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Johan Järlehed

Professor

Department of Swedish, multilingualism, language technology
Telephone
+46 31-786 29 11
Mail
johan.jarlehed@svenska.gu.se
Visiting address
Renströmsgatan 6
41255 Göteborg
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 visual 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, as well as at the Department of Languages ​​and Literatures, GU. My current position is as professor in Multilingualism at the Department of Swedish, Multilingualism, and Language Technology, 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, via language and food, typography and writing, to multilingualism, segregation, and gentrification in Gothenburg.

2024-2030 I lead the national research environment The Language(s) of Segregation: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Spatial, Social, and Symbolic Division in Cities.

Research projects

Teaching and supervision

I supervise the PhD candidates Karin Swahn and Aida Mobarhan.