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Research

The linguistic research ranges over language acquisition, multilingualism, comparative and theoretical phonetics and phonology, comparative and theoretical morphology and syntax, language variation and change, language comprehension, and how language is processed in the brain. 

Research in literature is concerned with a wide range of authors, from Shakespeare, through Austen and Dickens, to living writers such as Thomas Pynchon and Amitav Ghosh, as well as with theoretical approaches to literature such as new historicism, eco-criticism, gender studies, and the relations between literature and moral philosophy. 

Research in social/historical/media studies examines topics such as migration, hybridity and identity, culture and technology, ethnic conflict and nationalism, memory policy, cultural heritage and tourism, social media, film, and popular and folk music history. 

Research in international business communication ranges over theories and methods of strategic corporate communication, knowledge communication, lexicography, translation and intercultural communication needed to manage English professional communication in Danish and international companies and organisations with particular focus on business-related topics concerning the English language, business communication and the business environment.

Recent publications

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Borkfelt, S. (2022). Literary Narratives and the Empathics of Slaughter. In Reading Slaughter: Abattoir Fictions, Space, and Empathy in Late Modernity (pp. 33-69). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98915-6_2
Maier, C. D. (2022). Mobilizing communication about the climate change crisis: Multimodal discursive manifestations of community building and involvement. Paper presented at Eighteenth International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic & Social Sustainability, Granada, Spain.
Borkfelt, S. (2022). Names and Namelessness in Animal Narratives. In A. Björck, C. Lindén & A.-S. Lönngren (Eds.), Squirrelling: Human-Animal Studies in the Northern-European Region (pp. 155-172). Södertörns högskola. http://sh.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1624077/FULLTEXT05.pdf
Stephan, M. & Borkfelt, S. (2022). Narrating Entangled Vulnerabilities in an Age of Global Crises. In S. Borkfelt & M. Stephan (Eds.), Literary Animal Studies and the Climate Crisis (pp. 1-28). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11020-7_1