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Johan Järlehed

Senior Lecturer

Department of Languages &
Literatures
Mail
johan.jarlehed@sprak.gu.se
Fax
+46 31-786 19 33
Visiting address
Renströmsgatan 6
41256 Göteborg
Room number
D456
Postal address
Box 200
40530 Göteborg

About Johan Järlehed

Background

I received my PhD in 2008 at the University of Gothenburg (GU) with a dissertation on the Basque language movement's image campaigns 1970-2001. After that, I did a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for European Studies (CERGU) and worked as a senior lecturer in Spanish at the Department of Culture and Communication at Linköping University. In January 2015, I began my current job as a senior lecturer in Spanish at the Department of Languages ​​and Literatures, GU.

Research

My research is about how language, understood in a broad sense, interacts with processes of social change, particularly in urban space. I aim at understanding how such interaction affects people's views on and use of language, as well as how linguistic ideologies and practices affect social processes. To investigate this, I draw on concepts and methods developed within sociolinguistics, social semiotics and multimodal critical discourse studies. Thematically, my research extends from minority languages ​​and nationalism in Spain, to multilingualism, segregation and gentrification in Gothenburg.

Research projects

Teaching and supervision

I teach and supervise various undergraduate courses in Spanish, as well as in the Master's Program Language and Intercultural Communication.