English Linguistics
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Research in English Linguistics at the department consists of theoretically informed empirical studies. Our researchers have made internationally recognized progress in the compilation and use of electronic text resources.
These are primarily based on computerized corpora of historical and modern English. The corpora are usually available internationally or compiled at the department, often in cooperation with scholars abroad.
Many graduate students have helped to create electronic text collections as part of their thesis project. Corpus linguistic applications have been used in historical linguistics and manuscript studies with internationally recognized results.
Research Areas
The main foci of our research is the structure, meaning and usage of the English language, using a number of methodologies from various linguistic fields, such as:
- variation studies
- stylistics
- corpus linguistics
- (historical) sociolinguistics
- (historical) pragmatics
- language history
- manuscript studies
- language acquisition
- language contact (and language shift)
Doctoral Students
The PhD programme in the English language is a four-year programme. A majority of our alumni are employed at various institutions of higher education.
- Dolores Fors
- Md Nazmus Saqueb Kathon
- Asia Kulig
- Niclas Wikström
Honorary Doctors
The English Language unit has had the honor to nominate the following international scholars who, with the support of the Department of English, received honorary doctorates from Uppsala University:
David Denison
Honorary Doctor 2014, Smith Professor of English Language & Medieval Literature, The University of Manchester, UK.
Matti Rissanen
Honorary Doctor 2001, Professor Emeritus in English Philology, Helsinki, Finland.
Douglas Biber
Honorary Doctor 2000, Regents' Professor, Applied Linguistics, Northern Arizona Univ., AZ, USA.
Tom McArthur
Honorary Doctor 1999, Honorary Fellow, University of Exeter, UK.
Publications
Part of Corpora, 2024
Part of The Routledge Handbook of Intralingual Translation, p. 411-433, Routledge, 2024
“‘Native or Not’: Harryette Mullen’s Tanka Diary"
Part of "Harryette Mullen, Her Silver-Tongued Companion", Edinburgh University Press, 2024
Stair Ercuil ocus a Bás 'The History of Hercules and his Death'
Part of Classical Antiquity and Medieval Ireland, Bloomsbury Academic, 2024
The Literary Metadata of African Little and Popular Magazines
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- DOI for Formulaic language in Early English Books Online: From computational linguistics to classical rhetoric
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Complex Dynamic Systems Theory, Interactional Discourse, and Second Language Research
Part of The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Discourse, Routledge, 2024
Tvärdisciplinära studier i humaniora och konst: UKÄ och SCB:s nya forskningsämnen
2024
Tvärdisciplinära studier i humaniora och konst: UKÄ och SCB:s nya forskningsämnen
2024
Hur och varför lärde sig barn och unga svenska i Svenskamerika?
2024
Part of American Literary History, p. 350-353, 2024
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Human Spoken Interaction as a Complex Adaptive System: A Longitudinal Study of L2 Interaction
Edinburgh University Press, 2024
Multimodal expression of impoliteness in YouTube reaction videos to transgender activism
Part of Discourse, Context & Media, 2024
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Investigating the Case of AI in the Secondary English Classroom
2024
The ReMoDEL project, investigating EMI listening comprehension issues
2024
Learning and Teaching Military English: A Scoping Review of 30 Years of Research
2024
Part of American Studies in Scandinavia, p. 72-74, 2024
Using Sámi Children's Literature in Teacher Education for Crisis
2024
Bland böcker: En vänbok till Lars Burman
Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2024
Rebecca Carson Immanent Externalities: The Reproduction of Life in Capital Brill, Leiden, 2023
Part of Marx and Philosophy Review of Books, 2024
Kungl. Humanistiska Vetenskaps-Samfundet i Uppsala: Årsbok 2022-2023
Kungl. Humanistiska Vetenskaps-Samfundet i Uppsala, 2024
And it’s your fault I’m this way
2023
Toward increased reliability and transparency in projects with manual linguistic coding
Part of Corpora, 2023
Teaching Inter-Species Belonging via a Critique of the Nation in the Literature Classroom
Part of Transnationalising the Classroom, 2023
Using Very Large Corpora to teach Modern English (1500-1945)
Part of Nordic Journal of English Studies, p. 93-112, 2023
Personal Injury between the New York Schools and L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E.”
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Part of Journal of Folklore Research Reviews, 2023
Clausal and phrasal coordination in recent American English
Part of Corpus linguistics and linguistic theory, p. 23-46, 2023
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Toward an empirical understanding of formality: Triangulating corpus data with teacher perceptions
Part of English for specific purposes (New York, N.Y.), p. 161-177, 2023
Kungl. Humanistiska Vetenskaps-Samfundet i Uppsala: Årsbok 2021-2022
Kungl. Humanistiska Vetenskaps-Samfundet i Uppsala, 2023
Research ethics training materials: Questionable research practices in the quantitative humanities
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Part of Corpus linguistics and linguistic theory, 2023
Here We Are: A review of Lewis Warsh's Elixir
Part of PN Review, 2023
The Reception of Olive Schreiner in the Swedish Press, 1890–1920
Part of Olive Schreiner, Edinburgh University Press, 2023
Communicating Linguistics: Language, Community and Public Engagement
Routledge, 2023
Examining novice writers’ perceptions of formality
Part of Journal of English for Research Publication Purposes, p. 29-55, 2023
Mouton de Gruyter, 2023
Teachers' Scaffolding Roles during Picturebook Read-Alouds in the Primary English Language Classroom
Part of Clele Journal, p. 43-67, 2023
Inherent linguistic impoliteness: The case of insultive YOU plus NP in Dutch, English and Polish
Part of Journal of Pragmatics, p. 22-40, 2023
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The Mother Figure in the Surrealist Novel
Part of A History of the Surrealist Novel, p. 152-167, Cambridge University Press, 2023
Part of A History of the Surrealist Novel, p. 1-22, Cambridge University Press, 2023
A History of the Surrealist Novel
Cambridge University Press, 2023
Uncoordinated Cooperation: Developing a Funding History of American Studies in Sweden
2023
Hunger, Appetite and the Politics of the Renaissance Stage
Part of Studia Neophilologica, p. 170-171, 2023
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