Britt-Louise Gunnarsson: In English

Biodata

BRITT-LOUISE GUNNARSSON has an academic degree in Scandinavian Languages, Literature, French and English. She received her Ph. D. in Scandinavian Languages at Uppsala University in 1982 and was appointed Docent in 1985. She is currently professor at the department of Scandinavian Languages at Uppsala University, holder of the chair in Modern Swedish and Sociolinguistics. She is also the director of FUMS (Unit for Advanced Studies in Modern Swedish).

For three years (1 July 2005 - 30 June 2008) she was deputy vice rector and vice president of the Board for the Disciplinary Domain of Arts and Social Sciences. She was also member of the Board of the University Library.

Between 1998 and 2002 she was the holder of the professorial chair in Swedish at the Department of Scandinavian Languages at Stockholm University. Previous to that, between 1992 and 1998, she was the director of the Research Group of Discourse in the Professions at Uppsala University where she initiated and led several large research projects (funded by the major Swedish research foundations) related to these fields.

Professor Gunnarsson's major fields of interest are text linguistics, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, text comprehension, writing in the professions and language and gender. Within these areas she has directed a number of research projects funded by the major Swedish research funds.

Her current research focuses on three different areas: professional discourse, multilingualism and writing in the globalized and technologized academic discourse community.

Her teaching courses have mostly been related to applied linguistics, text linguistics, sociolinguistics, language and gender and professional discourse. She lectures frequently and has given seminars throughout Sweden and the other Nordic countries. She has also lectured in Germany, Austria, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Polen, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Israel, Brazil, New Zealand, and the United States.

Her publications include a book in English on Professional Discourse (London, New York: Continuum 2009), books and articles in Swedish, some 60 articles in English (TEXT, Written Communication, International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Discourse Studies, Journal of Historical Pragmatics, Information Design Journal + Document DesignDocument Design) and a handful in German and French.

She is currently editing a volume on Languages of Science in the Eighteenth Century, which will be published by Mouton de Gruyter in 2011. Books she has co-edited include Text and Talk in Professional Contexts (1994), The Construction of Professional Discourse (1997), Language Variation in Europe (2004) and Linguagem, Cultura e Organizações. Language, Culture and Organizations (2005).

She has been asked to write numerous ochapters in encyclopedias and handbooks. The more recent ones are: 'Multilingualism at Work' in The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics (2011), 'Applied Linguistics' in Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights 9. Pragmatics in Practice (2011), "Discourse in Organizations and Workplaces" in Contemporary Applied Linguistics, Volume 2: Linguistics for the Real World (2009), 'Professional Communication' in Encyclopedia of Language and Education (second edition, 2008), on 'Medical Discourse: Sociohistorical Construction' in Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (second edition, 2005). Worth mentioning is also that one of her articles is included in Sage Benchmarks in Discourse Studies (Vol. III, 2007).

Her doctoral thesis "Lagtexters begriplighet" [The comprehensibility of law texts] (1982) was the winner of the award of the Royal Academy of Humanistic Sciences at Uppsala University for outstanding doctoral theses and also an award from the Swedish Language Council for important research on the Swedish language. In 1995, she received an award for excellent research from the Swedish Academy. She is currently a member of the editorial board of three international journals: Written Communication, Discourse Studies and Journal of Historical Pragmatics. Since 2003 she is the editor of the Swedish Bibliography in Sociolinguistica (International Yearbook of European Sociolinguistics). She is also a member of the editorial board for the Nordic journal Språk och stil.

Between 1986 and 1992 she was the President of ASLA (Association Suédoise de Linguistique Appliquée) and was the driving force of a revitalization of this Swedish affiliate. Between 1990 and 1999 she was active within the AILA Executive Board; 1990-1993 as a member at large and chair of its Equality Subcommittee; 1993-1999 as Vice President of AILA and chair of its subcommittee on Internationalization and Membership. She is the founder of the AILA Scientific Commission on Communication in the Professions and was its convenor between 1993 and 2002.

Professor Gunnarsson has organized several Nordic and international conferences and symposia. Among these are the international conference on "Discourse and the Professions" in Uppsala in 1992 (together with Bengt Nordberg and Per Linell), the symposium "The Textlinguistic Approach to Genre Studies" at AAAL in Chicago in 1996, the symposium "Diversity and Complexity in Professional Discourse" (together with Ruth Wodak and Charles Bazerman) at AILA:s world congress in Jyväskylä, Finland, in 1996, the symposia "Theory and Methodology in the Study of Discourse in National and Supranational Organizations" at AILA:s world congress in Tokyo, Japan, in 1999, the symposia "Organizations and the analysis of discourse" at the international conference on "Text and Talk at Work" in Gent, Belgium, in 2000, and "The immigrant and the workplace" at AILA:s world congress in Singapore in 2002 and at Sociolinguistics Symposium 15 in Newcastle 2004. In October 2006 she organized the sixth Nordic Conference on Language and Gender in Uppsala (together with Maria Ohlsson and Sonja Entzenberg). In June 2007, she organized an international conference at Uppsala Univerisity on the theme " Languages of Science in the time of Linnaeus" (together with Hans Helander). She has also been a member of several scientific committees organizing international conferences, e.g. the genre conference in Brazil in August 2007.

She has belonged and belongs to several Nordic and international networks and projects. She was for instance one of the leaders of the EU-project "The design and accessibility of Babyfood Labels from the Consumer´s Point of View", which was carried between 1998 and 2000 in collaboration between researchers in Finland, Great Britain, Belgium, Spain and Sweden. Currently she is a member on the advisory board of CALPIU (center in Roskilde, Denmark).

For two years, 1999-2000, professor Gunnarsson was the head of the department of Scandinavian Languages at Stockholm University. She has also held several positions within the faculty and university, both at Stockholm University and at Uppsala University. Between 1986-1994 she was the chair of the Equal Opportunity Committee of Uppsala University. Currently she is deputy vice rector and vice president of the Board for the Disciplinary Domain of Arts and Social Sciences at Uppsala University.

She has been and is involved in evaluation of higher education and research. In 1988-1999 she was the chairperson of the Steering committee for the Evaluation of the higher-education programmes leading to a Bachelor Degree in Business Language in Denmark, which was organized by the Danish Centre for Quality Assurance and the Evaluation of Higher Education (Evalueringscentret). In 2001-2002 she was a member of the Panel for the Evaluation of Norwegian Training of Researchers, which was organized by the Norwegian Research Council, NIFU. In 2004-2005 she was the leader of the Steering Committee for the Evaluation of the Research Subject 'Nordic Language and Literature' (Forskningsfaget nordisk språk og litteratur) in Norway.

Currently, she is a member of the following committees: The Nordic Expert Committee for the Nils Klim Prize (attached to the Holberg Prize in Bergen, Norway); The Swedish Academy’s Reference Group for the Foundation for Research in Modern Swedish and for Language Care; The Scholarship Committee of the Royal Humanities Society of Uppsala;

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Current research projects

Professional Discourse

Britt-Louise Gunnarsson, 2009: Professional discourse. (Continuum Discourse Series.) London, New York: Continuum. (288 pages.)

Professional Discourse gives a broad and multifaceted perspective on discourse in the professions, including law, business, medicine, science, and the academic, technological and bureaucratic settings. For eah of these professions, the book explores the dual relationship between discourse and context and outlines how professional discourse is continously reconstructed in relation to changing contextul frameworks.

The case studies discussed in the book are based on authentic texts and spoken data, collected within different environments and related to different domains. The book inlcudes discussion of both theory and methodology, thus providing tools for exercises and future studies. The reader is introduced to a variety of analytical approaches, that of textlinguistics, pragmatics, genre studies, sociolinguisticc, interactional sociolinguistics and sociology, psycholinguistics and cognitive psychology.

Recent book chapters and articles on professional discourse

Gunnarsson, B.-L., 2011: Multilingualism at Work. In, The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics. Malden, MA:Wiley-Blackwell.

Gunnarsson, B.-L., 2011: Applied Linguistics. In, Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights 9. Pragmatics in Practice. Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Gunnarsson, B.-L., 2010: Multilingualism within transnational companies. An analysis of company policy and practice in a diversity perspective. In, H. Kelly-Holmes & G. Mautner, G. (eds), Language and the Market. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave-MacMillan (Language and Globalization series). Pp. 171-184.

Gunnarsson, B.-L., 2009: Discourse in Organizations and Workplaces. In, Li Wei & Vivian Cook (eds.), Contemporary Applied Linguistics, Volume 2: Linguistics for the Real World. London: Continuum. Pp. 121-141.

Gunnarsson, B.-L., 2008: Professional Communication. In, Encyclopedia of Language and Education, 2nd Edition, Volume 4: Second and Foreign Language Education, eds. N. Van Deusen-Scholl & N. H. Hornberg. Springer Science, New York, pp. 83-95.

Gunnarsson, B.-L., 2006: Applied Linguistics. In, Handbook of Pragmatics, compiled by J.-O. Östman & J. Verschueren. John Benjamins Publ. Co, Amsterdam/Philadelphia. (25 pages.)

Gunnarsson, B.-L., 2006: Swedish companies and their multilingual practices. In, J.C. Palmer-Silveira, M. F. Ruiz-Garrido & I. Fortanet-Gómez (eds.), International and Intercultural Business Communication. Theory, Research and Teaching. Peter Lang. Pp. 243-263.

Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise, ed. 2005: Communication in the Workplace. TeFa nr 42. Uppsala universitet. Uppsala. (104 pages.)

Gunnarsson, B.-L., 2005: The verbal construction of organizations. In, B.-L. Gunnarsson (ed.), Communication in the Workplace, . TeFa nr 42. Uppsala universitet. Uppsala. Pp. 78-90.

Gunnarsson, B.-L., 2005: The Organization of Enterprise Discourse. In, A. Trosborg & P.E. Flyvholm Jørgensen (eds.), Business Discourse. Texts and Contexts, Linguistic Insights nr 19. Studies in Language and Communication. Peter Lang: Bern, Berlin, Frankfurt am Main.Pp. 83-109.

Gunnarsson, B.-L., 2004: Orders and disorders of enterprise discourse. In, Discourse, Communication and the Enterprise. Linguistic Perspectives, edited by C. Gouveia, C. Silvestre & L. Azuaga. University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies, Lissabon. Pp. 17-39.

Gunnarsson, B.-L., 2004: The multilayered structure of enterprise discourse. I: Information Design Journal + Document Design, Vol 12 (1), pp. 36-48.

Gunnarsson, B.-L. 2000: Discourse, Organizations and National Cultures. Discourse Studies. Vol 2, No 1, pp. 5-34

The Communicative Situation of Immigrants at Swedish workplaces (KINSA)

The research project was financed by the Swedish Research Council for three years (from July 2003). The main study was undertaken at FUMS (Unit for Advanced Studies in Modern Swedish) , Department of Scandinavian Languages, Uppsala University. A pilot study was carried out in 2001 at the Department of Scandinavian Languages, Uppsala University.

Project team
Britt-Louise Gunnarsson (director)
Helena Andersson
Marie Nelson



Summary

The daily communicative situation of immigrants employed in different working environments was investigated by means of observations, interviews and analyses of spoken and written discourse. The project design can be described as a number of case studies, each with a focus on one immigrant and his/her working group. The study comprised immigrants – men and women – employed at a hospital and a major Swedish company. The analysis focused on how ethnic belonging, gender, power-subordination, collegiality and friendship were constructed in the spoken and written discourse at work. The interactive interplay was also analysed, e.g. what communicative space was given to the immigrant, how his/her utterances and written texts were interpreted and responded to by the others, how misunderstandings occurred and how they were repaired. The daily communicative practices were further analysed in relation to the organizations’ policies on language and diversity issues.

Project description

The theoretical and methodological frame of the research project is drawn from interactional sociolinguistics and ethnographic communication research.

Interviews and case studies

In the main study, two different working environments were studied: a large hospital (Andersson 2007, 2009, 2010) and a major Swedish company (Nelson 2007, 2008, 2010) . In the first phase, a selection of immigrants at the two workplaces were interviewed (21 at the hospital, 18 at the company). In the second phase, five case studies were performed at each workplace. The immigrants were shadowed during a week, and data related to their workplace communication were collected. The results of the main study were thus based both on an ethnographic description of the working environment and on the analysis of collected spoken and written discourse.

The methodological frame of the analysis of spoken and written discourse is interactional sociolinguistics. The immigrant's job identity is seen as constructed in interaction with fellow-workers, and the dialogical character of tdiscourse was therefore focused on in the analysis. The immigrant’s own contributions in the spoken and written dialogues were analysed both in relation to what the other participants had said or written and to what they themselves had responded. The overall aim of the analysis has been to find positive and negative communicative patterns within the working group. For this connection between discourse, individual and environment we found inspiration by methods developed within discourse analysis and the ethnographic communication research.

The workplaces and their different contextual frameworks

In addition to these large investigations of spoken and written discourse at Swedish workplaces, Gunnarsson made a couple of minor studies with a focus on the macro context. In Gunnarsson (2009), the results of the KINSA-project are explored in relation to the national and global contextual frameworks in which the studied working environments operate. In Gunnarsson (2009, 2010), Swedish workfloor practice is also discussed in relation to more general issues, i.e. those on language choice and organizational culture. Within the frame of the KINSA-project, Gunnarsson (2006, 2010) carried out a couple of critical studies of the websites of five transnational companies. Policy documents, job advertisements and presentations of 'successful' employees were analysed from the viewpoint that the social responsibility of a company should include a policy on multilinguality and multiculturality.

The scientific and societal importance of the project

This research project has produced new knowledge within different areas. The project design with its close studies of a few individuals, whose total communication (both spoken and written) are analysed in its contextual frames, implies a synthesis of different methods and theories. An analysis of the individual’s total communication bridges by necessity some of the dividing lines which during the last decades have existed between different subareas, e.g. between studies on text, on one hand, and studies on talk, on the other. Another dividing line has existed between studies which view text and talk in their contextual frame and those which do not. By its multifaceted approach, the KINSA-project help to erase these dividing lines, thus giving a valuable contribution to the development of a more holistic discourse theory.

The wider societal importance of the project is evident. The results increase our knowledge of the conditions for adult immigrants in working life in a way which show companies and institutions how they could take full advantage of the capacities of immigrants and also how the educational system could help prepare both immigrants and Swedish-born Swedes for working life in a modern society.

Publications

2010

Andersson, Helena, 2010: Interkulturell kommunikation på ett svenskt sjukhus. Fallstudier av andraspråkstalare i arbetslivet. Omarbetad utgåva av doktorsavhandling. Digitala skrifter från Nordiska språk 2. Uppsala.

Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise, 2010: Multilingualism within transnational companies. An analysis of company policy and practice in a diversity perspective. In, H. Kelly-Holmes & G. Mautner (eds), Language and the Market. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave-MacMillan (Language and Globalization series). Pp. 171-184.

Nelson, Marie, 2010: Andraspråkstalare i arbete. En språkvetenskaplig studie av kommunikation vid ett svenskt storföretag. Skrifter utgivna av Institutionen för nordiska språk vid Uppsala universitet 82. Uppsala. (300 pages.)

2009

Andersson, Helena, 2009: Interkulturell kommunikation på ett svenskt sjukhus. Fallstudier av andraspråkstalare i arbetslivet. Skrifter utgivna av Institutionen för nordiska språk 77. Uppsala. (250 pages.)

Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise, 2009: Professional Discourse. Ch. 10 (pp. 173-192); ch. 12 (pp. 220-236). Continuum Discourse Series. London and New York: Continuum.

2008

Nelson, Marie, 2008: "Jag kopierar andras mejl". Om andraspråkstalares skrivstrategier i yrkeslivet. In, J. Granfeldt et al (eds.), Språkinlärning, språkdidaktik och teknologi. Rapport från ASLA:s höstsymposium i Lund, 8-9 november 2007. Pp. 163-181.

2007

Andersson, Helena, 2007: Interkulturell kommunikation inom sjukvården. Den kommunikativa situationen för invandrare på svenska arbetsplatser 1: intervjuer. TeFa nr 45. Uppsala universitet. Uppsala. 87 pages.

Nelson, Marie, 2007: Professionella och socialiserande kommunikativa aktiviteter. Andraspråkstalande kvinnor och män i arbete. In, Språk och kön i nutida och historiskt perspektiv. Studier presenterade vid Den sjätte nordiska konferensen om språk och kön, Uppsala 6–7 oktober 2006, edited by B.-L. Gunnarsson, S. Entzenberg & M. Ohlsson. (Skrifter utgivna av Institutionen för nordiska språk vid Uppsala universitet 71.) Uppsala. Pp. 287–298.

2006

Andersson, Helena, 2006: Interkulturell kommunikation på svenska arbetsplatser. In, G. Ransbo, (ed.), Humanister forskar: Humanistdagen vid Uppsala universitet 2006. Uppsala universitet. Uppsala.

Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise, 2006: Swedish companies and their multilingual practices. In, J.C. Palmer-Silveira, M. F. Ruiz-Garrido & I. Fortanet-Gómez (eds.), International and Intercultural Business Communication. Theory, Research and Teaching. Peter Lang. Pp. 243-263.

2005

Andersson, Helena & Nelson, Marie, 2005: Communication at work. The communicative situation of immigrants at Swedish workplaces. In, B.-L. Gunnarsson (ed.), The Immigrant and the Workplace. TeFa nr 41. Uppsala universitet. Uppsala. Pp. 27-46.

Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise, 2005: Introduction. In, B.-L. Gunnarsson (ed.), The Immigrant and the Workplace. TeFa nr 41. Uppsala universitet. Uppsala. Pp. 7-12.

Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise, 2005: The immigrant and the workplace: The societal frame. In, B.-L. Gunnarsson (ed.), The Immigrant and the Workplace. TeFa nr 41. Uppsala universitet. Uppsala. Pp. 13-17.

Nelson, Marie & Andersson, Helena, 2005: Andraspråkstalare i arbetslivet. Data från intervjuer och fallstudier. In, U. Börestam & B.-L. Gunnarsson (eds.), Språk och kultur i det multietniska Sverige. TeFa nr 44. Uppsala universitet. Uppsala. Pp. 84-97.

2002

Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise, 2002: Den kommunikativa situationen för invandrare på svenska arbetsplatser. Projektbeskrivning. (Ansökan till Vetenskapsrådet 2001.) KINSA-projektet. Arbetsrapport 1.

Nelson, Marie, 2002: Den kommunikativa situationen för invandrare på svenska arbetsplatser. Pilotstudie genomförd våren 2001. KINSA-projektet. Arbetsrapport 2.

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Academic genres in a changing discourse community

Britt-Louise Gunnarsson has worked and is currently working with a number of smaller studies, the aim of which is to describe the changes which academic genres are undergoing due to globalization and technologization. Gunnarsson (2006, 2009) analyses economic article patterns from the viewpoint of the effect of a gradual globalization. Articles published in Ekonomist Tidskrift were compared with articles published in the same journal when it had become Scandinavian Journal of Economics. Gunnarsson (2005, 2009) focuses on the relationship between the non-verbal and verbal elements in articles within economy, medicine and technology from 1730-1985.

In an ongoing study, she makes a comparison between articles published in Internet journal, i.e. open access journals, and articles published in printed journals. A pilot study was presented as a paper entitled “Linguistic and textual diversity on the Internet. A study of open access journals” at IPrA in Melbourne, Australia, 2009.

Publications

Britt-Louise Gunnarsson, 2009: Professional discourse. Chapters 5-6 (pp. 72-95). Continuum Discourse Series. London, New York: Continuum.

Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise, 2006: From a national to an international writing community. The case of economics in Sweden. In, J. Bamford & M. Bondi (eds.), Managing interaction in professional discourse. Intercultural and interdiscoursal perspectives. Officina Edizioni, Roma. Pp. 23-45.

Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise, 2005: Icke-verbal representation i vetenskapliga artiklar. In, Språk i tid. Studier tillägnade Mats Thelander på 60-årsdagen. Skrifter utgivna av Institutionen för nordiska språk 67. Uppsala: Uppsala universitet. Pp. 303-314.

Publications on discourse in the technologized society

Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise & Karlsson, Anna-Malin, eds., 2007: Ett vidgat textbegrepp [An enlarged text concept]. TeFa nr 46. Uppsala universitet. Uppsala. (106 pages).

Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise, 2004: Tal och skrift i det teknikstyrda samhället [Spoken and written discourse in the technologized society]. In, Texter och så vidare – det vidgade textbegreppet i svensk skola och förskola, M. Asplund Carlsson, G. Molin & R. Nordberg (eds.). Svensklärarföreningens årsskrift 2003. (Svensklärarserien 226.) Stockholm, 13-25.

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Earlier research projects

Each project below is presented in more detail, and including a publication list, on the subpage Forskningsprojekt.

"Översättning i ett internationellt företag" [Translation in an international firm], funded 1996-2001

"Texter i Europeiska skrivsamhällen" [Texts in European Writing Communities], funded 1994-1997

"Bruket av engelska och andra språk vid Uppsala universitet" [The Use of English and Other Languages at Uppsala University], funded 1994-1995

"Interaktionen vid seminarier" [Interaction at postgraduate seminars], funded 1992-1997

"Textflödet i en kommunal förvaltning" [The flow of texts in local government agencies], funded 1988- 1989

"Fackspråkens framväxt" [The Emergence of Languages for Specific Purposes in Sweden, funded 1989-1992

"Facktexter under 1900-talet" [LSP texts in the 20th century], funded 1986-1989

"Lagar och begriplighet" [Law and Comprehensibility], funded 1981-1985

"Språket i medbestämmandelagen" [The language of the Act on the Joint Regulation of Working Life], funded 1978-1981.

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Publications in English (also in German, French and Portuguese)

Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise (2011): Multilingualism at Work. In, The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics. Malden, MA:Wiley-Blackwell.

Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise (2011): Applied Linguistics. In, Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights 9. Pragmatics in Practice. Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise, 2010: Multilingualism within transnational companies. An analysis of company policy and practice in a diversity perspective. In, H. Kelly-Holmes & G. Mautner (eds), Language and the Market. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave-MacMillan (Language and Globalization series). Pp. 171-184.

Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise, 2009: Professional Discourse. (Continuum Discourse Series.) Continuum International Publishing Group. London and New York. 295 pages.

Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise, 2009: Discourse in Organizations and Workplaces. In, Li Wei & Vivian Cook (eds.), Contemporary Applied Linguistics, Volume 2: Linguistics for the Real World. London: Continuum. Pp. 121-141.

Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise, 2008: Review of Ken Hyland & Marina Bondi, red. (2006), Academic Discourse Across Disciplines. Journal of English for Academic Purposes. Vol 7/1. S. 68-70.

Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise, 2008: Professional Communication. In, Encyclopedia of Language and Education, 2nd Edition, Volume 4: Second and Foreign Language Education, eds. N. Van Deusen-Scholl & N. H. Hornberg. Springer Science, New York, pp. 83-95.

Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise, 2007: Medical Discourse: Sociohistorical Construction. In, Discourse Studies. Volume III, ed. Teun A. van Dijk. (Sage Benchmarks in Discourse Studies). Sage, London, pp.1-13.

Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise, 2007: Otterup, Tore(2005), ”Jag känner mej begåvad bara”: om flerspråkighet och identitetskonstruktion i ett multietniskt förortsområde. Besprechungen/Reviews/Comptes rendus. I: Sociolinguistica, International Yearbook of European Sociolinguistics. 21. Utgiven av U. Ammon, K.J. Mattheier & P. H. Nelde. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag. S. 182-185.

Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise, 2006: Applied Linguistics. In, Handbook of Pragmatics, compiled by J.-O. Östman & J. Verschueren. John Benjamins Publ. Co, Amsterdam/Philadelphia.

Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise, 2006: From a national to an international writing community. The case of economics in Sweden. In, J. Bamford & M. Bondi (eds.), Managing interaction in professional discourse. Intercultural and interdiscoursal perspectives. Officina Edizioni, Roma, 23-45.

Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise, 2006: Swedish companies and their multilingual practices. In, J.C. Palmer-Silveira, M. F. Ruiz-Garrido & I. Fortanet-Gómez (eds.), International and Intercultural Business Communication. Theory, Research and Teaching. Peter Lang, 243-263.

Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise, 2005: Medical Discourse: Sociohistorical Construction. In: Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd Ed., Edited by Keith Brown, Elsevier: Oxford, (ISBN 0-08-044299-4). Vol 7, Article 2360, p. 709-716.

Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise, 2005: Discurso, organizações e culturas nacionais. I: M.C.L. Oliveira, B. Hemais & B.-L. Gunnarsson (eds.): Comunicação, Cultura e Interação em Contextos Organizacionais. Rio de Janiero: Papel Virtual Editora, 251-296.

Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise, 2005: The Organization of Enterprise Discourse. I: Business Discourse. Texts and Contexts, red. A. Trosborg & P.E. Flyvholm Jørgensen. Linguistic Insights nr 19. Studies in Language and Communication. Peter Lang: Bern, Berlin, Frankfurt am Main, s. 83-109. (ISBN 3-03910-606-6; ISSN 1424-8689.)

Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise, 2005: The verbal construction of organizations. I: Communication in the Workplace, Gunnarsson, B.-L. (ed.). TeFa nr 42. Uppsala universitet. Uppsala. S. 78-90.

Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise, 2005: Introduction. I: The Immigrant and the Workplace, Gunnarsson, B.-L. (ed.). TeFa nr 41. Uppsala universitet. Uppsala. S. 7-12.

Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise, 2005: The immigrant and the workplace: The societal frame. I: The Immigrant and the Workplace, Gunnarsson, B.-L. (ed.). TeFa nr 41. Uppsala universitet. Uppsala. S. 13-17.

Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise, 2004: Orders and disorders of enterprise discourse. In, Discourse, Communication and the Enterprise. Linguistic Perspectives, Gouveia, C., Silvestre, C. & L. Azuaga (eds.), University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies, Lissabon. Pp. 17-39.

Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise, 2004: The multilayered structure of enterprise discourse. Information Design Journal + Document Design 12 (1). John Benjamins Publishing Company. Pp. 36-48.

Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise, 2002: Academic women in the male university field. Communicative practices at postgraduate seminars. In, Baron, B. & Kotthoff, H. (eds.): Gender in Interaction. Perspectives on feminity and masculinity in ethnography and discourse. Pragmatics & Beyond NS, 93. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company. Pp. 247-281.

Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise, 2002: Reading and Comprehension of Food Labels. In, Studia Linguistica et Litteraria Septentrionalia. Studies presented to Heikki Nyyssönen. Edited by E.Kärkkainen, J. Haines & T. Lauttamus. Department of English, University of Oulu. Oulu, Finland. Pp. 47-59.

Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise, 2001: Swedish Tomorrow – A Product of the Linguistic Dominance of English? In. Managing Multilingualism in a European Nation-state. Challenges for Swedish", edited by S. Boyd & L. Huss. Current Issues in Language and Society, Multilingual Matters Ltd. Clevedon, England. Pp. 51-69

Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise, 2001: Expressing criticism and evaluation during three centuries. Journal of Historical Pragmatics, vol 2(1), 2001. Pp. 115-139.

Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise, 2001: Swedish, English, French or German – The Language Situation at Swedish Universities. In, U. Ammon (ed.): The Dominance of English as a Language of Science. Effects on Other Languages and Language Communities. Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter. Pp. 229-316.

Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise, 2000: Discourse, Organizations and National Cultures. Discourse Studies. Vol 2, No 1. 2000. Pp. 5-34

Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise, 1999: The Study of discourse in organizations. "Introduction" samt "Discourse and organizational culture – a study of professional communication in three countries". In, AFinLA Series. Multiple Languages – Multiple Perspectives. Texts on Language Teaching and Linguistic Research, edited by P. Pietila & O.-P. Salo. AFinLA Yearbook 1999. No 57. Jyväskylä, Finland. Pp. 9-2

Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise, 1999: Institutional narrative: Culture, professionalization and depersonalization. In, Narrative Inquiry, Volume 9, Issue 1. Pp. 181-186.

Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise, 1998: Promoting Images. The Discursive Construction of a Bank. In, Lundquist, L., Picht, H. & J. Qvistgaard (eds): LSP Identity and Interface. Research, Knowledge and Society. Proceedings of the 11th European Symposium on LSP. Copenhagen, August 1997. Volume II. Copenhagen Business School. Pp. 623-636.

Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise, 1998: Academic Discourse in Changing Context Frames: The construction and development of a genre. In, P. Evangelisti Allori (ed.) Academic Discourse in Europe. Thought Processes and Linguistic Realisations. Rome: Bulzoni. Pp. 19-42.

Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise, 1997: On the Sociohistorical Construction of Scientific Discourse. In, Gunnarsson, B.-L., Linell, P. & Nordberg, B. (eds.): The Construction of Professional Discourse. Longman. London and New York. Pp. 99-126.

Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise, Linell, Per. & Nordberg, Bengt, 1997: Introduction. In, Gunnarsson, B.-L., Linell, P. & Nordberg, B. (eds.): The Construction of Professional Discourse. Longman. London and New York. Pp. 1-12.

Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise, 1997: The writing process from a sociolinguistic viewpoint. Written Communication, vol 14, no 2. Pp. 139-188.

Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise,1997: Women and men in the academic discourse community. In, Kotthoff, H. & Wodak, R. (eds.): Communicating Gender in Context. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company. Pp. 219-247.

Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise, 1997: Language for Special Purposes. In, G. R.Tucker & D. Corson (eds.): Encyclopedia of Language and Education, Volume 4: Second Language Education. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers. Pp. 105-117.

Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise, 1997: Applied Discourse Analysis. In, van Dijk, T. (ed.): Discourse Studies. A Multidisciplinary Introduction. 2. Discourse as Social Interaction. London, Thousand Oaks, New Delhi: Sage Publications. Pp. 285-312.

Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise,1996: Text, Discourse Community and Culture. A Social Constructive View of Texts from Different Cultures. In, Hickey, T. & Williams, J. (eds.), Language, Education and Society in a Changing World. Dublin, Clevedon, etc: IRAAL/Multilingual Matters. Pp. 157-169.

Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise, 1996: Research Methodologies in an Internationalized Scandinavian Community. English International, vol 4, number 1. Pp. 20-24.

Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise, 1995: Applied Linguistics. In, Handbook of Pragmatics. Manual. Edited by Verschueren, J., Östman J.-O. & Blommaert, J. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Pp. 45-54.

Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise, 1995: Studies of language for specific purposes - a biased view of a rich reality. International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Vol. 5, No. 1, Pp. 111-134.

Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise, 1995: Interaction and Gender. A study of postgraduate seminars at a Swedish university. TeFa nr 12. Uppsala university. Uppsala. (27 p.)

Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise, 1995: Academic Leadership and Gender. The Case of the Seminar Chair. In, Broch, I., Bull, T. & Swan, T. (eds.) Proceedings of the 2nd Nordic conference on language and gender. Tromsö 3-5. November 1994. NORDLYD, Tromsö University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, No. 23. Pp. 174-193.

Andersson, Bo & Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise, 1995: A Contrastive Study of Text Patterns in Conference Abstracts. In, Wårvik, B., Tanskanen, S.-K. & Hiltunen, R. (eds.): Organization in Discourse. Proceedings from the Turku Conference. Anglicana Turkuensia, Vol. 14. Åbo. Pp. 139-148.

Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise, 1994: LSP in a Historical Perspective. Introduction. Historical studies in different traditions. In, Brekke, M., Andersen, Ö., Dahl, T. & Myking, J. (eds.):Applications and Implications of Current LSP Research. Volume II. Fagbokforlaget. Bergen. Pp. 878-887.

Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise, 1994: Textual patterns and the discourse community: A sociosemantic approach to the history of LSP. In, Brekke, M., Andersen, Ö., Dahl, T. & Myking, J. (eds.): Applications and Implications of Current LSP Research. Volume II. Fagbokforlaget. Bergen. Pp. 888-898.

Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise, 1994: Diskursanalyse in Schweden. In. Ehlich, K. (ed.): Diskursanalyse in Europa. Frankfurt am Main, Berlin etc. Peter Lang. pp. 25-40.

Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise, 1993: Pragmatic and macrothematic patterns in science and popular science: A diachronic study of articles from three fields. In, Ghadessy, M. (ed.): Register Analysis: Theory and Practice. Pinter Publishers. London and New York. Pp. 165-179.

Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise, 1993: Fachsprachen und soziolinguistische Theorien: Eine Untersuchung über ihre Relevanz für die Fachsprachenforschung. In, Bungarten T. (ed.): Fachsprachentheorie. Band 2: Konzeptionen und theoretische Richtungen. Attikon. Tostedt. Pp. 618-676.

Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise, 1993: Analyse de textes en relation avec le niveau cognitif. In, Moirand, S., Ali Bouacha, A., Beacco, J.-C., Collinot, A. (eds.): Parcours linguistiques de discours spécialisés. Peter Lang. Berne, Berlin, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Paris, Vienna. Pp. 173-192

Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise, 1993: Research on Language for Specific Purposes in the past and in the Future. TeFa nr 8 (=FUMS Rapport nr 171.) Uppsala University. Uppsala. (27 p.)

Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise, 1993: Review of Bazerman, C. & Paradis, J. (eds.), Textual Dynamics of the Professions: Historical and Contemporary Studies of Writing in Professional Communities. In, English for Specific Purposes, Vol 12. Pp. 271-273.

Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise, 1992: Linguistic change within cognitive worlds. In, G. Kellermann & M. D. Morrissey (eds.): Diachrony within Synchrony: Language History and Cognition, Frankfurt am Main: Verlag Peter Lang. Pp. 205-228.

Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise, 1992: Message structure in LSP texts. - A socially determined variation at different text levels. In, Lindeberg, A.-C., Enkvist, N.E. & Wikberg, K. (eds.): Nordic Research on Text and Discourse. NORDTEXT Symposium 1990. Åbo Akademis Förlag. Åbo. Pp. 91-106.

Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise, 1992: Pragmatic structure of LSP-articles from a diachronic viewpoint. In, Grindsted, A. & Wagner, J. (eds.): Communication for Specific Purposes. Fachsprachliche Kommunikation. Kommunikation und Institution 21. Gunter Narr Verlag. Tübingen. Pp. 72-92.

Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise, 1992: Studies in language for specific purposes. TeFa nr 2. (=FUMS Rapport nr 163.) Uppsala University. Uppsala. (31 s.)

Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise, 1990: The LSP text and its social context. A model for text analysis. In, Halliday, M.A.K., Gibbons, J. & Nicholas, H. (eds.): Learning, keeping and using language. Vol. II. John Benjamins Publishing Company. Amsterdam, Philadelphia. Pp. 395-414.

Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise, 1989: Textcomprehensibility and the writing process. The case of laws and law making. Written Communication, vol.6, No.1. Pp. 86-107.

Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise, 1989: LSP Texts in a Diachronic Perspective. In, Laurén, C. & Nordman, M. (eds.): Special Language : From Humans Thinking to Thinking Machines. Multilingual Matters Ltd. Clevedon, Philadelphia. Pp. 243-252.

Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise, 1987: The Abstractness and Implicitness of Swedish Legal Language. In, Cornu, A., et al. (eds.), Beads and Bracelet? How do we approach LSP. Selected papers from the 5th European Symposium on LSP. Oxford University Press. Oxford. Pp. 219-229.

Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise, 1987: Textcomprehensibility and the writing process. The case of laws and law making. FUMS Rapport nr 134. Uppsala University. (30 p.)

Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise, 1986: Gebraucherbezogene Analyse der schwedischen Gesetzgebung. In, Recht und Politik No 2. Pp. 84-96.

Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise, 1986: Gebraucherbezogene Analyse der schwedischen Gesetzgebung. In, Öhlinger, T.(ed.): Recht und Sprache. Manzsche Verlags- und Universitätsbuchhandlung. Wien. Pp. 95-114.

Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise, 1984: Functional comprehensibility of legislative texts: Experiments with a Swedish Act of Parliament. Text 4-1/3. Pp.71-105.

Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise, 1982: Functional comprehensibility of legislative texts: Experiments with a Swedish Act of Parliament. FUMS Rapport nr 102. Uppsala University. Uppsala. (31 p.)

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Edited books in English and Portuguese

Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise (ed.), 2011: Languages of Science in the Eighteenth Century. London, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Oliveira, M.C.L, Hemais, B. & Gunnarsson, B.-L. (eds.), 2005: Comunicação, Cultura e Interação em Contextos Organizacionais. Rio de Janiero: Papel Virtual Editora. (446p.).

Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise (ed.) 2005: Communication in the Workplace. TeFa nr 42. Uppsala universitet. Uppsala. (104 p.)

Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise (ed.) 2005: The Immigrant and the Workplace. TeFa nr 41. Uppsala universitet. Uppsala. (65 p.)

Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise et al (eds.): Language Variation in Europe. Papers from ICLaVE 2. Department of Scandinavian Languages, Uppsala University. Uppsala 2004. (ISBN 91-631-5214-2). (444 p.)

Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise, Linell, Per & Nordberg, Bengt (eds.), 1997: The Construction of Professional Discourse. Longman. London and New York. (328 p.)

Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise & Bäcklund, Ingegerd (eds.), 1995: Writing in Academic Contexts. TeFa nr 11. Uppsala University. Uppsala. (102 p.)

Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise, Linell, Per & Nordberg, Bengt (eds.), 1994: Text and Talk in Professional Contexts. Selected Papers from the International Conference "Discourse and the Professions. Uppsala, 26-29 August, 1992. ASLA:s skriftserie nr 6. Uppsala University. Uppsala. (274 p.)