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Johan Järlehed

Professor

Department of Swedish, multilingualism, language technology
Telephone
+46 31-786 29 11
Mail
johan.jarlehed@svenska.gu.se
Visiting address
Renströmsgatan 6
41255 Göteborg
Postal address
Box 200
40530 Göteborg

About Johan Järlehed

Background

I received my PhD in 2008 at the University of Gothenburg (GU) with a dissertation on the Basque language movement’s image campaigns 1970-2001. After that, I did a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for European Studies (CERGU) and worked as a senior lecturer in Spanish at the Department of Culture and Communication at Linköping University, as well as at the Department of Languages ​​and Literatures, GU. In August 2022 I took up my current position as senior lecturer in Multilingualism and Sociolinguistics at the Department of Swedish, Multilingualism, and Language Technology, GU.

Research

My research is about how language, understood in a broad sense, interacts with processes of social change, particularly in urban space. I aim at understanding how such interaction affects people’s views on and use of language, as well as how linguistic ideologies and practices affect social processes. To investigate this, I draw on concepts and methods developed within sociolinguistics, social semiotics, and multimodal critical discourse studies. Thematically, my research extends from minority languages ​​and nationalism in Spain, via language and food, typography and writing, to multilingualism, segregation, and gentrification in Gothenburg.

Research projects

Teaching and supervision

I teach and supervise various undergraduate and graduate courses in Swedish as L2, sociolinguistic research methods, multilingualism in public space, as well as in the Bachelor Program in Language consultancy.

I supervise the PhD candidate Simon Bauer.