Jan Svennevig
Research Professor
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Center for Multilingualism in Society across the Lifespan
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Email
jan.svennevig@iln.uio.no
Phone
+47-22856148
Room
HW 414
Username
Visiting address
Henrik Wergelands hus
Niels Henrik Abels vei 36
0313 Oslo
Postal address
Postboks 1102 Blindern
0317 OSLO
Member of the research center MultiLing - Multilingualism in Society across the Lifespan.
Academic positions
- 2008-pres. Professor of Linguistics at the Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies, University of Oslo
- 2003-2007 Professor of Communication at the Norwegian School of Management, BI
- 1998-2003 Professor Linguistics at the Department of Scandinavian and Media Studies, Agder University College
- 1997-1997 Associate professor at the School of Journalism, Oslo University College
- 1993-1997 Research fellow at the Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies, University of Oslo
- 1990-1991 Norwegian lecturer at Université Lumière, Lyon 2, France
- 1989-1989 Norwegian lecturer at Tampere University, Finland
Education
- Doctor artium (PhD) in Linguistics at the University of Oslo, 1997 (Dissertation: Getting acquainted in conversation. A study of initial interactions, awarded His Majesty King Harald’s gold medal)
- Candidatus philologiæ (MA) at the University of Oslo, 1989 (Scandinavian Studies, French, Russian)
Research topics
- Mutual understanding in multilingual interaction (repair, preemptive practices)
- Interaction in meetings
- Norwegian discourse markers
Editorial work
Member of the editorial board of:
- Research on Language and Social Interaction
- Text & talk
- Social Interaction - Video-based Studies of Human Sociality
- Rhetorica Scandinavica
- Norsk Lingvistisk Tidsskrift (Norwegian Journal of Linguistics)
Edited volumes:
- Jan Svennevig & Spencer Hazel (red): Journal of Pragmatics 126, 2018: Multilingual workplaces. Interactional dynamics of the contemporary international workforce
- Stevanovic, Melisa and Svennevig, Jan (eds.): Special issue of Journal of Pragmatics 78 (4), 2015: Epistemics and deontics in conversational directives.
- Jan Svennevig (ed.): Special issue of Discourse Studies, 1-2012: Interaction in workplace meetings
- Birte Asmuss and Jan Svennevig (eds.): Special issue of Journal of Business Communication, 1-2009: Meeting talk
Published Dec. 14, 2010 3:17 PM
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