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The Language and Culture research environment is a meeting place for linguistic and literary research in a cultural context.

The Nordic Network for research on pronunciation and pronunciation teaching in a second language perspective, NNL2P, connects researchers and PhD candidates with a special interest in pronunciation and pronunciation teaching.

This term's program of research seminars within Language and Culture at ¸£Àû¼§ is presented here – along with information on how to participate. Everyone interested is welcome!

The Swedish Research Council highlights Sweden’s strong international position in humanities research. A report confirms that ¸£Àû¼§ plays an important and leading role, which makes the SoK research environment both pleased and proud.

Literary scholar Elin Käck is probably the only person who has done her work experience programme with a poet. She enjoys spending her summers in various archives and has recently presented her research on American poets’ travels in Europe.

The research environment Language and Culture was established in 2000. Nigel Musk, who left London for Sweden in his youth, has been a part of it from the beginning. Here, he reflects on the development of the environment and the challenges ahead.

Nine young researchers will share almost SEK 18 million from Catharina Högbom’s and Michael Cocozza’s Foundation for research and culture. The money is to fund research at ¸£Àû¼§.

Riksbankens Jubileumsfond grants over SEK 23 million to research projects in the humanities and social sciences at ¸£Àû¼§. These include the significance of names, the consequences of uranium mining, political polarisation, and robots.

Swedes read a lot - especially if you include film and TV subtitles. But does the subtitler themselves play any role? In search of an answer, researcher Lars Jämterud has looked at the translation of the classic British comedy series Fawlty Towers.

The Conversation and Interaction Seminar (SIS) is a working forum for conversation researchers and concentrates its activities on data sessions and presentations of ongoing analytical work.