Anna-Brita Stenström

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Anna-Brita Stenström (1932 – 22 December 2023) was a Swedish linguist whose areas of research included corpus linguistics, sociolinguistics, pragmatics, and discourse analysis. She initiated and co-directed three online corpora of adolescent language: The Bergen Corpus of London Teenage Language (COLT), Ungdomsspråk och språkkontakt i Norden (UNO), and Corpus Oral de Lenguaje Adolescente (COLA).[1]

Biography[edit]

Stenström was Professor Emerita of English Linguistics at the University of Bergen, Norway. She also was a foreign member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.[2] She died on 22 December 2023.[3]

Research[edit]

An Introduction to Spoken Interaction places an emphasis on conversation through multiple means as well as describes and analyzes conversations. Using the London-Lund Corpus of English Conversation, Stenstrom shows the many conversation strategies with real world examples.

"Corpus-pragmatic perspectives on the contemporary weakening of fuck: The case of teenage British English" conversation goes over the evolution of the word fuck with two different corpora of British English teenagers. It discusses how the usage is becoming more common and less stigmatized as the word is losing its more abusive meaning.

"From yes to innit: Origin, development and general characteristics of pragmatic markers". Voices Past and Present - Studies of Involved, Speech-related and Spoken Texts: In honor of Merja Kytö, 266-281 uses four different corpora (COLT, MLE, BNC Old, and BNC2014) to compare the pragmatic marker innit with yes, yeah and okay as well as show the development of the many markers.

"Your mum! "Teenagers’ swearing by mother in English, Spanish and Norwegian" from the International Journal of Corpus Linguistics compares teenagers' usage of mother or mom in swearing. The corpora used were the COLT, COLAm, and UNO-Oslo. Spanish had the highest usage of these kinds of swearing as there is more stigma since Spain is a catholic country.

"A matter of politeness? A contrastive study of phatic talk in teenage conversation" takes Leech's Phatic Maxim and discusses phatic expressions in Spanish and English youth as a form of politeness. The difference between Spanish and English teenagers are that Spanish teenagers use vocatives while English teenager give minimal feedback signals.

Publications[edit]

  • Anna-Brita Stenström and Robbie Love. 2023. "Corpus-pragmatic perspectives on the contemporary weakening of fuck: The case of teenage British English conversation". Journal of Pragmatics, 167-181.
  • Anna-Brita Stenström. 2020. "From yes to innit: Origin, development and general characteristics of pragmatic markers". Voices Past and Present - Studies of Involved, Speech-related and Spoken Texts: In honor of Merja Kytö, 266-281.
  • Anna-Brita Stenström. 2014. "Your mum! "Teenagers’ swearing by mother in English, Spanish and Norwegian". International Journal of Corpus Linguistics Vol. 19, Issue 1, 29-59.
  • Anna-Brita Stenström and Annette Myre Jørgensen, eds. 2009. Youngspeak in a Multilingual Perspective (Pragmatics & Beyond New Series) John Benjamins.
  • Stenström, Anna-Brita 2009. “Pragmatic markers in contrast: Spanish pues nada and English anyway”. In Youngspeak in a Multilingual Perspective, Stenström, Anna-Brita and Annette Myre Jørgensen (eds.), 137–159.
  • Anna-Brita Stenström and Annette Myre Jørgensen. 2008. "A matter of politeness? A contrastive study of phatic talk in teenage conversation". Pragmatics, Vol. 18, Issue 4. 635-657.
  • Stenström, Anna-Brita. 2006. “Taboo words in teenage talk”. In Language Variation and Change: Historical and contemporary perspectives. Special issue of Spanish in Context 3:1 (2006), Mar-Molinero, Clare and Miranda Stewart (eds.), 115–138.
  • Karin Aijmer and Anna-Brita Stenström, eds. 2004. Discourse Patterns in Spoken and Written Corpora (Pragmatics & Beyond New Series) John Benjamins.
  • Stenström, Anna-Brita. 2003. “It’s not that I really care about him personally you know”. In Discourse Constructions of Youth Identities, Androutsopoulos, Jannis K. and Alexandra Georgakopoulou (eds.)
  • Anna-Brita Stenström, Gisle Andersen and Ingrid Kristine Hasund. 2002. Trends in Teenage Talk: Corpus compilation, analysis and findings [Studies in Corpus Linguistics) John Benjamins.
  • Stenström, Anna-Brita 1998. “From Sentence to Discourse”. In Discourse Markers: Descriptions and theory, Jucker, Andreas H. and Yael Ziv (eds.)
  • Anna-Brita Stenström. 1994. An Introduction to Spoken Interaction.

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Reading Tools". Retrieved March 28, 2015.
  2. ^ "Group 5: Philology and Linguistics". Retrieved March 28, 2015.
  3. ^ "At the request of family, I'm sad to share news of the death of Anna-Brita Stenström, Professor Emerita at the University of Bergen, on 22nd December". Dr. Robbie Love on Twitter. Retrieved 28 January 2024.


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