Ewa Jonsson
Universitetslektor|Senior Lecturer
- Professional title: Senior Lecturer
- Academic title: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
- Telephone: +46 (0)10-1427831
- Email: ewa.jonsson@miun.se
- Room number: Ej Angivet
- Location: Sundsvall
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- Employed at the subject:
- English
Biography
I am a senior lecturer of English linguistics specializing in corpus linguistics and historical sociopragmatics. My research interests include multidimensional analysis and the endeavor of defining orality across spoken and written registers, as reflected in my monograph Conversational writing (Lang, 2015) on computer chat and my co-edited volume Voices past and present (with T. Larsson, Benjamins 2020) on features of involvement/orality in historical and present-day texts. I have also published on the pragmatics of emojis and intensifying adverbs and recently co-authored a book on the sociopragmatics of intensifiers in Late Modern English courtroom discourse (with C. Claridge and M. Kytö, Cambridge University Press 2024).
My current teaching includes courses in grammar, academic writing, second-language acquisition and English language proficiency, and the supervision of bachelor-level essays in English linguistics and language didactics. As of 2024, I am director of studies in the English section of the Department of humanities and social sciences.
Area of interest
Corpus linguistics, register variation studies, (historical) sociopragmatics and sociolinguistics
Research
Work in progress
Jonsson, E. (in preparation) The conversationality of text messages: a multidimensional analysis.
Publications
Articles in journals
Books
Chapters in books
Collections (editor)
Conference papers
Doctoral theses, monographs
Articles in journals
Claridge, C. , Jonsson, E. & Kytö, M. (2021). A little something goes a long way : Little in the Old Bailey Corpus. Journal of English Linguistics, vol. 49: 1
Claridge, C. , Jonsson, E. & Kytö, M. (2020). Entirely innocent: A historical sociopragmatic analysis of maximizers in the Old Bailey Corpus. English Language and Linguistics, vol. 24: 4, pp. 855-874.
Books
Claridge, C. , Jonsson, E. & Kytö, M. (2024). Intensifiers in Late Modern English : A sociopragmatic approach to courtroom discourse. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
Jonsson, E. (2015). Conversational writing : A Multidimensional Study of Synchronous and Supersynchronous Computer-Mediated Communication. Frankfurt am Main : Peter Lang Publishing Group (English Corpus Linguistics 16).
Chapters in books
Jonsson, E. & Larsson, T. (2020). Voices of English: Tapping into records past and present.. In Voices past and present : Studies of involved, speech-related and spoken texts. Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company.
Jonsson, E. (2019). Emotives: from punctuation to emojis. In Punctuation in context – past and present perspectives. Frankfurt : Peter Lang Publishing Group. pp. 227-256.
Collections (editor)
Jonsson, E. (ed.) & Larsson, T. (ed.) (2020). Voices past and present : Studies of involved, speech-related and spoken texts. Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Conference papers
Jonsson, E. (2022). The socio-pragmatics of intensifiers : Evidence from the Old Bailey Corpus. Paper presented at the SHEL-12 (Studies in the History of the English Language) conference, May 19–21, University of Washington, Seattle, US
Kytö, M. , Claridge, C. & Jonsson, E. (2018). ‘Entirely false’ or ‘hardly true’ : The socio-pragmatics of intensifiers in the late modern courtroom. Paper presented at the ICAME 39 conference, May 30–June 3, University of Tampere, Finland
Claridge, C. , Jonsson, E. & Kytö, M. (2017). A little something goes a long way : The downtoner (a) little in the Old Bailey Corpus. Paper presented at the ICAME 38 conference, May 24–28, Charles University, Prague, Czechia
Jonsson, E. (2017). Emotives in screen-mediated communication : from punctuation to emojis and beyond. Paper presented at the ICAME 38 conference, May 24–28, Charles University, Prague, Czechia
Claridge, C. , Jonsson, E. & Kytö, M. (2017). “I found it somewhat untidy” : The socio-pragmatics of downtoners in the Old Bailey Corpus. Paper presented at the The Sixth International Conference on Late Modern English (LMEC 6): Internal and External Factors in Linguistic Stability and Language Change, August 17–19, 2017, Uppsala University
Jonsson, E. (2016). Language and beyond in digital communication. Paper presented at the Humanioradagarna, Public lectures at Mid-Sweden University, October 18-20, 2016
Claridge, C. , Jonsson, E. & Kytö, M. (2016). Maximizers on the move : A historical socio-pragmatic analysis. Paper presented at the ICAME 37 conference, May 25–29, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Claridge, C. , Jonsson, E. & Kytö, M. (2016). “Methinks you are mighty funny, Gentlemen” : The socio-pragmatics of boosters in the late modern courtroom. Paper presented at the ICEHL 19 conference, Duisburg-Essen, Germany, August 22–26, 2016
Jonsson, E. (2016). New historical speech-related texts : The case of early 21st century digital communication. Paper presented at the symposium Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of A Corpus of English Dialogues 1560-1760: Research on Historical Corpora of Speech-related Texts, April 21–22, Mid Sweden University
Doctoral theses
Jonsson, E. (2013). Conversational writing : A multidimensional study of synchronous and supersynchronous computer-mediated communication. Dis. Uppsala : Uppsala University, 2013