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A/PROF CATRIN NORRBY



Contact Details

Organization: Languages and Linguistics
Position: WALLENBERG LECTURER IN SWEDISH
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Homepage: http://www.german-swedish.unimelb.edu.au/staff/Catrin_Norrby/index.html
Work: 83445207
Fax: 83447821
Room: 521
Level: 05
Building: Arts Centre
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Country of Expertise
Discourse and conversational analysis Sweden
Sociolinguistics Sweden, Finland
Second language acquisition Sweden

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
Sweden Lund University Research
Sweden Goteborg University Research
Finland University of Vaasa Research

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Master of Arts Gothenburg University 15-Jun-1983
Doctor of Philosophy Gothenburg University 21-Feb-1998

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Address in some western European languages: a study of language & social change Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2003

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2009

Books

  • Language and Human Relations. Styles of Address in Contemporary Language
    Year: 2009
    Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Publications in 2008

Book Chapters

  • Swedish language policy: Multilingual paradise or utopian dream?


    Year: 2008
    Book: Multilingual Europe: Reflections on language and identity
    Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Press(Newcastle)
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Publications in 2007

Books

  • Språkinlärning och språkanvändning: Svenska som andraspråk i och utanför Sverige (Language acquisition and language use: Swedish inside and outside Sweden)


    Year: 2007
    Publisher: Studentlitteratur(Lund)
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Book Chapters

  • Processability theory applied to written and oral Swedish


    Year: 2007
    Book: Second language acquisition research: Theory-construction and testing
    Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Press(Newcastle)
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Journal Articles

  • Girl - lass or curl? Word associations in second language learners


    Year: 2007
    Journal: Australian Review of Applied Linguistics
    Volume: 30
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 22.1-22.17
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  • The interaction of complexity and grammatical processability: The case of Swedish as a foreign language


    Year: 2007
    Journal: International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching
    Volume: 45
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 45-68
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  • Tilltalande tilltal? Om tilltalsskick i Finland och Sverige (Pleasing address? On forms of address in Finland and Sweden)
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Spraak och Stil
    Volume: 17
    Page numbers: 5-29
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • A cross-linguistic comparison of address pronoun use in four European languages: Intralingual and interlingual dimensions


    Year: 2007
    Event name: 2006 Annual Meeting of the Australian Linguistic Society
    Conference Publication: Selected papers from the 2006 Annual Meeting of the Australian Linguistic Society
    Page numbers: 1-12
    Publisher: The University of Queensland(Brisbane)
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • Language maintenance and shift in the Danish community in Melbourne
    Year: 2006
    Journal: International Journal of the Sociology of Language
    Volume: 180
    Page numbers: 105-121
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  • Perceptions of variation and change in German and Swedish address
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Sociolinguistics
    Volume: 10
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 287-319
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  • Pia Kohlmyr. " To Err is Human...":  An Investigation of Grammatical Errors in Swedish 16-Year- Old Learners' Written Production in English 
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Australian Review of Applied Linguistics
    Volume: 29
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 24.12- 24.3
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  • Variation in Swedish address practices
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Australian Review of Applied Linguistics
    Volume: 29
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 1-15
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • Du, ni, titel eller förnamn? ('Du'(you), 'ni(you), title or first name)
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Sprak-Bruk
    Volume: 2
    Page numbers: 5-10
    Publisher: Forskningscentralen For De Inhemska Spraken(Helsinki)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Flicka - dricka eller tjej? Ordassociationer hos andraspråksinlärare (Girl: lass or curl? Word associations in second language learners)
    Year: 2005
    Event name: Svenskans beskrivning 27: Förhandlingar vid Tjugosjunde sammankomsten för svenskans beskrivning (27th meeting for Swedish language description)
    Conference Publication: Svenskans beskrivning
    Volume: 27
    Page numbers: 125-134
    Publisher: Vaxjo University Press(Växjö)
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  • Grammar and pragmatics: Swedish as a foreign language
    Year: 2005
    Event name: 2004 conference of the European Second Language Association
    Conference Publication: EUROSLA Yearbook 5
    Volume: 5
    Page numbers: 137-161
    Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
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Publications in 2004

Books

  • Conversation Analysis
    Year: 2004
    Publisher: Studentlitteratur(Lund)
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Journal Articles

  • Review of Karin Milles: Kvinnor och män i möte. En samtalsanalytisk studie av interna arbetsmöten
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Spraak och Stil
    Volume: 13
    Page numbers: 259-263
    Publisher: Adolf Noreensaellskapet foer Svensk Sprak - och Stilforskning
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  • You (T) and you (V). Old and young do not want to use you (V)
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Spraakvaard
    Volume: 40
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 3-34
    Publisher: Swedish Language Council
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Address in some Western European languages
    Year: 2004
    Event name: 2003 Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 2003 Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society
    Page numbers: 1-10
    Publisher: University of Newcastle(Newcastle)
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  • Saving small languages: Swedish goes online
    Year: 2004
    Event name: Marking our difference: Languages in Australian and New Zealand universities
    Conference Publication: Marking our difference: Proceedings of a conference held in 2003 on language education in Australian and New Zealand universities
    Page numbers: 194-208
    Publisher: University of Melbourne, School of Languages(Melbourne)
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  • Swedish in and outside Sweden. Grammatical and pragmatic patterns in learner language.
    Year: 2004
    Event name: The 6th Conference abuot the Nordic Languages as a second language.
    Conference Publication: The 6th Conference about the Nordic Languages as a second language
    Volume: 6
    Page numbers: 78-89
    Publisher: Lunds universitet(Lund)
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Publications in 2003

Books

  • Master Plan
    Year: 2003
    Publisher: Almqvist & Wiksell(Stockholm)
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  • Master Plan - Teacher's Book
    Year: 2003
    Publisher: Almqvist & Wiksell(Stockholm)
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Book Chapters

  • Adolescents talk about music.Discourse extenders as a means of affiliation
    Year: 2003
    Book: Grammar and ConversationStudies in memory of Mats Eriksson
    Publisher: Institutionen for Nordiska Sprak, University of Uppsala(Uppsala)
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  • Buying a house in English or Swedish. The text type house advertisement in a comparative perspective
    Year: 2003
    Book: The text above all. Festschrift for Aina L. on her 65th Birthday, 11 Sept. 2003
    Publisher: Institutionen for Svenska Spraket, Goteborg University(Goteborg)
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  • Swedish youth discourse: On performing relevant selves in interaction
    Year: 2003
    Book: Discourse Constructions of Youth Identities
    Publisher: Benjamins - John Benjamins Publishing Company(Amsterdam)
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Journal Articles

  • What do 'them' cost?
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Spraakvaard
    Volume: 3
    Page numbers: 11-16
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Publications in 2002

Journal Articles

  • En diskursmarkör i vardande? Lite om lite (A discourse particle in being? A bit about 'a bit'.)
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Spraak och Stil
    Volume: Vol 11
    Page numbers: 211-234
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  • Sexual Stereotyping in Swedish Language Textbooks
    Year: 2002
    Journal: AUMLA - Journal of the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association
    Volume: 97
    Page numbers: 51-73
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  • Swedish discourse extenders of the type 'and that' and 'or something'. A discussion of their frequency and functions in contemporary adolescent data.
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Spraak och Stil
    Volume: Vol 11
    Page numbers: 183-210
    Publisher: Adolf Noreensaellskapet foer Svensk Sprak - och Stilforskning
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Affiliation in Adolescents' Use of Discourse Extenders
    Year: 2002
    Event name: 2001 Australian Linguistic Society Conference
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 2001 Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society
    Publisher: http://linguistics.anu.edu.au/ALS2001/proceedings.html(Canberra)
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Publications in 2001

Conference Publications/Papers

  • Youth language and youth identities: a workshop on gender and youth languages
    Year: 2001
    Event name: Language, gender and culture. Proceedings of the fourth nordic conference on language and gender
    Conference Publication: Language, gender and culture. Proceedings of the fourth nordic conference on language and gender
    Page numbers: 181-188
    Publisher: Institutionen for Svenska Spraket, Goteborg University(Goteborg)
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