided a means for students to build on their bachelor and master studies in modern foreign languages, Swedish, Swedish as a second language, general linguistics and comparative literature.

The environment is an interdisciplinary forum for linguistic and literary research, its point of departure being the linguistic expression in all its varied forms: informal and professional, textual and multimodal, functional and artistic.

The forms of expression, products and processes that are studied within our environment can comprise anything from everyday talk to literary texts, from multimodal interaction to digital media, from institutional communication to archives and databases. These are related both to social, cultural, medial and material contexts as well as to their respective traditions.

Our research environment is a place where linguists and literary scholars speak to each other and work together. Yet this does not prevent research projects based on the shared frame of reference outlined above from having a clear linguistic or literary orientation.


Research

News

"Doing language" - new edition

The second edition of Jan Anward's book Doing language is now available on DiVA. This edition includes an introduction by Per Linell, as well as minor changes suggested by Jan Anward’s close colleagues and approved by him.

Jan Anward, Doing language, Studies in Language and Culture No 33, Linköping University.

Seminars

Contacts

Staff

Former collaborators

Former collaborators

Jan Anward
Former professor emeritus in language and culture. Director of the graduate school in Language and Culture in Europe 2000-2012.

Alia Amir

Nazli Avdan

Frank Baasner
Former guest professor in language and culture.

Eva Carlestål

Solveig Daugaard

Carin Franzén

Elisabet Hammar

Martin Hellström

Ingrid Hermerén

Johan Hofvendahl

Rickard Karlsson

Per Linell
Former professor emeritus in language and culture.

Maria Lindholm

Jenny Magnusson

Ali Reza Majlesi

Jenny Malmqvist

Tiina Mäntymäki

Niklas Norén

Margaret Omberg

Jan Paul Strid
Former professor emeritus in language and culture.

Ellen Söderblom Saarela

Mechtild Tronnier

Pamela Vang

Cecilia Wadensjö

Jenny Öqvist

 

 

Former guest researchers

Anna Carlstedt
Gästforskare

Unn Falkeid
Guest researcher

Lorenza Mondada
Guest professor

Antonia Steger
Guest doctoral student

Ioana Maria Stoenica
Guest doctoral student

Anna Vatanen
Guest doctoral student

Ann Weatherall
Guest professor  

Organisation