Andreas Romeborn
Senior Lecturer
Department of Languages and LiteraturesAbout Andreas Romeborn
- Available for consultation: In connection with teaching
Background
I defended my thesis in Romance languages in June 2013. I received my Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy at Södertörn University in 2006, a Master’s in French at the University of Gothenburg in 2007, and Degree of Licentiate in Romance languages at the University of Gothenburg in 2009.
After getting my PhD in 2013, I worked for two years, mostly at Dalarna University College, as a lecturer in French. Then from August 2015 to July 2019, I was an associate senior lecturer in French specialising in linguistics at the University of Gothenburg. In August 2019, I was promoted to senior lecturer.
Research
My research has largely concerned figures of speech, but I have also taken an interest in stylistics, French orthography and Romance studies as a science and academic discipline.
Ongoing research: "Maurice Merleau-Ponty's visit and lectures in Sweden (1947). Context and rhetoric"
My areas of interest include:
- Figures of speech from the semantic-pragmatic perspective
- Stylistics - linguistic studies of literary texts
- 19th and 20th century poetry − textual analysis
- French spelling – perceptions and beliefs about French spelling and about the French language in general
- Discursive uses of etymology
- Romance studies as a science and academic discipline − metadisciplinary perspectives
- The history of Romance studies in the Nordic countries
- French philosophy and its history. Phenomenology
- The philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty
- Reception of French philosophy in Sweden
- Philosophical language
In my thesis, I studied a stylistic device called syllepsis and how this was used by the 20th century French poet Francis Ponge. The effect that this device produces is based on polysemy or homonymy. It’s a syllepsis when a word occurs only once but is used with two different meanings. The aim of the study was to contribute to a general description of the stylistic device syllepsis and to clarify what characterises Francis Ponges’ use of this stylistic device. The thesis is in the fields of stylistics and rhetoric and in it I use linguistic methods and concepts (from semantics and pragmatics) to explore the literary material.
Teaching
I have been teaching French at the University of Gothenburg since 2007, in various aspects: pronunciation, phonetics, oral proficiency, grammar, translation, linguistics, “linguistic variation”, written production, various text courses, poetry, “language, culture and society”. I supervise academic papers in both linguistics and literary specialisations.