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Hanna Söderlund

Researcher in applied lingustics with focus on power relations and gender in conversations about humour and sports.

Educational qualifications: Recognised university teacher

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Associate professor at Department of Language Studies Section: Swedish and Scandinavian Studies
Location
A, Humanisthuset, korridor HUM.J.2 Umeå universitet, 901 87 Umeå
Affiliation
Affiliated as associate professor at Umeå Centre for Gender Studies (UCGS)
Location
Samhällsvetarhuset, Plan 4

My research focuses on negotiations of power in conversation, often with a focus on humour. In my post doc project I studied how female and male cross-country skiers and sports pundits can negotiate for powerful positions in studio conversations on TV (SVT, Swedish public service TV). I have concluded that humour can be used as a means for negitiating for power positions in various ways (The Swedish Research Council for Sport Science).

I have also investigated which potenital humour has to challange and make nontions of disability visible. The data derives from a podcast where people with experiences of disabilities use humour (ERC Consolidator Grant project, Lotta Vikström). 

In my dissertation I argued that female comedians have inferior possibilities than the male comedians to achieve powerful positions in a humour show on TV (Swedish TV4), due to the other interlocutors rejections in interaction. 

When I'm not working, I do gymnastics, take ballet classes, compete in veteran athletics, and enjoy sewing.

Key words: language, gender, humour, sports, feminist discourse analysis, feminism, conversation analysis, multimodality

 

Bulletinen Klarspråk, Stockholm: Institutet för språk och folkminnen 2024, (1)
Söderlund, Hanna
Discourse & Communication, Sage Publications 2023, Vol. 17, (3) : 336-353
Söderlund, Hanna
HumaNetten, Linnaeus University Press 2023, (50) : 187-212
Söderlund, Hanna
FemHum Symposium, Humor och makt, Online, 29–30 november, 2021
Söderlund, Hanna; Milles, Karin
CEDAR Working Papers, 2021:13
Söderlund, Hanna; Wälivaara, Josefine; Ljuslinder, Karin
HumaNetten, Växjö: Linnaeus University Press 2021, (47) : 143-168
Söderlund, Hanna; Wälivaara, Josefine; Ljuslinder, Karin
Språk och stil, Uppsala: Adolf Noreen-sällskapet för svensk språk- och stilforskning 2020, (30) : 205-234
Söderlund, Hanna
Svenskans beskrivning 37: förhandlingar vid trettiosjunde sammankomsten, Åbo 8-10 maj 2019, Åbo: Svenska språket vid Åbo Akademi 2020 : 321-332
Söderlund, Hanna
Svenskans beskrivning 36: förhandlingar vid trettiosjätte sammankomsten. Uppsala 25–27 oktober 2017, Uppsala: Institutionen för nordiska språk vid Uppsala universitet 2019 : 307-319
Söderlund, Hanna
Abstraactsamling OFTI 36: Tema: Tal – Interaktion – Multimodalitet, Stockholm: Stockholm universitet 2018 : 4-4
Söderlund, Hanna
Varför svenska?: Svenskans beskrivning 36, Uppsala, 25–27 oktober 2017, Uppsala: Uppsala universitet 2017 : 57-58
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Shifting Visions: Gender, Sexuality, Discourse, and Language
Söderlund, Hanna
Svenskans beskrivning 33, Svenska som pluricentriskt språk
Söderlund, Hanna
Nordiska konferensen om språk och kön
Söderlund, Hanna
Ofti (Området för tal och interaktion), Tid
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The Communicative Body in Development
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In relation to what?
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Multimodal communication, Auckland: Auckland University of Technology, Multimodal Research Center 2012, Vol. 1, (2) : 127-146
Söderlund, Hanna
Research into Communication: Theory, method, and practice
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Research groups

Head of research
FemHum

Research projects

I teach and give lectures in rhetoric, language and gender, conversation analysis, sociolinguistics, writing. I give lectures and whole courses.