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I received my PhD in 2000 from the University of Florida, with the dissertation A Descriptive Analysis of the Social Functions of Swearing in American English. My dissertation supervisor was Diana Boxer.

My research interests include pragmatics, sociolinguistics, and discourse and conversation analysis. I’m member of the networks SwiSca (Swearing in Scandinavia) and NNCoRe (Nordic Network for Comics Research), which relate to my specialization on the use of English swear words in Sweden and the oral, conversational aspects of contemporary Swedish comic strips.

Some projects already under way include:

Advances in Swearing Research: New Contexts, New Languages, co-edited with Karyn Stapleton from the University of Ulster (under review). This volume includes my chapter, FUCK CANCER, Fucking Åmål, Aldrig fucka upp: The Standardization of fuck in Swedish Media.

Linguistic and pragmatic outcomes of contact with English, special issue co-edited with Liz Petersen, University of Helsinki (in preparation). This issue includes my article, “What’s so funny about swearing? English swearwords as Swedish humor.”

Other articles in preparation include:

“The role of English-language swearing in creating an online persona: The case of Swedish YouTuber PewDiePie”

“Taking turns and taking drinks: The integration of drinking in comic strip conversation’

Education

PhD: Linguistics, University of Florida, 2000

MA: French, University of Florida, 1994

BA: Foreign languages and literatures, University of Delaware, 1990

Blog Posts

    Publications

    Beers Fägersten, K. (ed). 2016. Watching TV with a Linguist. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press.


    Beers Fägersten, K. Introduction: The linguist’s view of TV. In K. Beers Fägersten (ed.) Watching TV with a Linguist, pp.1-13. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press.


    Beers Fägersten, K. & Sveen, H. SaMANtha: Language and gender in Sex and the City. In K. Beers Fägersten (ed.) Watching TV with a Linguist, pp. 67-85. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press.


    Beers Fägersten, K. What’s the deal with morphemes? Doing morphology withSeinfeld. In K. Beers Fägersten (ed.) Watching TV with a Linguist, pp. 181-201. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press.


    Beers Fägersten, K. Channel surfing: Tuning into sounds. In K. Beers Fägersten (ed.)Watching TV with a Linguist, pp. 202-230. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press.


    Beers Fägersten, K. I’m learneding! First language acquisition in The Simpsons. In K. Beers Fägersten (ed.) Watching TV with a Linguist, pp. 257-261. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press.


    Beers Fägersten, K. & Fiorentini, I. Lost and language found. In K. Beers Fägersten (ed.) Watching TV with a Linguist, pp. 262-306. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press.


    Beers Fägersten, K. 2015. Snuff said! Conflicting corporate and employee interests in the pursuit of a tobacco client. In E. Darics (ed.) Digital Business Discourse, pp. 142-159. New York: Palgrave MacMillan.


    Beers Fägersten, K. 2014. The use of English swear words in Swedish media. In M. Rathje (ed.) Swearing in the Nordic Countries, pp. 63-82. Copenhagen: Dansk Sprognævn.


    Beers Fägersten, K. 2014. Comic strips. In S. Attardo (ed.) Sage Encyclopedia of Humor Studies, pp. 155-156. London: Sage.


    Beers Fägersten, K. 2013. A case study of a distance degree program in Vietnam: Examples from a learner-centered approach to distance education. In K. Sullivan, P. Czigler, and J. Sullivan Hellgren (eds.), Cases on Professional Distance Education Degree Programs and Practices: Successes, Challenges and Issues, pp. 233-257. Hershey, PA: IGI Global.


    Beers Fägersten, K. 2012. Fucking svenska! Språktidningen (October), Stockholm: Språktidningen i Sverige AB. http://www.spraktidningen.se/artiklar/2012/09/fucking-svenska


    Beers Fägersten, K. 2012. Who’s Swearing Now? The Social Aspects and Pragmatic Functions of Conversational Swearing. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.


    Beers Fägersten, K. 2012. Intertextual quotation: References to media in family interaction. In R. Ayass and C. Gerhardt (eds.), The Appropriation of Media in Everyday Life. What People Do with Media, pp. 79-104 Amsterdam: John Benjamins.


    Beers Fägersten, K. 2012. The use of English in the Swedish-language comic Rocky. In F. Bramlett (ed.), Linguistics and the Study of Comics, pp. 211-239. New York: Palgrave MacMillan.


    Beers Fägersten, K. 2012. Teacher discourse and code choice in a Swedish EFL classroom. In B. Yoon and H. Kim (eds.) Teachers’ Roles in Second Language Learning: Classroom Applications of Sociocultural Theory, pp. 81-98. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.


    Cunningham, U., Beers Fägersten, K., & Holmsten, E. 2010. “Can you hear me, Hanoi?”  Compensatory mechanisms employed in synchronous net-based English language learning. The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning 11(1). http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/774/1488


    Schmid, M. & Beers Fägersten, K. 2010. Disfluency markers in L1 attrition. Language Learning 60(4): 1-39.


    Beers Fägersten, K. 2009. Using discourse analysis to assess social co-presence in the video-conference environment. In L. Shedletsky and J. Aitken (eds.), Cases on Online Discussion and Interaction: Experiences and Outcomes, pp.175-193. Hershey, PA: IGI Global.


    Beers Fägersten, K., Holmsten, E., & Cunningham, U. 2009. Multimodal communication and meta-modal discourse. In R. Taiwo (ed.), Handbook of Research in Discourse Behavior and Digital Communication: Language Structures and Social Interaction, pp. 145-163. Hershey, PA: IGI Global.


    Beers Fägersten, K. 2008. Discourse strategies and power roles in student-led distance learning. Tidskrift för Lärarutbildning och Forskning: Proceedings of Identity and Power in the Language Classroom 15(2): 11-24.


    Beers Fägersten, K. 2008. A corpus approach to discursive constructions of a hip-hop identity. In R. Reppen and A. Ädel (eds.), Corpora and Discourse: The Challenges of Different Settings, pp. 211-242. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.


    McBride, K. & Beers Fägersten, K. 2008. The students’ role in distance learning. In S. Goertler and P. Winke (eds.), Opening Doors through Distance Learning Education: Principles, Perspectives and Practices, pp. 43-66. San Marcos, TX: CALICO.


    Beers Fägersten, K. 2007. A sociolinguistic analysis of swearword offensiveness. Saarland Working Papers in Linguistics 1: 14-37. http://scidok.sulb.uni-saarland.de/sulb/portal/swpl/


    Beers Fägersten, K. 2006. Review of Swearing in English. Bad language, purity and power from 1586 to the present (T. McEnery). Applied Linguistics 27(3): 542-545.


    Beers Fägersten, K. 2006. The discursive construction of identity in an Internet hip-hop community. Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses 19: 23-44.




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    Beers Fägersten, K. 2005. Hesitations and repair in German. Proceedings of DiSS’05, Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech Workshop, pp. 71-76. 10–12 September, Aix-en-Provence, France.

    Projects

    Social media from Nordic to global contexts: Digital data, methods, and analyses”

    https://www.utu.fi/en/units/hum/units/languages/research/Documents/SoNoGlo.pdf  

    Upcoming Talks and Conferences

    The new normal: Aggression and impoliteness in new media and digital communication. Panel at the International Pragmatics Association conference, July 2017, Belfast.

    Memberships

    SwiSca (Swearing in Scandinavia)

    NNCoRe (Nordic Network of Comics Researchers)

    Linguistic Society of America

    International Pragmatics Association

     

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