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1. Språklig stil och stajling bland finlandssvenskar i Stockholm : – ett mobilitetsdialektologiskt perspektiv
Sammanfattning : I avhandlingen undersöker jag språklig stil och stajling bland västnyländska finlandssvenskar i Stockholm i ett material som består av intervjuer och smågruppssamtal med elva deltagare. Avhandlingens syfte är att undersöka den språkliga stilen när deltagarna samtalar med en sverigesvensk person. LÄS MER
2. Identity Construction : The Case of Young Women in Rasht
Sammanfattning : This study took place in the city of Rasht, which is the capital of Gilan Province, situated in North-Western Iran. The aim has been to investigate how a group of young Rashti women constitute their identities through their talk-in-interaction, and how they relate to the concept of Rashti, be it the dialect, people living in a geographical area, or a notion of collective characteristics. LÄS MER
3. Immigration, security and the public debate on US language policy : A critical discourse analysis of language attitudes in the United States of America
Sammanfattning : The narrative of the United States is of a "nation of immigrants" in which the language shift patterns of earlier ethnolinguistic groups have tended towards linguistic assimilation through English. In recent years, however, changes in the demographic landscape and language maintenance by non-English speaking immigrants, particularly Hispanics, have been perceived as threats and have led to calls for an official English language policy. LÄS MER
4. Att tala om vem man är. En språkvetenskaplig studie av transitivitet, agentivitet och engagemang i unga kvinnors erfarenhetsberättelser
Sammanfattning : This dissertation deals with the relationship between language and identity in narratives of personal experience told by young women in different settings. The aim of the investigation was to find out if there are cross-situational similarities in the individuals’ language use concerning the construction of the concepts ”I” and ”others”. LÄS MER
5. Support, resistance and pragmatism : An examination of motivation in language policy in Kharkiv, Ukraine
Sammanfattning : The Ukrainian society has gone through vast changes since independence in 1991 and in this thesis some of these social changes are discussed through the prism of language policy. The main topic of the study is language policy (conceptualised as language practices, language beliefs, and language management) in the eastern Ukrainian city Kharkiv. LÄS MER