Stine Hulleberg Johansen

• Rygg, Kristin & Johansen, Stine Hulleberg (2023). When the Norwegian 'politeness marker' vennligst becomes impolite. Journal of Politeness Research. ISSN 1612-5681. doi: 10.1515/pr-2022-0021. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This corpus-based study contributes to the ongoing discussion on conventional politeness markers, such as please, by being the first to examine how the corresponding Norwegian lexical item vennligst ‘please’ is used. The study investigates the use of vennligst in data from two Norwegian corpora in standard situations, where the relationship between the interlocutors is clear, and nonstandard situations, where the relationship between the interlocutors is less clear. The results show that although Norwegian dictionaries describe the pragmatic function of vennligst as being that of a polite request, most instances were found in standard situations where vennligst indicates a ritual frame that goes unmarked. The results also show that in non-standard situations, vennligst is not only used as a politeness device butmore often strengthens the requestive force into a command. Therefore, we caution against using vennligst in non-standard situations due to the likelihood of being interpreted as impolite. Depending on the situation type, the various interpretations may explain why some Norwegians interpret vennligst as polite, whereas others deem it impolite. By illustrating how vennligst may be interpreted differently, we hope to draw attention to the situational influences on such markers and the dangers of relying on their conventional meanings.

• Johansen, Stine Hulleberg (2020). Hedging in spoken conversations by Norwegian learners of English. Nordic Journal of Modern Language Methodology (NJMLM). ISSN 1894-2245. 8(2), s. 27–48. doi: 10.46364/njmlm.v8i2.751. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Johansen, Stine Hulleberg (2020). “I guess anyone would do that wouldn’t they?” How do native speakers of Norwegian and English hedge in informal conversations? Languages in Contrast: International Journal for Contrastive Linguistics. ISSN 1387-6759. doi: 10.1075/lic.19025.joh.
• Johansen, Stine Hulleberg (2020). A Contrastive Approach to the Types of Hedging Strategies Used in Norwegian and English Informal Spoken Conversations. Contrastive Pragmatics: A Cross-Disciplinary Journal (JOCP). ISSN 2666-0385. s. 1–25. doi: 10.1163/26660393-12340006. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Johansen, Stine Hulleberg (2019). Exploring the Use of Probes in a Corpus Pragmatic Study of Hedging Strategies. Nordic Journal of English Studies (NJES). ISSN 1502-7694. 18(1), s. 121–148. doi: 10.35360/njes.493. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

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• Johansen, Stine Hulleberg (2023). En språkviters hyllest av fredrikstaddialekten. Fredriksstad Blad.
• Johansen, Stine Hulleberg (2023). Young learners’ use and development of linking devices.
• Rygg, Kristin & Johansen, Stine Hulleberg (2022). The impolite Norwegian ‘politeness marker’ vennligst.
• Johansen, Stine Hulleberg (2021). Forsøpler vi språket med uttrykk som «på en måte»? Forskning.no. ISSN 1891-635X.
• Johansen, Stine Hulleberg (2018). Det er egentlig ikke typisk norsk å være god i engelsk. Forskning.no. ISSN 1891-635X.
• Johansen, Stine Hulleberg (2020). “I just need to like see what I can do” – A contrastive study of hedging strategies in English and Norwegian informal spoken conversations. 07 Gruppen. Vis sammendrag

  Hedging strategies are ubiquitous in both spoken and written discourse in most, if not all, languages. By hedging, speakers guide their hearers in the interpretation of what is said. Speakers may signal caution or tentativeness, or soften or disarm their utterances. However, the forms and types of hedging vary across languages, which makes hedging particularly interesting for contrastive studies. This thesis reports on a contrastive study of hedging strategies in Norwegian and English informal conversations. Situated in the emerging field of corpus pragmatics, it aims to contribute to current knowledge of how hedging is expressed in Norwegian and English. By means of a partly function-to-form approach, hedging strategies were retrieved from Norwegian and English corpora of spoken conversations and the forms and types of strategies were compared. The comparison highlighted some interesting cross-linguistic differences. For example, English speakers used more strategies that reduce the commitment of the speaker towards the message, whereas Norwegian speakers used more strategies that seek to create common ground between the speaker and the hearer. The comparison of forms used to express hedging strategies revealed that English speakers used more first/second person pronoun + cognitive verb, such as I think and you know, than Norwegian speakers, while Norwegians used more vague and downtoning adjectives such as sånn (‘such’) and lille (‘little’). Such cross-linguistic differences could potentially cause problems for language learners. Therefore, the 10 most frequent forms in the English material were investigated in a corpus of spoken English by Norwegian advanced learners and a comparable corpus of native English speakers. The results showed that although Norwegian advanced learners exhibited signs of underuse at group level, a closer look at the individual variation revealed that the performance of several learners resembled that of some of the native speakers.

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