Stine Hulleberg Johansen

Doctoral Research Fellow - Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages

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Language is more than just a means of sharing information. It is also a way of building and strengthening interpersonal relationships. My main research interest is in language as a tool in this respect. In my PhD project, I will look at hedging strategies in a English Norwegian cross-cultural perspective. I will look at how native speakers of Norwegian, native speakers of English and Norwegian learners of English use hedging strategies to lessen the impact of their utterances on their interlocutors. As hedging successfully requires a high degree of communicative competence even in one’s own mother tongue, it can be challenging for language learners to use hedging strategies successfully in a foreign language.

My project is a part of the Idiomaticity in English and Norwegian at the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages.

Background

I have a BA and MA in English language from the University of Oslo. My MA thesis was about politeness in a cross-cultural perspective. I also have a Bachelor of Management from the Norwegian Business School with focus on general project management and project management of research and innovation projects funded by the European Commission in particular.

Prior to starting as a PhD fellow at the University of Oslo, I worked as a senior adviser / EU adviser at Oslo University College of Applied Sciences (HiOA). I have also worked as a project coordinator at Consumption Research Norway (SIFO) and as a project manager at Amesto Translations AS.

Tags: Pragmatics, English, English-Norwegian contrasts, English Language, Linguistics, Politeness, cross-cultural approaches, Crosslinguistic influence, Learner language, Learner corpus research, Corpus linguistics, Second language acquisition

Johansen, Stine Hulleberg (2020). A Contrastive Approach to the Types of Hedging Strategies Used in Norwegian and English Informal Spoken Conversations. Contrastive Pragmatics: A Cross-Disciplinary Journal (JOCP). ISSN 2666-0385. s 1- 25 . doi: 10.1163/26660393-12340006 Full text in Research Archive.
Johansen, Stine Hulleberg (2020). Hedging in spoken conversations by Norwegian learners of English. Nordic Journal of Modern Language Methodology (NJMLM). ISSN 1894-2245. 8(2), s 27- 48 . doi: https://doi.org/10.46364/njmlm.v8i2.751 Full text in Research Archive.
Johansen, Stine Hulleberg (2020). “I guess anyone would do that wouldn’t they?” How do native speakers of Norwegian and English hedge in informal conversations?. Languages in Contrast: International Journal for Contrastive Linguistics. ISSN 1387-6759. . doi: http://doi.org/10.1075/lic.19025.joh
Johansen, Stine Hulleberg (2019). Exploring the Use of Probes in a Corpus Pragmatic Study of Hedging Strategies. Nordic Journal of English Studies. ISSN 1654-6970. 18(1), s 121- 148 . doi: 10.35360/njes.493 Full text in Research Archive.

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Johansen, Stine Hulleberg (2020). “I just need to like see what I can do” – A contrastive study of hedging strategies in English and Norwegian informal spoken conversations. Show summary
Hedging strategies are ubiquitous in both spoken and written discourse in most, if not all, languages. By hedging, speakers guide their hearers in the interpretation of what is said. Speakers may signal caution or tentativeness, or soften or disarm their utterances. However, the forms and types of hedging vary across languages, which makes hedging particularly interesting for contrastive studies. This thesis reports on a contrastive study of hedging strategies in Norwegian and English informal conversations. Situated in the emerging field of corpus pragmatics, it aims to contribute to current knowledge of how hedging is expressed in Norwegian and English. By means of a partly function-to-form approach, hedging strategies were retrieved from Norwegian and English corpora of spoken conversations and the forms and types of strategies were compared. The comparison highlighted some interesting cross-linguistic differences. For example, English speakers used more strategies that reduce the commitment of the speaker towards the message, whereas Norwegian speakers used more strategies that seek to create common ground between the speaker and the hearer. The comparison of forms used to express hedging strategies revealed that English speakers used more first/second person pronoun + cognitive verb, such as I think and you know, than Norwegian speakers, while Norwegians used more vague and downtoning adjectives such as sånn (‘such’) and lille (‘little’). Such cross-linguistic differences could potentially cause problems for language learners. Therefore, the 10 most frequent forms in the English material were investigated in a corpus of spoken English by Norwegian advanced learners and a comparable corpus of native English speakers. The results showed that although Norwegian advanced learners exhibited signs of underuse at group level, a closer look at the individual variation revealed that the performance of several learners resembled that of some of the native speakers.
Johansen, Stine Hulleberg (2018). Det er egentlig ikke typisk norsk å være god i engelsk. Forskning.no. ISSN 1891-635X.

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