Sarah Harchaoui is a PhD candidate in Nordic Linguistics at the Laboratory of CELISO (Centre de Linguistique en Sorbonne), University of Paris-Sorbonne, France.
Since 2013, Harchaoui has lectured in Norwegian as second language and Nordic Linguistics at the Department of Department of German and Nordic Studies, University of Paris-Sorbonne, France.
Harchaoui's research in sociolinguistics focuses on contemporary language practices in multilingual urban areas in Oslo. Her dissertation talks about stylistic variation (lexical and syntactic innovations, non-European borrowings, process of pragmaticalization) and language attitudes in the speech of Norwegian adolescents.
Her investigation is based on the UPUS-Oslo corpus created by, among others, MultiLing's own Bente Ailin Svendsen and Unn Røyneland.