Research
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Research into language and language use can take many forms. The Department of Language Studies organizes higher seminars within three research areas: literature, linguistics, and language teaching and learning. Our researchers work with historical and contemporary sources such as language databases, language maps, fiction, travel writing, digital texts, spoken language and much more.
Depictions of winter in literature and visual arts were explored at an interdisciplinary symposium.
Elena Lindholm, Docent of Spanish, researches feminism and sexuality in early 20th-century Europe.
Studies on metaphors in English show that love is often described in terms like a commodity.