English Linguistics Seminar Series

SPRING 2026

Date: Wednesday, 11 February 2026, 13:15–15:00
Location: 12B545
Title: Two of our doctoral students – from English and Pedagogical Studies/Swedish – will present parts of their coursework
Presenters:
Tommy Jansson: Recent Dissertations in Linguistics – A Critical Reading
Discussing three dissertations:

• Berglind Söderqvist (2020). Evidential marking in spoken English: Linguistic functions and gender variation. Doctoral Dissertation, Uppsala University.
• Ihrmark (2023). Automated text analytics in Swedish English classrooms: The design, development, and evaluation of a supporting tool. Doctoral Dissertation, Linnaeus University.
• Young learners' perspectives on English classroom interaction: Foreign language anxiety and sense of agency in Swedish primary school. Doctoral Dissertation, Stockholm 

Pernilla Olsson: Focus Group Interviews and Linguistic Analysis with Appraisal Theory.
The presentation will give an overview of focus group interviews as a data collection method, reflect on a focus group interview conducted as part of an ULF project conducted at KAU, and discuss Appraisal Theory as a potential analysis framework.

FALL 2025

Date: Wednesday, 8 October 2025, 13:15–15:00
Location: 12C501
Title: Quantifier NP agreement in NZ English: A look at Auckland
Presenter: Elaine Ballard (University of Auckland, New Zealand)

Date: Friday, 24 October 2025, 13:15–15:00
Location: 12B545
Title: Solidarity, stigma, and Spanglish: English and Spanish in contact in New Mexico
Presenter: Aurora Martinez Kane (University of California, Berkeley, USA)

 

SPRING 2025

Date: Wednesday, 16 April 2025, 13:15–15:00
Location: 12B545
Title: Exploring the impact of Extramural English activities on phraseological complexity in L2 writing
Presenter: Ying Wang (KAU)

[co-organised with Swedish:]
Date: Wednesday, 7 May 2025, 13:15–15:00
Location: 1B306 (Fryxellsalen)
Title: På engelska förstår jag ungefär – Om anglifieringen av svensk högre utbildning
Presenters: Ola Håkansson & Peter Svensson (Lund)

Date: Wednesday, 4 June 2025, 13:15–15:00
Location: 12B545
Title: Children on the autism spectrum engaging in storytelling and conversation
Presenter: Lesley Stirling (Melbourne)

 

FALL 2024

Date: Wednesday, 6 November 2024, 13:15–15:00
Location: 12B545
Title: Error analysis of English L2 lower secondary school students’ essays: A data session
Presenters: Marika Kjellén, Marie Tåqvist, Eva Tarander & Andrea Schalley (KAU)

Date: Friday, 13 September 2024, 10:15–12:00
Location: 12B545
Title: Coupling of grammar and language use: Head/dependent-marking and recipient encoding in reported speech events
Presenter: Sonja Gipper (University of Cologne)

SPRING 2024

Date: Friday, 16 February 2024, 10:15–12:00
Location: 12B545
Title: Lexical richness in Spanish as a foreign language: State of the art and future challenges
Presenter: Marco Berton (KAU)

Date: Friday, 3 May 2024, 10:15–12:00
Location: 12B545
Title: Changing language attitudes in Australia
Presenter: Louisa Willoughby (Monash University, Australia)

 

FALL 2023

Date: Tuesday, 3 October 2023, 13:15–15:00
Location: 12A225
Title: Mid-seminar: Liliann Byman Frisén – Assessment of L2 Speaking
Opponent: Professor Olcay Sert (Akademin för utbildning, kultur och kommunikation, Mälardalens universitet)

Date: Friday, 13 October 2023, 10:15–12:00
Location: 12B545
Title: The syntax and semantics of the double-faced prepositions 'besides' and 'beyond'
Presenter: Solveig Granath (KAU)

Date: Friday, 10 November 2023, 10:15–12:00
Location: 12B545
Title: Building Semantic Structures for Language Technology: The Case of Protest Events
Presenter: Milena Slavcheva (Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)

 

SPRING 2023

Date: Friday, 20 January 2023, 10:15–12:00
Location: 12B545
Title: Recent dissertations in linguistics – a critical reading
Presenters: Rickard Nilsson & Tim Roberts (KAU)

Date: Tuesday, 31 January 2023, 13:15
Location: Sjöströmsalen
Title: Doctoral defense: Tim Roberts – Language Practices in Swedish-English Families
Opponent: Professor Emerita Elizabeth Lanza (Center for Multilingualism in Society across the Lifespan, University of Oslo)

Date: Friday, 5 May 2023, 10:15–12:00
Location: Zoom
Title: “Bring that goat home” and “fly them over the river”: Directed caused accompanied motion in Australian English speech (and gesture)
Presenters: Anna Margetts (Monash University), Isabelle Burke (Monash University), Eleanor Jorgensen (University of Melbourne), Harriet Sheppard (University of Queensland).

FALL 2022

Date: Wednesday, 14 September 2022, 10:15
Location: Zoom
Title: PhD 90% seminar / mock defense Tim Roberts – Family Language Policy in Swedish-English Bilingual Families
Opponent: Professor Xiao Lan Curdt-Christiansen (Professor of Applied Linguistics in Education, University of Bath)

Date: Friday, 16 September 2022, 10:15–12:00
Location: Zoom
Title: Implicit linguistic bias in Northern and Southern England ("Speaking of Prejudice" project)
Presenter: Robert McKenzie (Northumbria University, UK)

Date: Friday, 21 October 2022, 10:15–12:00
Location: 12B545
Title: Language anxiety experienced by German and French heritage speakers in Denmark
Presenter: Annika Schimpff (Copenhagen University, Denmark)

Date: Friday, 18 November 2022, 10:15–12:00
Location: 12B545
Title: Confronting the coronavirus pandemic in talk-in-interaction in the sitcom
Presenters: Kristy Beers Fägersten (Professor in English Linguistics, Södertörns Högskola) – presenting joint work with Cornelia Gerhardt (Saarland University, Germany)

Date: Friday, 2 December 2022, 13:15
Location: Nyquistsalen 9C203 and Zoom
Title: Doctoral defense: Sebastian Malinowski – English Philology is just a Bubble – Unconventional Metaphors in English as a Lingua Franca
Opponent: Professor Hans-Jörg Schmid (Professor of Modern English Linguistics and Dean of the Faculty of Linguistics and Literature Studies, University of Munich)

CANCELLED!
Date: Friday, 9 December 2022, 13:15–15:00
Location: 12B545
Title: Gender categories in assessments of a #MeToo-related public apology: The case of Andrew Cuomo
Presenters: Peter Wikström & Erica Sandlund (KAU)

 

SPRING 2022

Date: Friday, 28 January 2022, 10:15–12:00
Location: Zoom
Title: Virtual worlds and semantic modelling (RJ application)
Presenters: Andrea Schalley, Anton Benz, Torgrim Solstad, Oliver Bott (KAU, ZAS Berlin, Bielefeld University)

Date: Friday, 25 February 2022, 15:15–17:00
Location: Zoom
Title: Exploring register differences in learner writing: A multi-dimensional approach (joint work with Doug Biber and Magali Paquot)
Presenter: Tove Larsson (Northern Arizona University, USA)

Date: Friday, 1 April 2022, 10:15–12:00
Location: Zoom
Title: Forensic transcription: how misconceptions about language contribute to injustice in the legal process – and how linguistics can help
Presenter: Helen Fraser (University of Melbourne, Australia)

CANCELLED!
Date: Friday, 29 April 2022, 10:15–12:00
Location: 12B545
Title: Gender categories and membership categorization in rejections of #MeToo-related public apologies: Work-in-progress and data session
Presenters: Peter Wikström & Erica Sandlund (KAU)

Date: Friday, 13 May 2022, 13:15
Location: Zoom
Title: Doctoral defense: Sophia Liu Fei – English teaching in China: EFL teacher motivation and demotivation at the university level
Opponent: Professor Maria Kuteeva (Professor in English Linguistics, Stockholm University)

Date: Wednesday, 18 May 2022, 13:15–15:00
Location: 12B545
Title: Instructed and out-of-class English and the impact on implicit and explicit knowledge: The case of Austrian and Swedish ESL learners
Presenter: Alexandra Schurz (University of Vienna, Austria)

Date: Wednesday, 8 June 2022, 10:15
Location: 12A225 (Humlan)
Title: PhD 90% seminar / mock defense Sebastian Malinowski – Unconventional metaphors in English as a Lingua franca (ELF)
Opponent: Professor Marlene Johansson Falck (Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Professor in English Linguistics, Umeå University)

FALL 2021

Date: Friday, 15 October 2021, 10:15–12:00
Location: 12B545
Title: Tension-filled English at the multilingual university: A Bakhtinian perspective
Presenter: Maria Kuteeva (Stockholm University)

Date: Friday, 22 October 2021, 10:15–12:00
Location: 12B545
Title: Accounting and accountability in public apologies
Presenters: Peter Wikström & Erica Sandlund (Karlstad University)

Date: Monday, 29 November 2021, 10:15–12:00
Location: 12B545
Title: Affordances and challenges in using simulated teacher learning environments for educating teachers of emerging bilinguals
Presenter: Sultan Turkan (Queen's University Belfast)

 

For information on seminars held before the Fall 2021 semester, please contact the seminar organiser, Professor Andrea Schalley, on andrea.schalley@kau.se.