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Kuteeva, Maria; McGrath, Lisa – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2014
We investigate the current position of English in the language ecology of Swedish academia, with a special focus on the humanities. Semi-structured interviews with 15 informants from the fields of Anthropology, General Linguistics and History were carried out to explore how non-native speakers of English experience using academic English in their…
Descriptors: Language Usage, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Humanities
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Nordberg, Bengt – Linguistics, 1976
Describes the linguistic backgrounds of Sweden and Finland and presents a few examples of recent sociolinguistic research in these countries. (CFM)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Diglossia, Educational Policy, Finnish
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Loman, Bengt – Linguistics, 1976
This article describes part of an experiment aimed at elucidating the relationship between speaker, speech act and listener from a sociolinguistic and sociopsychological perspective. High school students were asked to judge the taped speech of Swedish informants from Boras, Trelleborg and the Torne Valley. (CFM)
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Dialects, High School Students, Language Attitudes
Loman, Bengt – 1982
The project Talsyntax (Syntax of Spoken Swedish), part of a large-scale study of modern Swedish language usage, examined the general characteristics and peculiarities of spoken Swedish. Three important aspects of the study are data collection, methodological results, and empirical results. The data collection effort has produced an archive of…
Descriptors: Classification, Data Collection, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries