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Tore Janson (born 1936) is a Swedish linguist. Janson was professor of
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at the
University of Gothenburg The University of Gothenburg ( sv, Göteborgs universitet) is a university in Sweden's second largest city, Gothenburg. Founded in 1891, the university is the third-oldest of the current Swedish universities and with 37,000 students and 6000 st ...
, and later became professor of
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at the same alma mater. He retired in 2001, but has since been affiliated with the
University of Stockholm Stockholm University ( sv, Stockholms universitet) is a public research university in Stockholm, Sweden, founded as a college in 1878, with university status since 1960. With over 33,000 students at four different faculties: law, humanities, so ...
. He devoted much of his time and publishing activities to the way languages change as well as the relationship between language and society.Author profile at Norstedts publishers
, translated from Swedish, retrieved 20 Dec 2011 He is the author of the international bestsellers ''Speak: A Short History of Languages'' and ''A Natural History of Latin''.


Works

English * ''Speak: A Short History of Languages'', Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. * ''A Natural History of Latin'', Oxford: Oxford University Press 2004. * ''The History of Languages: An Introduction'', Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Swedish * ''Latin Kulturen, historien, språket'', Wahlström & Widstrand, 2002 * ''Språken och historien'' (transl. language and history), Stockholm: Norstedts, 2008. * ''Språkens historia. En upptäcktsresa i tid och rum'' (transl. Language's history, a discovery journey across time and space), Stockholm: Norstedts, 2010. * ''Germanerna'', Stockholm: Norstedts, 2013.


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Profile at Stockholm University

Author profile at Norstedts publishers
1936 births Living people Linguists from Sweden Academic staff of the University of Gothenburg {{Sweden-academic-bio-stub