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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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Hejná, M., Kjeldgaard-Christiansen, J., Boyd, Z. C. & Eaton, M. (2025). Lects and Stereotypes: The Cases of the Smoker's Voice and Alcoholic Voices. In G. Ambrazaitis, F. Raschellà & N. Young (Eds.), Proceedings from FONETIK 2025 (pp. 3-8). Linnaeus University Press. https://doi.org/10.15626/FON.2025.00
Landgrebe, J., Mitchell, R., Heinemann, T. & Buur, J. (2025). Narrating value networks through tangible materials. CoDesign: International Journal of CoCreation in Design and the Arts. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/15710882.2025.2543384
Stephan, M. (2025). Narratives of the Anthropocene: Articulating Erosion in Climate Change Fiction . Paper presented at Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, UK and Ireland Biennial Conference 2025, Galway, Ireland.
Christensen, K. R., Jensen, E. S., Kratschmer, A. R. & Nguyen, M. H. (Eds.) (2025). Ny Forskning i Grammatik. Ny Forskning i Grammatik, 32. https://tidsskrift.dk/nfg/issue/view/12305/2852
Hejná, M. (2025). On the rarity of pre-aspirated consonants. In N. Kuznetsova, C. Anderson & S. Easterday (Eds.), Rarities in phonetics and phonology: evolutionary, structural, typological and social dimensions (pp. 641-694). Language Science Press. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15148192
Mede, N. G., Cologna, V., Berger, S., Besley, J., Brick, C., Joubert, M., Maibach, E. W., Mihelj, S., Oreskes, N., Schäfer, M. S., van der Linden, S., Abdul Aziz, N. I., Abdulsalam, S., Shamsi, N. A., Aczel, B., Adinugroho, I., Alabrese, E., Aldoh, A., Alfano, M. ... Zwaan, R. A. (2025). Perceptions of science, science communication, and climate change attitudes in 68 countries – the TISP dataset. Scientific Data, 12(1), 114. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-04100-7
Rommel, M., Hejná, M. & Dehé, N. (2025). Pre-aspiration in Iceland is conditioned by gender/sex. In O. Scharenborg, C. Oertel & K. Truong (Eds.), Proceedings of Interspeech 2025: Rotterdam, The Netherlands 17-21 August 2025 (pp. 3354-3358) https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2025-2271