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Lars Jämterud, at Department of Culture and Society (IKOS), defends his doctoral thesis "In Search of the Subtitler’s Voice. A Study on Voice in Swedish Subtitles Based on the British Sitcom Fawlty Towers". The opponent is prof. Jorge...

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

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.

”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.”

She devotes herself to the power of words and sees poetry as a tool of knowledge. Athena Farrokhzad steps into academia with the ambition to shake up the templates with the help of rhymes and humour.

Keti Chukhrov has appreciated her year at LiU as the Tage Danielson visiting professor. She is impressed by the democratic organisation and the true spirit of assistance and collaboration at IKOS, LiU.

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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.

Correct grammar is important, but not as important as making oneself understood. And we make ourselves understood much better than we think, by using our bodies, according to linguistics professor Leelo Keevallik.

It’s easy to think that communication consists mainly of speech. But much of it takes place through gesture, facial expression and sound. Researchers study how we use much more than words in interaction with other humans as well as with robots.