Carla Jonsson

• Professor
• Professor at Umeå University

This paper explores the construction of language ideologies and language learning within English‐language education in a Language Introduction Program (LIP) in Sweden. LIP is an individual transitional program for newly arrived migrant students that seeks to quickly transition adolescents into further education or the job market. High proficiency i...

Inledning Finska, meänkieli, samiska, jiddisch och romani chib är Sveriges nationella minoritetsspråk. Den här texten fokuserar på modersmålsundervisning i dessa nationella minoritetsspråk. Syftet med texten är dels att beskriva modersmålsundervisningens komplexitet, dels att visa på strategier som modersmålslärare kan använda i sin undervisning fö...

Translation and interpreting in the workplace are not always performed by translation professionals in planned situations. In this article, collective ad hoc-translation/inter-preting by non-translators in a workplace meeting is analyzed. The analysis gives an example of ad hoc-translation that take place in work life situations: there are no disti...

This epilogue considers how an increased focus on mobility influences the theoretical development of the term literacies. How we understand the concept of literacies has consequences not only for what we focus on in studies about literacies, but also for the pedagogical implications and possibilities that these studies can offer. Reflections about...

In modern business organizations, digital practices are enacted daily, often when sharing texts, which is crucial for knowledge management. How professionals experience digital text sharing is an issue that is often overlooked. In this paper, we focus on a relatively new aspect of business digital literacy: the literacy practice of digital text sha...

In the communications of modern organizations, text sharing and knowledge management are mainly digital. The digital systems that frame many types of communication consist of, e.g., intranets and document sharing software that are occasionally exchanged for new systems. Employees have to adjust to modified routines and learn new systems, and manage...

This special issue approaches contemporary social changes from the viewpoint of applied linguistics and explores workplace communication in a rapidly changing work life. Some central results center around: • everyday consequences of a changing work life, such as the performance and negotiation of language competencies and professional roles • ide...

Professionals working in international companies in Sweden are expected to speak, read, and write in Swedish and English in their daily work. This article discusses professional writing in different languages. Through the use of methods from linguistic ethnography, we aim to enrich the understanding of workplace literacy by studying writing and tex...

In a bilingual school, the linguistic and semiotic resources of students who speak one, two or several languages can be used in classroom discourse in order to embrace and strengthen the multiplicity of voices and languages in teaching and learning. In this article, four English language lessons – where the medium of instruction mainly oscillates b...

I dagens arbetsliv används många digitala redskap av vilka den delade digitala kalendern knappast har uppmärksammats inom tillämpad språkvetenskap. Ramen för studien är medierad diskursanalys, som här används på etnografiska data från en arbetsplats och åtta kontextuella intervjuer från åtta andra arbetsplatser. Materialet analyseras med fokus på a...

This article sheds light on the issue of new speakerness via a case study focusing on one adolescent – “Elle” – and her efforts to claim and regain Sami, a national minority language in Sweden. Elle did not acquire Sami at home, but attended Sami school from first grade to sixth grade, where she learned to understand, read, and write the language....

The aim of this study is to analyze multilingual repertoires of young adolescents and the relocalization of manga on Facebook. The focal points of our analysis are: how young adolescents relocalize manga in digital media, the multilingual repertoires these adolescents use in the relocalization of manga, and the manner in which the relocalization of...

A diary is often a personal and private matter, a well-kept secret. This article discusses findings from ethnographic research in which language diaries and diary-based interviews were used as a means to collect qualitative data. The article is based on case studies of six high school students who at the time of the study were enrolled at an intern...

This article offers insights into how multilingual resources such as language mixing can be used in theater to address power relations such as, for instance, domination, resistance and empowerment. Three plays by Chicana playwright Cherríe Moraga ( Giving up the ghost, Heroes and saints, and Shadow of a man) will be used to illustrate language mixi...

NOTE: Please do not request the full text of this publication. As it is a book, the authors cannot make it available to download. "Code-switching," or the alternation of languages by bilinguals, has attracted an enormous amount of attention from researchers. However, most research has focused on spoken language, and the resultant theoretical frame...

The present study examines functions of code-switching in Chicano theater, i.e. in writing intended for performance. The investigation focuses on local functions of code-switching. These are functions that can be seen in the text and, as a consequence, can be regarded as meaningful for the audience of the plays. In the study these functions are exa...