Emma Engdahl
Biographic Data
| ID | 392163 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emma Engdahl |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emma |
| FAMILY NAME | Engdahl |
| SIGNATURE | ENGDAHL E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Gothenburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6957-6161 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 120 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
From ‘remain’ to ‘become’: The history of bliva in Swedish
In Old Swedish, the verb varda ‘become’ was used both as a copula and as a passive auxiliary. During the 1300s, a period of close contact with Middle Low German, the verb blîven ‘remain’ was borrowed into Swedish as bliva . Despite the difference in meaning (‘become’ vs. ‘remain’), the use of bliva increased, and by the end of the 1500s it was used in all constructions where varda was originally found. We study this development in a collection of…
Passive with control and raising in mainland Scandinavian
This article gives an overview of the use of non-local passives in mainland Scandinavian, i.e. passives where the subject of the first verb is a thematic argument of a second verb. Three factors are important: whether V1 is a control verb or a raising passive, whether V2 is a passive participle or an infinitive and whether the passive is morphological or periphrastic. Danish and Norwegian allow passive control verbs such as forsøge ‘try’ with pas…
A politics of community. Identity, stigma, and meaning in the extra-parliamentary left: Colm Flaherty
Extraction and Pronoun Preposing in Scandinavian
It has been noted that examples with extractions out of relative clauses that have been attested in Danish, Norwegian and Swedish are judged to be unacceptable in Icelandic and Faroese. We hypothesize that this may reflect whether or not speakers tend to prepose unstressed object pronouns as a way of establishing a coherent discourse. In this article we investigate to what extent pronoun preposing is used in Swedish, Icelandic and Faroese and whe…
Metoo: En kamp för socialt erkännande och rättvisa
Artikeln analyserar vittnesmål om sexuella trakasserier utifrån Honneths teori om socialt erkännande och Frickers teori om epistemisk orättvisa. Undersökningen baseras på en innehållsanalys av de vittnesmål om sexuella trakasserier som ingår i de 65 svenska #metoo-uppropen. De som vittnat i #metoo-uppropen berättar om vad som med Honneths begrepp kan beskrivas som en systematisk förvägran av socialt erkännande. De nekas solidaritet och rättighete…
Att leva med en världsomfattande pandemi: En studie om människors oro kopplat till covid-19 i Sverige
Covid-19 började som en hälsokris och växte snabbt till en omfattande samhällskris – i det privata och offentliga livet, nationellt och internationellt, lokalt och globalt. Syftet med denna artikel är att bidra med kunskap om människors oro under covid-19-pandemins första fas i Sverige. Oro studeras utifrån sociodemografiska faktorer, socialt kapital samt människors bedömningar av nationella åtgärder och potentiella hot. Studiens teoretiska ramve…
Capitalist society as an analysand: An interview with Eva Illouz
This is an interview with Eva Illouz on her academic life and writings
The Disappearance of the Other: A Note on the Distortion of Love
Against the backdrop of contemporary sociological theories of love, this article explores the disappearance of the other in contemporary love relationships by focusing on the relationship between love and depression. The aim of the article is twofold: first, to provide a theoretical framework to be able to grasp in what ways the other is threatened with erosion in contemporary love relationships and why this may cause depression; second, to exemp…
Introduction: New perspectives on diachronic syntax in North Germanic
This special issue of Nordic Journal of Linguistics is dedicated to diachronic generative syntax in the North Germanic languages. With the introduction of generative grammar in the late 1950s the historical perspective became less prominent within linguistics. Instead, contemporary language, normally represented by the researcher’s own intuitions, became the unmarked empirical basis within the generative field, although there were some early pion…
Depressive Love: A Social Pathology
Love and depression are key elements in the cultural script of emotions or affectual life within contemporary Western society, and the two have become intertwined to such an extent that it is informative to talk about depressive love. Indeed, the most common source of depression is intimate relationships, in which one partner is not recognised by the other as being in need or worthy of loving care. This book addresses the question of how it is po…
Eva Illouz. Därför gör kärlek ont: En sociologisk förklaring
The changing ethos and personae of shop-window mannequins within consumer culture: Expressions of gendered embodiment
In this article, the invention of new forms of desire that target the gendered body in consumer culture is examined through the lens of the visual rhetoric of shop-window mannequins. The article is a result of cross-disciplinary research combining rhetorical and sociological theories and methods. Inspired by nonverbal methods and theories of embodiment, successive modernities and gender, the changing ethos and personae of mannequins from the 1930…
Quasi-definites in Swedish: Elative superlatives and emphatic assertion
Prepositional passives in Danish, Norwegian and Swedish: A corpus study
There are conflicting reports in the literature concerning whether the Scandinavian languages use prepositional passives as in English. Maling & Zaenen (1985) showed that Icelandic does not have the construction; instead the Icelandic data should be analyzed as topicalization of the complement of a preposition in impersonal passives. They suggested that the same account would be appropriate for Danish and Swedish, whereas Norwegian is reported to…
The European Contribution to Symbolic Interactionism
Risk, communication and trust: Towards an emotional understanding of trust
Current discussions on public trust, as well as on risk communication, have a restricted rationalistic bias in which the cognitive-reflexive aspect of trust is emphasized at the expense of its emotional aspect. This article contributes to a substantive theory of trust by exploring its emotional character. Drawing on recent discussions in science and technology studies, social psychology, and general social theory, it argues that trust is a modali…
Introduction: Object shift in the Nordic languages
This special issue of the Nordic Journal of Linguistics is devoted to articles on a construction which since Holmberg (1986) has been referred to as object shift . Whereas sentential adverbs normally precede the object in Scandinavian, as shown in (1a), they tend to follow the object, when it is a pronoun, as in (1b)
The linguistic realization of information packaging
Introductory comments by the authors. \nEnric Vallduví and Elisabet Engdahl, The linguistic realization of information packaging . Linguistics 1996, Volume 34, issue 3, 459–519. [Special issue: A Key Concept for Translation Theory , edited by Monika Doherty] DOI 10.1515/ling.1996.34.3.459
Optional expletive subjects in Swedish
This article investigates the use of non-referential subjects in contemporary Swedish. Given that Swedish has developed a strong subject requirement, expletive subjects are expected to be used in all clauses which lack a referential subject. In spoken Swedish, however, expletive and quasi-argument subjects are optional in utterances where there is an initial det ‘it’ which is linked to an empty position inside a finite or non-finite complement. T…
Klarläggande
The linguistic realization of information packaging
There is increasing awareness of the large degree of crosslinguistic diversity involved in the structural realization of information packaging (or information structure).Whereas English and many Germanic languages primarily exploit intonation for informational purposes, in other languages, like Catalan, syntax plays the primary role in the realization of information packaging and intonation is reduced to a secondary role.In yet another group of l…
Parasitic gaps, resumptive pronouns, and subject extractions
Critical notice
The linguistic realization of information packaging
There is increasing awareness of the large degree of crosslinguistic diversity involved in the structural realization of information packaging (or information structure).Whereas English and many Germanic languages primarily exploit intonation for informational purposes, in other languages, like Catalan, syntax plays the primary role in the realization of information packaging and intonation is reduced to a secondary role.In yet another group of l…
Parasitic gaps, resumptive pronouns, and subject extractions
The linguistic realization of information packaging
Introductory comments by the authors. \nEnric Vallduví and Elisabet Engdahl, The linguistic realization of information packaging . Linguistics 1996, Volume 34, issue 3, 459–519. [Special issue: A Key Concept for Translation Theory , edited by Monika Doherty] DOI 10.1515/ling.1996.34.3.459
Extraction and Pronoun Preposing in Scandinavian
It has been noted that examples with extractions out of relative clauses that have been attested in Danish, Norwegian and Swedish are judged to be unacceptable in Icelandic and Faroese. We hypothesize that this may reflect whether or not speakers tend to prepose unstressed object pronouns as a way of establishing a coherent discourse. In this article we investigate to what extent pronoun preposing is used in Swedish, Icelandic and Faroese and whe…
The changing ethos and personae of shop-window mannequins within consumer culture: Expressions of gendered embodiment
In this article, the invention of new forms of desire that target the gendered body in consumer culture is examined through the lens of the visual rhetoric of shop-window mannequins. The article is a result of cross-disciplinary research combining rhetorical and sociological theories and methods. Inspired by nonverbal methods and theories of embodiment, successive modernities and gender, the changing ethos and personae of mannequins from the 1930…
Quasi-definites in Swedish: Elative superlatives and emphatic assertion
Critical notice
Parasitic gaps, resumptive pronouns, and subject extractions
The linguistic realization of information packaging
There is increasing awareness of the large degree of crosslinguistic diversity involved in the structural realization of information packaging (or information structure).Whereas English and many Germanic languages primarily exploit intonation for informational purposes, in other languages, like Catalan, syntax plays the primary role in the realization of information packaging and intonation is reduced to a secondary role.In yet another group of l…
Klarläggande
Optional expletive subjects in Swedish
This article investigates the use of non-referential subjects in contemporary Swedish. Given that Swedish has developed a strong subject requirement, expletive subjects are expected to be used in all clauses which lack a referential subject. In spoken Swedish, however, expletive and quasi-argument subjects are optional in utterances where there is an initial det ‘it’ which is linked to an empty position inside a finite or non-finite complement. T…
Introduction: Object shift in the Nordic languages
This special issue of the Nordic Journal of Linguistics is devoted to articles on a construction which since Holmberg (1986) has been referred to as object shift . Whereas sentential adverbs normally precede the object in Scandinavian, as shown in (1a), they tend to follow the object, when it is a pronoun, as in (1b)
The linguistic realization of information packaging
Introductory comments by the authors. \nEnric Vallduví and Elisabet Engdahl, The linguistic realization of information packaging . Linguistics 1996, Volume 34, issue 3, 459–519. [Special issue: A Key Concept for Translation Theory , edited by Monika Doherty] DOI 10.1515/ling.1996.34.3.459
Risk, communication and trust: Towards an emotional understanding of trust
Current discussions on public trust, as well as on risk communication, have a restricted rationalistic bias in which the cognitive-reflexive aspect of trust is emphasized at the expense of its emotional aspect. This article contributes to a substantive theory of trust by exploring its emotional character. Drawing on recent discussions in science and technology studies, social psychology, and general social theory, it argues that trust is a modali…
Prepositional passives in Danish, Norwegian and Swedish: A corpus study
There are conflicting reports in the literature concerning whether the Scandinavian languages use prepositional passives as in English. Maling & Zaenen (1985) showed that Icelandic does not have the construction; instead the Icelandic data should be analyzed as topicalization of the complement of a preposition in impersonal passives. They suggested that the same account would be appropriate for Danish and Swedish, whereas Norwegian is reported to…
The European Contribution to Symbolic Interactionism
Eva Illouz. Därför gör kärlek ont: En sociologisk förklaring
The changing ethos and personae of shop-window mannequins within consumer culture: Expressions of gendered embodiment
In this article, the invention of new forms of desire that target the gendered body in consumer culture is examined through the lens of the visual rhetoric of shop-window mannequins. The article is a result of cross-disciplinary research combining rhetorical and sociological theories and methods. Inspired by nonverbal methods and theories of embodiment, successive modernities and gender, the changing ethos and personae of mannequins from the 1930…
Quasi-definites in Swedish: Elative superlatives and emphatic assertion
Depressive Love: A Social Pathology
Love and depression are key elements in the cultural script of emotions or affectual life within contemporary Western society, and the two have become intertwined to such an extent that it is informative to talk about depressive love. Indeed, the most common source of depression is intimate relationships, in which one partner is not recognised by the other as being in need or worthy of loving care. This book addresses the question of how it is po…
Introduction: New perspectives on diachronic syntax in North Germanic
This special issue of Nordic Journal of Linguistics is dedicated to diachronic generative syntax in the North Germanic languages. With the introduction of generative grammar in the late 1950s the historical perspective became less prominent within linguistics. Instead, contemporary language, normally represented by the researcher’s own intuitions, became the unmarked empirical basis within the generative field, although there were some early pion…
Capitalist society as an analysand: An interview with Eva Illouz
This is an interview with Eva Illouz on her academic life and writings
The Disappearance of the Other: A Note on the Distortion of Love
Against the backdrop of contemporary sociological theories of love, this article explores the disappearance of the other in contemporary love relationships by focusing on the relationship between love and depression. The aim of the article is twofold: first, to provide a theoretical framework to be able to grasp in what ways the other is threatened with erosion in contemporary love relationships and why this may cause depression; second, to exemp…
Metoo: En kamp för socialt erkännande och rättvisa
Artikeln analyserar vittnesmål om sexuella trakasserier utifrån Honneths teori om socialt erkännande och Frickers teori om epistemisk orättvisa. Undersökningen baseras på en innehållsanalys av de vittnesmål om sexuella trakasserier som ingår i de 65 svenska #metoo-uppropen. De som vittnat i #metoo-uppropen berättar om vad som med Honneths begrepp kan beskrivas som en systematisk förvägran av socialt erkännande. De nekas solidaritet och rättighete…
Att leva med en världsomfattande pandemi: En studie om människors oro kopplat till covid-19 i Sverige
Covid-19 började som en hälsokris och växte snabbt till en omfattande samhällskris – i det privata och offentliga livet, nationellt och internationellt, lokalt och globalt. Syftet med denna artikel är att bidra med kunskap om människors oro under covid-19-pandemins första fas i Sverige. Oro studeras utifrån sociodemografiska faktorer, socialt kapital samt människors bedömningar av nationella åtgärder och potentiella hot. Studiens teoretiska ramve…
A politics of community. Identity, stigma, and meaning in the extra-parliamentary left: Colm Flaherty
Extraction and Pronoun Preposing in Scandinavian
It has been noted that examples with extractions out of relative clauses that have been attested in Danish, Norwegian and Swedish are judged to be unacceptable in Icelandic and Faroese. We hypothesize that this may reflect whether or not speakers tend to prepose unstressed object pronouns as a way of establishing a coherent discourse. In this article we investigate to what extent pronoun preposing is used in Swedish, Icelandic and Faroese and whe…
Passive with control and raising in mainland Scandinavian
This article gives an overview of the use of non-local passives in mainland Scandinavian, i.e. passives where the subject of the first verb is a thematic argument of a second verb. Three factors are important: whether V1 is a control verb or a raising passive, whether V2 is a passive participle or an infinitive and whether the passive is morphological or periphrastic. Danish and Norwegian allow passive control verbs such as forsøge ‘try’ with pas…
From ‘remain’ to ‘become’: The history of bliva in Swedish
In Old Swedish, the verb varda ‘become’ was used both as a copula and as a passive auxiliary. During the 1300s, a period of close contact with Middle Low German, the verb blîven ‘remain’ was borrowed into Swedish as bliva . Despite the difference in meaning (‘become’ vs. ‘remain’), the use of bliva increased, and by the end of the 1500s it was used in all constructions where varda was originally found. We study this development in a collection of…
Philosophy (16 works) · Linguistics (11 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (9 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (4 works)