Janus Spindler Møller
Biographic Data
| ID | 742782 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Janus Spindler Møller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Janus Spindler |
| FAMILY NAME | Møller |
| SIGNATURE | MØLLER J S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Copenhagen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6343-6739 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Can you teach me some Pakistani?” – Ethnolinguistic cornering among Copenhagen youth
In this article I present the notion of ethnolinguistic cornering as an outcome of the Everyday Languaging project and argue for its relevance in ethnographic and interactional sociolinguistics. The Everyday Languaging project is a long-term cooperation with a Copenhagen school where a team of researchers from the University of Copenhagen has conducted language-centered ethnographic fieldwork involving different student groups. The school is situ…
One is allowed to show the reality
This article aims to introduce the notion of panoptic structures as a way of theorizing how people strategically exploit the affordances of digital devices to expose other people's behavior. I argue that Foucault's notion of panopticism becomes relevant in new ways in social life as a consequence of the polymedia repertoires of networked individuals. Central here is the ability to store digital communication and repost it for selected audiences. …
We just want the language tone
In this paper, we analyze two instances of interactional breakdown in linguistically and culturally diverse classrooms in Copenhagen and Helsinki. Our focus is situations where teachers request the use of minority languages from pupils, and pupils react reluctantly and display embarrassment. These situations represent sociolinguistic spaces of upset understood as disruptions of prevailing language ideologies and sociolinguistic regimes. We argue …
Introduction
This introductory article opens the thematic issue Spaces of Upset in the Nordic Region. It introduces the contributions of the issue, outlines the concepts that unite them, and discusses the sociolinguistic area in which they are set: the Nordic region. Centering on Denmark, Finland and Sweden, the article offers an overview of some of the sociolinguistic, ideological and political characteristics of the region and the countries it comprises. Th…
Learning to live with “Languages”
In this paper I describe how a group of speakers participating in a longitudinal study develop patterns of linguistic practices as well as norms for their use over time. The group at issue consists of speakers with a Turkish minority background living in Denmark. Data were collected from this group during their nine years of compulsory school and again in their mid-twenties. From a very early age this group of speakers acquires linguistic reperto…
Authenticity, normativity and social media
Ethnicity and social categorization in on- and offline interaction among Copenhagen adolescents
Indexical meanings of [s+] among Copenhagen youth
It is well documented that the same sociolinguistic feature can be used as a sociolinguistic resource with different indexical potentials in different linguistic as well as social contexts. Often, however, indexical meanings of a specific feature are related to or derived from one another. In this article we present the results of a perceptual study of indexical meanings of alveolar versus fronted (s)—[s] versus [s+]—in different registers. The d…
Polylingual development among Turkish speakers in a Danish primary school – a critical view on the fourth grade slump
In this paper we report on a longitudinal study of the linguistic development among Turkish-speaking children in Denmark. A series of data were collected from a group of children attending a public school in Køge during the period 1989–1998 and from the same group – now in their 20s – in 2006–2007. The data set has been analyzed from a number of linguistic and educational perspectives (e.g. second language acquisition, code choice in interaction,…
Self-recordings as a social activity
In this paper, self-recorded interactions from two studies of verbal interaction in Denmark are analysed using key concepts from Erving Goffman's frame analysis and Don Zimmerman's theory of identities in talk. It is documented how the recorder is integrated into everyday interaction as soon as the informant in his or her capacity as temporary fieldworker has explained the reason for its being there and has obtained the permission from his or her…
Polylingual Performance Among Turkish-Danes in Late-Modern Copenhagen
This paper deals with linguistic diversity as it occurs in a conversation over dinner between three young Turkish–Danish men living in Denmark. I argue that terms like bilingual or multilingual are inappropriate in order to describe this verbal interaction because these terms presuppose that linguistic production is divided in categories in advance. Instead I suggest the term polylingual as more sufficient in describing the fluent use of linguist…
Research on youth and language in Denmark
The latest decade has seen an increased number of linguistic studies among Danish adolescents. In this paper we present a range of these. We sketch three different types of perspective and find that the majority of the Danish studies belong to a cultural- identity perspective. Survey studies of language attitudes indicate that young Danes are conformists adhering to the values of elite discourse. On the other hand, studies that take a closer look…
Authenticity, normativity and social media
One is allowed to show the reality
This article aims to introduce the notion of panoptic structures as a way of theorizing how people strategically exploit the affordances of digital devices to expose other people's behavior. I argue that Foucault's notion of panopticism becomes relevant in new ways in social life as a consequence of the polymedia repertoires of networked individuals. Central here is the ability to store digital communication and repost it for selected audiences. …
Ethnicity and social categorization in on- and offline interaction among Copenhagen adolescents
We just want the language tone
In this paper, we analyze two instances of interactional breakdown in linguistically and culturally diverse classrooms in Copenhagen and Helsinki. Our focus is situations where teachers request the use of minority languages from pupils, and pupils react reluctantly and display embarrassment. These situations represent sociolinguistic spaces of upset understood as disruptions of prevailing language ideologies and sociolinguistic regimes. We argue …
Research on youth and language in Denmark
The latest decade has seen an increased number of linguistic studies among Danish adolescents. In this paper we present a range of these. We sketch three different types of perspective and find that the majority of the Danish studies belong to a cultural- identity perspective. Survey studies of language attitudes indicate that young Danes are conformists adhering to the values of elite discourse. On the other hand, studies that take a closer look…
Polylingual Performance Among Turkish-Danes in Late-Modern Copenhagen
This paper deals with linguistic diversity as it occurs in a conversation over dinner between three young Turkish–Danish men living in Denmark. I argue that terms like bilingual or multilingual are inappropriate in order to describe this verbal interaction because these terms presuppose that linguistic production is divided in categories in advance. Instead I suggest the term polylingual as more sufficient in describing the fluent use of linguist…
Self-recordings as a social activity
In this paper, self-recorded interactions from two studies of verbal interaction in Denmark are analysed using key concepts from Erving Goffman's frame analysis and Don Zimmerman's theory of identities in talk. It is documented how the recorder is integrated into everyday interaction as soon as the informant in his or her capacity as temporary fieldworker has explained the reason for its being there and has obtained the permission from his or her…
Indexical meanings of [s+] among Copenhagen youth
It is well documented that the same sociolinguistic feature can be used as a sociolinguistic resource with different indexical potentials in different linguistic as well as social contexts. Often, however, indexical meanings of a specific feature are related to or derived from one another. In this article we present the results of a perceptual study of indexical meanings of alveolar versus fronted (s)—[s] versus [s+]—in different registers. The d…
Polylingual development among Turkish speakers in a Danish primary school – a critical view on the fourth grade slump
In this paper we report on a longitudinal study of the linguistic development among Turkish-speaking children in Denmark. A series of data were collected from a group of children attending a public school in Køge during the period 1989–1998 and from the same group – now in their 20s – in 2006–2007. The data set has been analyzed from a number of linguistic and educational perspectives (e.g. second language acquisition, code choice in interaction,…
Authenticity, normativity and social media
Ethnicity and social categorization in on- and offline interaction among Copenhagen adolescents
Learning to live with “Languages”
In this paper I describe how a group of speakers participating in a longitudinal study develop patterns of linguistic practices as well as norms for their use over time. The group at issue consists of speakers with a Turkish minority background living in Denmark. Data were collected from this group during their nine years of compulsory school and again in their mid-twenties. From a very early age this group of speakers acquires linguistic reperto…
We just want the language tone
In this paper, we analyze two instances of interactional breakdown in linguistically and culturally diverse classrooms in Copenhagen and Helsinki. Our focus is situations where teachers request the use of minority languages from pupils, and pupils react reluctantly and display embarrassment. These situations represent sociolinguistic spaces of upset understood as disruptions of prevailing language ideologies and sociolinguistic regimes. We argue …
Introduction
This introductory article opens the thematic issue Spaces of Upset in the Nordic Region. It introduces the contributions of the issue, outlines the concepts that unite them, and discusses the sociolinguistic area in which they are set: the Nordic region. Centering on Denmark, Finland and Sweden, the article offers an overview of some of the sociolinguistic, ideological and political characteristics of the region and the countries it comprises. Th…
Can you teach me some Pakistani?” – Ethnolinguistic cornering among Copenhagen youth
In this article I present the notion of ethnolinguistic cornering as an outcome of the Everyday Languaging project and argue for its relevance in ethnographic and interactional sociolinguistics. The Everyday Languaging project is a long-term cooperation with a Copenhagen school where a team of researchers from the University of Copenhagen has conducted language-centered ethnographic fieldwork involving different student groups. The school is situ…
One is allowed to show the reality
This article aims to introduce the notion of panoptic structures as a way of theorizing how people strategically exploit the affordances of digital devices to expose other people's behavior. I argue that Foucault's notion of panopticism becomes relevant in new ways in social life as a consequence of the polymedia repertoires of networked individuals. Central here is the ability to store digital communication and repost it for selected audiences. …
Sociology (11 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (10 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (7 works) · Linguistics (7 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Danish (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Art (3 works)