Anna-Brita Stenström (born 1932) is a linguist whose areas of research include

corpus linguistics Corpus linguistics is the study of language, study of a language as that language is expressed in its text corpus (plural ''corpora''), its body of "real world" text. Corpus linguistics proposes that a reliable analysis of a language is more feas ...

, sociolinguistics, pragmatics, and discourse analysis. She has initiated and co-directed three online corpora of adolescent language: The

Bergen Corpus of London Teenage Language The Bergen Corpus of London Teenage Language (COLT) is a data set of samples of spoken English that was compiled in 1993 from tape recorded and transcribed conversations by teens between the ages of 13 and 17 in schools throughout London, England. ...

(COLT), Ungdomsspråk och språkkontakt i Norden (UNO), and Corpus Oral de Lenguaje Adolescente (COLA). She is Professor Emerita of English Linguistics at the

University of Bergen The University of Bergen ( no, Universitetet i Bergen, ) is a research-intensive state university located in Bergen, Norway. As of 2019, the university has over 4,000 employees and 18,000 students. It was established by an act of parliament in 194 ...

, Norway. Stenström is a foreign member of the

Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters ( no, Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi, DNVA) is a learned society based in Oslo, Norway. Its purpose is to support the advancement of science and scholarship in Norway. History The Royal Frederick Univer ...

Publications

*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. *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 Karin Aijmer (born 15 January 1939) is a Swedish linguist whose research focuses on topics in pragmatics and discourse, including ways of expressing epistemic modality/evidentiality, pragmatic markers, conversational routines and other fixed phrase ...

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.)

References

1932 births Living people Linguists from Sweden Corpus linguists Women linguists Academic staff of the University of Bergen Members of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters {{sweden-linguist-stub