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Jan Svennevig

Professor

Institutt for nordisk og mediefag

E-post: jan.svennevig@uia.no
Telefon: +47 38142154
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Kontor E2069 (Universitetsveien 25, 4630 Kristiansand, Norway)

Forskningsgrupper

Kommunikasjons- og mediestudier

Ansvarsområde

Jeg forsker på samtale og muntlig språkbruk i ulike kontekster. Hovedinteressen er etablering av forståelse i samtaler der en av partene er andrespråksbruker. Ellers har jeg forsket på pragmatiske partikler i norsk og samtaler i ulike institusjonelle sammenhenger, slik som i møter i organisasjoner. Jeg leder for tiden prosjektet Communicating rights in police investigative interviews (2018-2021), som undersøker hvordan politietterforskere informerer mistenkte med andrespråksbakgrunn om deres rettigheter i avhør. Jeg deltar også i prosjektet Andrespråkskommunikasjon i arbeidslivet: om polske immigranter i Norge (2020-2023) med studier av andrespråklig interaksjon på arbeidsplassen. Endelig har jeg også ledet prosjektet Språk og kommunikasjon hos flerspråklige med demens (2016-2020). Jeg underviser i retorikk og kommunikasjon på bachelor i kommunikasjon og master i samfunnskommunikasjon.

Forskning

Flerspråklighet

Som leder av forskningsprosjektet Språk og kommunikasjon hos flerspråklige med demens har jeg bidratt til en rekke artikler. Et par av dem handler om strategier flerspråklige bruker for å finne ord når de snakker på et andrespråk, og hvordan disse påvirkes av fremskridende demens (Svennevig og Lind 2016, Lind m.fl. 2018). En annen tar opp bruken av andre språk - kodeveksling - som strategi for å kompensere for ordfinningsproblemer (Svennevig m.fl. 2019). Videre har jeg en artikkel om hvordan samtalepartnere håndterer situasjoner der en person med demens ikke kan svare på et spørsmål om personlige erfaringer og produserer forklaringer på årsaken til det manglende svaret (Svennevig & Landmark 2019). En annen artikkel tar opp hvordan samtalepartnere kan støtte personer med demens når de forsøker å fortelle en historie, uten derved å overta historiefortellingen (Svennevig & Hamilton 2021). En annen kontekst hvor jeg studerer flerspråklighet, er byggeplasser. Her har jeg publisert en artikkel om hvilke strategier bygningsarbeidere bruker for å tilegne seg nye tekniske termer på norsk i sine daglige samtaler på arbeidsplassen (Svennevig 2018b).

Etablering av forståelse i samtale

I en rekke artikler har jeg beskrevet samtalestrategier som brukes for å sikre gjensidig forståelse i samtaler med andrespråksbrukere. Særlig har jeg beskrevet strategier for å foregripe og avverge forståelsesproblemer. Noen slike strategier er å reformulere sin egen ytring på en enklere måte (Svennevig 2023), å dele opp en ytring i mindre porsjoner og presentere dem én av gangen (Svennevig 2015, 2018a), å foregripe problemer med vanskelige ord ved å skyte inn forklarende tillegg i en pågående tur (Svennevig 2010) eller å omformulere spørsmål ved å legge til mulige svaralternativer (Svennevig 2013). I et eksperiment testet vi om slike strategier faktisk fører til bedre forståelse, og det viste seg at jo flere strategier man brukte, jo større var sjansene for å oppnå forståelse (Svennevig, Gerwing m.fl. 2019). En kontekst hvor slike strategier brukes med hell, er i politiavhør når etterforskere skal forklare den avhørte vedkommendes rettigheter, som i de juridiske dokumentene er formulert i et vanskelig forståelig språk (Svennevig, Urbanik & Diepeveen 2023). For å sjekke at man har forstått en potensielt problematisk ytring av en andrespråksbruker, benyttes ofte repetisjon av ytringen som en kvittering på mottatt informasjon (2004). Når det oppstår forståelsesproblemer i andrespråkssamtaler, bruker førstespråksbrukerne ulike strategier for å unngå å fremheve andrespråksbrukernes språkproblemer (Svennevig 2009a). En mer generell strategi for å unngå det sosialt sensitive i å innlede til reparasjon, er å presentere problemet som et hørselsproblem framfor et forståelsesproblem (Svennevig 2008a).

Norske diskursmarkører

Jeg har analysert en rekke småord og pragmatiske uttrykk som er særegne for talespråk. Det gjelder for eksempel når vi svarer ja, jo og nei på spørsmål som ikke er ja/nei-spørsmål: A: "Hvorfor gjorde du det?" B: "Nei, det var vel fordi..." (Svennevig 2001b). Jeg har også skrevet om hvordan adverbet bare har utviklet seg til en samtalepartikkel som kan fungere enten dempende ("Jeg bare lurte på...") eller forsterkende ("Den er bare så fet!") (Opsahl og Svennevig 2007). En annen studie analyserer funksjonen av ikke sant som responsuttrykk (A: "Den filmen var så kul!" B: "Ikke sant?") og hevder at denne brukes til å hevde selvstendig grunnlag for vurderingen (Svennevig 2008d). Videre har jeg studert partikler som brukes til å innlede sitater, nemlig bare, sånn og liksom ("Hun bare "hva?"", "Jeg blir sånn "å herregud!"") (Hasund, Opsahl og Svennevig 2012, Opsahl og Svennevig 2012). En annen studie handler om uttrykket hallo, som jeg viser kan brukes enten som en påtale av feil ("Hallo, kan du ta litt hensyn?") eller som en annonsering av nyheter ("Hallo jeg hadde det skikkelig koselig med Håkon på lørdag!") (Svennevig 2012d). Endelig har jeg skrevet om partikkelen nå, som i motsetning til de andre diskursmarkørene er i tilbakegang og i ferd med å forsvinne, særlig som forsterker av talerens forpliktelse til utsagnet ("Det er nå trivelig innpå der, da") (Svennevig 2014a).

Intern kommunikasjon på arbeidsplassen

Et viktig forskningstema har vært interaksjon i møter. I én artikkel viser jeg hvordan ledere gir tilbakemelding på de underordnedes rapportering av sin virksomhet og hvordan de formulerer anvisninger for framtidig handling (Svennevig 2011). I en annen tar jeg opp hvordan dagsordenen brukes som ressurs for å introdusere nye emner i samtalen (Svennevig 2012a). Den siste artikkelen om dette emnet handler om hvordan møtedeltakere begrunner og redegjør for sin rett til å tildele andre arbeidsoppgaver (Svennevig og Djordjilovic 2015). Jeg har også skrevet et par introduksjonsartikler som går gjennom forskningen om møtesamtaler generelt (Asmuss og Svennevig 2009, Svennevig 2012b). Ellers har jeg i samarbeid med Karianne Skovholt studert bruken av e-post i arbeidsgrupper, med vekt på normer for når og hvordan man gir respons (Skovholt & Svennevig 2013) og hvordan kopier brukes for ulike formål (Skovholt & Svennevig 2006). Jeg har også analysert lederes retorikk i annonsering av nedbemanninger i en bedrift (Svennevig 2008a).

Faglige interesser

Forebygging av forståelsesproblemer i samtaler med andrespråksbrukere

Flerspråklighet og demens

Pragmatiske partikler i norsk

Politiavhør

Utvalgte publikasjoner

For fullstendig liste over publikasjoner, se min profil på Google Scholar eller Researchgate.

Jan Svennevig (2023) Self-Reformulation as a Preemptive Practice in Talk Addressed to L2 Users, Research on Language and Social Interaction, 56:3, 250-268, DOI: 10.1080/08351813.2023.2235967

Jan Svennevig, Paweł Urbanik & Aafke Diepeveen (2023) How police investigators seek to secure that suspects speaking a second language understand their rights in investigative interviews, Police Practice and Research, DOI: 10.1080/15614263.2023.2233660

Diepeveen, Aafke; Svennevig, Jan; Urbanik, Pawel (2022). Suspects’ opportunities to claim their legal rights in police investigative interviews. International Journal of Speech Language and The Law. doi:https://doi.org/10.1558/ijsll.20349.

Svennevig, Jan & Hamilton, Heidi (2021). Fostering Storytelling by Persons with Dementia in Multiparty Conversation. In Røyneland, Unn & Blackwood, Robert (Ed.), Multilingualism across the Lifespan. Routledge. p. 169–188. doi: 10.4324/9781003125815.

Svennevig, Jan (2021). How to do things with signs. The formulation of directives on signs in public spaces, Journal of Pragmatics, 175, 165-183.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2021.01.016

Svennevig, Jan 2020 Språklig samhandling. Innføring i kommunikasjonsteori og diskursanalyse. Oslo: Cappelen Akademisk Forlag

Svennevig, Jan & Landmark, Anne Marie (2019). Accounting for forgetfulness in dementia interaction. Linguistics Vanguard 5 (s2), s 1- 12 .

Svennevig, Jan; Hansen, Pernille; Simonsen, Hanne Gram & Landmark, Anne Marie Dalby (2019). Code-switching in multilinguals with dementia: patterns across speech contexts.Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics. doi:10.1080/02699206.2019.1600170

Svennevig, Jan, Jennifer Gerwing, Bård Uri Jensen, Meredith Allison (2019). Pre-empting understanding problems in L1/L2 conversations: Evidence of effectiveness from simulated emergency calls. Applied Linguistics 40(2), 205-227. https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/amx021

Svennevig, Jan (2018a). Decomposing Turns to Enhance Understanding by L2 Speakers, Research on Language and Social Interaction, 51:4, 398-416, DOI: 10.1080/08351813.2018.1524575

Svennevig, Jan (2018b). “What’s it called in Norwegian?” Acquiring L2 vocabulary items in the workplace. Journal of Pragmatics 126, 69-77. doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2017.10.017

Svennevig, Jan og Djordjilovic, Olga 2015. Accounting for the right to assign a task in workplace meetings. Journal of Pragmatics 78, 98–111. (pdf)

Svennevig, Jan, Sonia Arisland og Anna Solvoll Rognmo 2014: "Jeg bare spør..." Pågående intervjustil i partilederutspørringer. Rhetorica Scandinavica 66/67, 96–121.

Svennevig, Jan 2013: Reformulation of questions with candidate answers, International Journal of Bilingualism 17(2), 189–204.

Svennevig, Jan 2012a: The agenda as resource for topic introduction in workplace meetings. Discourse Studies 14(1), 53–66.

Svennevig, Jan 2012b: On being heard in emergency calls. The development of hostility in a fatal emergency call. Journal of Pragmatics 44 (11): 1393-1412.

Svennevig, Jan 2012c: "og jeg bare hallo liksom." Hallo som diskursmarkør i samtale. Jan Lindström og Sofie Henricson (red.): Språk och interaktion 3. Helsingfors universitet: Nordica, s. 157-174 (pdf).

Svennevig, Jan 2011: Leadership style in managers’ feedback in meetings. Jo Angouri & Meredith Marra (red.): Constructing Identities at Work. London: Palgrave, 17–39. (pdf)

Svennevig, Jan 2010. Pre-empting reference problems in conversation. Language in Society 39, 173–202. (pdf, © Cambridge U Press)

Svennevig, Jan 2009. Forståelse og sosiale relasjoner i håndtering av språkproblemer i andrespråkssamtaler. Nordand - Nordisk tidsskrift for andrespråksforskning 4(2), 35–64. (pdf)

Svennevig, Jan 2008. Trying the easiest solution first in other-initiated repair. Journal of Pragmatics 40 (2), 333–348.

Opsahl, Toril og Jan Svennevig 2007. "Må ha det. Bare må ha det” Bare som pragmatisk partikkel i samtale. Norsk lingvistisk tidsskrift 25, 29–56. (pdf )

Svennevig, Jan 2004. Other-repetition as display of hearing, understanding and emotional stance. Discourse Studies 6/4: 489–516.

Svennevig, Jan 2003. Echo answers in native/non-native interaction. Pragmatics 13/2, s. 285–309. (pdf )

Svennevig, Jan 1999 Getting acquainted in conversation. A study of initial interactions. Pragmatics & Beyond New Series), Amsterdam: John Benjamins. (se Google books )

Svennevig, Jan & Hansen, Jessica Pedersen Belisle (2023). Reparasjonssekvenser i tolkede samtaler. NLT - Norsk lingvistisk tidsskrift. ISSN 0800-3076. 41(2), s. 357–379. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Svennevig, Jan (2023). Partikkelen å? som reparasjonsinnleder og nyhetsmarkør. NLT - Norsk lingvistisk tidsskrift. ISSN 0800-3076. 41(2), s. 233–256. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Svennevig, Jan (2023). Samtaleanalyse som forskningsfelt i Norge. NLT - Norsk lingvistisk tidsskrift. ISSN 0800-3076. 41(2), s. 183–205. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Svennevig, Jan (2023). Self-Reformulation as a Preemptive Practice in Talk Addressed to L2 Users. Research on Language and Social Interaction. ISSN 0835-1813. 56(3), s. 250–268. doi: 10.1080/08351813.2023.2235967. Vis sammendrag
Self-reformulation is when a speaker produces a “second saying” of something, changing the wording but keeping the semantic content more or less unaltered. This conversational practice may constitute a method for avoiding potential understanding problems in talk addressed to second language users. Speakers preempt problems by substituting a potentially problematic word or construction with a version that is more recipient designed—that is, better adapted to the assumed linguistic competence and background knowledge of the interlocutor. The reformulations are self-initiated but may be triggered by a lack of response by the interlocutor. They may substitute for the original formulation by an alternative referring expression or by an explanation of word meaning. While most reformulations display an orientation to simplifying the wording, some instances involve reformulation from an everyday term to a technical one, displaying an orientation to language teaching. Data are in Norwegian.
Svennevig, Jan; Urbanik, Pawel Kazimierz & Diepeveen, Aafke (2023). How police investigators seek to secure that suspects speaking a second language understand their rights in investigative interviews. Police Practice & Research. ISSN 1561-4263. doi: 10.1080/15614263.2023.2233660. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Killmer, Helene; Svennevig, Jan & Beeke, Suzanne (2022). Requests to children by parents with aphasia. Aphasiology. ISSN 0268-7038. doi: 10.1080/02687038.2022.2094335. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Diepeveen, Aafke; Svennevig, Jan & Urbanik, Pawel (2022). Suspects’ opportunities to claim their legal rights in police investigative interviews. International Journal of Speech Language and The Law. ISSN 1748-8885. 28(2), s. 171–200. doi: 10.1558/ijsll.20349. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag
When interviewed by the police, suspects are to be informed that they have the right to remain silent and the right to obtain the assistance of a defence counsel. This article presents a conversation analytic study of how it is established in interaction whether a suspect wants to go through with the interview or end it by invoking their legal rights. The data is a corpus of audio recordings of authentic police interviews conducted in Norway. First, we present a quantitative measure of how often suspects are asked explicit questions about whether they want to exercise their right to silence and/or to legal counsel. Second, we investigate variation in the design of such questions, concentrating specifically on expressions involving a preference for one response option over the other. Third, we discuss formulations used while presenting the rights that may legitimise or inhibit a free and independent decision. The results show that suspects are often not asked to take a stance on their rights, and when they are, such questions often involve a bias towards waiving their rights. And although some officers explicitly inform the suspects that they are free to choose whatever option they like, others provide information about the interview that either presupposes willingness to talk or presents the option of waiving one’s rights as preferable to invoking them. These findings have important implications for the safeguarding of suspects’ rights and form the basis for recommendations to the police about how to give suspects the opportunity to take a stance on their legal rights.
Steien, Guri Bordal; Svennevig, Jan & Jensen, Bård Uri (2022). On the pragmatic function of utterance-level declination as deployed by speakers with multilingual repertoires. International Journal of Bilingualism. ISSN 1367-0069. s. 1–17. doi: 10.1177/13670069221077957. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag
Aim and objectives/purpose/research questions: The aim of this study is to examine the pragmatic function of utterance-level declination as used in conversations in French and Norwegian by 10 migrants from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) living in Norway whose repertoires are highly multilingual. Design/methodology/approach: To investigate this contour, we draw on insights from different fields, that is, research on multilingualism, Conversation Analysis (CA), and phonetics/phonology. Data and analysis: By an automatic procedure, we examined pitch variations of 400 declarative utterances (200 in Norwegian and 200 in French). The procedure found that 38 of the utterances have declination. These were then analyzed qualitatively with methods from CA in the context of the sequence. The aim of the CA was to assess the pragmatic functions of the contour. Findings/conclusions: We found that utterance-level declination is a marked contour, that is, used to make certain utterances prominent in relation to other utterances of the sequence. The contour has the same functions in French and Norwegian for these speakers. Our conclusion is that the contour is a flexible resource of the speakers’ repertoires. Originality and significance/implications: This study is a contribution to the scarcely explored area of the prosody-pragmatics interface in speakers with varied linguistic repertoires. Moreover, our approach is emic and inspired by recent trends in the field of multilingualism.
Svennevig, Jan & Hamilton, Heidi (2021). Fostering Storytelling by Persons with Dementia in Multiparty Conversation. I Røyneland, Unn & Blackwood, Robert (Red.), Multilingualism across the Lifespan. Routledge. ISSN 9781003125815. s. 169–188. doi: 10.4324/9781003125815. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag
This innovative collection examines key questions on language diversity and multilingualism running through contemporary debates in psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics. Reinforcing interdisciplinary conversations on these themes, each chapter is co-authored by two different researchers, often those who have not written together before. The combined effect is a volume showcasing unique and dynamic perspectives on such topics as multilingualism across the lifespan, bilingual acquisition, family language policy, language and ageing, language shift, language and identity, and multilingualism and language impairment. The book builds on Elizabeth Lanza’s pioneering work on multilingualism across the lifespan, bringing together cutting-edge research exploring multilingualism as an evolving phenomenon at landmarks in individuals’, families’, and communities’ lives.　Taken together, the book offers a rich portrait of the different facets of multilingualism as a lived reality for individuals, families, and communities. This ground-breaking volume will be of particular interest to students and scholars in multilingualism, applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, and psycholinguistics.
Killmer, Helene; Svennevig, Jan & Beeke, Suzanne (2021). Joint planning in conversations with a person with aphasia . Journal of Pragmatics. ISSN 0378-2166. 187(1), s. 72–89. doi: 10.1016/j.pragma.2021.10.021. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Urbanik, Pawel & Svennevig, Jan (2021). Action-Depicting Gestures and Morphosyntax: The Function of Gesture-Speech Alignment in the Conversational Turn. Frontiers in Psychology. ISSN 1664-1078. 12, s. 1–24. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.689292. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag
The current study examines the role of action-depicting gestures in conversational turns by focusing on their semantic characteristics and temporal position in relation to their verbal affiliates (action verbs or more complex verb phrases). The data are video recordings of naturally occurring interactions in multilingual construction sites in Norway. The analysis distinguishes two modes of action depiction: generic depictions, which represent the action as a general type, and contextualized depictions, which in addition include deictic references to the spatio-material environment or iconic representations of the specific manner of action performance. These two modes typically occupy different positions in the turn. Generic depictions are mostly initiated before the verbalization of the action or are synchronized with it, while contextualized depictions mostly start simultaneously with the verbalization and extend beyond the verb phrase or the turn. The pre-positioned and synchronized generic gestures are shown to serve as a practice for facilitating recognition of the verbalized action and may be temporally manipulated in order to pre-empt understanding problems in the face of reduced common linguistic resources. The post-positioned contextualized depictions serve instead to add specifying information about aspects of the action referred to and thereby to complement or supplement the meaning of the verb phrase, securing understanding of action specifics. The study contributes to research on gesture-speech synchrony by demonstrating how variation in the alignment of action depiction and syntax is used to direct the recipient’s attention toward different interactional goals.
Hansen, Jessica Pedersen Belisle & Svennevig, Jan (2021). Creating space for interpreting within extended turns at talk. Journal of Pragmatics. ISSN 0378-2166. 182, s. 144–162. doi: 10.1016/j.pragma.2021.06.009. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Killmer, Helene; Beeke, Suzanne & Svennevig, Jan (2021). Collaborative storytelling with a person with aphasia: Promoting agency in a multiparty interaction. Journal of Interactional Research in Communication Disorders. ISSN 2040-5111. 11(1), s. 78–104. doi: 10.1558/jircd.20902. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Landmark, Anne Marie Dalby; Nilsson, Elin; Ekström, Anna & Svennevig, Jan (2021). Couples living with dementia managing conflicting knowledge claims. Discourse Studies. ISSN 1461-4456. 23(2), s. 191–212. doi: 10.1177/1461445620966918. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Svennevig, Jan (2021). How to do things with signs. The formulation of directives on signs in public spaces. Journal of Pragmatics. ISSN 0378-2166. 175, s. 165–183. doi: 10.1016/j.pragma.2021.01.016. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Gudmundsen, Jenny & Svennevig, Jan (2020). Multimodal displays of understanding in vocabulary-oriented sequences. Social Interaction - Video-Based Studies of Human Sociality. ISSN 2446-3620. 3(2). doi: 10.7146/si.v3i2.114992. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag
How do participants use multimodal means to display joint understanding after dealing with vocabulary problems in second language interactions? In this article, we investigate the resolution phase of vocabulary-oriented sequences, more specifically word searches, word explanation sequences and vocabulary checks. We argue that understanding is displayed not only by change-of-state tokens, but typically by a more encompassing multimodal gestalt involving facial expression, gestures, and torso movements. A central feature of this gestalt is what we propose to call the change-of-state face, which consists in raised eyebrows and widened eyes and is produced while the head and/or the torso is raised upwards. Typically, this display of a change-of-state is followed by further demonstrations of understanding, such as verbal and gestural repeats. Finally, the solution of the problem is often ‘celebrated’ by means of reciprocal smiling. Not all vocabulary-oriented sequences are equally successful. Facial expression and gesture may also be used to resist and question a proposal of a candidate solution to a word search or a request for an explanation. In this way, multimodal means are crucial to establishing the success of vocabulary-oriented sequences and returning to the main business of the talk.
Svennevig, Jan & Landmark, Anne Marie (2019). Accounting for forgetfulness in dementia interaction. Linguistics Vanguard. ISSN 2199-174X. 5(s2), s. 1–12. doi: 10.1515/lingvan-2018-0021. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag
The article identifies and describes conversational practices used by persons with dementia and their interlocutors to account for the former’s lack of knowledge in cases where information about their personal experiences is made relevant and expectable at a specific point in a conversation. First, they may seek to normalize the lack of knowledge by claiming that it would be difficult for anyone to know or remember the information in question. Second, they may exceptionalize it by claiming that their cognitive or communicative impairment incidentally and temporarily disables them from accessing the information. Finally, they may justify their failure to provide information by claiming that it is not important, relevant or expectable that they should know. Such accounts dissociate the social character from the forgetfulness and thus constitute an attempt to avoid the loss of face associated with not remembering personal experiences. By specifying these conversational accounting practices, the study thus adds to existing knowledge on how participants handle the social sensitivity of typical dementia symptoms.
Svennevig, Jan; Hansen, Pernille; Simonsen, Hanne Gram & Landmark, Anne Marie Dalby (2019). Code-switching in multilinguals with dementia: patterns across speech contexts. Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics. ISSN 0269-9206. doi: 10.1080/02699206.2019.1600170. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag
The study investigates code-switching by multilingual persons with dementia in two different speech contexts, picture naming tests and spontaneous conversation. It combines a psycholinguistic perspective on cognitive and linguistic skills with a qualitative conversation analytic approach to understanding the functions and appropriateness of code-switching in social interaction. The analysis shows that code-switching is used as a resource for compensating for word-retrieval problems in both the naming tests and in word search sequences in conversation. Furthermore, it serves to demarcate meta-communicative parentheses in which the participants comment on their process of word retrieval or express frustration about processing problems. Code-switching is generally treated as appropriate and relevant by the participants. In most instances, the speakers switch to a language known by the interlocutor. Only a few instances are treated as inappropriate by not being understandable to the interlocutor or by not adapting to the established language of the conversation. The patterns of code-switching are discussed considering typical symptoms of cognitive decline associated with dementia. Only very few instances may be interpreted as caused by a lack of awareness of the interlocutor’s language background (associated with reduced episodic memory) or a lack of inhibition. Code-switching thereby presents itself primarily as a communicative resource for handling and overcoming another dementia-related symptom, namely anomia.
Urbanik, Pawel Kazimierz & Svennevig, Jan (2019). Managing contingencies in requests: The role of negation in Norwegian interrogative directives. Journal of Pragmatics. ISSN 0378-2166. 139, s. 109–125. doi: 10.1016/j.pragma.2018.10.014. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag
In Norwegian, unlike English, negative interrogatives are commonly used as requests for action. In addition, the negation adverb ikke can be placed either before or after a pronominal subject. The study explores pragmatic differences between these two request formats, using everyday conversations from the TV series Big Brother as corpus data. We argue that the difference concerns the contingencies faced by the speaker in gaining compliance. The format with preposed negation (Kan ikke jeg/du X? - ‘Can't I/you X?’) requests confirmation of the assumption that the interlocutor can and will do the requested action and that any obstacles to gaining compliance are merely hypothetical. The format with postposed negation (Kan jeg/du ikke X? - ‘Can I/you not X?’), on the other hand, is used when there are contextually manifest obstacles and the speaker seeks to gain compliance in spite of them. Interrogatives with preposed negation take advantage of premises conducive to having action performed and are used to prevent refusal, while those with postposed negation are employed to combat the obstacles and win compliance.
Svennevig, Jan; Gerwing, Jennifer; Jensen, Bård Uri & Allison, Meredith (2019). Pre-empting understanding problems in L1/L2 Conversations: Evidence of effectiveness from simulated emergency calls. Applied Linguistics. ISSN 0142-6001. 40(2), s. 205–227. doi: 10.1093/applin/amx021. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Svennevig, Jan (2018). Decomposing Turns to Enhance Understanding by L2 Speakers. Research on Language and Social Interaction. ISSN 0835-1813. 51(4), s. 398–416. doi: 10.1080/08351813.2018.1524575. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag
This study shows how multi-unit turns may be designed to facilitate incremental establishment of intersubjectivity in cases where understanding is at risk. In addressing L2 speakers, L1 speakers decompose their multi-unit turns into smaller units and present them one at a time, in “installments.” They leave a pause between each installment, thereby inviting the recipient to provide acknowledgments along the way, or alternatively, to initiate repair at an early stage. The practice may be used preemptively, to prevent potential problems of understanding from arising, or in response to an indication of an understanding problem by the recipient.
Svennevig, Jan & Marstrand, Ann Katrine (2018). A preference for non-invasive touch in caregiving contexts. Social Interaction - Video-Based Studies of Human Sociality. ISSN 2446-3620. 1(2). doi: 10.7146/si.v1i2.110019. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Svennevig, Jan & Hasund, Ingrid Kristine (2018). Uformelt talespråk. I Mæhlum, Brit Kirsten (Red.), Norsk språkhistorie II : praksis. Novus Forlag. ISSN 978-82-7099-848-7. s. 119–162. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Hazel, Spencer & Svennevig, Jan (2018). Multilingual workplaces – Interactional dynamics of the contemporary international workforce. Journal of Pragmatics. ISSN 0378-2166. 126, s. 1–9. doi: 10.1016/j.pragma.2017.11.005. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Svennevig, Jan (2018). “What’s it called in Norwegian?” Acquiring L2 vocabulary items in the workplace. Journal of Pragmatics. ISSN 0378-2166. 126, s. 68–77. doi: 10.1016/j.pragma.2017.10.017. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag
The article describes a conversational practice used by L2 speakers in acquiring new technical terms in the course of everyday workplace interaction on a construction site. In the process of searching for a word, the speaker identifies a referent by embodied means and asks the L1 interlocutor what it is called in Norwegian. When the term is provided, it is repeated, often with emphatic prosody, displaying the L2 speaker’s identification of the word and ability to pronounce it. This repeat is treated as a request for confirmation by the L1 speaker, who often also provides further repeats of the word in question. By expanding the word search sequence beyond the identification of the word searched for, the participants show an orientation to the word as a learnable, that is, as something to be memorized and rehearsed in the conversation. The activity of teaching and learning technical vocabulary is thus treated as a relevant activity in and of itself, at the expense of the progression of the workplace task at hand.
Lind, Marianne; Simonsen, Hanne Gram; Ribu, Ingeborg Sophie; Svendsen, Bente Ailin; Svennevig, Jan & de Bot, Kees (2018). Lexical access in a bilingual speaker with dementia: Changes over time. Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics. ISSN 0269-9206. 32(4), s. 353–377. doi: 10.1080/02699206.2017.1381168. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag
In this article, we explore the naming skills of a bilingual English- Norwegian speaker diagnosed with Primary Progressive Aphasia, in each of his languages across three different speech contexts: confrontation naming, semi-spontaneous narrative (picture description), and conversation, and at two points in time: 12 and 30 months post diagnosis, respectively. The results are discussed in light of two main theories of lexical retrieval in healthy, elderly speakers: the Transmission Deficit Hypothesis and the Inhibitory Deficit Theory. Our data show that, consistent with the participant’s premorbid use of and proficiency in the two languages, his performance in his L2 is lower than in his L1, but this difference diminishes as the disease progresses. This is the case across the three speech contexts; however, the difference is smaller in the narrative task, where his performance is very low in both languages already at the first measurement point. Despite his word finding problems, he is able to take active part in conversation, particularly in his L1 and more so at the first measurement point. In addition to the task effect, we find effects of word class, frequency, and cognateness on his naming skills. His performance seems to support the Transmission Deficit Hypothesis. By combining different tools and methods of analysis, we get a more comprehensive picture of the impact of the dementia on the speaker’s languages from an intra-individual as well as an inter-individual perspective, which may be useful in research as well as in clinical practice.
Landmark, Anne Marie Dalby; Ofstad, Eirik Hugaas & Svennevig, Jan (2017). Eliciting patient preferences in shared decision-making (SDM): Comparing conversation analysis and SDM measurements. Patient Education and Counseling. ISSN 0738-3991. 100(11), s. 2081–2087. doi: 10.1016/j.pec.2017.05.018. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

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Svennevig, Jan (2020). Språklig samhandling. Innføring i kommunikasjonsteori og diskursanalyse. Cappelen Damm Akademisk. ISBN 9788202626181. 301 s.
de Bot, Kees; Plejert, Charlotta; Simonsen, Hanne Gram; Fyndanis, Valantis; Hansen, Pernille & Norvik, Monica I. [Vis alle 8 forfattere av denne artikkelen] (2020). Multilingualism and ageing. An Overview. Brill Academic Publishers. ISBN 978-90-04-44539-0. 98 s. Vis sammendrag
This publication provides an overview of research on a large range of topics relating to language processing and language use from a life-span perspective. It is unique in covering and combining psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic approaches, discussing questions such as: Is it beneficial to speak more than one language when growing old? How are languages processed in multilingual persons, and how does this change over time? What happens to language and communication in multilingual aphasia or dementia? How is multilingual ageing portrayed in the media? It is a joint, cross-disciplinary venture of researchers from the Centre for Multilingualism in Society across the Lifespan at The University of Oslo and the editors of this publication.
Telenius, Elisabeth Wiken; Krohne, Kariann; Czapka, Elzbieta; Hansen, Pernille; Ingebretsen, Reidun & Landmark, Anne Marie Dalby [Vis alle 11 forfattere av denne artikkelen] (2020). Umönnun innflytjenda með heilabilun- Handbók. Nordens velferdssenter. ISBN 978-91-88213-68-6. 36 s.
Telenius, Elisabeth Wiken; Krohne, Kariann; Czapka, Elzbieta; Hansen, Pernille; Ingebretsen, Reidun & Landmark, Anne Marie Dalby [Vis alle 11 forfattere av denne artikkelen] (2020). Muistisairaan maahanmuuttajan hoito. Nordens velferdssenter. ISBN 978-91-88213-59-4. 38 s.
Telenius, Elisabeth Wiken; Krohne, Kariann; Czapka, Elzbieta; Hansen, Pernille; Ingebretsen, Reidun & Landmark, Anne Marie Dalby [Vis alle 11 forfattere av denne artikkelen] (2020). Demensomsorg for indvandrere - En håndbog. Nordens velferdssenter. ISBN 978-91-88213-57-0. 36 s.
Telenius, Elisabeth Wiken; Krohne, Kariann; Czapka, Elzbieta; Hansen, Pernille; Ingebretsen, Reidun & Landmark, Anne Marie Dalby [Vis alle 11 forfattere av denne artikkelen] (2020). Demensomsorg för invandrare - En handbok. Nordens velferdssenter. ISBN 978-91-88213-58-7. 36 s.
Telenius, Elisabeth Wiken; Krohne, Kariann; Czapka, Elzbieta; Ingebretsen, Reidun; Hansen, Pernille & Landmark, Anne Marie Dalby [Vis alle 11 forfattere av denne artikkelen] (2020). Demensomsorg for innvandrere - en håndbok. Nordens velferdssenter. ISBN 978-91-88213-55-6. 36 s.

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Svennevig, Jan; Urbanik, Pawel Kazimierz & Diepeveen, Aafke (2024). Slik kan etterforskere bli bedre til å formidle rettighetene i avhør. Politiforum. ISSN 1500-6921.
Svennevig, Jan; Bjorvand, Agnes-Margrethe & Mustad, Erik (2024). Colletts kafé: "Forståelse og misforståelse i samtaler".
Greenall, Annjo Klungervik; Sjo, Klara & Svennevig, Jan (2024). Skuddår, skyveår, hoppeår, og spasergarderobe. [Radio]. NRK.
Opsahl, Toril; Svennevig, Jan; Urbanik, Pawel Kazimierz; Goncalves, Kellie; Pájaro, Verónica & Arum, Nuranindia Endah (2023). Multilingualism in the workplace.
Norvik, Monica I. ; Köder, Franziska Maria; Simonsen, Hanne Gram; Hansen, Pernille; Landmark, Anne Marie Dalby & Svennevig, Jan [Vis alle 10 forfattere av denne artikkelen] (2023). Multilingualism and language disorders.
Svennevig, Jan (2023). "hvis du skjønner hva jeg mener" Om forståelse og misforståelse i samtaler.
Lilja, Niina; Eskildsen, Søren Wind; Wagner, Johannes; Eilola, Laura; Gudmundsen, Jenny & Härmävaara, Hanna-Ilona [Vis alle 11 forfattere av denne artikkelen] (2023). A Nordic model for supporting language learning in everyday contexts. Fast Track to Vision 2030. ISSN 1890-0429. Vis sammendrag
We argue that the present challenges in the linguistic integration of adult immigrants in the Nordic societies require radically new thinking about language and learning. The remedy to the current poor linguistic integration of adult immigrants is not found in organising more integration courses or in tweaking the classroom practices. Rather, we propose that the Nordic countries should join forces in developing a Nordic model for adult immigrants’ linguistic support based on ideas of language companionship and language mentoring on the job. Such a model would be one important step towards making the Nordic Region more socially sustainable.
Diepeveen, Aafke; Lomeu Gomes, Rafael; Goodchild, Samantha; Ims, Ingunn Indrebø; Johnsen, Ragni Vik & Sollid, Hilde [Vis alle 8 forfattere av denne artikkelen] (2022). Language, Globalisation and the Nation. The workshop series from a Norwegian perspective .
Svennevig, Jan (2022). Norske barn seier ikkje lenger «nei takk». [Radio]. Dagsnytt 18, NRK2.
Svennevig, Jan (2022). Norske barn seier ikkje lenger «nei takk». [Internett]. nrk.no.
Svennevig, Jan (2022). Unge dropper punktum: – Det er veldig sint. [Internett]. nrk.no.
Svennevig, Jan (2022). Hvordan gå i dybden på tekster med diskursanalyse? [Internett]. Nasjonal digital læringsarena.
Svennevig, Jan; Diepeveen, Aafke & Urbanik, Pawel (2022). Securing understanding of the suspect’s rights in police investigative interviews.
Svennevig, Jan & Diepeveen, Aafke (2022). Securing Understanding of the Suspect’s Rights in Police Interviews .
Svennevig, Jan (2022). How police investigators inform L2 speakers about their rights in investigative interviews.
Svennevig, Jan (2022). Samtaleanalysens historie i Norge.
Svennevig, Jan (2022). Språksnakk: Larmende stillhet, gibbal og skråsikker. [Radio]. NRK2.
Steien, Guri Bordal; Svennevig, Jan & Jensen, Bård Uri (2022). On the pragmatic function of utterance-level declination as deployed by speakers with multilingual repertoires .
Ommeren, Rikke van; Opsahl, Toril & Svennevig, Jan (2022). Kostebinderi, gå bak nova, ikke sant! [Radio]. Språksnakk, NRK P2.
Svennevig, Jan (2021). Unge dropper punktum. [TV]. NRK 1 Dagsrevyen.
Diepeveen, Aafke; Svennevig, Jan & Urbanik, Pawel (2021). Suspects’ opportunities to claim their legal rights in police investigative interviews.
Svennevig, Jan (2021). Dominerer du, eller underkaster du deg når du snakker med folk? [Avis]. Fædrelandsvennen.
Lanza, Elizabeth; Røyneland, Unn & Svennevig, Jan (2021). Språk og identitet i Etiopia.
Svennevig, Jan (2021). The formulation of directives on signs in public spaces .
Svennevig, Jan & Urbanik, Pawel (2021). Comprehension strategies in the communication of rights to L2 suspects in Norwegian investigative interviews.
Svennevig, Jan & Hamilton, Heidi (2021). Fostering Storytelling by Persons with Dementia in Multiparty Conversation.
Killmer, Helene; Svennevig, Jan & Beeke, Suzanne (2021). Agency in Collaborative Storytelling - reflecting Competence in Aphasia.
Hansen, Pernille; Landmark, Anne Marie; Simonsen, Hanne Gram & Svennevig, Jan (2020). Word finding difficulties in testing and conversation: An interdisciplinary approach to the study of multilinguals with dementia.
Wray, Alison; Svennevig, Jan; Simonsen, Hanne Gram; Norvik, Monica I. ; Landmark, Anne Marie Dalby & Hansen, Pernille [Vis alle 7 forfattere av denne artikkelen] (2020). Demens og kommunikasjon på tvers av språk. [Internett]. You Tube.
Landmark, Anne Marie Dalby & Svennevig, Jan (2020). Når man leter etter ord.
Landmark, Anne Marie Dalby & Svennevig, Jan (2020). How persons with dementia may claim epistemic rights and accomplish agency.
Svennevig, Jan (2020). Demenskommunikasjon og språklig bevissthet.
Svennevig, Jan (2020). Multilingualism as a resource in dementia interaction.
Svennevig, Jan (2020). Overview of the results of the MultiLing Dementia project.
Svennevig, Jan (2020). Forebygging av forståelsesproblemer i samtaler med andrespråksbrukere.
Svennevig, Jan & Urbanik, Pawel Kazimierz (2020). Comprehension strategies in the communication of rights to L2 suspects in Norwegian investigative interviews.
Svennevig, Jan (2020). Forebygging av forståelsesproblemer i samtaler med andrespråksbrukere.
Svennevig, Jan & Urbanik, Pawel Kazimierz (2019). Comprehension strategies in the communication of rights to L2 suspects in Norwegian investigative interviews.
Urbanik, Pawel Kazimierz & Svennevig, Jan (2019). Directives in the multilingual construction site.
Svennevig, Jan (2019). Negotiating tasks and responsibilities in meeting interaction.
Svennevig, Jan (2019). Interactional practices for preempting understanding problems in L2 conversation.
Svennevig, Jan & Gudmundsen, Jenny (2019). Multimodal displays of understanding in vocabulary-oriented sequences.
Urbanik, Pawel Kazimierz & Svennevig, Jan (2019). Directives in the multilingual construction site.
Killmer, Helene; Svennevig, Jan & Beeke, Suzanne (2019). Joint planning talk.
Svennevig, Jan & Urbanik, Pawel Kazimierz (2019). Forståelsesstrategier i politiavhør med mistenkte med andrespråksbakgrunn.
Svennevig, Jan & Gudmundsen, Jenny (2019). Multimodal displays of understanding in L2 conversation.
Svennevig, Jan (2019). Conversation Analysis as an approach to social justice.
Hansen, Pernille; Landmark, Anne Marie Dalby; Simonsen, Hanne Gram & Svennevig, Jan (2019). Ordfinning og ordleting hos sju flerspråklige med demens.
Hansen, Jessica Pedersen Belisle & Svennevig, Jan (2019). Om å snakke for tolking – Midlertidige opphold i lengre taleturer.
Sandvik, Margareth; Kjeldsen, Jens Elmelund; Svennevig, Jan; Vatnøy, Eirik & Andersen, Ida Vikøren (2019). Debatt på TV – spiller det noen rolle?
Steien, Guri Bordal; Jensen, Bård Uri & Svennevig, Jan (2019). On the pragmatic meaning of utterance-level declination in two post-L1 languages.
Hansen, Jessica Pedersen Belisle & Svennevig, Jan (2019). The temporary suspension of turns-in-progress in interpreted interaction .
Simonsen, Hanne Gram & Svennevig, Jan (2018). Språk og kommunikasjon hos flerspråklige eldre med demens.
Hansen, Pernille; Landmark, Anne Marie Dalby; Lind, Marianne; Simonsen, Hanne Gram; Svennevig, Jan & Vonen, Maria Njølstad (2018). Code-switching in multilinguals with dementia: Individual patterns across speech contexts .
Hansen, Pernille; Landmark, Anne Marie Dalby; Lind, Marianne; Simonsen, Hanne Gram & Svennevig, Jan (2018). Communicative competence in multilingual persons with dementia: A linguistic perspective .
Svennevig, Jan & Jensen, Bård Uri (2018). FORENKLING OG TILPASNING TIL ANDRESPRÅKSBRUKERE I SAMTALER I HELSESEKTOREN.
Svennevig, Jan (2017). Hvordan unngå misforståelse i samtale? Språkprat.
Røyneland, Unn & Svennevig, Jan (2017). Interviews versus conversations as data for studying place and identity: Claiming and resisting a Norwegian identity in interaction.
Svennevig, Jan; Landmark, Anne Marie Dalby & Lind, Marianne (2017). Dementia and communication problems in a first and second language.
Svennevig, Jan; Landmark, Anne Marie Dalby & Lind, Marianne (2017). Collaborative word searches in conversations involving bilingual speakers with dementia.
Svennevig, Jan (2017). Language, migration and workplace interaction.
Svennevig, Jan; Simonsen, Hanne Gram; Lind, Marianne & Ribu, Ingeborg Sophie (2017). Word search and lexical access in a bilingual speaker with dementia.
Svennevig, Jan (2017). Dialogue and dominance in counselling sessions on child care.
Svennevig, Jan; Gerwing, Jennifer; Jensen, Bård Uri & Allison, Meredith (2017). Preempting understanding problems in second language interaction.
Simonsen, Hanne Gram; Lind, Marianne; Ribu, Ingeborg Sophie; Bøyum, Malene & Svennevig, Jan (2017). Lexical access in a bilingual speaker with dementia: Changes over time.
Svennevig, Jan & Simonsen, Hanne Gram (2017). The MultiLing Dementia Project. Vis sammendrag
What happens with language – or the languages – in bilinguals with dementia? What aspects of language are affected, and are both languages affected in a similar way? In The MultiLing Dementia Project we will specifically look at word finding problems in bilinguals with Dementia of the Alzheimer Type (DAT), using different methods: In addition to a test battery consisting of a naming test and various cognitive tests as well as a background questionnaire on functional communication skills, we have elicited oral narratives and collected conversational data. In this talk we will present some results from a pilot study with two male bilingual speakers of American English and Norwegian, both 68 years of age, one neurologically healthy and one with a diagnosis of probable DAT. We will demonstrate how the naming abilities are affected by DAT in the two languages, and what strategies can be used both by the person affected and by his interlocutors to compensate for the problems encountered.

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