Britt‐Louise Gunnarsson
Biographic Data
| ID | 6410444 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Britt‐Louise Gunnarsson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Britt‐Louise |
| FAMILY NAME | Gunnarsson |
| SIGNATURE | GUNNARSSON B L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stockholm University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0584-833X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Multilingualism at Work
This entry discusses studies on multilingualism at work carried out in large and small workplaces in the globalized world. One aim is to give a cross‐cultural picture of various aspects of multilingualism in the modern working life. Another is to discuss both positive and problem‐based accounts of multilingualism at work. The entry focuses on studies of interaction in multilingual environments, on transnational companies where English is used as …
The Construction of Professional Discourse
Internationally, there is increasing research and interest in the processes of the production and reception of texts for specific purposes and in the historical development of genres and registers within Languages for Specific Purposes (LSP), psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, anthropology and the sociology of science. Studies of professional communication have traditionally been biased towards the written medium and have been carried out with …
Multilingualism in European workplaces
This state-of-the-art article includes a review of past and recent studies on multilingualism at work in European environments. One aim is to provide the reader with a cross-cultural picture of workplace studies on various languages in Europe, another to discuss both positive and problem-based accounts of multilingualism at work. The overview covers studies on workplace interaction in multilingual regions in Europe, on English as a lingua franca …
Multilingualism at Work
The conditions for workplace discourse have been influenced by a series of changes taking place in recent decades.
Languages of Science in the Eighteenth Century
Introduction
The eighteenth century is an important period in both the history of science and the history of languages. Interest in science, and especially in the useful sciences, exploded and a new, modern approach to scientific discovery and the accumulation of knowledge emerged. It was during this century, too, that ideas on language and language practice began to change more widely, including in northern Europe. There, Latin had been more or less the only…
Expressing criticism and evaluation during three centuries
The article presents a socio-semantic study of evaluative expressions in medical scientific articles from six periods from the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Evaluations relating to the presentations of the medical case, the scientist’s own work and the work of other scientists were studied. The results of the analyses point to a gradual change in the directness of the evaluations; where the author earlier evaluated through his o…
Swedish Tomorrow – A Product of the Linguistic Dominance of English
This article discusses the consequences of the dominance of English for a small language like Swedish and a small country like Sweden. The first part presents a survey of contrastive studies, which reveal that texts and writing in the mother tongue differ between cultures. Also, writing styles in foreign languages, for example in English, vary depending on the cultural and textual background of the writer. The main focus lies in contrastive studi…
Discourse, Organizations and National Cultures
The article explores the complex and multi-dimensional relationship between organization and discourse, using interview data and written documents collected within banks in Sweden, Germany and Britain. The first part of the analysis, which examines the extent to which the organizations studied can be said to form discourse units in their own right, shows that management ideas, norms and values seem to have a considerable impact on bank discourse.…
Institutional narrative
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Language for Special Purposes
Studies of language for specific purposes
The first part of the article discusses professional language and communication in real‐life settings. It stresses that oral and written discourse are intertwined and that the construction of professional discourse is a dynamic process. Three layers are distinguished in this process: cognitive, social and societal. The second part contains a critical overview of research on language for specific purposes. The European perspective is contrasted wi…
Multilingualism in European workplaces
This state-of-the-art article includes a review of past and recent studies on multilingualism at work in European environments. One aim is to provide the reader with a cross-cultural picture of workplace studies on various languages in Europe, another to discuss both positive and problem-based accounts of multilingualism at work. The overview covers studies on workplace interaction in multilingual regions in Europe, on English as a lingua franca …
Discourse, Organizations and National Cultures
The article explores the complex and multi-dimensional relationship between organization and discourse, using interview data and written documents collected within banks in Sweden, Germany and Britain. The first part of the analysis, which examines the extent to which the organizations studied can be said to form discourse units in their own right, shows that management ideas, norms and values seem to have a considerable impact on bank discourse.…
Expressing criticism and evaluation during three centuries
The article presents a socio-semantic study of evaluative expressions in medical scientific articles from six periods from the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Evaluations relating to the presentations of the medical case, the scientist’s own work and the work of other scientists were studied. The results of the analyses point to a gradual change in the directness of the evaluations; where the author earlier evaluated through his o…
Studies of language for specific purposes
The first part of the article discusses professional language and communication in real‐life settings. It stresses that oral and written discourse are intertwined and that the construction of professional discourse is a dynamic process. Three layers are distinguished in this process: cognitive, social and societal. The second part contains a critical overview of research on language for specific purposes. The European perspective is contrasted wi…
Language for Special Purposes
Institutional narrative
Preview this article: Institutional narrative: Culture, professionalization and depersonalization, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/ni.9.1.10gun-1.gif
Swedish Tomorrow – A Product of the Linguistic Dominance of English
This article discusses the consequences of the dominance of English for a small language like Swedish and a small country like Sweden. The first part presents a survey of contrastive studies, which reveal that texts and writing in the mother tongue differ between cultures. Also, writing styles in foreign languages, for example in English, vary depending on the cultural and textual background of the writer. The main focus lies in contrastive studi…
Discourse, Organizations and National Cultures
The article explores the complex and multi-dimensional relationship between organization and discourse, using interview data and written documents collected within banks in Sweden, Germany and Britain. The first part of the analysis, which examines the extent to which the organizations studied can be said to form discourse units in their own right, shows that management ideas, norms and values seem to have a considerable impact on bank discourse.…
Expressing criticism and evaluation during three centuries
The article presents a socio-semantic study of evaluative expressions in medical scientific articles from six periods from the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Evaluations relating to the presentations of the medical case, the scientist’s own work and the work of other scientists were studied. The results of the analyses point to a gradual change in the directness of the evaluations; where the author earlier evaluated through his o…
Languages of Science in the Eighteenth Century
Introduction
The eighteenth century is an important period in both the history of science and the history of languages. Interest in science, and especially in the useful sciences, exploded and a new, modern approach to scientific discovery and the accumulation of knowledge emerged. It was during this century, too, that ideas on language and language practice began to change more widely, including in northern Europe. There, Latin had been more or less the only…
Multilingualism at Work
The conditions for workplace discourse have been influenced by a series of changes taking place in recent decades.
The Construction of Professional Discourse
Internationally, there is increasing research and interest in the processes of the production and reception of texts for specific purposes and in the historical development of genres and registers within Languages for Specific Purposes (LSP), psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, anthropology and the sociology of science. Studies of professional communication have traditionally been biased towards the written medium and have been carried out with …
Multilingualism in European workplaces
This state-of-the-art article includes a review of past and recent studies on multilingualism at work in European environments. One aim is to provide the reader with a cross-cultural picture of workplace studies on various languages in Europe, another to discuss both positive and problem-based accounts of multilingualism at work. The overview covers studies on workplace interaction in multilingual regions in Europe, on English as a lingua franca …
Multilingualism at Work
This entry discusses studies on multilingualism at work carried out in large and small workplaces in the globalized world. One aim is to give a cross‐cultural picture of various aspects of multilingualism in the modern working life. Another is to discuss both positive and problem‐based accounts of multilingualism at work. The entry focuses on studies of interaction in multilingual environments, on transnational companies where English is used as …
Linguistics (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Engineering (3 works) · History (3 works) · Linguistic research and analysis (3 works) · Multilingualism (3 works)