Emilia Aldrin

Biographic Data

ID5904079
NAMEEmilia Aldrin
GIVEN NAMESEmilia
FAMILY NAMEAldrin
SIGNATUREALDRIN E
AFFILIATIONSHalmstad University
ORCID0000-0001-8085-1419
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS5
TOTAL CITATIONS7
AUTHOR COUNT5
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2016
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • Speaking of workplaces in the time of Covid-19

    Open AccessAlexandra Petrulevich, Emilia Aldrin et al.ARTICLEPragmatics and Society2026

    This article studies the development of changes in language use and digital place making in relation to workplaces emerging during the Covid-19 pandemic. Most of the working population in the Nordic countries were strongly affected by the crisis and many started working from home, which led to a complete reorganization of daily work routines and introduction of new digital tools. In this article, we explore how these changes influenced cultural p…

  • Bias and Progressiveness in Textbook Naming Patterns

    Open AccessEmilia AldrinARTICLENames2025

    This article explores how three 21st century Swedish language textbooks represent gendered and cultural diversity for 10-year-old pupils through the use of names. The study is inspired by a Progressive Discourse Analytic approach (cf Hughes 2018), which aims to identify limiting representations (re)constructing prejudice or bias as well as potentially emancipatory representations offering readers to imagine diversity in new ways. The study focuse…

  • Naming, Identity, and Social Positioning in Teenagers’ Everyday Mobile Phone Interaction

    Open AccessEmilia AldrinARTICLENames2018Cited by: 3References: 6

    This article analyzes how a small group of Swedish teenagers handle onomastic choices of self- and other-referencing as part of their everyday mobile phone interaction. It further discusses how the teenagers explained their views regarding online names during interviews. The data are analyzed qualitatively using theories of identity and social positioning. Results show considerable differences between onomastic strategies used for self- and other…

  • Names and Identity

    Emilia Aldrin, Carole HoughBOOKThe Oxford Handbook of Names and…2016

    This handbook offers an up-to-date account of the state of the art in different areas of onomastics, in a format that is both useful for specialists and accessible to the general reader. International experts examine name theory, place and personal names, names in literature, socio-onomastics, names and other disciplines, and other types of names

  • Assessing Names? Effects of Name-Based Stereotypes on Teachers’ Evaluations of Pupils’ Texts

    Open AccessEmilia AldrinARTICLENames2016Cited by: 4References: 2

    This study investigates the effects of name-based ethnic and social stereotypes on teachers’ grading of pupils’ texts in contemporary Sweden. A total of 113 practicing Swedish high school teachers assessed an authentic pupil text with one of three male names inserted, each intended to evoke a certain ethnic or social stereotype. Participants also explained their grading and answered questions regarding key features of the text. Both quantitative …