Roskilde University

List of John Benjamins publications that have an author or editor affiliated with Roskilde University*

Framing in Interaction: Pragmatic approaches to framing analysis

EditorSimon Borchmann, Anne Fabricius & Ida Klitgård

Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 354] 2025. | edited volume

The Cultural Pragmatics of Danger: Cross-linguistic perspectives

Edited by Carsten Levisen & Zhengdao Ye

Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 346] 2024. | edited volume

Approaches to Internet Pragmatics: Theory and practice

Edited by Chaoqun Xie, Francisco Yus & Hartmut Haberland

Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 318] 2021. | edited volume

Creole Studies – Phylogenetic Approaches

Edited by Peter Bakker, Finn Borchsenius, Carsten Levisen & Eeva M. Sippola

Subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Historical linguistics | Theoretical linguistics

2017. | edited volume | open access

Connecting Grammaticalisation

Jens Nørgård-Sørensen, Lars Heltoft & Lene Schøsler

Subjects Functional linguistics | Historical linguistics | Morphology | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 65] 2011. xiii, 347 pp. | monograph | open access

The Promise of Dialogue: The dialogic turn in the production and communication of knowledge

Louise Phillips

Subjects Communication Studies | Dialogue studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociology

[Dialogue Studies, 12] 2011. x, 198 pp. | monograph

Competing Models of Linguistic Change: Evolution and beyond

Edited by Ole Nedergaard Thomsen

Subjects Historical linguistics | Theoretical linguistics

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 279] 2006. vi, 344 pp. | edited volume

Historical Linguistics 2003: Selected papers from the 16th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Copenhagen, 11–15 August 2003

Edited by Michael Fortescue, Eva Skafte Jensen, Jens Erik Mogensen & Lene Schøsler

Subjects Historical linguistics

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 257] 2005. x, 312 pp. | edited volume

Levisen, Carsten 2026 Basic kala terms and the end of history: An invitation to visual semantics

Keywords: language and vision | linguacultural relativity | colour semantics | visual semantics | cultural semantics | environmental semantics

In: Progress in Colour Studies: Colour Expression and Cognition, Biggam, Carole P., Domicele Jonauskaite, Mari Uusküla & Dimitris Mylonas (eds.)  pp. 1–14

Levisen, Carsten 2026 Terminologies in crisis: Challenges and insights from multipolar metalinguistics

Keywords: metalinguistic terminology | multipolar metalinguistics | conceptual semantics | contact zones | terminological Anglocentrism | conceptual colonialism | emic concepts | eticization | Bislama | lanwis

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 41:1 pp. 59–80 | article

Levisen, Carsten 2026 The semantics of ecological collapse: A study on Danish fjords

Keywords: environmental semantics | blue humanities | natural semantic metalanguage (nsm) | cultural keywords | folk concepts | language rituals | poetic animism | Danish linguaculture | Danish fjord

International Journal of Language and Culture | Online First Publication, 22 pp. | article

Borchmann, Simon, Anne Fabricius & Ida Klitgård 2025 Framing from a pragmatic point of view

In: Framing in Interaction: Pragmatic approaches to framing analysis, Borchmann, Simon, Anne Fabricius & Ida Klitgård (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 354] pp. 1–22

Borchmann, Simon 2025 Framing as interaction: Cooperation, relevance, and information structure

Keywords: framing | interaction | cooperative communication | distributed cognition | values | affordances | relevance | information structure

In: Framing in Interaction: Pragmatic approaches to framing analysis, Borchmann, Simon, Anne Fabricius & Ida Klitgård (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 354] pp. 23–75

Klitgård, Ida 2025 Framing the Danish Prime Minister as communist dictator during COVID-19

Keywords: framing | satire | news satire | caricature | COVID-19 | pandemic | humour | Denmark | Danish

In: Framing in Interaction: Pragmatic approaches to framing analysis, Borchmann, Simon, Anne Fabricius & Ida Klitgård (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 354] pp. 125–159

Fabricius, Anne H. 2025 Framing and indexicality in parody: Jacob Rees-Mogg’s message to the Common People

Keywords: framing theory | semiotics | indexicality | pragmatics | linguistic anthropology | parody | Michael Silverstein | entextualization | semiotic analysis | dynamic co-figuration

In: Framing in Interaction: Pragmatic approaches to framing analysis, Borchmann, Simon, Anne Fabricius & Ida Klitgård (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 354] pp. 160–178

Mortensen, Sune Sønderberg & Trine Lizette Djurhuus Glud 2025 Framing agency, identity and credibility in court: Closing arguments in Danish rape trials

Keywords: rape | closing arguments | framing | discourse | rhetoric | forensic linguistics | functional linguistics

In: Framing in Interaction: Pragmatic approaches to framing analysis, Borchmann, Simon, Anne Fabricius & Ida Klitgård (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 354] pp. 179–212

Tranekjær, Louise 2025 Framing a situated learning experience for migrant workers: Different approaches to digital keying in second language learning resources

Keywords: keying | digital language learning resources | second language learning at work

In: Framing in Interaction: Pragmatic approaches to framing analysis, Borchmann, Simon, Anne Fabricius & Ida Klitgård (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 354] pp. 213–235

Kjærbeck, Susanne & Niels Møller Nielsen 2025 Assessing deliberative quality in a debate on Facebook: The role of framing

Keywords: framing | social media | online debate | deliberative quality | civility | Facebook | interactional analysis | genre analysis | metacommunication | multimodality

In: Framing in Interaction: Pragmatic approaches to framing analysis, Borchmann, Simon, Anne Fabricius & Ida Klitgård (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 354] pp. 236–268

Levisen, Carsten & Zhengdao Ye 2024 “When bad things happen to people”: Cultural pragmatics and cross-linguistic perspectives on danger

Keywords: cultural pragmatics | discourse studies | discourse of danger | linguaculture | cross-linguistic studies | cultural keywords | cultural scripts | global crisis

In: The Cultural Pragmatics of Danger: Cross-linguistic perspectives, Levisen, Carsten & Zhengdao Ye (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 346] pp. 1–22

Levisen, Carsten 2024 Society in danger: Samfundssind ‘community spirit’ and the cultural pragmatics of Danish pandemic discourse

Keywords: cultural pragmatics | cultural semantics | metapragmatics | construction grammar | political rhetoric | discourse of danger | pandemic discourse | keyword studies | Danish language

In: The Cultural Pragmatics of Danger: Cross-linguistic perspectives, Levisen, Carsten & Zhengdao Ye (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 346] pp. 23–40

Levisen, Carsten & Zhengdao Ye 2024 Epilogue: Beyond dangers and disasters: Further reflections and a guide for future research in cultural pragmatics

In: The Cultural Pragmatics of Danger: Cross-linguistic perspectives, Levisen, Carsten & Zhengdao Ye (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 346] pp. 236–242

Levisen, Carsten & Zhengdao Ye 2024 The cultural pragmatics of danger: Cross-linguistic perspectives

In: The Cultural Pragmatics of Danger: Cross-linguistic perspectives, Levisen, Carsten & Zhengdao Ye (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 346]

Christensen-Strynø, Maria Bee, Louise Phillips & Lisbeth Frølunde 2023 Disability as dialogue: Engaging with disability as an embodied way of knowing in Parkinson’s dance research

Keywords: disability | dialogue | embodied knowing | Parkinson’s dance research

In: Disability in Dialogue, Hughes, Jessica M. F. & Mariaelena Bartesaghi (eds.) [Dialogue Studies, 33] pp. 67–87

Bøegh, Kristoffer Friis, Peter Bakker, Inger Schoonderbeek Hansen & Carsten Levisen 2023 The Beginning of Quantitative Sociolinguistics in the Nineteenth Century: The Dane Anker Jensen (1878–1937) and his pioneering study “The Linguistic Situation in the Parish of Aaby, Aarhus County” (1898)

Historiographia Linguistica 49:2/3 pp. 336–354 | article

Levisen, Carsten 2021  Pæn, flot, dejlig, and lækker : A lexical anthropology of Danish folk aesthetics

Keywords: folk aesthetics | lexical semantics | cultural semantics | Danish | natural semantic metalanguage (NSM) | lexical anthropology

International Journal of Language and Culture 8:1 pp. 14–34 | article

Xie, Chaoqun, Francisco Yus & Hartmut Haberland 2021 Introduction: Approaching internet pragmatics

In: Approaches to Internet Pragmatics: Theory and practice, Xie, Chaoqun, Francisco Yus & Hartmut Haberland (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 318] pp. 1–23

Chopin, Kimberley 2020 Review of Language policy and planning in universities: Teaching, research and administration edited by Anthony J. Liddicoat (2018)

Language Problems and Language Planning 44:2 pp. 242–245 | book review

Kjærbeck, Susanne & Niels Møller Nielsen 2020 Communicative problems in Boeing’s advertisement campaign for the combat aircraft Super Hornet

Keywords: advertisement campaign | genre | argumentation | reframing | public relations | public affairs

Pragmatics and Society 11:3 pp. 391–414 | article

Petersen, Charlotte 2020 What makes a good story?: Exemplification and explication of salient linguistic characteristics in a narrative preferred by the majority of a Danish population

Keywords: narratives | coherence | cohesion | social preference | social stigma | first episode schizophrenia | text linguistics

Pragmatics and Society 11:1 pp. 24–44 | article

Haberland, Hartmut 2020 Hegemony

In: Handbook of Pragmatics: 23rd Annual Installment, Östman, Jan-Ola & Jef Verschueren (eds.) [Handbook of Pragmatics, 23] pp. 139–153

Poddar, Prem 2020 Translation and transnationality in the Himalaya: Writing Gorkha language and culture

Keywords: translationality | transnationality | Himalayas | Gorkhas | postcolonial identities | ethnonationalism | borders

In: Language, Culture and Identity: Signs of life, da Silva Sinha, Vera, Ana Moreno-Núñez & Zhen Tian (eds.) [Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 13] pp. 23–42

Haberland, Hartmut 2020 Jan Blommaert. Durkheim and the Internet: On Sociolinguistics and the Sociological Imagination

Internet Pragmatics 3:1 pp. 133–138 | book review

Day, Dennis & Susanne Kjærbeck 2019 Membership categorization and storytelling: The cake story

Keywords: membership categorization | categorization device | alignment | affiliation | moral (of story) | category and sequence | moral implication

Pragmatics and Society 10:3 pp. 359–374 | article

Haberland, Hartmut 2019 Marcel Danesi, The Semiotics of Emoji: The Rise of Visual Language in the Age of the Internet

Internet Pragmatics 2:1 pp. 167–172 | book review

Haberland, Hartmut & Janus Mortensen 2020 Transience

In: Handbook of Pragmatics: 22nd Annual Installment, Östman, Jan-Ola & Jef Verschueren (eds.) [Handbook of Pragmatics, 22] pp. 225–236

Klitgård, Ida 2018 Calling for translation literacy: The use of covert translation in student academic writing in higher education

Keywords: translation strategies | mediation | language awareness | English for academic purposes | translation in other learning contexts | second language acquisition studies | language transfer | reverse transfer | multi-competence

Translation and Translanguaging in Multilingual Contexts 4:2 pp. 306–323 | article

Haberland, Hartmut 2018 Ulrich Ammon. Die Stellung der deutschen Sprache in der Welt

Language Problems and Language Planning 41:3 pp. 314–320 | book review

Bakker, Peter, Finn Borchsenius, Carsten Levisen & Eeva Sippola 2017 Creole Studies – Phylogenetic Approaches

In: Creole Studies – Phylogenetic Approaches, Bakker, Peter, Finn Borchsenius, Carsten Levisen & Eeva M. Sippola (eds.)  p.  ff. | open access

Heltoft, Lars 2016 Review of Nominativ i gammelskånsk – Afvikling og udviklinger med udgangspunkt i Skånske Lov i Stockholm B 69 by Eva Skafte Jensen (2011)

Diachronica 33:2 pp. 282–290 | book review

Levisen, Carsten 2016 The story of “Danish Happiness”: Global discourse and local semantics

Keywords: Danish | global English | happiness research | media discourse | Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM)

In: “Happiness” and “Pain” across Languages and Cultures, Goddard, Cliff & Zhengdao Ye (eds.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 84] pp. 45–64

Petersen, Charlotte 2015 Review of Pragmatic Disorders by Louise Cummings (2014)

Pragmatics and Society 6:2 pp. 299–304 | book review

Levisen, Carsten & Sophia Waters 2015  Lige, a Danish ‘magic word’?: An ethnopragmatic analysis

Keywords: Danish | lige | discourse particles | ethnopragmatics | please | pedagogical scripts

International Journal of Language and Culture 2:2 pp. 244–268 | article

Nørgård-Sørensen, Jens & Lars Heltoft 2015 Grammaticalisation as paradigmatisation

In: New Directions in Grammaticalization Research, Smith, Andrew D.M., Graeme Trousdale & Richard Waltereit (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 166] pp. 261–292

Hazel, Spencer 2014 Cultivating objects in interaction: Visual motifs as meaning making practices

In: Interacting with Objects: Language, materiality, and social activity, Nevile, Maurice, Pentti Haddington, Trine Heinemann & Mirka Rauniomaa (eds.)  pp. 169–194

Mortensen, Janus 2013 Review of Linguistic Landscape in the City edited by Elana Shohamy, Eliezer Ben-Rafael & Monica Barni (2010)

Pragmatics and Society 4:1 pp. 115–119 | book review

Day, Dennis & Susanne Kjaerbeck 2012 Treating student contributions as displays of understanding in group supervision

In: Evaluating Cognitive Competences in Interaction, Rasmussen, Gitte, Catherine E. Brouwer & Dennis Day (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 225] pp. 67–88

Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove 2010 Language rights

In: Society and Language Use, Jaspers, Jürgen, Jan-Ola Östman & Jef Verschueren (eds.) [Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights, 7] pp. 212–232

Heltoft, Lars 2008 Grammaticalisation as content reanalysis: The modal character of the Danish s-passive

In: Competing Models of Linguistic Change: Evolution and beyond, Nedergaard Thomsen, Ole (ed.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 279] pp. 269–288

Nedergaard Thomsen, Ole 2008 Towards an integrated functional-pragmatic theory of language and language change: In commemoration of Eugenio Coseriu (1921–2002)

In: Competing Models of Linguistic Change: Evolution and beyond, Nedergaard Thomsen, Ole (ed.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 279] pp. 307–337

Christiansen, Pia Vanting 2006 Language policy in the European Union: European/English/Elite/Equal/Esperanto Union?

Keywords: language ecology | language policy | Esperanto | European Union | minority–majority relationships | mother-tongue privilege | multilingual education | lingua franca

Language Problems and Language Planning 30:1 pp. 21–44 | article

Klitgård, Ida 2006 Taking the pun by the horns: The translation of wordplay in James Joyce’s Ulysses

Keywords: literary translation | puns | wordplay | style | motifs | James Joyce | modernist prose | translation criticism

Target 17:1 pp. 71–92 | article

Fabricius, Anne 2004 Review of Estuary English: Levelling at the Interface of RP and South-Eastern British English by Ulrike Altendorf (2003)

English World-Wide 25:2 pp. 323–328 | book review

Dyrberg, Torben Bech 2003 Right/left in the context of new political frontiers: What’s radical politics today?

Keywords: Bobbio | Mouffe | orientational metaphors: right/left | up/down | front/back | in/out | democratic politics | political orientation and identification | discourses of the far right

Journal of Language and Politics 2:2 pp. 333–360 | other

Fabricius, Anne 2002 Ongoing change in modern RP: Evidence for the disappearing stigma of t-glottalling

English World-Wide 23:1 pp. 115–136 | article

Heltoft, Lars 2008 Recasting Danish subjects: Case system, word order and subject development

In: Grammatical Relations in Change, Faarlund, Jan Terje (ed.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 56] pp. 171–204

Andersen, Hanne Leth & France Rousset Vers un français plus inclusif, moins compliqué: Évaluations et nouvelles pistes

Revue Romane | Online First Publication, 20 pp. | article

Petrulevich, Alexandra, Emilia Aldrin, Väinö Syrjälä & Line Sandst Speaking of workplaces in the time of Covid-19: Naming and digital placemaking in the Nordics

Keywords: digital placemaking | workplace | working from home (WFH) | naming | labeling | linguistic change | Covid-19 pandemic | social space | place

Pragmatics and Society | Online First Publication, 22 pp. | article

*Please note that this list may be inaccurate for older publications.