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Magnus P. Ängsal

Director of Studies

Department of Languages and Literatures
Telephone
+46 31-786 55 79
+46 766-24 41 78
Mail
magnus.pettersson.angsal@sprak.gu.se
Visiting address
Renströmsgatan 6
41255 Göteborg
Postal address
Box 200
40530 Göteborg

Senior Lecturer

Department of Languages and Literatures
Telephone
+46 31-786 55 79
+46 766-24 41 78
Mail
magnus.pettersson.angsal@sprak.gu.se
Visiting address
Renströmsgatan 6
Göteborg
Room number
D441
Postal address
Box 200
40530 Göteborg

About Magnus P. Ängsal

Background

Since 2012, I am a senior lecturer in German at the Department of Languages and Literatures (SPL), University of Gothenburg. I was promoted docent (associate professor) in 2018. My graduation from the PhD programme (GU) took place in 2010 as I defended my thesis in German Linguistics Geschlechtsübergreifende Personenbezeichnungen. Eine Referenz- und Relevanzanalyse an Texten, published after revisions with Narr Verlag 2011 (= Europäische Studien zur Textlinguistik, 11).

Teaching

My teaching activities include beginner’s courses, first, second and third semester courses as well as master courses in German (linguistics, grammar, language proficiency). I have also conducted teaching in the Translation programme (German as source language), the Communication programme and the Nordic Master Programme for Foreign Language Teachers. Teaching also in the International Language Programme and the Language and Intercultural Communication Programme.

Supervision of degree project essays in German (bachelor and master’s projects), master’s projects in the Translation programme, the Communication programme, the Nordic Master Programme for Foreign Language Teachers, and the Language and Intercultural Communication programme.

Supervision of doctoral students

Martin Hansen (2019--2023), University of Gothenburg: Sprachvariation und Sprachkontakt in Existenzverbkonstruktionen des Pomerano. Eine korpusgestüzte Untersuchung einer niederdeutschen Varietät in Brasilien (main supervisor)

Lea Späti (2024-), University of Gothenburg: Coping with diglossia in medical talk. A mixed-methods study on conversations between multilingual medical staff and patients in a standard-dialect environment at hospitals in German-speaking Switzerland (main supervisor)

Research projects

2005-2010: Geschlechtsübergreifende Personenbezeichnungen im Deutschen (PhD project, see the monography Geschlechtsübergreifende Personenbezeichnungen. Eine Referenz- und Relevanzanalyse an Texten

2011-2017: Språkkritik och språkbruk i tyskan och svenskan efter den tredje vågens feminism

2012-2017: Språkbruk, språkkritik och tysk vänsterterrorism

2013-2018: Denkstile in der deutschen Sprachwissenschaft (finansiering genom Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft), se the volume Denkstile in der deutschen Sprachwissenschaft. Bausteine einer Fachgeschichte aus dem Blickwinkel der Wissenschaftstheorie Ludwik Flecks (eds. Andersen, Fix & Schiewe, 2018)

2014: Språk för bildning (finansiering genom dåvarande Grundtviginstitutet, GU; se the volume Språk för bildning (ed. Ängsal, 2015)

2017- Historicitet och språkbruk

2021-2024: SweTerror – Terrorism i svensk politik: En multimodal studie av terrorismens konfigurering i parlamentarisk debatt, lagstiftning och politiska nätverk i Sverige 1968–2018 / SweTerror– Terrorism in Swedish politics: a multimodal study of the configuration of terrorism in parliamentary debates, legislation, and policy networks in Sweden 1968–2018 (22 MSEK; 2020-05052 VR)

Research interests

Language Criticism, Language and Politics, Language and Gender, Linguistic Text and Discourse Analysis, Translation Studies

Other activities

2021- Section editor för German linguistics at journal Moderna språk

2021- Member of advisory board for ELLA, Education, Literature, Language, Høgskolen i Østfold